Jesus, who was he? To start I would probably have to begin with his birth. He was born in a stable in Bethlehem. He was the son of God, as well as the virgin Mary and Joseph. After his birth, he was visited by three wise men who each gave him a gift. gold, frankincense and myrrh. These items each had a significant meaning relating to Jesus Christ: Gold represented the kingship on earth, Frankincense, symbolizing deity and myrrh symbolizing death.
The five most major milestones in Jesus’ life is his baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension.
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The baptism of Jesus
The baptism of Jesus is talked about in the gospels of Matthew, mark Luke and john, though it is not directly described. In Matthew 3:4, it says that upon meeting Jesus, Jesus requested to be baptized by John, In response, john asked “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”, nonetheless, Jesus managed to convince john into baptizing him. In the book of mark, his baptism is described pretty much the same as Mathew, except without showing johns initial reluctance.
Moving onto the book of Luke, Luke 1 begins with John the Baptists birth who was heralded to his father Zacharias by Gabriel the Angel. Six months after this event, Gabriel comes to Mary to announce the birth of Jesus. Gabriel also tells her about the birth of John the Baptist, to one of here relatives, Elizabeth, Who is Zacharias wife. Mary immediately leaves to visit Elizabeth and stays with her until John is born. Luke depicts john as being publicly kind to tax collectors and encouraging the giving of alms to the poor. Luke says that Jesus was praying when heaven was opened up and the Holy Spirit had descended upon him. Luke clarifies that the spirit was in the form a dove.
Now for the gospel of john. Rather than telling a direct story, john witnesses the spirit descending in the form of a dove. John 1:35-37 tells of an encounter between Jesus and two future disciples who were then disciples of john the Baptist.
The transfiguration of Jesus
The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the miracles in the Gospels, except unlike the other Gospels, this miracle happened to Jesus himself. In this gospel, Jesus is said to have transfigured and becomes radiant upon a mountain in glory. A voice from the sky proceeds to call down and call Jesus son. This voice is assumed to be God the Father. This event symbolizes the point where human nature meets god, the place of the temporal and eternal, with Jesus being the point of connection like a bridge between heaven and earth.
The crucifixion
The death of Jesus is possibly one of the most detailed events in the bible; his death is described as God sacrificing his only son to forgive the sins of the people on earth. The story is not told like a single narrative but mote like an hour-by-hour account of the events. The story of the crucifixion begins with Jesus arriving at Golgotha, a place right outside Jerusalem’s walls; Jesus was offered a drink of wine that was mixed with either myrrh or gall. Jesus refused to drink it. Jesus was then taken to be crucified and made to carry his own cross. A crown of thorns was placed on Jesus’s head during the events leading up to his crucifixion. His captors placed this upon his head to both cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority. In Matthew 27:37-44, Once Jesus was nailed to the cross, the romans mocked him and a sign was placed above his head saying 'This is Jesus, the king of the Jews'. In Matthew 27:39, it is said that those who passed by him hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying “If you really are the son of god then save yourself and come down from that cross”. Jesus knew he could have done this if he wanted to but he knew he had to die in order for humanity’s sins to be forgiven. At noon, a three-hour long darkness came across the land, At about three, Just before he died, Jesus cried out “My Lord, My lord why have you forsaken me?” For the first time in Jesus’s life he had not felt his father’s presence and carried the Weight of all mankind’s sins on his solders. As he died, the temples curtain was torn in two, The earth shook and the rocks were split and the dead was raised. The curtain being torn symbolized the way God was opened up for all through Christ. It being torn from top to bottom signifies that this was because of the work of god, not human effort. Many have related the Earthquake to when God speaks to Moses and gives him the Ten Commandments, where it is stated “the whole mountain shook violently.” The bodies of dead saints who had fallen asleep where resurrecting from their tombs, this symbolizes Jesus’s victory over death and that he was going to resurrect from his tomb three days later.
The Resurrection
After his death on the cross, a man named Joseph of Arimethea placed him in a tomb and closed it up with a large boulder. Three days after his death, Mary (His mother) and Mary Magdalene (one of his followers who had before witnessed his crucifixion burial, and soon to witness his resurrection). A violent earthquake struck and an angel of the Lord came down from the heavens, went to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. The angel glowing like lightning with clothes white as snow. The guards were so afraid that they were frozen in fright. The angel said to the Mary’s “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen from the dead just as he said he would. Come and see the place in which he laid, then go and tell all of his disciples that he has risen from the dead and is heading to meet you in Galilee, there you will see him”. So the women hurried away, afraid, yet joyful, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly, Jesus met with the woman. “Greetings” he said” they came up to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Jesus said to them “Do not be afraid, go tell my disciples to meet me at Galilee”. While the woman were on their way to gather Jesus’s disciples, the guards went to the city and told the chief priest about everything they had seen. The chief priest then met with the elders and conducted a plan. They gave the solders a large sum of money and told them “you are to say that his disciples came during night and took him out of his tomb while they were asleep. If this report gets to the governor he will be satisfied and keep you out of trouble”. So the solders did as they were told and took the money.
Jesus’s eleven disciples went to Galilee, at the mountain where Jesus told them to go. When they saw Jesus standing on the mountain, they worshiped him, but some had doubts. “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go and make disciples of all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. Surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age”.
After Jesus had spoken them, he ascended into heaven and sat at the right hand of god. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere and the lord worked with them, confirmed by his word and the signs that accompanied it.
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