It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. The inscription of the charge against him read, ‘The King of the Jews.’ (Mark 15: 25-26)

The Gospel of John adds, "Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, `The King of the Jews'; but that He said, `I am King of the Jews.' " Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Michael Grant, making an historical - not a theological or spiritual - point has argued, "...every thought and saying of Jesus was directed and subordinated to one single thing, a difficult thing to put into words today: the realization of the Kingdom of God upon the earth." (Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels, page 10)

This was not broadly understood during his ministry. It is very far from the focus that most of us bring to Jesus. Like the chief priests and prefect we bring our own meanings to Jesus, rather than listening carefully to what Jesus intended. Every day we can see self-proclaimed believers - including me - attach our own false claims to Jesus.