most plausible reference is in b. Sanhedrin 43a, to Yeshu who was hanged on the eve of Passover and is described as a magician who beguiled Israel and led it astray. But again, that does not take us very far. So, all the information we have about Jesus, apart from Christian writings, is that he was known and remembered as a teacher, ‘a doer of startling deeds’ or who exercised magical powers, who gathered a significant following, and who was executed by crucifixion at the order of the Roman governor