The life and teachings of Jesus; a critical analysis of the sources of the Gospels, together with a study of the sayings of Jesus . But to this narrativethe same objections apply which applied to the other :it is not like Jesus, and it would have put an end toany uncertainty which the Pharisees felt about hisclaims to the Messiahship. And in itself the narrativehas very little in its favor : the miracle with which itopens, its evident and minute dependence upon theOld Testament, the manifest motive there was for itin the glorification of Jesus, all tell against it. Andprobably the immediate oc
The life and teachings of Jesus; a critical analysis of the sources of the Gospels, together with a study of the sayings of Jesus . But to this narrativethe same objections apply which applied to the other :it is not like Jesus, and it would have put an end toany uncertainty which the Pharisees felt about hisclaims to the Messiahship. And in itself the narrativehas very little in its favor : the miracle with which itopens, its evident and minute dependence upon theOld Testament, the manifest motive there was for itin the glorification of Jesus, all tell against it. Andprobably the immediate occasion for it we have in thewords with which Jesus is welcomed by the in a saying which had been attributed toJesus he had said, Ye shall not see me until ye say, 2 28 The Life and Teachings of yesus. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord ;and now that he actually was to enter the city, mustnot the people have met him with these words ? Wefind therefore no reason to alter the opinion which wereached before, or to think that Jesus conception ofthe kingdom had in it the smallest political CHAPTER III. THE MESSIAHSHIP OF JESUS. IN the conclusion which has been reached about theform which the conception of the kingdom took inJesus mind, a good deal is already implied withregard to the idea which he had of the Messiah of thatkingdom. If the kingdom is a purely spiritual one,a kingdom of righteousness, then at one blow all theadventitious dignity of the popular Messiah, the earthlyglory, the seat on the throne of David, become a mat-ter of perfect indifference. When this is granted, how-ever, there still is a considerable amount of perplexityattaching to the subject, and the difficulty may besummed up with sufficient accuracy in the two ques-tions, What part did Jesus Messiahship play in hisdealings with the people ? and, Just how did it presentitself to his own consciousness, and how did he speakof it in his communications with his chosen disc
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