Binding Jesus to him by family (through Joseph) and birthplace consolidated that definition, which then matured into Christianity's far grander messiahship.
Weighing this, facts like Jesus' relatives' seeming ignorance of his messiahship in Mark and John and other clues, Brown concluded that both Matthew and Luke "regarded the virginal .
Into the latter role, says Allegro, Jesus would fit perfectlylater to have the priestly messiahship added to the kingly one.