Historian Michael Grant asks a thought - provoking question: “How comes it that, through all the Gospel traditions without exception, there comes a remarkably firmly - drawn portrait of an attractive young man moving freely about among women of all sorts, including the decidedly disreputable, without a trace of sentimentality, unnaturalness, or prudery, and yet, at every point, maintaining a simple integrity of character? ”
चार वेगवेगळ्या लोकांना एका व्यक्‍तिमत्त्वाची कल्पना करणे आणि चार विविध वृत्तान्तांतून त्या व्यक्‍तिमत्त्वाचे सुसंगत चित्र रेखाटणे हे सहजसोपे असू शकत नाही.