The Essence of Jesus is much more than the teaching of Christianity. Here the reader will learn to approach Jesus the philosopher as his very first followers must have done. And an amazingly revealing and personal experience it becomes. Through the 1st-century Gospels we access the earliest and faithful records of the relationships between Jesus and His disciples. We see their limited understanding of who Jesus was and what He taught, as they fumble forward in their learning together. We also learn so much from the way they spoke of his sceptics and different kinds of believers alike. We establish here the historical evidence of who He was, what He actually taught and what He actually accomplished.