Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth (Hebrew: Yeshua), c. 4 BCE – c. AD 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.