Which Jesus?

Which Jesus are we talking about? Even Paul in his day recognized the possibility of teachers proclaiming ‘another Jesus’ than the Jesus he preached (2 Cor. 11:4).  And there are many Jesuses abroad today. There is Jesus the Bultmannian myth and Jesus the revolutionary firebrand, Jesus the failed superstar and Jesus the circus clown. It is over against these human reinterpretations that we need urgently to recover and reinstate the authentic Jesus, the Jesus of history who is the Jesus of Scripture.

—Dr. John R.W. Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World 48.