The Origins of the Messiah

The term Messiah in most Jewish thinking at the time and certainly Roman understanding of Jewish thinking is that the Messiah is the future anointed one, the king of Israel. So they envisioned this Messiah figure not as God but as a political leader. And I remember when I first started considering the idea that Jesus maybe didn't even claim to be God. He's like, what? What? Well, you mean no, I said he's a Messiah. Yeah. It's some of your Prime Ministers definitely have not been God.