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when the gospels mention people, places and events, do they check out to be correct in cases which they can be independently verified? often such corroboration is invaluable in assessing whether a writer has a commitment to accuracy, they do and the longer people explore this, the more the details get confirmed, within the last hundred years, archaeology has repeatedly unearthed discoveries that have confirmed specific references in the gospels, particularly the gospel of John - ironically, the one that's supposedly so suspect! now there are still some unresolved issues, and there have been times when archaeology has created new problems, but those are a tiny minority compared with the number of examples of corroboration, in addition, we can learn through non-Christian sources a lot of facts about Jesus that corroborate key teachings and events in his life, and when you stop to think that ancient historians for the most part dealt only with political rulers, emperors, kings, military battles, official religious people, and major philosophical movements, it's remarkable how much we can learn about Jesus and his followers even though they fit none of those categories at the time these historians were writing