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The proclamation of Jesus as Christ is fundamental to Christology and the Confession of Peter, and Jesus's acceptance of the title is a definitive statement for it in the New Testament narrative. [106] While some of this passage may well be authentic, the reference to Jesus as Christ and Son of God is likely to be an addition by Matthew. [107]
Jesus[ d] ( c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [ e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [ 10] He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.
The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, romanized: anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day [note 1] after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring [web 1] [note 2] – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.
The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [ 1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated. [ 2][ 3] By the Middle Ages, a number of documents, generally of unknown or questionable origin, had been ...
The Letter of Lentulus ( / ˈlɛntjələs /) is an epistle of mysterious origin that was first widely published in Italy in the fifteenth century. It purports to be written by a Roman official, contemporary of Jesus, and gives a physical and personal description of Jesus. The letter may have influenced how Jesus was later physically depicted in ...
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [ 18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).