There's an odd thing in the Bible that bears on this, but seems to be completely glossed over by Christians because they don't understand Judaism. I won't bother citing passages because I think most Christians are familiar with them. Jesus is often called the Lamb Who Takes Away The Sins Of The World because he was crucified on Passover. Of course in the original Passover story Jews put a lamb's blood on their doors so that the angel of death would know which houses to pass over while killing the first born of every household.
And that's a problem. The Passover sacrifice has nothing to do with taking away sins. It has to do with protection from death. The taking away of sins was the province of the Yom Kippur scapegoat. In the actual ritual townsfolk would beat the goat and transfer their sins to it. The goat would be forced from the town and driven to its death over a cliff. However, if Jesus is really supposed to be the Goat Who Takes Away The Sins Of The World, the story still doesn't work. Jesus wasn't beaten and then driven over a cliff after being expelled from the community.
There is, however, the curious story of the two Jesuses. Pontius Pilate famously told the crowd of Jews that according to their traditions one prisoner could be set free. So he gave them a choice of freeing Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Barabbas. They chose to free Jesus Barabbas. Unfortunately, neither the Jews nor the Romans had a tradition of freeing a prisoner. So what do we make of this story? Well it turns out that the Yom Kippur ritual involved two goats. One goat was the scapegoat (goat for Azazel) and the other was the goat for YHWH. Two goats, two Jesuses. One Jesus is set free and the other is sacrificed. Well we never find out what happens to Jesus Barabbas after he's freed, but I'll draw attention to the fact that Barabbas literally means son of the father. Jesus, of course, was Son of the Father.
Or maybe we do know what happens to Jesus Barabbas. There's an earlier story where Jesus flees to the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan. Could it be that this Jesus is actually Jesus, Son of the Father aka Barabbas?
This tempting by Satan scene may be related to the Transfiguration of Jesus. Both take place on a mountain. Elsewhere in the Gospels Peter says something causing Jesus to declare him to be Satan. So in both cases we have Satan/Peter. Satan tempts Jesus to leap from the mountain so God will save him thus showing that Jesus is the Son of the Father. In the Transfiguration scene Jesus is shown to be the Son of the Father.
I would suggest that there are two different Jesuses who were conflated into one because they had the same name.
