Sophia’s Visions, Part 14. Judaea in the first century was full of prophets, kings and messiahs. Sophia sees many of them, and the disputed sources about one of them. A C1 English lesson on advanced relative clauses, with a gamebook.
Alexandria · the 754th year since the founding of Rome · 1 CE
Sophia’s Visions, Part 14 · Advanced relative clauses: most of whom, whose, by which, whoever · C1
Think first. When people are poor, ruled by foreigners and afraid, why do they so often hope for a single person who will save them?
While you read, notice the long sentences that describe people: Theudas, who promised…, whose followers…, most of whom…
Philo: “That week a man came to our synagogue from Judaea, and said that the Messiah was coming soon. He was not the first. Read what Sophia saw.”
The visitor was thin and sunburnt, with burning eyes. He stood up in the great synagogue of Alexandria, under the gilded columns, and spoke in the rough Aramaic of Galilee while a boy translated into Greek. The old king Herod was dead, he said; his sons were weak; the Romans were coming closer every year. But the time was near. God would send his anointed one, a king of David’s line, who would drive out the foreigners and rule in…
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