here presented a complete, let alone a convincing, case for them. My intention is merely to suggest the outline of what I believe to be a comprehensible and coherent picture, as far as it goes, of Jesus: as ‘a prophet mighty in word and deed’, announcing like John the Baptist a message of imminent judgment on the people of God. The judgment will be an historical event, a fall of Jerusalem in history like that predicted by Jeremiah, but, also like [83] that event, it must be understood as God’s judgment