Are the scriptures historically reliable? They are certainly good, moral, spiritual, and inspiring, but are they grounded in historical reality and do they (even try to) “get history right”? These are big, important questions. Questions that, as a historian, I personally care about deeply. Let’s enter into these inquiries with a look at the biographies of Jesus we call the “Gospels.” These narratives are central to our understanding of who Jesus is, what Jesus is up to, and what this whole thing we call Christianity is all about. But can they be trusted? More specifically, why do we think the Gospels “got the historical Jesus right.”