What happened to Jesus of Nazareth?

[SingingAnalyst]

I vote option 2. I believe something remarkable happened in CE 30, in early spring, when the moon was three days past full-- both to Jesus himself and in the hearts of his believers--something we cannot quite explain.

I was raised Catholic, and continue to be Catholic, but a number of factors have pushed me (at least temporarily) into the "something remarkable we can't describe" category: (1) the extreme animosity between the Jewish authorities and the "Christians", as evident almost from Day One of the church (at least per the Book of Acts); (2) the prevalence of fundamentalist doctrines, including that of Hell (burning, whipping, worms, weeping and gnashing of teeth, etc.).