Is Jesus myth and his story of birth and resurrection pure fiction?

The story is told in the Gospel of St John of a man called Nicodemus. They say he once came to Christ by night to confess that Jesus was a teacher sent from God. “Rabbi,” he said, “We know that you are a teacher sent from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God is not with him.” (John 3: 2)

The Evangelist records that Nicodemus was a Pharisee. He was also a member of the Jewish ruling council, the Sanhedrin. Prof Joad’s Bible Commentary on the Gospel of John reminds us that the Pharisee was an exceptionally educated individual. He understood the Law of Moses through and through. He defended it to the hilt. Perhaps the only two other persons who ranked higher than Nicodemus were the High Priest and a man called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Jewish law. Nicodemus would today be a respected professor of law and theology, two disciplines that went hand in glove in his day.