In later Jewish writings Jesus is called a sorcerer who led Israel astray—which acknowledges that he really did work marvelous wonders, although the writers dispute the source of his power. “This would have been a perfect opportunity to say something like, ‘The Christians will tell you he worked miracles, but we’re here to tell you he didn’t.’ Yet that’s the one thing we never see his opponents saying. Instead they implicitly acknowledge that what the gospels wrote—that Jesus performed miracles—is true.”
