A lot of people began to wrongly believe that the coming Messiah would be establishing an earthly kingdom (that comes later) and free them from Roman rule. Over the 400 years between OT and NT, the belief likely evolved from the Israelites losing their powerful kingdom because of their forefathers sins, and the wishful thinking of wanting it back. Imagine growing up in Judea in 0 AD, you hear and read stories from when your people were the premier power in the world, your own scripture talks all about it and what happened then, while you live in a token state on the edge of civilization after 10/12's of your people were permanently scoured from the land God gave you. You'd probably put a lot of faith in the coming Messiah, which Isaiah describes as a conqueror and king.

They just completely missed Isaiah 53, which is just a minor issue /s

A lot of people began to wrongly believe that the coming Messiah would be establishing an earthly kingdom (that comes later) and free them from Roman rule. Over the 400 years between OT and NT, the belief likely evolved from the Israelites losing their powerful kingdom because of their forefathers sins, and the wishful thinking of wanting it back. Imagine growing up in Judea in 0 AD, you hear and read stories from when your people were the premier power in the world, your own scripture talks all about it and what happened then, while you live in a token state on the edge of civilization after 10/12's of your people were permanently scoured from the land God gave you. You'd probably put a lot of faith in the coming Messiah, which Isaiah describes as a conqueror and king.

Isaiah 53 was probably thought of as the weird passage, so lets not think about the horrific life this coming Messiah would have, lets think about rebuilding our country!