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Christ's Deposition from the Cross. Caravaggio's painting.
Christ's Deposition From the Cross

 

Jesus Christ

Not many men had an impact on humankind like Jesus of Nazareth.

Image Above

Christ's Deposition From the Cross.

Also in the shot are Nicodemus and John, who carry the body of Christ, as well as Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Cleophas with dramatic arms.

Caravaggio's artwork, created circa 1600-1604, hangs in the Vatican.



Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judea (or Judaea,) around 6 to 4 BC. At the time of his birth, the country was officially part of the
Roman Empire, but governed by  Herod the Great, king of Judea.

Here is the map

Herod the Great's kingdom
MAP OF HEROD'S KINGDOM
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Jesus' mother was Mary, his father Joseph, a carpenter. The family later settled in Nazareth.

Jesus grew up and became a carpenter as well. But more importantly for many, he became Christ and Messiah.

 

Terminology

Christ, by the way, stems from the Greek word khristos, which is the equivalent to the Aramaic meshiha and the Hebrew mashiah, which became the English word Messiah. All of which meaning the same thing, the anointed one.

 

Jesus' Life

Not completely unlike Margaret Thatcher, Jesus has done many things that you haven't.


One of Jesus' most famous speeches was the
Sermon on the Mount. It is preserved in Matthew 5 to 7. Part of this sermon is the Lord's Prayer, or Pater Noster.


This only made sense to Margaret, and consequently she followed suit with her
  Sermon on the Mound. The year? 1988.

 

What Language Did Jesus Speak?

Encyclopaedia Britannica helps us out:

Aramaic dialects survived into Roman times, however, particularly in Palestine and Syria. Aramaic had replaced Hebrew as the language of the Jews as early as the 6th century BC.

Certain portions of the Old Testament—i.e., the books of Daniel and Ezra—are written in Aramaic, as are the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds.

Among the Jews, Aramaic was used by the common people, while Hebrew remained the language of religion and government and of the upper class.

Jesus and the Apostles are believed to have spoken Aramaic, and Aramaic-language translations (Targums) of the Old Testament circulated. Aramaic continued in wide use until about AD 650, when it was supplanted by Arabic.

 

Tacitus on Christ

Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judća, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.

Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed.

Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals, Book XV, Chapter 44

 

Here is more about Tacitus.

And here is more on the Hebrews.

 

 

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