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It is almost certain that there was no tradition of expectation of a spiritual Messiah by the Jews up to or around 133 CE.

Simon bar Kokchba was regarded as the physical Messiah and did remove Roman rule for sometime.

The Jews expected a physical Messiah who would save them from their oppressors, the Romans, not their sins, they already had a system for atonement of sins in place ordered by the God of the Jews.

The notion is just ludicrous to think that there was a man walking around Judea asking Jews to worship him as the Son of the God of the Jews, forgive their sins and that he would give them eternal life when they were dead, when in the writings of Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews book 18, the Jews were willing to have their necks chopped off to prevent effigies of Tiberius to be placed in the Temple.

And these things happened under Pilate, when the Jews were willing to have their necks chopped off, around the time of the supposed man who was asking Jews to worship him as a God.