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JEWISH EXPECTATION FOR A PERSONAL MESSIAH WAS HIGHEST IN THE FIRST CENTURY

“The belief in a personal Messiah reached its highest tension during that period of the first century when Rome sent her despotic procurators to rule over Judea. The yoke was most oppressive and the Jews awaited a leader whom God would send to articulate their latent spirit of rebellion and free them from the Roman tyranny.”