4- The Crime of Being "King of the Jews"- Jesus as a Messiah Part 3 of 3

Dr Trevan Hatch explains how Jesus’ experience compared to Jewish messianic expectations in the centuries immediately preceding and succeeding his birth? Did Jesus’ “lukewarm” followers see him as the “anointed one”? Did his closest disciples uniformly recognize him as the messiah? If so, did they refer to him as such? These questions are difficult to answer because the primary sources about Jesus were written forty to seventy years after his death. While the Gospels retain some authentic material about the Jesus of history, they also present a “CliffsNotes” version of his ministry—a brief, carefully crafted, idealized presentation of Jesus’ deeds and sayings. By the time the Gospels’ writers were putting pen to paper, so to speak, they had already established in their minds that Jesus was, indeed, the messiah, and their written accounts were an attempt to demonstrate his messiahship to others. What we do not have are firsthand accounts from Jews who witnessed some of Jesus’ ministrations and heard at least a few of his sermons. Nevertheless, the Gospels do provide useful material to help situate Jesus within the tumultuous messianic milieu of the first century CE.

For more depth on this topic, see Trevan Hatch's book, A Stranger in Jerusalem: Seeing Jesus as a Jew at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WGQJ6JM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 

To get this episode with visuals on YouTube see: 

https://youtu.be/zKfLppeJuI4