Jesus

The Four Gospels include the first four books of the New Testament including Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each book portrays Jesus in a different way, depending on audience and time in history. I will point out the portraits in each book, and then give examples from scripture and other sources to further understanding. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is portrayed as the “New Moses” (Gundry, 188). Moses was a very significant figure to the Jews in the Old Testament. Most importantly, Moses led…

Jesus included many messages throughout his ministry about healing the sick. He often connected miracles of healing to forgiveness of sins or other lessons to teach the people around him. In this, he healed many people, such as those with blindness, leprosy, and deformations. Many looked down upon this, believing that Jesus was sinning by healing on the Sabbath or that he should not perform these miracles. However, these healings taught many lessons to those who witnessed them and those who read…

gospel of Mark and the unknown “Q” source, the author of the gospel creates a different take on the narrative of Jesus’ life. By altering the narrative structure and using Old Testament references the author created the “Jewish-Christian” gospel. This classification is fitting, as the structure and features of the gospel of Matthew create a close link to the Jewish heritage of Jesus Christ, appealing to the Jewish audience in the religiously unstable Israel. This…

Chapter 15 of Stein's book tells about the Last Supper. Jesus sends John and Peter into Jerusalem to set up a Passover meal for Jesus to share with his disciples. One really interesting aspect of this chapter that I didn't realize was how Stein said that Jesus set up the Last Supper in secrecy. It is suspected by Stein that Jesus wanted to hide the meal from Judas to delay that betrayal and the crucifixion so he could meet with his disciples and let them know what was about to transpire and why…

Throughout Salvation History Jesus is depicted as the man He claims to be, the Messiah. Through the Luminous Mysteries this point is supported through Jesus’ actions and good deeds He commits. Through His miracles He proved himself to be the Messiah and people followed him. In the Luminous Mysteries some of these miracles are told of and prove that Jesus must be the Messiah. The five Luminous Mysteries are significant moments in Jesus’ public ministry where He is most clearly identified as the…

born on the same day as Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ), gets confused for the Messiah when trying to hide from the Romans. The Romans try to hunt down Brian (and eventually succeed) because he is a member of The People’s Front of Judea, a group that aims to revolt against the Romans. Although the film is clearly fictional, it plays on many factual aspects of Christianity and, in particular, the life of Jesus. In developing a setting that resembles the time in which Jesus was born, the film…

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philipians 2:5-8) Modern issues that we will be talking about is Kenosis. Kenosis is considered as a heresy because…

Everyone needs Jesus in their life. We are all sinners, but the son of God, Jesus came to free us from all sin redeeming us. Throughout the life of Jesus Christ, he redeemed people through words, actions and relationships. Throughout the Gospel of Mark it gives you an understanding of Jesus 's life, death and resurrection. The Gospel of Mark is the life death and resurrection in about 50-70 AD. Probably written to early persecuted Christians. It was the purpose due to the fact that the…

about Jesus and The Lord of the Ring is my dad who is the non-believer. I am not going back to my country on the Christmas break but if I was going, I would watch The Lord of the Ring movie with my dad on weekend, and I would talk to him about Jesus while we are watching the moive. This is because my dad and I haven’t watched a movie together for a while even though we love watching movie together, and I feel like I need to teach him about Jesus and God since my dad knows nothing about Jesus and…

the other and feeding him something from a bowl. I interpret the image as Jesus (on top) giving his strength and hope to someone else (on the bottom). I chose this representation of Jesus because Jesus is the definition of strength and grace, he will help anyone before himself. When Jesus was on earth he helped anyone who needed it; the blind, poor, and those who were weak. I think the author was trying to convey that Jesus was and is always going to help us through the struggles we have. He…