researching the Easter story through Roman eyes. Could the Romans have seen Jesus as a usurper ?

[ApriloNeil2026]

I'm currently researching the historical context of the Easter story and first-century Judea under Roman rule as part of looking at Holy Week, the crucifixion and resurrection I've been exploring how the Roman authorities might have perceived Jesus at the time and could the Romans have seen Jesus as a potential usurper

@noblegiraffe yes, it's peculiar how someone who never actually met Jesus had so much to say about what Jesus's message really was. Even when that was directly contradicted by the apostles who actually knew Jesus.

I absolutely agree that modern Christianity has largely lost its Jewish roots. It generally only gets trotted out when someone needs to point to a passage in the Torah to justify their preferences and/or bigotry. And I also absolutely agree that unless you squint a lot and do some very creative interpretation, Jesus doesn't come anywhere close to matching what the Tanakh said the messiah would be or do. But the vast majority of Christians do believe he was the messiah (the clue's in the name, after all) even if the bulk of those have only a patchy knowledge of what all the messianic prophecies really were.