Jesus of Nazareth
4 BCE–30 CE · Bethlehem
Jesus of Nazareth (Hebrew: Yeshua), c. 4 BCE – c. CE 30/33, was a Jewish teacher and preacher from the Galilee whose life and message became the foundation of Christianity. A Jew of the late Second Temple period, he taught in Aramaic among his fellow Jews, gathered disciples, and proclaimed the coming kingdom of God. The Gospels — written in Greek a generation or more after his death — record his parables, healings, and ethical teaching, much of it in dialogue with the Torah and the Judaism of his day. He was crucified in Jerusalem under the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate around Passover. His followers proclaimed his resurrection, and within a few generations the movement that formed around him spread across the Roman world and gradually parted ways with its parent Judaism. Christians revere him as the Messiah (Christ) and, in classical Christian theology, as the incarnate Son of God; Judaism does not accept these claims, and historians study him as a figure of first-century Galilean Judaism. He is among the most influential figures in human history.
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Bethlehem
What they did here
The Gospels of Matthew and Luke record his birth in Bethlehem in the reign of Herod the Great; many historians regard Nazareth, where he was raised, as the more likely birthplace.
About Bethlehem
Bethlehem (Hebrew Beit Lechem), a town in the Judean Hills south of Jerusalem, is associated in the Torah with the matriarch Rachel, who according to the biblical account died in childbirth and was buried on the road to Bethlehem; Rachel's Tomb there has long been a site of Jewish pilgrimage. The town is also the setting of the Book of Ruth and the home of King David.
In the same place & time
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Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Pope Peter the Apostle, Paul the Apostle, John the Apostle, Matthew the Apostle, James the Just, Jude the Apostle, Mark the Evangelist
The world in their lifetime
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