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 is a city in the West Bank south of Jerusalem; since the Oslo Accords it has been administered by the Palestinian Authority. In the Hebrew Bible it is where the matriarch Rachel died and was buried, the setting of the Book of Ruth and the home town of King David; Rachel's Tomb at its entrance has long drawn Jewish pilgrims. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke place the birth of Jesus there, though historians are divided on whether he was born in Bethlehem or Nazareth. Constantine commissioned the Church of the Nativity over the traditional site in the fourth century. John Cassian lived as a monk nearby, and Jerome spent over three decades there, completing his Latin Bible translation.
In Bethlehem at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Jesus of Nazareth’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Joseph, husband of Mary, Mary, mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Andrew the Apostle, James, son of Zebedee, Peter the Apostle, Philip the Apostle, Matthias the Apostle, Bartholomew the Apostle, Thomas the Apostle, Mary Magdalene, Barnabas, Paul the Apostle, John the Apostle, Matthew the Apostle, James the Just, Stephen the Protomartyr
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Jesus of Nazareth’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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