Mission And Message Of Jesus

The essays discuss about the right moment that Christ was born, ministered and died. It assumes generally that Christ was born in about A.D. 1, like I believe most of the Christian people do. It is pretty hard to know the exactly date, but the essay 11 discusses some statements with different versions. According to Matthew 2:1 and Luke 1:5, Jesus must have been born between 6 B.C and 4 B.C.. According with the census under Augustus Cesar , the census must have been scheduled in 8 B.C.. It is also really hard to know when it was the beginning of the ministry, it says he was about thirty years old but there is not proves when he was born but, Jesus' crucifixion cannot be placed earlier than A.D. 30 what can help to find out the others information. Another thesis is the work of remodeling project initiated by Herod the Great sometime in 20 or 19 B.C., it concludes that the ministry must have been in the spring of A.D. 27. The date of crucifixion is shown in the essay "The Day and Year of Christ's Crucifixion", concluding two possibilities between A.D. 30 or A.D. 33. The conclusion of the essay, it summarized that the birth was 6 B.C. or 5 B.C, the beginning of Christ's ministry was A.D. 26, and the crucifixion of Christ was A.D. 30. The conclusion provides a solution with strong proposes but it is not really possible to know more precisely when Jesus lived, ministered and died.

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