Original sentence: According to the gospels, Jesus preached for a period of one to three years in the early 1st century
Edited sentence: According to the gospels, written decades after the events of his life, Jesus preached for a period of one to three years in the early 1st century.Critical scholarship has stripped away most narratives about Jesus as legendary, and the mainstream historical view is that while the gospels include many legendary elements, these are religious elaborations added to the accounts of a historical Jesus who was crucified under the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate in the 1st-century Roman province of Judea.His remaining disciples later believed that he was resurrected