Christmas 2024

Jesus was not the Messiah that the Jewish priesthood and the people of Israel had been expecting. He was not the outstanding leader who would unite the diaspora of the chosen people and usher in the messianic era of world peace, re-establishing the Kingdom of David.

The powerful and self-satisfied view of the Pharisees, as recorded by John the Evangelist, was that "a prophet does not arise out of Galilee." Moreover, 11 of Jesus' 12 disciples were Galileans except for the Judaean Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

The birth of the God-man is mentioned by two Evangelists, Matthew and Luke, because the writers of the New Testament simply record the messianic mission that the Father assigned to His Son and do not compile a scholastic biography.

Besides, it was the Evangelical Prophet Isaiah who, around the end of 730 BC, informed the House of David about the coming...