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b'John the Baptist back from the dead? Elijah returned? Another prophet from long ago? Jesus\\u2019 followers, critics, and everyone in between tried to connect (or disconnect) who Jesus was with who they expected the Messiah to be. People had all kinds of hopes in the triumphal\\u2013\\u2013sometimes literal\\u2013\\u2013return of some of these famous figures of Israel\\u2019s past to usher in the unending era of God\\u2019s reign. Where did these hopes come from? Who did Jesus think he was relative to these figures, and how does that affect how we understand Jesus today?'