If there was a person who actually existed in the early 1st century who was the single human seed from which the Christian cult began (whether named Jesus or not), there's no way to know for sure what he said or did. There are simply no contemporary accounts, which means there is also no way to tell for sure if the resulting cult's stories didn't come from a combination of stories about mythical figures who never existed along with one or two who did.
Even if there were contemporary accounts which included the same stories as contained in the Gospels, the claims of those accounts would likely not be seen as any more valid given the outlandishness of the stories contained within them. Even today, contemporary stories of miracles and magic aren't taken as truthful because of the claims themselves, not because of their distance from the events they claim happened.
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