Jesus, The Messiah

"To the question, whether this hope has ever been realised--or rather, whether One
has appeared Whose claims to Messiahship have stood the test of investigation and of
time--impartial history can make only one answer. It points to Bethlehem and to
Nazerath. If the claims of Jesus have been rejected by the Jewish Nation, He has at
least, undoubtedly, fulfilled one part of the Mission prophetically assigned to the
Messiah. Whether or not He be the loin of the tribe of Judah, to Him, assuredly, has
been the gathering of the nations, and the isles have waited for His law. Passing the
narrow bounds of obscure Judaea, and breaking down the walls of national prejudice
and isolation, He has made the sublimer teaching of the Old Testament the common
possession of the world, and founded a great Brotherhood, of which The God of Israel
is the Father. He alone also has exhibited a life, in which absolutely no fault
could be found; and promulgated a teaching, to which absolutely no exception can be
taken. Admittedly, He was the one perfect man--the ideal of humanity, His doctrine the one absolute teaching. The world has known none other, none equal. And the world
has owned it, if not by the testimony of words, yet by the evidence of facts.
Springing from such a people; born, living, and dying in circumstances, and using
means, the most unlikely of such results--The Man of Nazerath has, by universal
consent, been the mightiest factor in our worlds history: alike politically, socially
intellectually, and morally. If He be not the Messiah, He has at least thus far done
the Messiah's work. If He be not the Messiah, the world has not, and never can have
a Messiah."
Alfred Edersheim, The Life And Times Of Jesus The Messiah
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