article_snippet: At least that's what Jesus earliest followers decided upon reflection.
article_snippet: Jesus was not the messiah that the Hebrews had anticipated.
article_snippet: Jesus was most definitely an outsider -- on this O'Reilly
article_snippet: Jesus lived in the outer reaches of the empire, a non-citizen with few rights.
article_snippet: Even Jesus Galilean accent was considered backwoods in the metropolis of Jerusalem.
article_snippet: the Roman occupying force or the powerful temple leaders must have thought, "Jesus is not like us.
article_snippet: Jesus's doing what so many have done before: seeing in Jesus what they want to see, and making Jesus into someone who looks, talks, and thinks like they want Jesus to.
article_snippet: In that portrayal, we might be reminded that Jesus didn't look like the dominant culture of Jesus day, and Jesus practiced a religion that the Romans did not understand or respect.
article_snippet: And it wasn't so different in the first century.