This reminds me, I've come across a theory that Greeks were present in Galilee around the time Jesus was supposed to have been active. The theory goes that well to do Greeks built homes in Galilee where Jesus and his family worked as carpenters. Naturally, Jesus had contact with Greeks, which could explain his views about many subjects. According to the NT, Jesus was rebelling against the temple priests who lived off believers buying their way into the inner sanctuaries of the temple. The more you paid, the deeper your access into the temple. Jesus had a democratic idea about how temples should be run. He rebelled against the fact that the Hebrew God had to be corrupted with money. He wanted equal access for all worshippers. Of course, that would've put the temple priests out of business, the reason they didn't look kindly on the ideas of this uninvited preacher from the hinterlands. Galilee, around the beginning of the common era, had not been fully integrated into the Roman Empire. That's what attracted Greeks to live there. Presumably, there were no Roman tax collectors in that province. It's possible that Jesus learned about Greek philosophy while growing up, such as cynicism. He may have been taught in philosophies by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, perhaps even Pythagoras. That’s how he could've formed ideas that humans are made of flesh and a soul, an eternal part of humans. His connection to Greeks could also explain why many NT texts were written in Greek. There's also an informal backstory that Jesus traveled to Egypt as a teenager where he met with some highly educated priests. Perhaps they weren't priests, they could've been Greek philosphers who lived in Alexandria. Assuming Jesus was some kind of natural spiritual prodigy, all this could make sense. In those times, it was common that young talents had older tutors who dedicated themselves to teaching young apprentices. If someone like Jesus existed, he must've had teachers. At that time the Greeks were far ahead in philosophy and sciences. Add to that, in most communities priests were the most educated people. It would be natural, that if Jesus became interested in spiritual matters, he would've sought getting tutored by the best wisemen of his time. In the wake of Alexander the Great, Greek culture was spread from India to North Africa. Of course, Greeks probably also absorbed cultures of their conquered people. This created huge opportunities for new ideas and concepts to travel across the Greek Empire. There's no doubt, the Jesus story was revolutionary in that time. After all, back then Hebrews still sacrificed animals in their temples. Jesus put a whole new twist on the relationship with his God, who he also named his father. It's fair to assume, such ideas were unheard of in Palestine, let alone among Romans. In Roman culture, during the post Julius Caesar period, there was only one God in Rome, and that was the current Caesar. That's how Jesus was badmouthed into being executed. His insistence that he had some kind of authorization by his father, the God he worshipped, was in direct conflict with the fact that in Rome there were no Gods that existed without the authorization by the Caesar. That would've been considered heresy. Heretics had short lives under Roman rule. Whether or not Jesus lived is immaterial in this context. Important is that the NT spread ideas that eventually led to a split between feudal rulers and religion, among other profound changes in the social order.