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Jesus and the Twelve

Jesus

Also called Jesus of Nazareth

The central figure of the Gospels

71
Events
30
Places
5
Journeys

Editorial summary

The Gospels narrate his birth in Bethlehem, his upbringing in Nazareth, his ministry in Galilee and Judea, and his death in Jerusalem, and they report his resurrection.

Scripture

Journeys

5

Where their story unfolds

30

Where they appear

71

  1. The wise men find the child

    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.

  2. Flight to Egypt

    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.

  3. Settling in Nazareth

    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.

  4. Jesus makes his home in Capernaum

    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.

  5. The Sermon on the Mount

    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.

  6. The call of Matthew

    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.

  7. Woes on Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum

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

  8. Walking on the water

    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.

  9. A sign demanded near Magdala

    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.

  10. Peter’s confession

    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.

  11. The donkey and the colt

    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.

  12. Entry into Jerusalem

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

  13. Clearing the temple

    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.

  14. Questions on the Mount of Olives

    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.

  15. Jesus before Caiaphas

    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.

  16. Jesus meets the women

    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.

  17. On the mountain in Galilee

    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.

  18. Baptism in the Jordan

    Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Coming up out of the water, he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and a voice came from heaven.

  19. Calling the fishermen

    Walking beside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus called Simon and Andrew, then James and John, to follow him. They left their nets and their boat and went after him.

  20. Teaching with authority in Capernaum

    On the Sabbath Jesus taught in the synagogue at Capernaum. The people were astonished at his authority, especially when he commanded an unclean spirit to come out of a man.

  21. Peter’s mother-in-law healed

    Coming out of the synagogue in Capernaum, Jesus went with Simon, Andrew, James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew, where Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever. He took her by the hand and raised her up; the fever left her, and she served them.

  22. Lowered through the roof

    When a crowd filled the house in Capernaum where Jesus was, four people opened the roof and lowered a paralyzed man to him. Jesus said to him, “Son, your sins are forgiven you,” then told him to take up his mat and go home, and he did.

  23. Appointing the Twelve

    Jesus went up into the mountain and appointed twelve to be with him and to be sent out to preach: Simon, whom he named Peter; James son of Zebedee and his brother John; Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot.

  24. Calming the storm

    Crossing the lake in the evening, the disciples woke Jesus during a violent windstorm. He rebuked the wind and commanded the sea to be still, and there was a great calm.

  25. Healing among the Gadarenes

    In the country of the Gadarenes a man with an unclean spirit met Jesus out of the tombs. When Jesus asked his name, the reply was Legion, for they were many. With Jesus’ permission the spirits entered about two thousand pigs, which drowned in the sea, and the man proclaimed in Decapolis what Jesus had done.

  26. Jairus’ daughter raised

    By the sea, Jairus, a synagogue ruler, begged Jesus to heal his dying daughter. On the way a woman who had bled for twelve years touched his clothes and was healed. Though the girl was reported dead, Jesus went to the house with Peter, James and John, took her by the hand, and she rose.

  27. Healings at Gennesaret

    After crossing the lake, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret. People recognized him and brought the sick from all that region; wherever he went, in villages, cities or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged to touch the fringe of his garment, and all who touched him were made well.

  28. A mother’s faith near Tyre

    In the region of Tyre and Sidon a Greek woman of Syrophoenician birth begged Jesus to drive a demon from her daughter. After her reply about the crumbs under the table, he told her the demon had left her daughter.

  29. A deaf man healed

    After Jesus came to the sea of Galilee through the region of Decapolis, people brought him a deaf man with a speech impediment. Jesus took him aside, put his fingers into his ears, touched his tongue and told him to be opened, and he heard and spoke clearly. Though told to tell no one, they proclaimed it all the more.

  30. A blind man healed at Bethsaida

    At Bethsaida people brought a blind man to Jesus. He led the man out of the village, spat on his eyes and laid his hands on him; the man saw people like walking trees, and when Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again, he saw everyone clearly.

  31. Blind Bartimaeus

    As Jesus left Jericho, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus kept calling out to him as the son of David. Jesus called him over, and he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.

  32. The Last Supper

    On the first day of Unleavened Bread, disciples prepared the Passover in a large upper room in the city. As they ate, Jesus took bread and the cup, gave thanks and gave them to his disciples.

  33. Prayer and arrest in Gethsemane

    After the supper Jesus went to Gethsemane and prayed in deep distress while Peter, James and John slept. Judas arrived with an armed crowd and identified him with a kiss, and the disciples fled.

  34. Jesus before Pilate

    In the morning the chief priests and the council bound Jesus and handed him over to Pilate, who asked whether he was the King of the Jews. Stirred up by the chief priests, the crowd asked for Barabbas to be released instead. Pilate released Barabbas, had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.

  35. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross

    As Jesus was led out to be crucified, the soldiers compelled a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them and carry his cross.

  36. The crucifixion

    Jesus was crucified at Golgotha between two others, beneath a written charge naming him King of the Jews. Darkness covered the land from the sixth hour to the ninth, when he cried out with a loud voice and died.

  37. Birth in Bethlehem

    An enrollment ordered by Caesar Augustus brought Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem, David’s city. There Mary gave birth to her firstborn son and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room in the inn.

  38. Shepherds hear the news

    An angel announced the birth to shepherds keeping watch over their flock at night. They hurried to Bethlehem and found Mary, Joseph and the baby lying in the feeding trough.

  39. Presented at the temple

    Mary and Joseph brought the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. In the temple Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, and the prophetess Anna gave thanks and spoke about him.

  40. Back to Nazareth

    When they had done everything the law required, they returned to their own city, Nazareth in Galilee, where the child grew strong and was filled with wisdom.

  41. The boy Jesus in the temple

    When Jesus was twelve, he stayed behind in Jerusalem after the Passover. After three days his parents found him in the temple among the teachers, listening to them and asking questions.

  42. Rejected in his hometown

    In the synagogue at Nazareth Jesus read from Isaiah and said the Scripture had been fulfilled that day. The congregation turned against him and tried to throw him from the brow of the hill, but he passed through them.

  43. The centurion’s servant

    In Capernaum a centurion sent Jewish elders, and then friends, to ask Jesus to heal his servant. The elders said he had built their synagogue; the friends brought his message that Jesus need only say the word. Jesus marveled at his faith, and those who had been sent found the servant well.

  44. A widow’s son raised

    Near the town gate of Nain, Jesus met the funeral of a widow’s only son. Moved with compassion, he touched the coffin, and the young man sat up and began to speak.

  45. Feeding the five thousand

    With five loaves and two fish, Jesus fed about five thousand men, and twelve baskets of broken pieces were left over.

  46. Zacchaeus the tax collector

    In Jericho, Zacchaeus, a rich chief tax collector, climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus. Jesus stayed at his house, and Zacchaeus said that he gives half his goods to the poor and restores fourfold anything he has wrongfully taken.

  47. Teaching in the temple

    In his final days in Jerusalem Jesus taught in the temple every day, and at night he went out to stay on the Mount of Olives. People came early in the morning to hear him.

  48. Peter denies Jesus

    When Jesus was taken to the high priest’s house, Peter followed at a distance and sat by a fire in the courtyard. Three times people said he had been with Jesus, and three times he denied it. As a rooster crowed, the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and he went out and wept bitterly.

  49. Jesus before Herod

    Learning that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, Pilate sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem. Herod questioned him at length, but Jesus gave no answers while the chief priests and scribes accused him. Herod and his soldiers mocked him and sent him back to Pilate, and that day Herod and Pilate became friends.

  50. The road to Emmaus

    That same day two disciples, one named Cleopas, were walking to Emmaus when Jesus joined them unrecognized. At the meal he broke bread, their eyes were opened, and they hurried back to Jerusalem to tell the others.

  51. Jesus stands among the disciples

    In Jerusalem, while Cleopas and his companion were telling the Eleven and those with them what had happened, Jesus stood among them. He showed them his hands and feet, ate broiled fish before them, opened their minds to the Scriptures, and told them to wait in the city until clothed with power from on high.

  52. The ascension in Luke’s Gospel

    Jesus led the disciples out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands and blessed them, and while blessing them withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. They worshiped him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising God.

  53. John’s testimony beyond the Jordan

    When priests and Levites from Jerusalem asked John who he was, he said he was not the Christ but the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The next day he saw Jesus coming and called him the Lamb of God, testifying that he had seen the Spirit descend and remain on him.

  54. The first disciples follow Jesus

    The next day John looked at Jesus and called him the Lamb of God. Two of John’s disciples heard him, followed Jesus and stayed with him that day. One of them, Andrew, brought his brother Simon to Jesus, who said he would be called Cephas, that is, Peter.

  55. Water into wine

    When the wine ran out at a wedding in Cana, Jesus had the servants fill six stone water pots, and the water became wine. John calls this the first of his signs.

  56. Nicodemus comes by night

    Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus by night and called him a teacher come from God. Jesus told him that unless one is born anew he cannot see God’s Kingdom, and spoke of being born of water and Spirit.

  57. The Samaritan woman at the well

    Tired from the journey, Jesus sat by Jacob’s well near Sychar and asked a Samaritan woman for a drink, then spoke with her about living water. Many Samaritans from the town believed, and he stayed there two days.

  58. A nobleman’s son healed

    Back in Cana, Jesus told a nobleman whose son lay sick in Capernaum that his son would live. The man believed, and later learned the fever had left the boy at that very hour.

  59. Healing at the pool of Bethesda

    By a pool near the sheep gate, Jesus asked a man who had been ill for thirty-eight years whether he wanted to be made well, then told him to take up his mat and walk. It was the Sabbath.

  60. Sent to the pool of Siloam

    Jesus made mud, put it on the eyes of a man blind from birth and sent him to wash in the pool of Siloam. The man went, washed, and came back seeing.

  61. Lazarus raised

    Lazarus of Bethany had been in the tomb four days when Jesus arrived. Jesus had the stone taken away and called him out, and the dead man came out still bound in burial wrappings.

  62. Jesus withdraws to Ephraim

    After the chief priests and Pharisees took counsel to put him to death, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. He went into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

  63. Anointed at Bethany

    Six days before the Passover, at a supper in Bethany, Mary poured costly ointment on Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. Mark describes an anointing at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper.

  64. Greeks ask to see Jesus

    Some Greeks who had come up to worship at the feast told Philip, of Bethsaida, that they wanted to see Jesus. Philip and Andrew told Jesus, who answered that the time had come for the Son of Man to be glorified, and spoke of a grain of wheat that dies and bears much fruit.

  65. Jesus before Annas

    Jesus was bound and taken first to Annas, father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Let into the court, Peter told the maid at the door he was not one of Jesus’ disciples. The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and teaching, an officer struck him, and Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas.

  66. Jesus’ mother at the cross

    Standing by the cross were Jesus’ mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved, Jesus told her that the disciple was her son, and told the disciple that she was his mother; from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

  67. Burial in a new tomb

    Joseph of Arimathaea, with Nicodemus, took Jesus’ body, wrapped it in linen with spices and laid it in a new tomb in a garden near the place where he was crucified.

  68. Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene

    Mary Magdalene stood weeping outside the tomb and saw two angels where the body had lain. Turning, she saw Jesus but took him for the gardener until he called her by name. He sent her to his brothers, and she told the disciples that she had seen the Lord.

  69. Thomas sees the risen Jesus

    Thomas, absent when Jesus first came to the disciples, said he would not believe unless he saw and touched the marks of the nails and Jesus’ side. Eight days later, with the doors locked, Jesus came again and told Thomas to reach out his hand, and Thomas called him his Lord and his God.

  70. Breakfast by the Sea of Tiberias

    Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee and two other disciples fished all night and caught nothing. At dawn Jesus, unrecognized on the beach, told them where to cast the net, and it filled with fish. The disciple whom Jesus loved said it was the Lord, and Jesus gave them bread and fish.

  71. The ascension

    Acts says that as the apostles watched, Jesus was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. Two men in white clothing told them he would come back in the same way, and they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet.

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