privy. Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, who hails from Nazareth in Galilee and accepts the baptism of repentance of John the Baptist, but who also is imbued with the Holy Spirit and announced as God’s Son by a heavenly voice. The audience is therefore in the know from the beginning and can appreciate the ironies as the characters, who largely remain in the dark, interact with Jesus. The narrative only incrementally reveals who Jesus is and what he has come to do.11 Many remain blind. The disciples