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About the life of Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ (also called Christ the king and Jesus the Christ) was born in Israel 2000 years ago. Modern civilization marks his birth by dividing time B.C. (before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini - or the year of our Lord Jesus Christ). For his first thirty years, Jesus Christ lived a traditional Jewish life, working as a carpenter. During this time, all of Israel was under Caesar's Roman dictatorship, including Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was born, and Nazareth, where he was raised. In his thirties, Jesus Christ began his public teaching and display of recorded miracles, yet still never travelled more than 200 miles from his birthplace. Over a three year period, despite his efforts to keep a low profile, Jesus Christ's reputation spread nation wide. The Roman governors and rulers of Israel's provinces and the leaders of the Jewish people (the religious counsels) took note of him. Jesus Christ's key messages included: Jesus Christ's most controversial act was that he repeatedly claimed to be God, which was a direct violation of the Jewish law. Therefore the religious leaders asked the Roman government to execute him. In each of several official trials, the Romans found that he was not guilty of breaking any Roman law. Even the Jewish leaders recognized that other than Jesus Christ's claim to be God, Jesus Christ followed the Jewish law perfectly. Still the religious leaders, using the argument of political disfavor, persuaded Pilate, a Roman governor of the Southern province of Israel, to authorize an execution. Jesus Christ was brutally tortured and then hung by his hands, which were nailed to a horizontal wooden beam (cross). This method of execution restricted the airflow to his lungs, killing him in three hours. However, according to more than 500 witnesses, Jesus Christ returned from the dead three days later, and over the next 40 days journeyed in both the southern and northern provinces of Israel. To many, this was conclusive proof that Jesus Christ's claims to be God were real. Then Jesus Christ returned to Jerusalem, the city where he was recently executed, and according to witnesses, he left the earth alive by rising up into the sky. As a result of these miraculous events, the number of his followers increased dramatically. Only a few months later in that same city of Jerusalem one record states that some 3000 new followers were added in a single day. The religious leaders responded by trying to stomp out Jesus Christ's followers. Many of these people chose to die rather than deny their belief that their Lord Jesus Christ was truly God. Within 100 years, people throughout the Roman empire (Asia Minor, Europe) became followers of Jesus Christ. In 325 AD, the following of Jesus Christ, Christianity, became the official religion of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Within 500 years, even Greece's temples of Greek gods were transformed into churches for followers of Jesus Christ. Although some of Jesus Christ's messages and teachings were diluted or miscommunicated through the expansion of a religious institution, Jesus Christ's original words and life still speak loudly for themselves.
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Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of king Herod to virgin Mary who by then was a fiancĂ. to Joseph the Jewish Carpenter. Jesus was born before Joseph and Mary came together as husband and wife. This means Jesus was born by the power of the holy spirit. ( Mathew 1:18) concludes by stating that Mary was found with a child of the Holy Ghost. Before Jesus began his ministry teachings, John the baptist had preached about his coming and later on baptized him. The spirit led Jesus into the wilderness where he fasted for forty days and forty nights after which he was tempted by the devil. The purpose of all this was to equip him with power for ministry of reconciliation of Mankind to God. Therefore when Jesus embarked on full time ministry, he was full of power and authority from God. He taught people about the kingdom of God with boldness and sometimes using parables. He chose the 12 disciples from the ordinary men in Judea who at some point did not understand him. Jesus became famous when he began performing Miracles like healing the sick, raising the dead and general teachings about the law of moses and the kingdom of God. With all these signs, the Jews were forced to ask him many questions to know if he was the Christ, the messiah whom John the baptist proclaimed, whose power he was using to heal people, why he was claiming to be son of God etc. As his fame grew, crowds of people kept following him to listen to his teachings, he also taught the high priests and pharisees in the temple. He lived a sinless life for he was holy, a true son of God. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, he was welcomed by a very large crowd of people as a king, the messiah, the Christ. He went into the temple which had been turned into a den of thieves and chased away all those who had turned it into a market place. This angered the chief priests and Jewish leaders and they sought to arrest and kill him. The reasons were that Jesus was claiming to be the king of the Jews, he claimed to be the son of God and some times God himself, he was persuading people not to pay taxes and that he had healed the sick on the Sabbath day among others. But before the chief priests came up with the plan, Jesus himself had earlier told his disciples that the "son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify him, and on the third day he shall rise again". God had purposed this to come to pass and Jesus knowing the time was close, informed his disciples. And through Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he was betrayed to the chief Priests. Again Jesus knowing about this told his disciples during the passover in the upper room that " Verily i say unto you that one of you shall betray me". Indeed Jesus was falsely accused, arrested, beaten,mocked and crucified to death. The question is why and how did Jesus know about his death and the one who would betray him? God had it in plan that through his death, Mankind will be redeemed and through his resurrection after three days to prove to the world that he was truly the son of God and that he had overcome death. After his Resurrection the disciples proved it and received the power to carry on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.By: Isaac Wabomba
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