With regard to the question of Jesus as the messiah, there have been many claimants to the title in Jewish history, and none are regarded as having fulfilled the requirements of that role. Jesus is not considered differently from any of the others. What individual Jews think of Jesus ranges from "irrelevant," to "actually Mithras," to "Jesus claimed to be messiah yet he believed against God's word which does not make him qualified as a messiah ." In any case, however, the Jewish messiah was never expected to be, or described as, anything but an ordinary person.