Man living at the time of the New Testament

Jesus

Luke 2:1–7; 3:23; 24:50–51; Acts 1:3, 9

Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Son of God, “the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). He was conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit and born in Bethlehem, the city of David, in the days of Herod (Matthew 1:18–25; Luke 1:26–38; 2:1–7). Matthew traces his legal descent through Joseph and Solomon, and Luke, on the view this timeline follows, his descent through Mary and Nathan; both lines run to David and to Abraham, and Luke’s goes back to Adam (Matthew 1:1–17; Luke 3:23–38). He grew up in Nazareth, the carpenter’s son (Mark 6:3).

At about thirty he was baptized by John in the Jordan, and a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:13–17). He preached the Kingdom of God, taught with authority, healed the sick, and called twelve apostles. He was arrested, tried before the Jewish council and Pontius Pilate, and crucified outside Jerusalem, and was buried in a new tomb (Mark 14–15; John 18–19). On the third day he rose from the dead and appeared to Mary Magdalene, to Peter and the Twelve, and to more than five hundred at once (Luke 24; John 20; 1 Corinthians 15:3–8).

He said to his disciples, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth,” told them to make disciples of all nations, and was taken up into heaven; two men in white said that this same Jesus “will come back in the same way as you saw him going” (Matthew 28:18–20; Acts 1:9–11). John writes, “The Word became flesh and lived among us” (John 1:14), and Paul says that he, “existing in the form of God,” emptied himself and became obedient to death on a cross (Philippians 2:6–8). Christians worship him as Lord and Savior.

Ussher dates his birth to the autumn of 5 BC, shortly before Herod died in 4 BC (Matthew 2:1, 19), and his crucifixion to Friday, 3 April AD 33, when he was 36. He was “about thirty years old” when he began (Luke 3:23), and John's Gospel counts four Passovers in his ministry. The bar ends at his ascension, forty days after he rose (Acts 1:3, 9). Many scholars date his birth between 6 and 4 BC and his crucifixion to AD 30 or 33.

Family

Father

Joseph the husband of Mary

Mother

Mary the mother of Jesus

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