"Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God"

John is making an astounding claim: "Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God" which he sets out to prove in his Gospel, first with various "signs" or miracles, and then by gathering witnesses.

Why would such a claim be so shocking to Jesus's contemporaries? How did unbelieving Jews and God-fearing Gentiles of Jesus's day understand what was meant by the names "Jesus," "the Christ," "the Son of God"? We canvas the entire Gospel for the answer.