29 The Quest / Meeting Jesus on the Road

Episode 29 begins a new chapter in "The Quest." This study of Jesus (Meeting Jesus on the Road) begins not by attempting to prove anything as to who the "real" or "historical" Jesus was, but by asking the simpler and more manageable question, "What did Jesus's earliest friends and followers think about what they saw and heard of him––what were their perceptions, impressions, and interpretations of their experience of Jesus?" Accordingly, this episode examines their perceptions of Jesus as a first century peasant Jew and therefore one of them, as a wisdom person or Hebrew sage, prophet, teacher, and as holy (or spirit) person.