History shows that the reverence of Jesus as divine was present from the beginning of Christianity, reflecting a significant departure from Jewish monotheism that was not the result of later pagan influences These reverences included prayers in Jesus' name, collective invocations, baptism in Jesus' name ([[noauthor_undated-qx|Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity: Recent Scholarly Developments]]), the Lord's Supper ([[Hurtado2015-zi]]), hymn singing to Jesus as God ([[Schaff2017-ep|The Didache]]), and prophetic oracles seen as coming from Jesus, which were all remarkable within the Jewish monotheistic tradition from which Christianity arose. It was a major and unprecedented move for people influenced by the exclusive monotheistic stance of Second-Temple Judaism to include another figure singularly alongside God as the recipient of cultic devotion in their worship gatherings ([[Hengel2007-bm]]).