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of oppression, understanding the central core of the Gospels as Jesus' identification with the poor

While numerous scholars say that John is the Gospel to the world (and Matthew to the Jews, Mark to the Romans, and Luke to the Greeks), a Jewish scholar such as Israel Abrahams might very well believe that the Gospel of John is the most Jewish Gospel of the four by the way it reflects Jewish traditions and symbolisms. According to David Wenham[i], there is more attention given to Jesus as the Messiah in the Gospel of John than in any of other Gospels. In John, from chapter one onwards people are directly talking about Jesus as Messiah, and then there is intense public debate about whether Jesus is Messiah or not in John 7:25-31, 41-44[ii], which indicates that John is quite mindful of Jewish issues.

The foundation of the Christian faith is cradled within truth of the virgin birth, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As diverse as the world-wide Christian culture is, the truth in the birth and life of Jesus stands without border and language limitations. Just as each individual life story can be adapted to be relevant for a variety of audiences, the birth story of the Messiah was also. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke are an example of the well-rounded and diverse narration of the birth story of Jesus—Matthew’s narration spoke to the history of the Jewish people and Luke presented to the citizen of Rome.

Greetings fellow students. I am here to talk to you about the gospel story that covers the life of Jesus Christ at the start of the New Testament. Though there are four different accounts of Jesus life, each contains the same crucial elements. These are: Jesus miraculous birth, the message and ministry of His life, His sacrificial death and His triumphant resurrection. Jesus life and His message are fundamental parts of the Christian faith and have a drastic impact on the lives of the people who believe in them.

Christianity is believed to have been started the first decade, around the time many would say that Jesus died. In the teachings of Christianity Jesus was portrayed to be a Jewish man. It is also common knowledge that Christianity was formed out of Judaism, hence why they share some similarities. Christians are often rivaled by Muslims, Buddhist, Jewish, and less commonly known but most importantly they were rivaled by the Roman Empire. Many believe that Christianity was the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Christian perspective of the Old Testament as the foreshadowing and foundation of the Jesus Event goes as followed: The Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Scriptures, or the Old Covenant, contains myth, history, faith, and culture of the Israelites. The Israelites are descendants of Abraham and Sarah, then the descendants of Jacob which become the 12 tribes of Israel, then the only tribe left after the Assyrians wiped them out was the tribe of Judah, hence the name: Jews. As Christians, we believe that the Old Testament is one story made up of many stories. We also believe that all the sections of it, the Torah ( also know as the Pentitute), historical books, wisdom books, and prophetic books all lay the foundation for the New Testament and

The first four books of the New Testament are known as the Gospels. These books tell us about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They are named for their authors: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The earliest descriptions of these books are from Justin Martyr in 155 AD which he calls them “memoirs” (Elwell and Yarbrough, 56). These are more of a biographical account of the life of Jesus. In these books God offers salvation through His son; a call to faith in light of the coming judgment.

After a search of the subject of the sacramentality of the poor Mt.25:34-46.The conclusion is as follows: First, with the development of investigation of the sacramentality of the poor. The several books used in the subject portrayed how the poor are thesacrament in the Gospel of Matthew is the key in facing the reality of the poor people who identified with Jesus. Fortunately, the poor as a sacrament which pointed to Christ. “Whatever you do the least of little brothers, you did it for me.”Mt.25:40. The persons like Pope Francis, Benedict XVI, John Chrysostom contribute to the elevation of the poor. They give the positive ideas how to care for the poor and to have mercy with them because they have rights and dignity as other human beings.

Within the twenty seven books of the New Testament, Paul supposedly wrote thirteen of them (Harris, 2014). However, upon historical examination, scholars believe that Paul did not write some of them. Scholars do not believe that someone else wrote the letters, they see the issue regarding their original writing and composition. Nevertheless there are seven authenticated and recognized letters of Paul. The letters consist of Romans, first and second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, first Thessalonians, and Philemon (Harris, 2014). According to scholars, Thessalonians and Colossians are debatable and few recognize Ephesians as a Pauline letter as well. It has also been noted that three other letters, Titus and first and second Timothy, were

The New Testament was first written down and circulated in the form of letters between the various regions that the early Christians had spread to. Paul was instrumental in the first establishment of letter carrying between Jesus' disciples and others. It is said that the Church thanks to Paul's escaped slave, Onesimus, preserved Paul's collection of letters. (Houseandhome.org, 2012) It was very common during the Roman Empire to have slaves, and they were often treated as near equals in terms of intellect and importance to the household. The early church was slow to write the New Testament, largely because Jesus had not written down any of his own teachings. Therefore oral accounts had to be collected from all around the world, and recounted in as accurate of a format as possible.

As a practicing Catholic, it’s sad to say that I have never read or even touched a bible. So I really only know some parables and bits and pieces of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The four Gospels are known for each having their own outlook on the life of Christ at the beginning and the end of his ministry.

We will present a panorama of the ultimate gospel of John’s traits characteristic and an outstanding aspect emphasize on the major topics of life and ministering of Jesus of Nazareth through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit from the

Jesus’s actions for the marginalised groups in Jesus’s time were radical and unorthodox. Jesus helped many groups that were considered second class citizens, but the three main groups, were Women, Samaritans and Outcasts including Tax Collectors and the Poor. The working of Jesus with these groups was recorded in the Gospel of Luke.

Jesus was born as the centre of human civilisation. At Birth, he was part of God’s Plan in the incarnation of Christ. He lived in this era as a Jewish man in Palestine and interacted with Pharisees, experts in Jewish Law, rules and regulations, the Scribes who were in charge of all rituals, and Sadducees. Jesus was born approximately 6BC to 30AD. Growing up, his public ministry spanned three years. Other Jewish groups in Palestine at this time were Essenes, Zealots, Herodians and Samaritans. Relationships with Jews including Gentiles were strained. The Gentiles are important in later parts of the New Testament as the Mediterranean world gets more prominence compared to Palestine.

The New Testament is a collection of books which contains the writings concerning the significant events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. These books appeared after the physical death of Jesus Christ. In this regard, Jesus had left no records concerning him, and all that is written about him depends wholly on what other people have written about him. The first four books of the New Testament are part of the several biographies of Jesus which were written by the end of the first century of the era of Christianity. Then before any of these biographies have been drafted, there were Christian communities which were being instructed through epistles on how to live like Jesus and how to solve their problem like Christians. A good number of these letters were written by a man called Paul. After Paul death, some other new leaders of the Christian movement continued to write letters to the churches to encourage and strengthen them. As Christians grew in number persecution arose, and some letters have been drafted to support them and also to counter the false doctrines. These letters are part of the New Testament. The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were selected from the list of writings in that period (Bruce, 1988)