The Life of Jesus
Jesus was born somewhere between 7-2 B.C. in Bethlehem, Israel.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus) He was born to the Virgin Mary and the carpenter Joseph. The story of his birth is an unusual one. Jesus was created when the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary without having sex with her, Joseph, knowing she was pregnant and he wasn't the father, almost divorced her on the spot, but that night in a dream an angel told him it was not the child of another man but, the child was to be the Messiah. So Joseph decided to stay with Mary and help raise the child. The couple traveled to Bethlehem by the guidance of an angel, tried to find a place to have the child but, all the hotels and houses were full and the couple were soon rejected from everywhere in town. At the last hotel Joseph talked to the manager and convinced him to let them use the stables. So there in the stables Jesus was born, swaddled in cloth and laid to sleep in a manger filled with hay. A few miles away, three shepherds were watching their fields by night when an angel came to them and told them of a child being born in the east.(New Testament) The shepherds followed a star to Bethlehem and gave Jesus gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. Jesus's life, even from the very beginning was never without the danger of death.
King Herod, hearing the reports of the three shepherds, was infuriated by their infatuation with the "King of the Jews", as they so called him. Herod, thinking that the child was a danger to his throne, sent out an order that all male children from the ages of zero to two in Bethlehem be killed. Joseph, Mary and Jesus escaped by a warning from an angel. King Herod, believing he had killed Jesus, led the rest of his life pretty peacefully. Herod died seven years after the order to kill the children and the angel told them it was safe to come back.
They bought a house and Joseph tried to teach Jesus in the ways of Carpentry. Most of the time, though, Jesus wound up going to the church and arguing over God and his likeliness. Jesus always proved his points through parables and a refined knowledge that greatly impressed the church elders.This went on for about fourteen years until Jesus turned something around twenty-one.
Jesus soon met up with John the Baptist and he baptized him in the Jordan River. After Jesus had been baptized, a dove came down and proclaimed, "I claim you as my son, the Son of God,"(New Testament) and John realized what had happened and fell at Jesus's feet and praised him. After this happening jesus went off to gather his disciples.
He first went to the beach and gathered his first two disciples. They were two brothers fishing with their father, and when Jesus beckoned to them they dropped their nets to join him, not even noticing what they were leaving behind. They just kept walking around until they had all twelve disciples; but in reality there was one who would betray him and another who denied him three times in one night, so much for completely faithful.
Jesus and his disciples traveled far and wide, proclaiming the word of God and preforming many miracles. Jesus was now almost 30 years old, the age of his crucifiction.
The end began with the Last Supper. Jesus knew that someone would betray him from the start, he told his disciples of this knowledge and each one said, "Certainly not I Lord!"(New Testament) And, he never told them who it was, he just left them hanging, it must have been agonizing.
Earlier that day Judas went to the temple and the priests offered him thirty silver pieces in exchange for Jesus. Judas accepted with no hesitation. They told him to give them a sign to reveal who Jesus was to them, and Judas told them, "The one whom I kiss is the one you seek"(New Testament) So, as planned, after the supper he went to Jesus,kissed him on the cheek and the authorities arrested him.
The authorities held him in a cell until the time of his trial by Pontius Pilate was to take place. He was tried and was found innocent, but the crowd didn't care. They wanted Jesus crucified. Pontius Pilate scourged him hoping to please the crowd, instead it only made them more bloodthirsty. That night Jesus was crucified and they were not as kind to him as they were to some of the other prisoners. They poked holes in his sides with spears and forced him to wear a crown of thorns, the crown of the King of the Jews. As the three shepards had called him so many years before.
After the crucifixtion, Mary Magdelene and his own mother, also named Mary, took down his body, wrapped it in a shroud and placed it in a tomb and rolled a large stone in front of it to seal it off. Three days later they came back to the tomb only to find the stone rolled aside and the tomb empty. They believed that someone had stolen Jesus' body. They sat weeping by the entrance when an angel visited them, told them that Jesus had not been stolen, but instead he had risen from the dead and taken to Heaven. The two women rejoiced and spread the good news throughout the city.
King Herod, hearing the reports of the three shepherds, was infuriated by their infatuation with the "King of the Jews", as they so called him. Herod, thinking that the child was a danger to his throne, sent out an order that all male children from the ages of zero to two in Bethlehem be killed. Joseph, Mary and Jesus escaped by a warning from an angel. King Herod, believing he had killed Jesus, led the rest of his life pretty peacefully. Herod died seven years after the order to kill the children and the angel told them it was safe to come back.
They bought a house and Joseph tried to teach Jesus in the ways of Carpentry. Most of the time, though, Jesus wound up going to the church and arguing over God and his likeliness. Jesus always proved his points through parables and a refined knowledge that greatly impressed the church elders.This went on for about fourteen years until Jesus turned something around twenty-one.
Jesus soon met up with John the Baptist and he baptized him in the Jordan River. After Jesus had been baptized, a dove came down and proclaimed, "I claim you as my son, the Son of God,"(New Testament) and John realized what had happened and fell at Jesus's feet and praised him. After this happening jesus went off to gather his disciples.
He first went to the beach and gathered his first two disciples. They were two brothers fishing with their father, and when Jesus beckoned to them they dropped their nets to join him, not even noticing what they were leaving behind. They just kept walking around until they had all twelve disciples; but in reality there was one who would betray him and another who denied him three times in one night, so much for completely faithful.
Jesus and his disciples traveled far and wide, proclaiming the word of God and preforming many miracles. Jesus was now almost 30 years old, the age of his crucifiction.
The end began with the Last Supper. Jesus knew that someone would betray him from the start, he told his disciples of this knowledge and each one said, "Certainly not I Lord!"(New Testament) And, he never told them who it was, he just left them hanging, it must have been agonizing.
Earlier that day Judas went to the temple and the priests offered him thirty silver pieces in exchange for Jesus. Judas accepted with no hesitation. They told him to give them a sign to reveal who Jesus was to them, and Judas told them, "The one whom I kiss is the one you seek"(New Testament) So, as planned, after the supper he went to Jesus,kissed him on the cheek and the authorities arrested him.
The authorities held him in a cell until the time of his trial by Pontius Pilate was to take place. He was tried and was found innocent, but the crowd didn't care. They wanted Jesus crucified. Pontius Pilate scourged him hoping to please the crowd, instead it only made them more bloodthirsty. That night Jesus was crucified and they were not as kind to him as they were to some of the other prisoners. They poked holes in his sides with spears and forced him to wear a crown of thorns, the crown of the King of the Jews. As the three shepards had called him so many years before.
After the crucifixtion, Mary Magdelene and his own mother, also named Mary, took down his body, wrapped it in a shroud and placed it in a tomb and rolled a large stone in front of it to seal it off. Three days later they came back to the tomb only to find the stone rolled aside and the tomb empty. They believed that someone had stolen Jesus' body. They sat weeping by the entrance when an angel visited them, told them that Jesus had not been stolen, but instead he had risen from the dead and taken to Heaven. The two women rejoiced and spread the good news throughout the city.