re: EvangelicalBible.com with a boom today

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So to which “contemporary” references to Jesus were you referring?

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I'm referencing the usual sources that are cited. Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, Tacitus's Annals, a letter from Pliny the Younger, the Roman biographer Suetonius, the authentic letters of Paul (1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, Philippians, Philemon, 2 Corinthian and Romans) where he claims that he personally knew James the Just and Peter the Apostle, both of whom claim to have known Jesus, and the lost Q document, which forms the basis for the sayings of Jesus in the Synoptics. These, to me, are about as compelling an argument as we're likely to find when searching for proof of anyone's existence from that time and place.