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Chapter 4: Jesus's Life and Teaching

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Astrologers or wise men from the East who came to worship Jesus as the king of the Jews (Matt. 2:1-12).

The annual Jewish festival celebrating the sparing of Israel's children on the night before the exodus of Israel from Egypt. Passover also begins the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

Last (or Lord's) Supper

The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples before he was betrayed. During the meal, Jesus established a ceremony to remember his body and blood through bread and wine. The church would continue this observation as the Lord's Supper after his death and resurrection (Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:17-32).

An Aramaic word meaning "skull." The hill where Jesus was crucified outside Jerusalem.

The top Jewish council that decided matters of Jewish law. In Jesus's day it was made up of seventy-one members from the high priests, elders, and scribes.

The space and time of God's absolute, just, and good rule over the whole world, where he is present as King, where justice and peace rule, and where evil, pain, and death are vanquished.

Stories—often allegories, proverbs, short pithy sayings, similes, and metaphors—used by Jesus (and other teachers) to convey truth and, in the Gospels, to separate hearers into those who understand and those who do not.

The path of life on which one follows Jesus's own ultimate example of humility, righteous suffering, and love.

From the Greek word for "anointed" (christos), the title used to describe Jesus as set apart by God to be his good king over his people.

From the Hebrew word for "anointed" (meshiah), the title used to describe Jesus as set apart by God to be his good king over his people.

Holistic moral uprightness, marked by right relationships of faithfulness and love. Christians become righteous through faith in Jesus Christ.

Failure to follow God's moral law or will. Because of sin, humans are separated from God and condemned to eternal punishment, unless they receive his salvation through Jesus Christ.

The act of God by which he saves humans from their sin through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.