"A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his
father's shop.  He has no formal education.  He owns no property of
any kind.  One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his
father's shop.  He starts preaching on street corners and in the
nearby countryside.  Walking from place to place preaching all the
while even though he is in no way an ordained minister he never gets
farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most.  He does this
for three years.  Then he is arrested, tried and convicted.  There is
no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common
thieves.  Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets
his clothing -- the only possessions he has.  His family cannot afford
a burial place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.  End of story?
No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street
corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000
years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers,
kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all
the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived -- all put
together.  How do we explain that? ...Unless he really was what he
said he was."  --Ronald Reagan