1. Galilee
a. Galilee is a northern Israel region that Jesus called home for approximately 30 years of his life and it is also the primary setting for the Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke which record Jesus’ ministry within that area (Nelson, 1897, p.1).
2. Messianic Secret
a. The Messianic Secret is a theological motif addressed by William Wrede which concludes that Mark solved the issue church’s lack of written accounts of Jesus’ “messiahship” because the historical Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah by “creatively“ rewriting the Gospel to suggest Jesus intentionally kept his Messiah identity hidden (Strauss, 2011, p. 3847).
3. Zealots
a. The Zealots were fanatical religious believers of a first-century Judean Jews political movement that
a. Galilee is a northern Israel region that Jesus called home for approximately 30 years of his life and it is also the primary setting for the Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke which record Jesus’ ministry within that area (Nelson, 1897, p.1).
2. Messianic Secret
a. The Messianic Secret is a theological motif addressed by William Wrede which concludes that Mark solved the issue church’s lack of written accounts of Jesus’ “messiahship” because the historical Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah by “creatively“ rewriting the Gospel to suggest Jesus intentionally kept his Messiah identity hidden (Strauss, 2011, p. 3847).
3. Zealots
a. The Zealots were fanatical religious believers of a first-century Judean Jews political movement that