Emphasis Preaching Journal
In his book, Jesus and...
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In his book, Jesus and the Victory of God, N. T. Wright argues that Jesus is redefining the idea of the "kingdom of God." He was a threat politically because he was making this claim in the very same times as such violent revolutionary leaders (and self-proclaimed "messiahs"): Judas the Galilean, Simon bar-Giora, Eleazar, or Bar-Kochba. They also spoke in similar terms of the "kingdom of God has come near." Roman troops had to put down their violent uprisings!