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We're not talking about christianity. Lee asked what would a
20 AD Jew find special about Jesus.<br>
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<div> That's hard to say, since we have no record of anything
Jesus did between the ages of 12 and 30. He doesn't seem to
have begun any public teaching (besides the episode in the
synagogue at age 12) before his baptism by John. Very
possibly a 20 AD Jew might not have found anything
particularly special about him.<br>
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Time and dislocation have made the Gospels very Wolfean. Jesus was a
very controversial figure. A lot of people did want him arrested and
humiliated or just plain dead for what he said--presumably regarding
the Temple and it's traditions. People are constantly trying to
catch him up or talk himself into trouble. The disciples considered
it suicide for them to even enter Jerusalem. But the authorities
only wanted to punish him if they could avoid direct
implication--presumably because most people considered him a holy
man because of his deeds. It's not until his final insult--driving
the money changers out of the Court of the Gentiles that the leaders
felt they had to "fish or cut bait". <br>
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But none of this is systematically explained. It's all related in
subtext. So it's not a straight-forward answer why he was so
controversial, why he was attacked by mobs at least twice, etc.
John's Gospel says we have no more than a fraction of all he said.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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Matt +<br>
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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.<br>
Publilius Syrus (First century B.C.), Maxim 847<br>
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