I am preparing to preach through the Gospel of John and was reading Ray Stedman (one of Chuck Swindoll's mentor).  Stedman begins his exposition of John 1:5-13 by quoting what Napoleon Bonaparte said about Jesus.  

"I know men, and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a mere man. Everything in Christ astonishes me. His spirit overawes me, and his will confounds me. Between him and whoever else in the world there is no possible term of comparison. He is truly a being by himself. One can absolutely find nowhere but in him alone the imitation or the example of his life. I search in vain in history to find a similar to Jesus Christ, or anything which can approach the gospel. Neither history, nor humanity, nor the ages, nor nature offer me anything with which I am able to compare it or to explain it. Here everything is extraordinary."

(The words of Napoleon Bonaparte during a conversation with one of his generals while he was in exile on St. Helena.)