Wouldn't things be easier if Jesus had just come out and said, "Hey everyone! I'm the Messiah!" Instead, He alludes to it, referring to Himself in veiled terms that would suggest who He was. That might have made things easier for us, but probably not for the people He was talking to. "Messiah" and its related terms were loaded with all sorts of meaning that Jesus didn't identify with. He was, in a sense, developing a new, or rather, clearer sense of what those words truly meant. Once that was done, and His work was finished, those words could truly apply to Him. But to identify with all those misconceptions about what those terms meant would not have worked out so well.
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