What is Lucian’s source of information about Jesus? He knows that Christians have sacred books, and this raises the possibility that he drew his knowledge of Jesus from them. To judge from what he says here, it is unlikely that Lucian had read them. Most of the correct information he relates about Christianity was common knowledge in his time.115 Moreover, a reading of the Gospels would have corrected some of his misconceptions, especially that Jesus himself taught his followers to deny the Greek