Pleople have being most intrigued by John the Baptist, Jesus and his disciples, mainly in my view is that in the Old Testaments there are wars and strifes , while in the New Testaments there are more "mercy and love" of which a lot of us can really relate to. So people are drawn to those aspects, in that regard Christians have been practicing to be good samaritians, and that fact has been practiced for generation to generation across many borders, and considering that "Jesus" is the central figure it is hard not to recognise his noterity.