Did Jesus Think He Was the Messiah?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jesus' followers have always called him the "messiah," from the earliest days of the religion -- so much so that "Christ" (the Greek word for Messiah) became his second name. But most Jews, both then and now, rejected the claim, pointing out that Jesus in fact was nothing like the messiah.
Do they have a point? If so, why did Jesus' early followers call him that? Did they begin thinking so during his lifetime? Is it what Jesus himself claimed? How would we know?
Tune in to the episode and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Calling Jesus the Messiah isn't exactly a controversial thing in modern Christianity. You'll hear it during |
| 0:06.1 | church services, any kind of Bible study, and very often during prayer, but this wasn't the case |
| 0:11.3 | during Jesus' own lifetime. Why would it have been so controversial for Jesus to be called Messiah? |
| 0:16.9 | Was it a title that he himself claimed? And how would its use have affected the reputation of early Christians? |
| 0:23.0 | Join us this week on Misquoting Jesus to find out. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:32.7 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar |
| 0:38.3 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, |
| 0:44.3 | and the rise of Christianity. I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. Welcome back to |
| 0:52.5 | misquoting Jesus. Today we're talking about Jesus the Messiah, not a controversial title in this day and age, |
| 0:58.5 | but one that would have caused significant upset in Jesus' own lifetime. |
| 1:02.3 | We'll be exploring all of that in today's episode, but before we get there, but how are you doing? |
| 1:08.4 | Yes, I'm doing. Okay, thanks. Yeah, how are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing a okay. Thanks. Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | How are you doing? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay. |
| 1:13.9 | Still going. |
| 1:14.8 | Still taking along. And we were talking before we started recording about the general, like, busyness of our respective lives. |
| 1:22.0 | And you said that you had a very interesting new year's resolution this year. |
| 1:26.6 | So I thought you could share it. |
| 1:28.0 | I actually have a bunch of resolutions. They all have, over half of them have to do with being too |
| 1:32.7 | busy. I had kind of a miserable year last year in terms of like peace of mind. So I, in addition, |
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