Dadball,
Your sources are incorrect or blatently decieving.
Most likely the latter.
The Josephus quote you posted is recognised by most if not all theologians as a Christian forgery.
It appears no where in Josephus early copies.
It did not exist in the first and second centuries.
It does not appear until AD 320 in
The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius.
A notoriously deceptive Christian historian who said in his his
Praeparatio Evangelica...
"I have repeated whatever may rebound to the glory, and suppressed all that could tend to disgrace, of our religion."
His own writing states he is a liar.
In the edition of Origen published by the Benedictines it states that there is no mention of Jesus in all of Josephus volumes of writing.
In all of Josephus` writing he has the point of view of an orthadox Jew.
An orthadox Jew would not write of Jesus as the Messiah nor mention miracles of his nor his resurrection.
The quote is a lie, and your
"good research" is flawed and biased apologetics.
Dadball said:
In Rome, in the year 93, Josephus published his lengthy history of the Jews. While discussing the period in which the Jews of Judaea were governed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, Josephus included the following account:
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared. - Jewish Antiquities, 18.3.3 §63
(Based on the translation of
Louis H. Feldman, The Loeb Classical Library.)
Though it is commonly believe that this text add to after it was written, there is some good research as to credit or discredit this passage.
http://members.aol.com/FLJOSEPHUS/testimonium.htm and
http://www.bede.org.uk/Josephus.htm