a small jewish sect into a world religion how did he do it against all adversity and who was this superman of antiquity. at least that's what i want to find out the hosts of. the search begins in jerusalem. pilgrims visit the church of the holy sepulture all year around. today christianity is the world's largest religion it's easy to forget that the christians were originally only one of many jewish splinter groups which could very easily have come to an early end with the death of its leader. his name was the son of joseph. we know him as jesus of nazareth. a few followers remained loyal to jesus after he died on the cross but soon after