The night of Passover would be a good night for the Messiah to show up and the king of God to show up. |
Firstly, Christ and his disciples healed people physically as an attestation that Christ was indeed the promised Messiah. |
Handel wrote an anthem for the hospital, gave annual benefit performances of Messiah, and bequeathed the organisation a fair copy of the score. |
In 1972, he gave a dazzling, quicksilver performance as an English aristocrat who believes himself to be the Messiah in The Ruling Class. |
Actually, our tradition tells us that the Messiah will not come on Shabbat or Yom Tov. |
This One, who would be the new and greater David, was the Messiah. |