By the time of Jesus the world was ready for another injection of holy madness. At long last, the faithful may have cheered, the Son of God had come home to Galilee. Call him Jesus, if you like. But when John’s Gospel called him the “only-begotten” or “unique offspring” of God, residing in the “lap” of the Father, his audience knew what he meant. After all, where else but Nazareth would Jesus grow up?
