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Creation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, ordered the world by His word, and made humanity, male and female, in His own image to rule and care for it. The New Testament adds that everything was made through the Word who became flesh in Jesus.
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The Passover and the exodus
On the night God struck down the firstborn of Egypt, every Israelite household sheltered behind the blood of a lamb on its doorframe, and God passed over them. Pharaoh released the people, and when his army pursued them God parted the sea so Israel crossed on dry ground.
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The birth of Jesus
Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea to Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph, during the reign of Herod the Great. Luke records the manger and the angels' announcement to shepherds; Matthew records Joseph's obedience and the visit of the magi.
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The presentation in the temple
Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord and offer the sacrifice the law required of a poor family. Simeon, promised he would see the Lord's Christ, took the child in his arms and called Him a light for the nations; the prophetess Anna gave thanks and spoke of Him to all who waited for redemption.
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The visit of the magi
Magi from the east followed a star to Jerusalem asking where the king of the Jews had been born. Herod's scribes pointed them to Bethlehem from Micah's prophecy, and the magi found the child with Mary, worshiped Him, and gave gold, frankincense, and myrrh before slipping home by another road.
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The flight to Egypt
Warned in a dream, Joseph took the child and His mother to Egypt by night. Herod, enraged at the magi, had every boy in Bethlehem two years old and under killed. After Herod's death Joseph brought the family back to the land of Israel and settled in Nazareth in Galilee.
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The boy Jesus in the temple
When Jesus was twelve, His family went up to Jerusalem for the Passover. On the way home His parents realized He was missing and found Him three days later in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers. Asked why, He replied that He had to be in His Father's house.
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The baptism of Jesus
Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan River. As He came up from the water the Spirit descended on Him like a dove and a voice from heaven declared Him the beloved Son. This marks the public beginning of His ministry.
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The temptation of Jesus
After His baptism the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness, where He fasted forty days and was tempted by the devil to turn stones into bread, to throw Himself from the temple, and to gain the kingdoms of the world by worship. He answered each with words from Deuteronomy, and angels ministered to Him.
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The calling of the first disciples
Beside the Sea of Galilee Jesus called two pairs of fishermen, Simon and Andrew, then James and John, to follow Him and become fishers of men, and they left their nets and their father's boat at once. John's Gospel records that Andrew and Simon had first met Jesus near the Jordan after John the Baptist pointed Him out.
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The wedding at Cana
At a wedding in Cana of Galilee the wine ran out, and at His mother's prompting Jesus had six stone jars filled with water and turned it into wine of the best quality. John calls this the first of His signs, by which He revealed His glory and His disciples believed in Him.
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Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night
Nicodemus, a Pharisee and member of the council, came to Jesus at night. Jesus told him that no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again, of water and the Spirit, compared His coming lifting up to Moses's bronze serpent, and spoke of God's love in giving His only Son so that whoever believes may have eternal life.
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The Samaritan woman at the well
At Jacob's well near Sychar Jesus asked a Samaritan woman for a drink and offered her living water. He told her about her life, spoke of worship in spirit and truth, and told her plainly that He is the Messiah. She brought her town to Him, and after two days many Samaritans confessed Him as the Savior of the world.
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The rejection at Nazareth
In the synagogue of His hometown Jesus read Isaiah's words about the Spirit-anointed preacher of good news and declared the Scripture fulfilled that day. The people marveled, then took offense at the carpenter's son, and in Luke's account tried to throw Him from the hill on which the town was built.
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The Sermon on the Mount
On a mountainside in Galilee Jesus taught His disciples and the crowds: the Beatitudes, the call to be salt and light, a righteousness that goes deeper than the law's letter, the Lord's Prayer, trust in the Father, and the two ways ending in the wise and foolish builders. The crowds were astonished at His authority.
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The healing of the paralytic
In Capernaum four men lowered a paralyzed friend through the roof to reach Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus first forgave the man's sins, and when the scribes objected that only God can forgive, He healed the man so that they would know the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.
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The parables of the Kingdom
Teaching from a boat beside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus described the Kingdom in parables: seed on four kinds of soil, weeds among wheat, a mustard seed, leaven, hidden treasure, a pearl, and a net. He explained to His disciples that the parables both reveal and conceal, citing Isaiah's word about a people who hear without understanding.
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The calming of the storm
Crossing the Sea of Galilee by night, the disciples were caught in a violent storm while Jesus slept. They woke Him in fear, He rebuked the wind and the sea and it became perfectly calm, and He asked why they still had no faith. They asked one another who this could be, that even wind and sea obey Him.
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The raising of Jairus's daughter
A synagogue leader named Jairus begged Jesus to heal his dying daughter. On the way a woman who had suffered bleeding for twelve years touched His cloak and was healed, and Jesus told her that her faith had made her well. Word came that the girl had died; Jesus took Peter, James, John, and her parents into the house and raised her with a word.
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The feeding of the five thousand
In a remote place near the Sea of Galilee Jesus fed a crowd of about five thousand men, besides women and children, with five loaves and two fish, blessing and breaking the bread until all were satisfied and twelve baskets were left over. John records that the people wanted to make Him king by force, and that Jesus withdrew.
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Jesus walks on the water
The night after the feeding, the disciples were rowing against the wind on the Sea of Galilee when Jesus came to them walking on the water. Matthew records that Peter stepped out toward Him, began to sink, and was caught by Jesus's hand. When Jesus climbed into the boat the wind ceased, and those in the boat worshiped Him as the Son of God.
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Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi
Near Caesarea Philippi Jesus asked His disciples who people said He was, then who they said He was, and Peter answered that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus blessed him, then for the first time told the disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, suffer, be killed, and rise on the third day, and rebuked Peter for resisting it.
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The transfiguration
About a week after Peter's confession Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, where His face and clothing shone, Moses and Elijah appeared talking with Him, and a voice from the cloud called Him the beloved Son and told the disciples to listen to Him. Coming down, Jesus told them that Elijah had already come, and they understood He meant John the Baptist.
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The parables of the lost sheep, coin, and son
When the Pharisees grumbled that Jesus welcomed sinners and ate with them, He told three parables: a shepherd who searches for one lost sheep, a woman who sweeps her house for one lost coin, and a father who runs to embrace a son who had squandered his inheritance. Each ends in a celebration, and the last with an older brother who refuses to join.
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The raising of Lazarus
When Lazarus of Bethany died, Jesus came four days after the burial, told Martha that He is the resurrection and the life, wept at the tomb, and called Lazarus out alive still bound in grave clothes. Many who saw it believed, and the council resolved from that day to put Jesus to death.
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Jesus sets out for Jerusalem
Luke records that as the time for His departure drew near, Jesus resolutely set His face toward Jerusalem. On the way He kept teaching in towns and villages, and He told the Twelve plainly that in Jerusalem He would be handed over, mocked, killed, and raised on the third day. The disciples did not understand.
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Zacchaeus receives Jesus
Passing through Jericho, Jesus called a wealthy chief tax collector named Zacchaeus down from a sycamore tree and stayed at his house, to the crowd's disapproval. Zacchaeus pledged half his goods to the poor and fourfold restitution to anyone he had cheated, and Jesus declared that salvation had come to his house.
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Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus
Near Jericho a blind beggar, named Bartimaeus by Mark, heard that Jesus was passing and cried out to Him as Son of David. Told to be quiet, he shouted louder. Jesus called him, asked what he wanted, and restored his sight, and the man followed Jesus along the road.
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The fall
Tempted by the serpent, the woman and the man ate from the one tree God had forbidden. Shame, blame, and curse followed, and they were sent out of the garden. In the same scene God spoke the first promise: the offspring of the woman would crush the serpent's head.
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Adam
Adam was the first human being, formed by God from the dust of the ground and placed in the garden of Eden to work and keep it. With Eve he disobeyed God's one command and was sent out of the garden. Genesis, Luke's genealogy, and Paul's letters all treat him as the head of the human family.
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Eve
Eve was the first woman, made by God from Adam's side as his partner and named by him because she would be the mother of all the living. Deceived by the serpent, she ate the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband. God's promise that her offspring would crush the serpent is spoken in her hearing.
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Eden
Eden was the garden God planted in the east and where He placed the first humans, with the tree of life at its center. After the fall, God sent the man and woman out and set cherubim to guard the way back to the tree of life.
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The covenant with Abraham
God bound Himself by covenant to Abram: descendants as many as the stars, a land for them, and an everlasting relationship in which God would be their God. Abram believed, and it was credited to him as righteousness. God later gave him the name Abraham and the sign of circumcision.
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The covenant at Sinai
Three months after leaving Egypt, Israel camped before Mount Sinai. God offered to make them His treasured possession, a kingdom of priests, and spoke the ten commandments from the mountain in fire and smoke. Moses sealed the covenant with the blood of sacrifices and the people promised to obey.
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Moses
Moses was the Levite child drawn out of the Nile and raised in Pharaoh's house, whom God called at the burning bush to bring Israel out of Egypt. He led the people through the sea, received the law at Sinai, and guided them for forty years to the edge of the promised land.
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Egypt
Egypt is the great kingdom on the Nile where Jacob's family settled, where Israel was enslaved for generations, and from which God brought them out at the exodus. Centuries later Joseph carried the infant Jesus there to escape Herod, and Matthew heard in the return the words of Hosea: out of Egypt I called my son.
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Passover
Passover is the yearly feast that remembers the night God struck Egypt and passed over the houses marked with a lamb's blood, then brought Israel out of slavery. The lamb without blemish, the blood on the doorframe, and the meal eaten in haste became Israel's founding memory. Jesus chose Passover for His last supper and died at Passover, and the New Testament calls Him our Passover lamb.
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Sacrifice and atonement
Sacrifice and atonement is the biblical pattern by which sin is covered and fellowship with God restored through a life given in place of the guilty. From the garments of skin in Eden and the ram in place of Isaac to the Passover lamb and the offerings of the law, the Old Testament teaches that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. The New Testament proclaims that Jesus offered Himself once for all.
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The birth of John the Baptist
Elizabeth gave birth to a son, and against family expectation both parents insisted his name was John. Zechariah's speech returned and, filled with the Holy Spirit, he prophesied that the child would go before the Lord to prepare His way.
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Joseph of Nazareth
Joseph was a descendant of David who was betrothed to Mary. Matthew describes him as a righteous man who, guided by dreams, took Mary as his wife, named the child Jesus, and protected the family by fleeing to Egypt and later settling in Nazareth.
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Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a young woman of Nazareth, betrothed to Joseph, who received the angel Gabriel's announcement that she would conceive a son by the Holy Spirit and name Him Jesus. Luke records her consent and her song of praise; John places her at the cross.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a town in the Judean hills south of Jerusalem. It was the hometown of David and, according to Matthew and Luke, the birthplace of Jesus. The prophet Micah named it as the place from which Israel's ruler would come.
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Promise and fulfillment
Promise and fulfillment is the pattern by which the New Testament reads the Old: God speaks in advance through prophets, patterns, and covenants, and the Gospels show those words coming true in Jesus. FaithGraph labels each such link by the kind of evidence behind it.
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Micah 5:2
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Anna
Anna was a prophetess of the tribe of Asher, a widow of great age who never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer. When Jesus was presented she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to everyone waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
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Simeon
Simeon was a righteous and devout man in Jerusalem who had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before seeing the Lord's Christ. Led into the temple when the infant Jesus was presented, he took the child in his arms, blessed God, and spoke of a light for the Gentiles and a sword for Mary.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is the city David made his capital and where Solomon built the temple. In the Gospels it is where Jesus taught in the temple, shared the Last Supper, was tried, crucified, and rose, and where the church was born at Pentecost.
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The temple in Jerusalem
The temple in Jerusalem was the house of God at the center of Israel's worship, rebuilt after the exile and greatly enlarged by Herod the Great. Jesus was presented there as an infant, taught in its courts, drove out the traders, foretold its destruction, and was accused at His trial of threatening it.
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Herod the Great
Herod the Great was the Rome-appointed king of Judea at the time of Jesus' birth. Disturbed by the magi's question about a newborn king, he tried to use them to find the child, then ordered the killing of the boys of Bethlehem. He died soon after, and Joseph brought the family back from Egypt.
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Hosea 11:1
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The ministry of John the Baptist
John came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, calling Israel to repent because the kingdom of heaven was near, and baptizing in the Jordan those who confessed their sins. He dressed like Elijah, warned the religious leaders, pointed to one greater than himself, and was later imprisoned by Herod Antipas for rebuking him.
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John the Baptist
John the Baptist was the prophet who preached repentance in the wilderness of Judea and baptized in the Jordan River. He identified Jesus as the Lamb of God, baptized Him, and was later imprisoned and executed by Herod Antipas.
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Jordan River
The Jordan is the river that flows south from the foothills of Mount Hermon, through the Sea of Galilee, and on to the Dead Sea. Israel crossed it into the promised land under Joshua, and John the Baptist baptized in it, including the baptism of Jesus.
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Jesus announces the Kingdom
After John's arrest, Jesus returned to Galilee and began proclaiming that the time was fulfilled and the Kingdom of God had come near, calling people to repent and believe the good news. Luke records Him reading Isaiah in Nazareth and declaring it fulfilled.
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Wilderness of Judea
The wilderness of Judea is the dry country east of Jerusalem falling toward the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea. John the Baptist preached there, and the Gospels place the forty days of Jesus's testing in the wilderness after His baptism.
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Andrew
Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida, the brother of Simon Peter and originally a disciple of John the Baptist. In John's Gospel he follows Jesus after John points Him out as the Lamb of God and then brings his brother Simon to Jesus; in the Synoptics he is called with Peter beside the Sea of Galilee.
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James son of Zebedee
James was a Galilean fisherman, the son of Zebedee and brother of John, called by Jesus while mending nets beside the Sea of Galilee. He was one of the three disciples present at the raising of Jairus's daughter and at the transfiguration, and Acts records that Herod Agrippa had him killed by the sword.
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John the apostle
John was a Galilean fisherman, the brother of James and son of Zebedee, called by Jesus beside the Sea of Galilee. With Peter and James he witnessed the raising of Jairus's daughter and the transfiguration, and Christian tradition identifies him with the disciple whom Jesus loved and with the author of the fourth Gospel.
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Peter
Peter, originally Simon, was a fisherman from Galilee whom Jesus called to follow Him and renamed Peter. He confessed Jesus as the Christ, denied Him during the trial, was restored after the resurrection, and preached the first sermon at Pentecost.
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Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee is the freshwater lake in northern Israel, also called Gennesaret and Tiberias, around which most of Jesus's Galilean ministry took place. He called fishermen on its shore, taught from boats, calmed its storm, and walked on its water.
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The Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God is God's active reign, promised through Israel's prophets and announced by Jesus as having come near in Himself. Jesus taught its character in parables, displayed it in healings, and said it would grow until His return.
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Cana
Cana was a village in Galilee where Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, the first of His signs in John's Gospel, and where He later healed an official's son from a distance. Nathanael was from Cana.
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Nicodemus
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a leader of the Jews who came to Jesus at night and heard that a person must be born again to see the kingdom of God. He later urged the council to give Jesus a hearing and, after the crucifixion, brought spices to help Joseph of Arimathea bury Him.
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Faith
Faith in Scripture is trust that takes God at His word and acts on it. Abraham believed the promise and it was credited to him as righteousness; in the Gospels Jesus repeatedly answers faith with healing, rebukes its absence in a storm, and calls people to believe in Him for eternal life.
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Nazareth
Nazareth was a small village in Lower Galilee where Jesus grew up, which is why He is called Jesus of Nazareth. Luke records the annunciation to Mary there and Jesus's later rejection in its synagogue.
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Isaiah 61:1-2
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Galilee
Galilee is the northern region of the land where Jesus grew up and carried out most of His public ministry. Isaiah had spoken of light dawning on Zebulun and Naphtali, and Matthew reads the Galilean ministry as that light.
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Capernaum
Capernaum was a fishing town on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee that became the base of Jesus's Galilean ministry. Matthew calls it His own town; the Gospels place many healings and synagogue teachings there.
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Isaiah 6:9-10
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Psalms 107:23-30
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2 Kings 4:42-44
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Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi was a city at the foot of Mount Hermon, rebuilt by Herod's son Philip and named for Caesar and for himself. In the villages around it Jesus asked His disciples who they said He was, and Peter answered that He is the Christ.
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Elijah
Elijah was the prophet from Tishbe in Gilead who confronted King Ahab and the prophets of Baal, was fed by ravens and by a widow in Zarephath, raised the widow's son, and was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. Malachi promised his return before the Day of the Lord, and Jesus identified John the Baptist with that promise.
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Repentance
Repentance is turning from sin back to God, a change of mind that shows itself in a changed life. The prophets called Israel to it, John the Baptist demanded fruit in keeping with it, and Jesus opened His ministry with the call to repent and believe the good news.
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The Last Supper
On the night before His death Jesus shared a final meal with His disciples in Jerusalem, gave them bread and the cup as His body and blood of the new covenant, washed their feet, and foretold His betrayal.
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Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus lived in Bethany with his sisters Martha and Mary and was a friend of Jesus. When he died, Jesus came to Bethany, wept, and called him out of the tomb four days after his burial. The sign led many to believe and moved the council to plot Jesus's death.
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Martha
Martha was the sister of Mary and Lazarus in Bethany. Luke records her serving while her sister listened at Jesus's feet, and John records her going out to meet Jesus after Lazarus died and confessing that He is the Christ, the Son of God, before He raised her brother.
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Mary of Bethany
Mary of Bethany was the sister of Martha and Lazarus. She sat at Jesus's feet to hear His teaching, fell at His feet weeping after her brother's death, and anointed His feet with costly perfume six days before the Passover, an act Jesus connected with His burial.
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Bethany
Bethany was a village on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives, a short walk from Jerusalem, and the home of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. Jesus raised Lazarus there, was anointed there, lodged there during the final week, and led His disciples out toward Bethany before His ascension.
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The anointing at Bethany
At a dinner in Bethany, Mary, the sister of Lazarus, poured costly perfume on Jesus. Judas objected that it should have been sold for the poor, and John notes that he kept the money bag and stole from it. Jesus defended her, saying she had kept it for the day of His burial.
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Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus was a wealthy chief tax collector in Jericho who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus. Jesus called him by name and stayed at his house, and Zacchaeus responded by giving half his possessions to the poor and promising fourfold restitution to anyone he had defrauded.
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Jericho
Jericho is an ancient oasis city in the Jordan Valley, the first city Israel took under Joshua and, in the Gospels, the last stop before Jesus climbed to Jerusalem. There He healed blind Bartimaeus and stayed at the house of Zacchaeus.
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The triumphal entry
Approaching Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples for a colt and rode into the city while crowds spread cloaks and branches on the road and shouted words from Psalm 118, hailing Him as the Son of David who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew and John say this fulfilled Zechariah's picture of a humble king on a donkey.
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Connections around Jesus
Jesus participates in Creation
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJohn says all things were made through the Word who became flesh, and Paul says all things were created through and for the Son.
Evidence:The Passover and the exodus symbolizes Jesus
Historic Christian readingHigh confidenceThe New Testament repeatedly presents Jesus in Passover terms: John the Baptist calls Him the Lamb of God, Paul calls Him our Passover lamb, Jesus dies at Passover, and Luke calls His coming death an exodus. Christians have read the whole event as a pattern of the redemption He accomplished.
Other responsible views
- Pattern, not prediction: The exodus narrative is history, not prophecy about Jesus. The correspondence is drawn by the New Testament writers looking back, which is why this is labeled a historic Christian reading rather than explicit fulfillment.
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Jesus participates in The birth of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceBoth birth narratives name the child Jesus as the one born in Bethlehem.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The presentation in the temple
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe infant Jesus is brought to the temple and taken up in Simeon's arms.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The visit of the magi
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe magi find the child with His mother and worship Him.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The flight to Egypt
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe child is carried to Egypt and brought back to the land of Israel.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The boy Jesus in the temple
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe twelve-year-old Jesus stays behind in the temple courts among the teachers.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The baptism of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus comes from Galilee to be baptized by John.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The temptation of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness and fasts forty days before the temptations.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The calling of the first disciples
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceNamed in the Gospel accounts of the call beside the Sea of Galilee.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The wedding at Cana
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus, His mother, and His disciples are at the wedding, and Jesus turns the water into wine.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus receives Nicodemus and teaches him about the new birth.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The Samaritan woman at the well
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus speaks with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well and identifies Himself as the Messiah.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The rejection at Nazareth
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus reads Isaiah in the Nazareth synagogue and is driven out of the town.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The Sermon on the Mount
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus goes up the mountain, sits, and teaches; the crowds are astonished at His authority.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The healing of the paralytic
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus forgives and heals the paralyzed man in Capernaum.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The parables of the Kingdom
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus teaches the crowds in parables from the boat and explains them to His disciples.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The calming of the storm
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus, asleep in the stern, wakes and rebukes the wind and the sea.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The raising of Jairus's daughter
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus goes with Jairus, heals the woman on the way, and raises the girl.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The feeding of the five thousand
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus blesses, breaks, and distributes the loaves and fish to the crowd.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus walks on the water
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus comes to the disciples walking on the sea and climbs into the boat.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus asks the question, blesses Peter's answer, and predicts His suffering.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The transfiguration
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain and is transfigured before them.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The parables of the lost sheep, coin, and son
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus tells the three parables in answer to the Pharisees' complaint that He welcomes sinners.
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Jesus participates in The raising of Lazarus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus comes to Bethany, weeps, and calls Lazarus out of the tomb.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus sets out for Jerusalem
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLuke records Jesus setting out for Jerusalem and telling the Twelve what awaits Him there.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Zacchaeus receives Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus calls Zacchaeus down from the tree and stays at his house.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus stops, calls the blind man, and restores his sight.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The anointing at Bethany
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus is the one anointed and He interprets the act as preparation for His burial.
Jesus participates in The triumphal entry
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus sends for the colt and rides into Jerusalem.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus weeps over Jerusalem
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus weeps over the city as He approaches it.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The cleansing of the temple
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus drives out the sellers and overturns the money changers' tables.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The controversies in the temple
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus is the one questioned in the temple courts and the one who answers.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The Olivet discourse
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus delivers the discourse seated on the Mount of Olives.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus washes the disciples' feet
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus washes the disciples' feet.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The farewell discourse
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus speaks the discourse and prays the prayer of John 17.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Gethsemane
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus prays in the garden that the cup might pass and submits to the Father's will.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The arrest of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus is arrested and bound in the garden.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The trial before the Sanhedrin
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus is questioned under oath and condemned.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Peter denies Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLuke records the Lord turning to look at Peter as the rooster crowed.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The trial before Pilate
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus stands before the governor and answers his question about kingship.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The crucifixion of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe passion narratives in all four Gospels record the crucifixion of Jesus.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The burial of Jesus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe body of Jesus is taken down, wrapped, and laid in the tomb.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The road to Emmaus
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus appears to the gathered disciples
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus appears to Thomas
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus appears by the Sea of Galilee
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in Jesus appears to more than five hundred
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The Great Commission
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe risen Jesus speaks the commission to the disciples.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The conversion of Paul
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus participates in The promise of His return
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe text names Jesus in this event at the cited verses.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from Abraham
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's opening line calls Jesus the son of Abraham and begins the genealogy with him.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Luke 3Luke's genealogy traces Jesus's descent to David through Nathan, and on to Adam.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy traces Jesus's legal descent through Joseph to David. Luke's genealogy also reaches David by a different line; FaithGraph records the two lists separately and never merges them.
Evidence:Other responsible views
- Luke's genealogy: Luke 3:23-38 traces descent from David through Nathan rather than Solomon. The relationship between the two lists is discussed in the Lineage section.
Jesus parallels Jonah
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus explicitly sets His burial and rising alongside Jonah's three days in the fish, and His preaching alongside Jonah's preaching at Nineveh.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from Judah
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy names Judah in its second line, and Hebrews says it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah.
Jesus is descended from Solomon
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy runs from David through Solomon and the kings of Judah to Joseph. Luke's list runs through Nathan instead; FaithGraph keeps the two separate.
Evidence:Other responsible views
- Luke's genealogy: Luke 3:31 traces the line from David through Nathan, not Solomon.
Jesus travels to Egypt
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceMatthew records the child's journey to Egypt and return.
Evidence:Jesus travels to Nazareth
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLuke records the family returning to Nazareth after the birth, and Jesus later coming to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.
Evidence:Jesus teaches Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus names Himself the resurrection and the life and foretells His own rising on the third day.
Evidence:Jesus teaches The Holy Spirit
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceIn the farewell discourse Jesus promises the Advocate and describes His work.
Evidence:Jesus teaches The Kingdom of God
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceMark summarizes the whole of Jesus's preaching as the announcement of the Kingdom of God.
Evidence:Jesus bears the title King of the Jews
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidencePilate questions Jesus under this title and has it written on the cross.
Evidence:Jesus bears the title Lamb of God
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJohn the Baptist twice points to Jesus as the Lamb of God, once adding that He takes away the sin of the world.
Jesus bears the title Son of David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe crowds at the entry hail Jesus as Son of David, Bartimaeus addresses Him so, and Matthew opens with the title.
Evidence:Jesus bears the title Son of Man
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus calls Himself the Son of Man when He forgives the paralytic and when He predicts His suffering, and He asks the disciples who people say the Son of Man is.
Evidence:Jesus explicitly fulfills 2 Samuel 7:12-16
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidenceGabriel tells Mary that her son will receive the throne of His father David and reign forever, language drawn from God's promise to David. Peter says David foresaw the resurrection of the promised heir, and Paul says God brought Israel a Savior from David's offspring "as He promised". These are explicit claims of fulfillment, not later inference.
Jesus explicitly fulfills Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidencePeter applies Moses' promise directly to Jesus, and Stephen cites the same verse in his defense.
Evidence:Jesus explicitly fulfills Genesis 12:3
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidencePaul writes that the Scripture announced the Gospel in advance to Abraham with the words "all nations will be blessed through you", and identifies Christ as Abraham's offspring.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 22:1-18
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceAbraham's words that God Himself will provide the lamb, the beloved only son carried up the mountain, and the ram given in his place have been read since the early church as a foreshadowing of the Father giving His Son. Hebrews and Paul echo the scene without stating the typology outright.
Other responsible views
- A test of faith in its own right: Genesis presents the binding of Isaac as the testing of Abraham's faith and the confirmation of the covenant oath. The Christological reading is an added layer, held widely but not stated by Genesis itself.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 3:15
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceGenesis 3:15 says the offspring of the woman will crush the serpent's head. From the early church onward, Christians have read this as the first promise of Christ's victory over evil. The New Testament alludes to it (Romans 16:20) without quoting it directly, so this is labeled a historic Christian reading.
Other responsible views
- General promise of human victory over evil: Some interpreters read the verse as a broader statement about humanity and the serpent, with Christ as its climactic instance.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 49:10
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceJacob's blessing promises that the scepter will not depart from Judah until the one to whom it belongs comes and the nations obey him. Revelation's Lion of the tribe of Judah and Hebrews' note that Jesus descended from Judah show the New Testament drawing on Judah's royal line, though neither quotes this verse.
Other responsible views
- Fulfilled in David's dynasty: Many read the blessing as fulfilled in the kingship of David's house, with the messianic sense as its fullest reach; the Hebrew of the phrase often rendered until Shiloh comes is itself uncertain.
Jesus explicitly fulfills Isaiah 42:1-4
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidenceMatthew introduces the quotation with the formula that this was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah.
Evidence:Jesus is read as fulfilling Numbers 24:17
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceBalaam's oracle of a star from Jacob and a scepter from Israel has been read by Christians since the early centuries as pointing to the Messiah, and Matthew's star over Bethlehem is often connected to it. The New Testament does not quote the verse, so this is labeled a historic reading.
Other responsible views
- David as the nearer referent: Many interpreters see the oracle fulfilled first in David, who conquered Moab and Edom, with a messianic sense developing later in Jewish and Christian reading.