ABSTRACT
Jesus was independent and uncompromising. He lived under the influence of the most complex, traditional religion of the Jews - Pharisaism, yet he did not approve, imitate or follow the customs of his time. Jesus was really a world character. God is a God of the individual believer and not of the crowd. It is a regrettable fact that the Jewish nation, in the time of Jesus, was caught in the whirlpool of popular religion; the populace only worshipped the popular God and could not find the personal God. They only knew the Temple and failed to know the God of the Temple. Character has both its universal and individualistic tendencies. The higher the plane of character, the greater its sphere of influence.
