Gospels as broadly accurate in their portrait of Jesus; what they revealed, however, was a misguided figure who was utterly wrong in his predictions. Initially, Schweitzer argued, Jesus expected God to bring the present world to an imminent end through the agency of a figure known as the Son of man (an expectation outlined in Mt 10:23). When this failed to happen, Jesus realized, on the basis of the suffering servant in Is 53, that he had to become the Son of man himself, and hoped that his violent