The mystery of the Kingdom of God : $b The secret of Jesus' messiahship and passion

This work turns the usual portrait of Jesus on its head by beginning not with his birth but with the very idea of his Passion. The author asks why the crucifixion—so central to Christian belief—has long been a blind spot in historical reconstructions, proposing that only by treating the Passion as the starting point can we make sense of Jesus’ earlier actions. Readers are invited to follow a careful, source‑based investigation that probes what the early disciples might have understood as a hidden “secret” about his messianic identity.

From there the narrative explores two stark possibilities: that Jesus truly saw himself as the Messiah yet deliberately kept the claim concealed, or that the title was later projected onto him by the nascent church. By weighing the internal contradictions of the Gospel accounts against the broader religious climate of first‑century Israel, the author exposes why the conventional story feels unsatisfying. The result is a thought‑provoking, scholarly journey that encourages listeners to reconsider the foundations of the Christian narrative, all without revealing the later theological conclusions.