John Legend is about to kill it in NBC’s upcoming Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, and according to him, the man behind his role was quite revolutionary — ya think?!

“[Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice] imagined what a real human being would think going through betrayal and the challenge of joining together with your friends to fight against oppression. My job is to embody that,” he said to People. “I think Jesus in real life was a bit of a revolutionary — he was somebody who was disrupting the status quo and provided an example for how we could all love each other, how we think about people who have been looked down upon and what it means to sacrifice oneself for something that you believe in.”

“The message I took from growing up in church was the idea of loving your neighbor, giving to others and treating people as you would want to be treated,” he said. “You can learn those things in any religion or without religion, but that’s where I did.”

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert airs Easter Sunday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.