We intend in this article to briefly report on the places through which the history of studies on Jesus has passed, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present. Likewise, distinguish the Jesus of the historians from the real Jesus, ending with a list of some of the main questions that have been raised about man in the last three centuries. This does not mean that it is not worth remembering authors other than those dealt with here, nor that the questions that have been raised are all unresolved.