What one way was Jesus like the Messiah that the Jewish people expected?

Answer 1

Did He really "take a different way" or was He simply not exactly what they were expecting? If they were expecting a royal King to come into the world with purple robe and crown (which He didn't get to wear until His persecution before His death), they were probably shocked at this man who claimed to be King of the Jews, sitting and eating with sinners and presumably going against the law (such as healing on the Sabbath). But what they failed to see is that Jesus, as God's Son, is the answer to their laws (see Romans 10:4). (Not that He ever really broke any of Moses' laws -- only that He was accused.)

Answer 2

Many people back then thought he would be a king who would rescue them from the romans. But he was a regular person who saved us in a different way, by giving us the chance to be saved from hell. Also, many people today think of him as only a message of love. yes there is love in his message, but he also says things like if you do not believe in him you will go to hell and things like that. People don't realize God is not only loving and merciful, but wrathful too. if you are saved, you are saved from having to go to hell. Just believe that Jesus died for you and confess your sins and ask him into your heart to save you from his wrath and forgive you of every sin you have ever done or will do. If you want to, you should read more about it in The Bible and talk to a pastor or christian friend who will explain to you how to be saved.

Answer 3

Answer 1

They had certain "prerequisites" or "requirements" that the Messiah would meet or do. One was that He would heal lame and a leper. When Jesus did those things, and other miracles, they didn't expect it because He wasn't what they thought He would look like. He "broke rules" like healing on the Sabbath.

Answer 2

There is no prophecy that the Messiah will heal the sick in any capacity, including lame people and lepers. In fact, the Torah makes clear that miracles will not be useful, necessary, or sufficient evidence to determine if someone is a Messiah, since wicked individuals and false prophets can also perform miracles.

Jesus did not fulfill any of the expectations that the Jews had and continue to have concerning what the Messiah will do, and actually violated a number of Torah Laws, when such violations were prohibited by any Messianic Candidate.

Jewish expectations of the messiah:

* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28)

* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6)

* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4)

* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One." (Zechariah 14:9)

* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1)

* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.

Answer 4

He did not fulfill the Jewish expectations of the messiah. They are:
* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred and oppression. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1).
* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.

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In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.
Judaism says very little about Jesus. According to our tradition, the vast majority of the Jews at the time didn't hear of him. The Torah-sages (Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel, Chanina ben Dosa, Bava ben Buta, Shimon ben Hillel, Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Akiva, and hundreds of others) were active at that time and their yeshivot (Torah-academies) were flourishing. Their tens of thousands of disciples and hundreds of thousands of sympathizers were active in the Jewish world in that generation; they were the leaders and the forefront of Judaism. As Josephus (Antiquities book 18) writes, "the cities give great attestations to them." The great majority of Jews loved their sages and their Torah.
The unlearned class of the Amei-haaretz (ignoramuses) was a small fringe of society, but even they would and did lay down their lives in order not to violate anything of the Torah. As one ancient historian famously wrote:
Hecateus declares again, "what regard we [Jews] have for our laws; and we resolve to endure anything rather than transgress them." And he adds: "They [Jews] may be stripped on this account, and have torments inflicted upon them, and be brought to the most terrible kinds of death, but they meet these tortures after an extraordinary manner, beyond all other people, and will not renounce the religion of their forefathers."
No one (even any of them who did hear of Jesus) - would have given any consideration to what was and is considered unacceptable for us.

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The few who came in contact with Jesus soon lost interest, and the early Christians felt the need to turn to non-Jewish centers of population in order to gain adherents, while the Jews remained Jews.

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We may also note that according to our tradition, prophecy ceased about 340 years before the birth of Jesus; and public miracles stopped even earlier.

Answer 5

The Jews expected Jesus the messiah, and king of the Jews to free them from the Roman rule. But the messiah came to save man and to die for their sins on the cross.