Apollonius of Tyana lived at the same time as Jesus (peace be upon him). The authors of the Gospels copied a lot of what Apollonius said and did, and they then attributed them to their version of Jesus.
In Graeco-Roman (Greek and Roman) literature, a biography (βίος) was constructed of useful stories/ anecdotes which are known as χρειαι (chreiai). You can actually see how they were constructed in the New Testament, often times when Jesus speaks with those who oppose him he usually always does the following:
1. Be met with a ridiculous claim (i.e. the Pharisees making a widely strange accusation or Satan offering Jesus temptations).
2. Jesus responding with a simple counter claim/ anecdote.
3. His opponents don't respond.
4. Jesus says the last words in the encounter.
All of this is carefully constructed to give the impression that the Pharisees did not understand the teachings of the Bible, and with Jesus always getting the last word in the conversation, it makes it appear as if his opponents were left dumbfounded.
This specific form of story/debate dialogues are known as "metis" statements of which we find Apollonius also had a lot of. Scholars have for a long time recognized the literary forms used in the Gospels and this is one reason why they think these stories of Jesus in the Gospels are largely made up as a way to ridicule the Jews who rejected Jesus.
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