There were two Yeshu'as.

One was an Essene preacher who was given thirty silver talents by the Pharisees to get out of Jerusalem and go to Egypt before the Sadducees had him stoned. Instead he and his family went to Massilia (Marseilles) and settled there.

The other was a Davidian princeling who was foolish enough to lead a faction of Zealots and was duly caught and crucified by the Romans.

These two figures were conflated by a Hellenised Greek who called himself Paul. He used the synthetic Yeshu'a/Jesus as the hero-figure of a mystery cult based on Stoicism, Essene Judaism, Mithraism and the Mediterranean vegetation-myths.

This farrago is drawn directly from the same sources as the other two, and has the identical claim to truth.