" Christian followers of Jesus who knew about Apollonius maintained that he was a charlatan and a fraud; in response, the pagan followers of Apollonius asserted that Jesus was the charlatan and fraud. Both groups could point to the authoritative written accounts of their leader’s life to score their debating points. "

― Bart D. Ehrman , How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee