Jesus

Jesus<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-16">[e]</a> (<a title="Circa" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa">c.</a> 4 BC – c. AD 30 / 33), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-17">[f]</a> was a first-century <a title="Jews" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews">Jewish</a> preacher and <a title="Religion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion">religious</a> leader.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Vermes_1981-18">[12]</a> He is the central figure of <a title="Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christianity</a>. Most <a title="Christians" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians">Christians</a> believe he is the <a title="Incarnation (Christianity)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation(Christianity)">incarnation</a> of <a title="God the Son" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_the_Son">God the Son</a> and the awaited <a title="Messiah" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah#Christianity">Messiah</a> (<a title="Christ (title)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ(title)">Christ</a>) prophesied in the <a title="Old Testament" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament">Old Testament</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGrath20064%E2%80%936-19">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Ehrman_Jesus_became_God-20">[14]</a>

Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that <a title="Historicity of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus">Jesus existed historically</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-exist-27">[g]</a> although the <a title="Quest for the historical Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus">quest for the historical Jesus</a> has produced little agreement on the <a title="Historical reliability of the Gospels" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels">historical reliability of the Gospels</a> and on how closely the Jesus portrayed in the Bible reflects the <a title="Historical Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus">historical Jesus</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPowell1998168%E2%80%9373-28">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-30">[h]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-32">[i]</a> Jesus was a <a title="Galilean" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean">Galilean</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Jew" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew">Jew</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Vermes_1981-18">[12]</a> who was <a title="Baptism of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus">baptized</a> by <a title="John the Baptist" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist">John the Baptist</a> and began <a title="Ministry of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus">his own ministry</a>. He <a title="Oral gospel traditions" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_gospel_traditions">preached orally</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Dunn2013-33">[24]</a> and was often referred to as "<a title="Rabbi" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi">rabbi</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-ISBEO-34">[25]</a> Jesus debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healings, taught in <a title="Parable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable">parables</a> and gathered followers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevine20064-35">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-36">[27]</a> He was arrested and tried by the <a title="Sanhedrin" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin">Jewish authorities</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTESanders199311-37">[28]</a> turned over to the Roman government, and <a title="Crucifixion of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus">crucified</a> on the order of <a title="Pontius Pilate" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a>, the <a title="Roman governor" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_governor">Roman prefect</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevine20064-35">[26]</a> After his death, his followers believed he <a title="Resurrection of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus">rose from the dead</a>, and the community they formed eventually became the <a title="Early Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity">early Church</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTESanders199311,14-38">[29]</a>

<a title="Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christian</a> doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the <a title="Holy Spirit in Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_in_Christianity">Holy Spirit</a>, was <a title="Virgin birth of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_Jesus">born of a virgin</a> named <a title="Mary, mother of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,mother_of_Jesus">Mary</a>, performed <a title="Miracles of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_of_Jesus">miracles</a>, founded the <a title="Christian Church" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church">Christian Church</a>, died by <a title="Crucifixion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion">crucifixion</a> as a sacrifice to achieve <a class="mw-redirect" title="Atonement in Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_in_Christianity">atonement for sin</a>, rose from the dead, and <a title="Ascension of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus">ascended</a> into <a title="Heaven in Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_in_Christianity">Heaven</a>, from where he <a title="Second Coming" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming">will return</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrudem1994568%E2%80%93603-39">[30]</a> Most <a title="Jesus in Christianity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity">Christians believe Jesus</a> enables people to be reconciled to God. The <a title="Nicene Creed" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed">Nicene Creed</a> asserts that Jesus will <a title="Last Judgment" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Judgment">judge the living and the dead</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-40">[31]</a> either <a title="Intermediate state" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_state">before</a> or <a title="Christian mortalism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism">after</a> their <a title="Resurrection of the dead" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_the_dead#Christianity">bodily resurrection</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Oxford_Companion-41">[32]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-42">[33]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-43">[34]</a> an event tied to the Second Coming of Jesus in <a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology">Christian eschatology</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-44">[35]</a> The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three <a class="mw-redirect" title="Person (theology)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person(theology)#Christian_theology">persons</a> of the <a title="Trinity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity">Trinity</a>. A minority of <a title="Christian denomination" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_denomination">Christian denominations</a> <a title="Nontrinitarianism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism">reject Trinitarianism</a>, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. <a title="Nativity of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus">The birth of Jesus</a> is celebrated annually on December 25 (or various dates in January by some eastern churches) as <a title="Christmas" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas">Christmas</a>. His crucifixion is honored on <a title="Good Friday" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday">Good Friday</a> and his resurrection on <a title="Easter" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter">Easter</a>. The widely used <a title="Calendar era" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era">calendar era</a> "<a title="Anno Domini" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini">AD</a>", from the Latin anno Domini ("in the year of the Lord"), and the equivalent alternative "<a title="Common Era" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era">CE</a>", are based on the approximate birthdate of Jesus.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-AD-45">[36]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-47">[j]</a>

Jesus also figures in non-Christian religions. <a title="Jesus in Islam" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam">In Islam</a>, Jesus (commonly transliterated as <a title="Isa (name)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_(name)">Isa</a>) is considered one of <a title="God in Islam" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Islam">God</a>'s important <a class="mw-redirect" title="Prophets in Islam" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_in_Islam">prophets</a> and the Messiah.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-uscsite-48">[38]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-CEI-49">[39]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Siddiqui-50">[40]</a> <a title="Muslims" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims">Muslims</a> believe Jesus was a <a title="Prophets and messengers in Islam" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam">bringer of scripture</a> and was born of a virgin, but was not the son of God. The <a title="Quran" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran">Quran</a> states that Jesus never claimed divinity.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#cite_note-Morgan-51">[41]</a> Most Muslims do not believe that he <a title="Islamic views on Jesus' death" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_Jesus%27_death">was crucified</a>, but that he was physically <a title="Entering heaven alive" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering_heaven_alive">raised into Heaven</a> by God. In contrast, <a title="Judaism's view of Jesus" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Jesus">Judaism rejects the belief</a> that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill <a title="Messiah in Judaism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism">Messianic prophecies</a>, and was neither divine nor resurrected.

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