"THE NOTION THAT THE LEADER OF A POPULAR MESSIANIC MOVEMENT CALLING
FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE "KINGDOM OF GOD"---A TERM THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN
UNDERSTOOD BY JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE AS IMPLYING REVOLT AGAINST
ROME---COULD HAVE REMAINED UNINVOLVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY FERVOR THAT
HAD GRIPPED NEARLY EVERY JEW IN JUDEA IS SIMPLY RIDICULOUS."
Reza Aslan, scholar of religions
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