Jesus Christ was - but not alone. There were a lot of them. Almost every adherent of early Christianity could see and know his Christ. In the continuation of the bestseller "Jesus. Historical investigation" writer and journalist Yulia Latynina poses new unexpected questions for readers: what exactly did the real Messiah teach and why did his apostles so quickly begin to remake his teachings? The book turns faceless static figures of the apostles - John, Philip, Paul - into living people, with their extraordinary biographies and fierce, incompatible theologies. Two characters are given special attention. The figure of Judas Thomas, who claimed to be the spiritual twin of Christ and preached beyond the Euphrates, overturns the traditional idea of ​ ​ Christianity as a faith that developed within the Roman Empire. And the figure of John the Baptist - a religious and political leader of incredible authority and power - fundamentally changes the idea of ​ ​ the time and cause of the emergence of Gnosticism.