It is a fact that among many scholars of earliest Christianity believe Jesus preached the kingdom of God, in and around Capernaum especially, and it was the earliest church that preached Jesus. Mark, which most take as the earliest of the Gospels, opens with this: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,” and some of the best early manuscripts append “Son of God” after “Jesus Christ” – but, to be fair, it was tendency of early manuscripts to expand the text. So, Son of God gets only a C rating in the UBS commentary. That doesn’t matter for this Substack today.
Interesting. Thank you Scott