Who is Jesus?

THE TESTIMONY OF GOD THE FATHER:

This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:17)

A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him. (Luke 9:35)

Do you believe the testimony of God the Father?

THE TESTIMONY OF MOSES:

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. (Deuteronomy 18:15,18,19)

Do you believe the testimony of Moses?

THE TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (A FIRST CENTURY PROPHET):

“I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God”. (John 1:34)

Do you believe the testimony of John?

THE SIGNS, MIRACLES, AND TESTIMONY OF JESUS:

SOME OF JESUS’ MIRACLES:

· Jesus healed lepers.

· Jesus healed those who could not walk.

· Jesus restored sight to the blind.

· Jesus walked on water.

· Jesus fed 5,000 men (not including women and children) with only 5 loaves of bread and two fish!

· Jesus raised a man who had been dead four days.

· Jesus rose again from the dead, never to die again.

JESUS’ TESTIMONY:

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you”
But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
“Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Matthew 26:62-64)

Do you believe the signs, miracles, and testimony of Jesus?

JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED AND ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD

Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them,
We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death
and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!” (Matthew 20:17-19)

The death of Jesus by crucifixion is one of the best attested facts of ancient history. It was spoken of by the prophets, written about in the Psalms, spoken about by Jesus and the rest of the New Testament also teaches this. Secular sources also confirm that Jesus died. Josephus (Jewish historian born around 37 AD and died 100 AD) refers to Jesus’ death (Antiquities 18.3.3). Tacitus (AD 55-120), a renowned historian of ancient Rome wrote around 115 A.D. that Christ was “executed” by Pilate (Annals 15.44). The early enemies of Christianity (e.g., Celsus and Lucian), also conceded that Jesus was put to death. The Jewish Talmud states, “On the eve of the Passover Yeshu [Jesus] was hanged [or crucified]. ... Since nothing was brought forward in his favor he was hanged on the eve of the Passover” (Talmud, b. Sanhedrin 43a).

The Apostle Paul wrote:

Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time.. (1 Corinthians 15:1-6a)

BECAUSE JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN YOU CAN KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BY TRUSTING IN HIM

I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. (John 5:24)

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:13 )

Who do you say Jesus is?

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To learn more about Jesus, read the book in the Christian Bible called “The Gospel of John”. There are twenty-one chapters in John’s Gospel and you can begin reading it at:

http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=john;&version=31;