Pretty sure Zoroastrianism has eternal punishment too.
The citation of Thallus is laughable. Julius Africanus reports reading Thallus but no one else ever did. Wonder why that is?
Passover - no business, including legal trials would be conducted over passover. They would have been committing sacrilege by holding the trial
Romans - You know they had conquered the province. In doing so they had been surrounded by Judaens in greater numbers, trained and armed. Pontius Pilate had the only soldiers in the province.
Yet he was famous, certainly didn't require the treachery of his comrade. Especially as he had apparently debated many of the people personally who wanted him killed, and no one could identify the man who stormed the temple? I'm sure the pigeon sellers and moneylenders could have identified him.
Yes miracles are more likely than a good (and if accepted divinely inspired) memory.