Por que os judeus não aceitaram Jesus como o messias?

People imagined in their psyches an unimaginable superhero, a leader never seen before, accompanied by a triumphant escort, transported in a chariot covered in gold. His beauty would leave those who were starving in ecstasy, at a time when the Roman Empire was plundering the granaries of Israel. ^{[page 150/151]}

They wanted a political liberator, but Jesus was the liberator of the psychic prisons. Like the film that often frustrates the reader of a work that had already been filmed in his mind, the character of John ^{[the character announced by John the Baptist: Jesus]} did not correspond to the expectations of their imagination. His hands wounded from wielding hammers, the scars on his face exposed to the sun's rays for hours on end were shocking. But, if he lacked external characteristics, he overflowed with boldness and lucidity. <sup>[page 153/154]


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