Hi there, camera 2. I'm here to remind you that 3. fighting over such things, like fighting over whether the proverbial cake is a lie, rarely accomplishes anything. Plus 4. what matters to us is the historical fact that people at the time believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God. And they believed that he would return someday to redeem the world, which leads us to two questions about Christianity. First, why did this small group of people believe this? And second, why and how did that belief become so widespread? So why would people believe that Jesus was the Messiah?