History records that, ... Extract from The Miracles of Jesus by Michael Symmons Roberts, the official book of the BBC One series which was first broadcast in the Summer of 2006.

But Funk was unbending. Jesus, Funk said, was “one of the great sages of history,” but he was not the man portrayed in a surface reading of the New Testament.

Jesus gained renown as a preacher of a particularly apocalyptic form of Judaism. This was further strengthened by his ability to perform miracles that seemed to signal the coming end times.