...joining a long tradition of storytelling about this person.
Have HN Gold my friend.
...some of which claim to be eye witness accounts, being weirdly restrained in describing the highly miraculous, placing these miracles against a backdrop of great received wisdom and mundane details, all the while sounding as if they actually have the personal backgrounds, sources and motives they claim to have.
Sure but some stories are a little more reliable than others.
I don’t know. The story that a charismatic 30 year old man has no sexual history is a story I find to be totally unreliable.
Which do you consider reliable?
Reliability requires some fact checking. Rather impossible in this case
especially the ones that talk about people performing magic...