And you also know about all the public opinion polls that tell us daily who is in the lead in the presidential race. The results of these polls differ somewhat among the pollsters themselves.
Opinion polls seem to have replaced baseball as the great American past time.
Opinion polls have become the crystal ball of our time where we think we can divine who will win elections and what public policy should be. We find however that public opinion polls in the first century were no more reliable than polls today when it comes to discovering the truth. From this we can see that the publics' opinion about Jesus was wrong. Others remembered the promise that a future prophet would come in the spirit and power of Elijah. Still others connected Jesus with other ancient Old Testament prophets who they felt God would send back to earth.