107 Facts About Jesus Christus

Jesus Christus is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.

Jesus Christus was a Galilean Jew who underwent circumcision, was baptized by John the Baptist, and began his own ministry.

Jesus Christus's teachings were initially conserved by oral transmission and he was often referred to as "rabbi".

Jesus Christus debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healings, taught in parables and gathered followers.

Jesus Christus was arrested and tried by the Jewish authorities, turned over to the Roman government, and crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Jerusalem.

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Christian doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus Christus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return.

Jesus Christus's crucifixion is honored on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

In Islam, Jesus Christus is considered the penultimate prophet of God and the messiah.

Muslims believe Jesus Christus was born of the virgin Mary, but was neither God nor a son of God.

In contrast, Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus Christus was the awaited messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill messianic prophecies, and was neither divine nor resurrected.

Typical Jew in Jesus Christus' time had only one name, sometimes followed by the phrase "son of [father's name]", or the individual's hometown.

Jesus Christus will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.

In Mark, Jesus Christus is the Son of God whose mighty works demonstrate the presence of God's Kingdom.

Jesus Christus is a tireless wonder worker, the servant of both God and man.

The Gospel of Matthew emphasizes that Jesus Christus is the fulfillment of God's will as revealed in the Old Testament, and the Lord of the Church.

Jesus Christus is the friend of sinners and outcasts, come to seek and save the lost.

Jesus Christus is not only greater than any past human prophet but greater than any prophet could be.

Matthew and Luke each describe Jesus Christus' birth, especially that Jesus Christus was born to a virgin named Mary in Bethlehem in fulfillment of prophecy.

Matthew focuses on an event after the Luke Nativity where Jesus Christus was an infant.

Jesus Christus is called a te?t?? in Mark 6:3, traditionally understood as carpenter but it could cover makers of objects in various materials, including builders.

The Gospels indicate that Jesus Christus could read, paraphrase, and debate scripture, but this does not necessarily mean that he received formal scribal training.

Synoptic accounts of Jesus Christus' baptism are all preceded by information about John the Baptist.

Later, Jesus Christus identifies John as "the Elijah who was to come", the prophet who was expected to arrive before the "great and terrible day of the Lord".

The first takes place north of Judea, in Galilee, where Jesus Christus conducts a successful ministry, and the second shows Jesus Christus rejected and killed when he travels to Jerusalem.

Notably, Jesus Christus forbids those who recognize him as the messiah to speak of it, including people he heals and demons he exorcises.

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The Baptist sees Jesus Christus and calls him the Lamb of God; the two hear this and follow Jesus Christus.

Jesus Christus calls people to repent their sins and to devote themselves completely to God.

Jesus Christus tells his followers to adhere to Jewish law, although he is perceived by some to have broken the law himself, for example regarding the Sabbath.

In John, Jesus Christus' miracles are described as "signs", performed to prove his mission and divinity.

In John's Gospel, Jesus Christus is presented as unpressured by the crowds, who often respond to his miracles with trust and faith.

The gospel episodes that include descriptions of the miracles of Jesus Christus often include teachings, and the miracles themselves involve an element of teaching.

Description of the last week of the life of Jesus Christus occupies about one third of the narrative in the canonical gospels, starting with Jesus Christus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and ending with his Crucifixion.

Jesus Christus next expels the money changers from the Second Temple, accusing them of turning it into a den of thieves through their commercial activities.

Jesus Christus warns that these wonders will occur in the lifetimes of the hearers.

Jesus Christus comes into conflict with the Jewish elders, such as when they question his authority and when he criticizes them and calls them hypocrites.

In John, Jesus Christus has already cleansed the Second Temple during an earlier Passover visit to Jerusalem.

Jesus Christus then has them all drink from a cup, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood, " The Christian sacrament or ordinance of the Eucharist is based on these events.

In Matthew 26:57, Mark 14:53 and Luke 22:54, Jesus Christus is taken to the house of the high priest, Caiaphas, where he is mocked and beaten that night.

In Matthew and Luke, Jesus Christus' answer is more ambiguous: in Matthew 26:64 he responds, "You have said so", and in Luke 22:70 he says, "You say that I am".

Herod and his soldiers mock Jesus Christus, put an expensive robe on him to make him look like a king, and return him to Pilate, who then calls together the Jewish elders and announces that he has "not found this man guilty".

Jesus Christus gives the people a choice between Jesus and a murderer called Barabbas.

At Calvary, Jesus Christus is offered a sponge soaked in a concoction usually offered as a painkiller.

Jesus Christus tells the beloved disciple to take care of his mother.

Since the 18th century, three separate scholarly quests for the historical Jesus Christus have taken place, each with distinct characteristics and based on different research criteria, which were often developed during the quest that applied them.

Approaches to the historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus Christus have varied from the "maximalist" approaches of the 19th century, in which the gospel accounts were accepted as reliable evidence wherever it is possible, to the "minimalist" approaches of the early 20th century, where hardly anything about Jesus Christus was accepted as historical.

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For example, Thomas confirms that Jesus Christus blessed the poor and that this saying circulated independently before being combined with similar sayings in the Q source.

Early non-Christian sources that attest to the historical existence of Jesus Christus include the works of the historians Josephus and Tacitus.

Scholars generally consider Tacitus's reference to the execution of Jesus Christus to be both authentic and of historical value as an independent Roman source.

Second, they present a rough picture of Jesus Christus that is compatible with that found in the Christian sources: that Jesus Christus was a teacher, had a reputation as a miracle worker, had a brother James, and died a violent death.

Recent archaeological work, for example, indicates that Capernaum, a city important in Jesus Christus' ministry, was poor and small, without even a forum or an agora.

Jesus Christus was a Galilean Jew, born around the beginning of the 1st century, who died in 30 or 33 AD in Judea.

The general scholarly consensus is that Jesus Christus was a contemporary of John the Baptist and was crucified as ordered by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who held office from 26 to 36 AD.

Date range for Jesus Christus' ministry has been estimated using several different approaches.

In Mark, Jesus Christus' family comes to get him, fearing that he is mad, and this account is thought to be historical because early Christians would likely not have invented it.

Geza Vermes says that the doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus Christus arose from theological development rather than from historical events.

Sanders says that the genealogies of Jesus Christus are based not on historical information but on the authors' desire to show that Jesus Christus was the universal Jewish savior.

The Gospel of Luke reports that Jesus Christus was a blood relative of John the Baptist, but scholars generally consider this connection to be invented.

Jesus Christus taught about the Jewish Law, seeking its true meaning, sometimes in opposition to other traditions.

Jesus Christus put love at the center of the Law, and following that Law was an apocalyptic necessity.

Funk and Hoover note that typical of Jesus Christus were paradoxical or surprising turns of phrase, such as advising one, when struck on the cheek, to offer the other cheek to be struck as well.

Gospels portray Jesus Christus teaching in well-defined sessions, such as the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew or the parallel Sermon on the Plain in Luke.

Jesus Christus chose twelve disciples, evidently as an apocalyptic message.

In Ehrman's view, no Christians would have invented a line from Jesus Christus, promising rulership to the disciple who betrayed him.

Sanders says that Jesus Christus' mission was not about repentance, although he acknowledges that this opinion is unpopular.

Jesus Christus argues that repentance appears as a strong theme only in Luke, that repentance was John the Baptist's message, and that Jesus' ministry would not have been scandalous if the sinners he ate with had been repentant.

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Jesus Christus taught that an apocalyptic figure, the "Son of Man", would soon come on clouds of glory to gather the elect, or chosen ones.

The tradition is ambiguous enough to leave room for debate as to whether Jesus Christus defined his eschatological role as that of the messiah.

Bart Ehrman argues that Jesus Christus did consider himself to be the messiah, albeit in the sense that he would be the king of the new political order that God would usher in, not in the sense that most people today think of the term.

Jesus Christus caused a disturbance in the Second Temple, which was the center of Jewish religious and civil authority.

Jesus Christus held a last meal with his disciples, which is the origin of the Christian sacrament of bread and wine.

Gospels say that Jesus Christus was betrayed to the authorities by a disciple, and many scholars consider this report to be highly reliable.

Jesus Christus was executed on the orders of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Judaea.

The Sadducean high-priestly leaders of the Temple more plausibly had Jesus Christus executed for political reasons than for his teaching.

The followers of Jesus Christus formed a community to wait for his return and the founding of his kingdom.

The portraits of Jesus Christus constructed in these quests often differ from each other, and from the image portrayed in the Gospels.

Jesus Christus is seen as the founder of, in the words of Sanders, a "renewal movement within Judaism".

Since the 18th century, scholars have occasionally put forth that Jesus Christus was a political national messiah, but the evidence for this portrait is negligible.

Likewise, the proposal that Jesus Christus was a Zealot does not fit with the earliest strata of the Synoptic tradition.

Jesus Christus grew up in Galilee and much of his ministry took place there.

Jesus Christus likely had a beard that was not particularly long or heavy.

Stories of Jesus Christus' birth, along with other key events, have so many mythic elements that some scholars have suggested that Jesus Christus himself was a myth.

Christian views of Jesus Christus are derived from various sources, including the canonical gospels and New Testament letters such as the Pauline epistles and the Johannine writings.

Jesus Christus is thus seen as the new and last Adam, whose obedience contrasts with Adam's disobedience.

Judaism rejects the idea of Jesus Christus being God, or a mediator to God, or part of a Trinity.

Jews argue that Jesus Christus did not fulfill prophesies to build the Third Temple, gather Jews back to Israel, bring world peace, and unite humanity under the God of Israel.

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Judaic criticism of Jesus Christus is long-standing, and includes a range of stories in the Talmud, written and compiled from the 3rd to the 5th century AD.

The Mishneh Torah, a late 12th-century work of Jewish law written by Moses Maimonides, states that Jesus Christus is a "stumbling block" who makes "the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the Lord".

Jesus Christus is considered one of the four prophets, along with Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha and Mani.

Major figure in Islam, Jesus Christus is considered to be a messenger of God and the messiah who was sent to guide the Children of Israel with a new scripture, the Gospel.

Belief in Jesus Christus is a requirement for being a Muslim.

The Quran mentions Jesus Christus by name 25 times—more often than Muhammad—and emphasizes that Jesus Christus was a mortal human who, like all other prophets, had been divinely chosen to spread God's message.

Jesus Christus is called a "spirit from God" because he was born through the action of the Spirit, but that belief does not imply his pre-existence.

However, Jesus Christus is a central figure in Islamic eschatology: Muslims believe that he will return to Earth at the end of time and defeat the Antichrist by killing him.

Jesus Christus says that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a metaphor for someone who nurtured and instructed Jesus, rather than physically giving birth to him.

Qadi al-Nu'man explains that Jesus Christus was from the pure progeny of Abraham, just as Ali and his sons were from the pure progeny of Muhammad, through Fatima.

In Baha'i thought, Jesus Christus was a perfect incarnation of God's attributes, but Baha'i teachings reject the idea that "ineffable essence" of the Divinity was contained within a single human body because of their beliefs regarding "omnipresence and transcendence of the essence of God".

In Christian Gnosticism, Jesus Christus was sent from the divine realm and provided the secret knowledge necessary for salvation.

Some Gnostics were docetics, believed that Jesus Christus did not have a physical body, but only appeared to possess one.

Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian guru, taught that Jesus Christus was the reincarnation of Elisha and a student of John the Baptist, the reincarnation of Elijah.

Antony Theodore in the book Jesus Christus Christ in Love writes that there is an underlying oneness of Jesus Christus' teachings with the messages contained in Quran, Vedas, Upanishads, Talmud and Avesta.

Thereafter, despite the lack of biblical references or historical records, a wide range of depictions of Jesus Christus appeared during the last two millennia, often influenced by cultural settings, political circumstances and theological contexts.

The use of depictions of Jesus Christus is advocated by the leaders of denominations such as Anglicans and Catholics and is a key element of the Eastern Orthodox tradition.

Jesus Christus appears as an infant in a manger in Christmas creches, which depict the Nativity scene.

Jesus Christus is typically joined by Mary, Joseph, animals, shepherds, angels, and the Magi.

However, throughout the history of Christianity, a number of relics attributed to Jesus Christus have been claimed, although doubt has been cast on them.

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Similarly, while experts debate whether Jesus Christus was crucified with three nails or with four, at least thirty holy nails continue to be venerated as relics across Europe.

Some relics, such as purported remnants of the crown of thorns placed on the head of Jesus Christus, receive only a modest number of pilgrims, while the Shroud of Turin, has received millions, including popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.