Tag: Life-of-Jesus

September, December, or unknowable. The constellation argument, the nine-months-from-death calculation, and the priestly course theory, each weighed honestly.

Forty days after the resurrection he was taken up from the Mount of Olives. What the ascension claims, why it is enthronement language, and what it began.

Who saw him, in what order, and over how long. The appearances the Gospels record, the earliest creed listing them, and the detail that resists invention.

What the Gospels record about Golgotha, the darkness, the torn veil, and the burial, plus what Roman crucifixion actually involved and why the burial matters.

A staged royal entry, a cursed fig tree, a day of failed traps, a Passover meal reassigned, and six trials before dawn. The final week laid out in order.

He set his face toward Jerusalem, and the great parables come from this stretch. The Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and the sign that got him killed.

The hinge the Gospels turn on. A confession at the foot of a pagan shrine, the harshest rebuke six verses later, and glory on a mountain a week after that.

The busiest year of the ministry, opening with a sermon that got him thrown off a cliff. Capernaum, the Twelve, the parables, and the crowd that walked away.

The year the Synoptic Gospels skip entirely. Cana, the first temple cleansing, Nicodemus at night, and the woman at the well, all recorded only by John.

John baptized for repentance, which raises a problem when Jesus steps into the water. What the baptism accomplished and why the testing runs forty days.