Jesus, the Teacher

This story begins like that of all humans with the beginning of the life of a child. But it didn’t start in a normal way. Rather it was greatly influenced by a superior being, God. Zacharias was a servant of God. It was a completely normal day for him until he entered the temple of God alone. In that moment he had a vision of an angel. The Angel told him that he would bear a child and that this child would be called John. He argued with the Angel saying that his wife was barren and that she was too old for conceiving. The angel seeing this as lack of faith made Zacharias unable to talk properly as he left the temple that day. Around that time Mary’s day was going as usual until an angel appeared unto her and said that that she would have a child soon and that his name would be Jesus. Mary was confused for she wasn’t married and then the angel explained that the newborn would not be the son of any man but that it would be conceived through divine power and therefore he would not be called by anything else than the Son of God. Mary married Joseph and Zacharias’ wife had her son. The Day he was born people asked what he would be named and some said Zacharias like its father but then the mother said the name of the child would be John. No one had that name but Zacharias speaking for the first time in a long time said that the name of the kid would be John. From that day on he was able to speak normally.

Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem to be taxed. It was during that time that Mary entered labor. They were not able to find a place to stay in, but an angle guided them to safety and it was in that time Jesus was born. After the eight days of his circumcision the boy was called Jesus. It was then decided that Joseph and Mary would go to Jerusalem in order to present the newborn to God and offer a Sacrifice. They left but decided to go to Jerusalem from that day on to pass the feast of Passover. When Jesus was twelve years old he got lost in the city. They found him eventually in the middle of doctors and wise people who were asking Jesus questions and all were amazed by the wisdom of his answers. Mary asked Jesus why he would do that, that he had made his father and her very worried. Then he answered that all he was doing was do his father’s business.

Later would Jesus be Baptized by John the Baptist who kept saying to the people that someone greater than him would one day baptize them not with water but with the Holy Spirit and with fire. The day Jesus was baptized God descended as a dove and said that he was pleased with Jesus, his son. After this Jesus was taken to the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil for Forty days. First the Devil told him to turn the stone in to bread but Jesus answered that men must feed from the words of the lord more than from the bread. Then the Devil took him up to a mountain and asked him to worship him in exchange for all the lands, wealth and power he could see. Jesus said that the only one who men were to worship was God. Finally Satan took Jesus to the roof of a temple and told him to jump and that angels would come down to save him but he told Satan that he would never be able to tempt the Son of the Lord. Jesus was then returned by divine power to Galilee. After preaching in his town he was exiled from it and went to Capernaum where he did several miracles including healing and an exorcism.

It was during this period of time that Jesus once forgave a man’s sins. The Pharisees and the scribes were insulted by this because only God could forgive sins. Although Jesus answered with great wisdom it was from this day on that the representatives of the Jewish religion began to dislike him greatly. Also, because his disciples didn’t fast or do many of the ordinary things disciple or John and the Pharisees did. Jesus did confront the formal representatives of the Jewish religions at the time which were the scribes and the Pharisees several times. His teaching one after the other made people believe that they would enter the kingdom of heaven by being merciful, doing good to others and loving others as they love God.

One he was eating at the Pharisees and there a woman came to wash his feet with tears, ointment and her hair. This woman was a sinner and because of her faith all her sins were forgiven. Then Jesus met Mary Magdalene which was possessed by many devils and Jesus banished them. When Christ was in a town of Galilee he met a woman named Martha which took him into her home. While she made food and prepared the place for the guests Jesus and her sister Mary were sitting talking with the disciples about other things. Then Mary asked Jesus if he was going to allow that she did all the chores alone while her sister sat down and did nothing. Jesus answered that although she was worried about many things the one thing that Mary chose to worry about was the only one that really mattered and that would not be taken from her.

Then came Passover, which Jesus decides to celebrate in Jerusalem. It was Passover eve when Jesus having his last supper told all that Judas would betray him and that Peter would deny him three times before the cock crow. After the supper Jesus went to pray and while he did he was so nervous that he began to sweat blood. Eventually came Judas and he turned him in to the Pharisees by kissing Jesus. Then Jesus was taken to Pontius Pilate who allowed the people to judge Jesus. They decided to crucify him. Although the governor didn’t agree with this he still allowed it to happen. The torture which he had to go through was immense. People mocked him and put a crown of spines in his head and he was hit and had to carry the cross a great distance. Only drinking vinegar he then died but to make clear to all people that that was the son of God, the almighty shook the earth and that day everyone knew that Jesus really had been the son of God. Three days later he arose from his tomb with the help of an angel for it had been sealed to avoid his disciples to fake the resurrection. When he had risen everyone worshipped him. Thanks to him we could finally see that the road to heaven can only be reached by giving, working for the poor and sacrificing.