Events

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem asking where the newborn King of the Jews was. Herod learned from the chief priests and scribes that the Christ was to be born in Bethlehem, and sent them there.

Jerusalem · with Herod the Great

Led by the star, the wise men found the young child with Mary in a house, worshiped him and offered gold, frankincense and myrrh. Warned in a dream, they went home another way.

Bethlehem · with Jesus, Mary, mother of Jesus

Warned in a dream that Herod would seek the child’s life, Joseph took the child and his mother by night to Egypt, and they stayed there until Herod died.

Egypt · with Joseph, Jesus, Mary, mother of Jesus, Herod the Great

Angry that the wise men had not returned, Herod ordered the killing of all the boys two years old and under in Bethlehem and the surrounding countryside.

Bethlehem · with Herod the Great

After Herod died, Joseph brought the family back to the land of Israel. Afraid of Archelaus, who ruled Judea, he withdrew to Galilee and settled in Nazareth.

Nazareth · with Joseph, Jesus, Mary, mother of Jesus

John the Baptizer preached in the wilderness of Judea, calling people to repent because the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. People from Jerusalem, Judea and the region around the Jordan were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. He warned the Pharisees and Sadducees and spoke of one mightier coming after him.

Wilderness of Judea, Jordan River · with John the Baptist

When Jesus heard that John had been delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went to live in Capernaum by the sea, and from that time he began to preach that people should repent, because the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand.

Capernaum · with Jesus

Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up onto the mountain and sat down, and his disciples came to him. He taught them, beginning with a series of blessings. When he had finished, the crowds were astonished, because he taught with authority and not like the scribes.

Galilee · with Jesus

Jesus saw Matthew sitting at the tax collection office and told him to follow him, and Matthew got up and followed. When many tax collectors and sinners ate with Jesus and his disciples in the house, Jesus told the Pharisees who objected that he came to call sinners, not the righteous.

Capernaum · with Jesus, Matthew

Jesus reproached Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, the towns where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum · with Jesus

Jesus sent the disciples ahead by boat, and in the night he came to them walking on the sea. Peter began to walk toward him, started to sink, and was caught by Jesus’ hand.

Sea of Galilee · with Jesus, Peter

After Jesus came by boat into the borders of Magdala, Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him by asking for a sign from heaven. He said they could read the sky but not the signs of the times, and that no sign would be given except the sign of Jonah. Then he left them.

Magdala · with Jesus

In the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples who people said he was, and then who they said he was. Peter answered that he was the Christ.

Caesarea Philippi · with Jesus, Peter

Near Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples into the village ahead to bring a donkey and her colt for his entry into Jerusalem.

Bethphage · with Jesus

Crowds spread their clothes and branches on the road and shouted “Hosanna” as Jesus rode into Jerusalem, and the whole city was stirred.

Jerusalem · with Jesus

Jesus drove out those buying and selling in the temple and overturned the money changers’ tables, saying it was to be a house of prayer. The blind and the lame came to him there, and he healed them.

Temple Mount · with Jesus

Leaving the temple, Jesus said its buildings would be thrown down. As he sat on the Mount of Olives, his disciples asked him privately when this would happen and what the sign of his coming and of the end of the age would be.

Mount of Olives · with Jesus

Jesus was led to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered, and Peter followed at a distance into the court. When Jesus answered the high priest’s demand to say whether he was the Christ, the high priest said he had spoken blasphemy, and they declared him worthy of death.

Jerusalem · with Jesus, Caiaphas, Peter

As the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. Matthew tells of an earthquake and an angel who rolled away the stone and told them Jesus had risen. Mark, Luke and John describe the morning differently; in John, Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene.

Golgotha · with Mary Magdalene

Leaving the tomb with fear and great joy, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary ran to tell the disciples. Jesus met them on the way; they took hold of his feet and worshiped him, and he told them to tell his brothers to go to Galilee, where they would see him.

Golgotha · with Mary Magdalene, Jesus

The eleven disciples went to the mountain in Galilee where Jesus had sent them. When they saw him they bowed down, though some doubted. Jesus told them to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them, and said he would be with them always, to the end of the age.

Galilee · with Jesus