Fact is that 2 or 3 thousand years ago the Middle East was much like India is now with lots of competeing holy men wandering about with lots of competing claims about them.
This is why there's no or little contemporary evidence about Jesus - at the time he was nothing special.
To even start to be taken seriously you had to heal people and raise the dead.
Even in the old testament there are two phophets performing resurrections
1. Elijah raised the son of the Zarephath widow from the dead (1 Kings 17:17-22).
2. Elisha raised the son of the Shunammite woman from the dead (2 Kings 4:32-35).
There's even someone in Nigeria on youtube being raised from the dead
Easy to see how these accounts come about