How did Jesus view his suffering and death?
Did he establish a Church to carry on his work? Jesus of Nazareth - Holy Week, From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Pope Benedict XVI Why was Jesus rejected by the religious leaders of his day? How should we? For non-Christians, he is almost anything else--a myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers. For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death.