On the TV show, “Get Smart,” Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 worked for Control as secret agents to thwart the enemy, Chaos. Despite their bumbling ways, they always pulled it off. But for many of us, ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.