How these answers are made.

Every answer on this site follows the same three rules.

The record comes first. Each page starts with what the Gospels and the history of the time actually say. Bible passages are quoted word for word from the World English Bible, with the book, chapter and verse, and each reference links to the full chapter so you can read it in place.

The novels come second, and they say so. The Nazarene is a set of novels. They imagine the years and scenes the Gospels leave out. Every page marks the point where the record ends and the novel begins, with the plain words “is a novel.”

Where churches differ, both readings are given. Christians have read some passages in more than one way for a long time, such as who Jesus’s brothers and sisters were. When that happens, the page names each reading and lets you weigh them.

If you find a mistake, it gets fixed, and the page shows the date it changed.