i swear if theres another rocky movie shannon motherfuckin briggs better be in it <| sep |> Do they really ? In reality , most Josephus scholars hold to the partial interpolation theory . Simply because the Testimonium has a very Josephus core , and that Christian scribes added in a few things . Jeffrey Jay Lowder , founder of the Secular Web , says that early church fathers wouldn ' t have had a reason to quote from such a neutral source about Jesus , given that modern reconstructions of The Testimonium to be correct . Also , the later , smaller reference to Jesus relies on an earlier reference to Jesus to make sense . Which , from the looks of it you seem to think is genuine . <| sep |> How do you not understand . Weight is weight .