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Jesus Of Nazareth Research Paper

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Who is Jesus? The answer to this question is a crucial point that plays a key role in why Jesus was killed. Finding information about Jesus of Nazareth is actually fairly easy, because Christianity, which was founded on the teachings and lessons of Jesus, takes up around a third of the world’s population with its members (Sheler 1). Conversely, the hard part comes when faced with the question; Is this information accurate? The Christians back then, and still, today believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah that God had sent to save them from sin and death. “He walked out of the Judean desert nearly 2,000 years ago, an unknown itinerant preacher, proclaiming to all who would listen that the Kingdom of God was at hand. It was said that …show more content…

Professor Don Carson, of New Testament at Trinity Evangelistic Divinity School said that it is fairly certain that Jesus knew who he was and what he had to do, which would be completely different than what everyone expected, before he started traveling and public speaking (Sheler 2). As he started traveling and speaking a crowd of people started following him, and in this crowd were twelve criminals and sinners that Jesus himself had had picked to walk with him personally and be his closest friends. When he lived, Jesus refers to himself many times as the Son of Man and to God as his Father …show more content…

In fact, many of the things he was teaching were going against the traditions of Israel. Jesus even went so far as to accuse the Pharisees (leaders of the synagogues) of being hypocrites several times, because he believed they bent laws for their own personal gain (Sheler 3). Nonetheless, this was most likely true because corruption in the church was recorded by several different people around this time period. "' It would be like announcing in a Muslim country that one was fulfilling the will of Muhammad and burning a copy of the Koran,' says Wright in his book, Who Was Jesus? (Sheler 3)." While Jesus was traveling, it was said that he was performing miraculous deeds, such as healing people, raising the dead, and casting out demons. In the Bible, the Gospels give direct reports of thirty-five of these miracles and mention twelve others, that Jesus performed while traveling and preaching (Sheler 3). There was even a prophecy about the Messiah spoken by the prophet Isaiah. “His servant grew up like a tender young plant. He grew like a root coming up out of dry ground. He didn’t have any beauty or majesty that made us notice him… We looked down on him. We didn’t have any respect for him. He suffered the things

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