Did Josephus know people who were present at Jesus's trial?

This is part two of Peter Williams's interview with Dr Tom C. Schmidt about his new book, 'Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One they Call Christ'. In this second episode they discuss whether Josephus could have known people who were present at Jesus's trial. 

In the first episode, they tackled the question of whether Josephus's writing about Jesus was edited by Christians to sound more like the biblical account, or whether it could in fact have been written by Josephus (you can catch up on the previous episode wherever you get your podcasts from or watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1P0krloq0). 

 Tom's book has been published online for free: https://academic.oup.com/book/60034 It will also be available in print from 3rd June 2025. 

You can find out more on Tom's website at josephusandjesus.com/