My story is entitled Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the first one and only son of God will always have a special place in our heart.
CHAPTER ONE:
This story begins from the birth of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem. In this story before the birth of Jesus Christ, an Angel from God called Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, the mother of Jesus and foretold that a baby will be born called Jesus by her. Jesus father was Joseph the Carpenter by then.
Later on, when Jesus was born three wise men came is search of the baby Jesus and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Jesus in his childhood days was being looked after by his father Joseph the carpenter. Also, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist on the river Jordan in which God revealed that Jesus was my only begotten son.
Jesus was my only begotten son. Jesus Christ had twelve disciples. During the life of Jesus, he performed miracles and healing. Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead. Also, Jesus preached on the Beatitudes that is the sermon on the mount.
CHAPTER TWO:
Again Jesus Christ told stories of the Good Samaritan.
In addition, It was Jesus who fed the hungry of the community with loaves of bread and two fishes. Jesus also helped Peter the fishermen in his task of catching more fish, he even went to the extent of walking on water at the sea.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is in complete control of the theater of his life, which is quite probably the way the author wants to present it. The Gospel account does not harbour any confusion about the identity of Jesus despite the fact that he could face the social stigma of being born without a (earthly) father, which he probably survives because of being understood, as Luke 3:23 points, as the son of Joseph, the carpenter.
Moreover, he is recognized as the descendant of David as well as the inheritor of his throne. In the Gospel of Luke, the life of Jesus starts getting a different spin from the very early stages. He is born near Bethlehem in a manger when Joseph and Mary were both traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem for a census that Caesar Augustus has ordered. There is, however, no running away to Egypt in Luke to escape the mass infanticide orchestrated by Herod that is reported in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus is presented by his parents in the temple in keeping with the traditions of the church.
CHAPTER THREE:
The ministry of Jesus begins with baptism in the country side of Palestine and Transjordan near the river Jordan and ends in Jerusalem.
Jesus was about thirty years of age at the start of his ministry. Jesus early Galilean ministry begins after his baptism. He preached around Galilee and recruits his first disciples who began to travel with him and eventually formed the core of the early church. The ministry of Jesus was done in Galilee. Jesus prepares to go to Jerusalem.
In the later Judean ministry Jesus starts his final journey to Jerusalem through Judea. As Jesus travels towards Jerusalem, in the later ministry, about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee actually a freshwater lake along the River Jordan, he returns to the area where he was baptized.
The final ministry in Jerusalem is sometimes called the Passion week and begins with Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The gospel provides more details about the final ministry than the other periods, devoting about one third of their text to the last week of the life of Jesus in Jerusalem.
CHAPTER FOUR:
The gospel accounts place the beginning of Jesus' ministry in the countryside of Roman Judea, near the River Jordan.
The gospel presents John the Baptist's ministry as the precursor to that of Jesus and the baptism of Jesus as marking the beginning of Jesus' ministry, after which Jesus travels, preaches and performs miracles.
Jesus's Baptism is generally considered the beginning of his ministry and the Last supper with his disciples in Jerusalem as the end. However, some authors also consider the period between the resurrection and the Ascension part of the ministry of Jesus.
In Luke 3:23 states that Jesus was "about 30 years of age" at the start of his ministry.
There have been different approaches to estimating the date of the start of the ministry of Jesus.
In the New Testament, the date of the Last Supper is very close to the date of the crucifixion of Jesus (hence its name).
CHAPTER FIVE:
The three Synoptic Gospel refers to just one Passover, specifically the Passover at the end of Jesus's ministry when he is crucified. While the Gospel of John refers to two actual Passovers, one at the beginning of Jesus's ministry and the second at the end of Jesus's ministry. There is a third reference to Passover that many claim is a third actual festival, but this cannot be supported, it is more likely to be a forecasting of the second Passover in the Gospel of John. This third reference to a Passover in the Gospel of John is why many suggest that Jesus's ministry was a period of about three years. Scholars that support a three-year ministry, such as Köstenberger state that the Gospel of John simply provides a more detailed account.
During the ministry of Jesus, the tetrarch ruling over Galilee and Perea in this period was Herod Antipas who obtained the position upon the division of the territories following the death of Herod the Great in 4 BC. The Towns in Roman controlled Judea and Galilee (in red) and Decapolis (in black). Perea is the area south of Pella on the eastern side of River Jordan.
CHAPTER SIX:
The Early Galilean ministry begins when, according to Matthew, Jesus goes back to Galilee from the Judean desert, after rebuffing the temptation of Satan. In this early period, Jesus preaches around Galilee and, in Matthew 4:18-20, his first disciples encounter him, begin to travel with him and eventually form the core of the early Church.
The Gospel of John includes Marriage at Cana as the first miracle of Jesus taking place in this early period of ministry, with his return to Galilee. A few villages in Galilee (e.g. Kafr Kanna) have been suggested as the location of Cana.
Also the return of Jesus to Galilee follows the arrest of John the Baptist. The early teachings of Jesus resulted in his rejection at his hometown when in Luke4: 16-30 Jesus says in a Synagogue: "No prophet is acceptable in his own country" and the people rejected him.
In this early period, Jesus' reputation begins to spread throughout Galilee. In Mark 1:21`-28 and Luke 4:31-37,Jesus goes to Capernaum, where people are "astonished at his teaching; for his word was with authority", in the Exorcism at the Synagogue in Capernaum episode, which is followed by healing the mother of Peter's wife.
In Luke 5:1-11 includes the first Miraculous draught of fishes an episode in which Jesus tells Peter, "now on you will catch men". Peter leaves his net and, along with him, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, follows Jesus as disciples thereafter.
Also this period includes the Sermon on the Mount, one of the major discourses of Jesus in Matthew, and the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke. The Sermon on the Mount is the first of the Five Discourses of Matthew and is the longest piece of teaching from Jesus in the New Testament. It also encapsulates many of the moral teachings of Jesus and includes the Beatitudes and the widely recited Lord's Prayer.
CHAPTER SEVEN:
The Beatitudes are expressed as eight blessings in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, and four similar blessings appear in the Sermon on the Plain in Luke, where they are followed by four woes that mirror the blessings. The Beatitudes present the highest ideals of the teachings of Jesus on mercy, spirituality and then compassion.
The Major Galilean ministry, also called the Great Galilean ministry, begins in Matthew 8, after the Sermon on the Mount and refers to activities up to the death of John the Baptist.
Jesus calms the storm and walks on water at the sea of Galilee.
In Matthew 8:5–13 Jesus calms the storm (Matthew 8:23–27), both dealing with the theme of faith and fear. When the Centurion shows faith in Jesus by requesting a "healing at a distance", Jesus commends him for his exceptional faith. On the other hand, when his own disciples showed fear of a storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus instructs them to have more faith, after he orders the storm to stop.
It was during this period that Jesus still gathers the twelve apostles, and the calling takes place in Matthew 9:9. The conflicts and criticism between Jesus and the Pharisees continues. They seek to criticize Jesus for associating with "publicans and sinners", whereby Jesus responds: "It is not healthy for those who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Also commissioning the twelve Apostles relates the initial selection of the twelve Apostles among the disciples of Jesus. Jesus goes out to a mountainside to pray, and after spending the night praying to God, in the morning he calls his disciples and chooses twelve of them.
In the Mission Discourse, Jesus instructs the twelve apostles who are named in Matthew 10:2-3 to carry no belongings as they travel from city to city and preach. Separately, Luke 10:1-24 relates the Seventy Disciples, where Jesus appoints a larger number of disciples and sends them out in pairs with the Missionary's Mandate to go into villages before Jesus' arrival there.
Also in Matthew 11:2–6 two messengers from John the Baptist arrived to ask Jesus if he is the expected Messiah, or "shall we wait for another?" Jesus replies, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk". Following this, Jesus begins to speak to the crowds about the Baptist.
This period is rich in parables and teachings and includes the Parabolic discourse, which provides many of the parables for the Kingdom of Heaven, beginning in Matthew 13:1. These include the parables of The Sower, The Tares, The Mustard Seed and The Leaven, addressed to the public at large, as well as The Hidden Treasure, The Pearl and Drawing in the Net.
Again, during the end of the Major Galilean ministry, Jesus returns to his hometown, Nazareth. His wisdom is recognized there, questioned, and rejected.
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Jesus walked on water on the sea of Galilee.
The Final Galilean ministry begins after the death of John the Baptist. Jesus also fed five thousand hungry people with five loaves of bread and two fish, in Matthew 14. After hearing of the John, the Baptist's death, Jesus withdraws by boat privately to a solitary place near Bethsaida, where he addresses the crowds who had followed him on foot from the towns, and feeds them all with five loaves of bread and two fish.
The Walking on water in Matthew 14:22-23, Mark 6:45–52 and John 6:16–21 is an important step in developing the relationship between Jesus and his disciples, at this stage of their ministry. The episode emphasizes the importance of faith by stating that, when he attempted to walk on water, Peter began to sink when he lost faith and became afraid. At the end of the episode, the disciples increased their faith in Jesus, and, in Matthew 14:33, they said: "Of a truth thou art the Son of God".
Major teachings in this period include the Discourse on Defilement in Matthew 15:1-20 and Mark 7:1-23 where, in response to a complaint from the Pharisees, Jesus states: "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean."
Following this episode, Jesus withdraws into the "parts of Tyre and Sidon" near the Mediterranean Sea, where the Canaanite woman's daughter episode takes place in Matthew 15:21–28 and Mark 7:24–30. This episode is an example of how Jesus emphasizes the value of faith, telling the woman: "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted." The importance of faith is also emphasized in the cleansing of ten lepers episode in Luke 17:11–19.
In the Gospel of Mark, after passing through Sidon, Jesus enters the region of the Decapolis, a group of ten cities south-east of Galilee, where the healing of the deaf mute miracle is reported in Mark 7:31–37. After the healing, the disciples said: "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
CHAPTER NINE:
Jesus enters Jerusalem and the crowds welcomed him.
The final ministry in Jerusalem is traditionally called the Passion and begins with Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem early in the week that includes the Last supper and is liturgically marked as Holy week. Also, before arriving in Jerusalem, in John 12:9-11, after raising Lazarus from the dead, crowds gathered around Jesus and believed in him, and the next day the multitudes that had gathered for the feast in Jerusalem welcomed Jesus as he descends from the Mount of Olives towards Jerusalem in Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44 and John 12:12-19. In Luke 19:41–44 as Jesus approaches Jerusalem, he looks at the city and weeps over it entirely. Jesus foretold the suffering that awaits the city.
In the three Synoptic Gospels, entry into Jerusalem was followed by the cleansing of the Temple episode, in which Jesus expels the money changers from the Temple, accusing them of turning the Temple to a den of thieves through their commercial activities. This is the only account of Jesus using physical force in any of the Gospels. The synoptics include a number of well-known parables and sermons such as the Widow's mite and the Second Coming Prophecy .
In that week, the synoptics also narrate conflicts between Jesus and the elders of the Jews, in episodes such as the Authority of Jesus Questioned and the Woes of the Pharisees, in which Jesus criticizes their hypocrisy. Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles, approaches the Jewish elders and performs the "Bargain of Judas" in which he accepts to betray Jesus and hand him over to the elders. Matthew in the Bible specifies the price as to the betrayal of Jesus as thirty silver coins.
In Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, Jesus provides a Discourse on the End Times, which is also called the Olivet Discourse because it was given on the Mount of Olives. The discourse is mostly about judgment and the expected conduct of the followers of Jesus, and the need for vigilance by the followers in view of the coming judgment. The discourse is generally viewed as referring both to the coming destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, as well as the End Times and the Second Coming of Christ, but the many scholarly opinions about which verses refer to which event remain divided.
CHAPTER TEN:
A key episode in the final part of the ministry of Jesus is the Last supper, which includes the Institution of the Eucharist. In Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22–25, Luke 22:19–20 during the last supper, Jesus takes bread, breaks it and gives it to the disciples, saying: "This is my body which is given for you". He also gives them "the cup" to drink, saying this is his blood. While it may have been fermented, none of the biblical accounts refer to it as wine, but rather as "the fruit of the vine" or "the cup". In 1 Corinthians 11:23–26, Paul the Apostle refers to the Last Supper.John 14–17 concludes the Last Supper with a long, three chapter sermon known as the Farewell discourse which prepares the disciples for the departure of Jesus.
Also, Jesus was crucified and on the third day he rose back to heaven this is signified by the fact that his tomb was empty as witnessed by Mary Magdalene.
Finally, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified so that we may gain salvation and have eternal life due to this Jesus Christ the first one and only son of God will always have a special place in our heart. This is the main reason why we celebrate Easter in remembrance of him.