If the claim was false, any of Jesus ’ opponents ​ — and he had many — ​ could have proved Jesus a fraud simply by checking his lineage in the genealogies in the public archives.
७० में यरूशलेम के नाश होने से पहले, उस दावे को उस नगर में दशकों के लिए व्यापक रूप से दोहराया गया था ।