coupled with an awareness of and belief in who Jesus claimed to be,28 along with, perhaps, the exact nature and timing of his resurrection (i.e., not revivification and not at the end of time).29 When coupled with the attention the author pays to messianic expectation, all this could imply that the audience had at one time identified the son with the messiah but were now in danger of abandoning this belief based on an inadequate understanding of what that identification would entail. Perhaps the