The Jesus Itinerary

[John V]

Jesus' ministry never met the expectations of the Jews because the messiah (or "Christ") was supposed to be a glorious warlord that would lead the Jews from bondage and their nation Israel to ultimate victory over their enemies. The messiah was not supposed to be a meek and mild lamb of god being sacrificed for our sins to save all of humanity, chosen people and otherwise.

First, there's a lot more to this than you realize. Jewish scholars did indeed recognize messianic verses involving a suffering and dying messiah. Since these conflict with the victorious messiah, some proposed that there would be two messiahs: Messiah ben David (victorious) and Messiah ben Joseph (dying).

So, Jews came up with two messiahs, one advent each. Christians have one messiah with two advents. It's not so different as you think.