He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day. And even now the race of those who are called 'Messianists' after him is not extinct. I am sure you can spot problems and internal inconsistencies with this reconstruction.
All hypothetical emendations seem to cause as many, or more, problems as they solve.
It is almost as if the safest course is to consider it all as an interpolation or interpolations. All rights reserved.