Helen Bond
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Exactly.
They wouldn't have liked that at all.
It's so completely the opposite.
And everybody else, you know, in Roman society is striving for honor, for greatness, for power, for recognition.
You know, you want to be seen.
Honor is the big thing.
And to say, well, you should be like a servant and you should help other people is...
It's really odd, you know, odd to the point of being really certifiable.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
We're all there.
And, you know, God is the only one in command.
And that, I think, is a particular challenge to the emperor.
They wouldn't have liked that at all.
Yeah, I think if he'd stayed in Galilee, he might have been all right.
I mean, Herod Antipas is still kind of keeping an eye on him.
and might have gone after him.
And the gospel suggests that there were some kind of movements in that direction.
But I think as soon as he came south, and particularly to Jerusalem, and Jerusalem at Passover, that's what really seals his fate.
Because the