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In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
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A census of Judea taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius
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The cousin of Jesus and is 6 months older than Jesus.
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Born by a virgin named Mary. The son of god and the son of man.
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The traditional representation of Jesus' birth includes a manger surrounded by shepherds, wise men and farm animals.
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Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
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Joseph is warned by an angel in a dream to take Jesus and Mary to Egypt to escape King Herod's wrath.
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He died by a chronic kidney disease.
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He visits the temple at the age of 12 and stays there.
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Jesus actually worked as a carpenter before he began going about His Father's business.
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Christ was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. “As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
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Jesus stays in the wilderness with no food nor water for 40 days.
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The first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John.
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Collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus Christ, which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew.
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Jesus walking on the water is depicted as one of the miracles of Jesus recounted in the New Testament.
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Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead - Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
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Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.
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Jesus was stripped of his clothing and offered wine mixed with myrrh or gall to drink after saying I am thirsty. Then hung on a cross with his hands and feet nailed into it.
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God raised Jesus after his crucifixion as first of the dead, starting his exalted life as Christ and Lord.
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The physical departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God in Heaven.
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The founding principles of the newly established Church of Jerusalem were set by the disciples of the Lord, sanctified by the blood of multitudes of known and unknown martyrs and were preserved by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate as a sacred heritage to this day.
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The conversion of Paul the Apostle was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus.
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Tradition holds that the first Gentile church was founded in Antioch, where it is recorded that the disciples of Jesus Christ were first called Christians. It was from Antioch that St. Paul started on his missionary journeys.
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James' zeal for Jesus resulted in his being the first of the 12 apostles to be martyred. He was killed with the sword on order of King Herod Agrippa I of Judea, in a general persecution of the early church
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It was during this time in Antioch that Barnabas and Paul were selected by the Holy Spirit for missionary work. Taking John Mark along as a helper, the first stop was Barnabas' native Cyprus and its city of Paphos.
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Paul begins his third mission journey. "After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples."
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Paul travels from Antioch to Ephesus. Tarsus is on the way, and based on Acts 18:23, Paul might have re-visited disciples there.
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Paul travels from Antioch to Ephesus. Iconiumn is on the way, and based on Acts 18:23, he might have re-visited disciples there."
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Paul returns to Jerusalem where he is arrested and a long period of confinement in various locations begins.
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Paul was arrested and taken for trial by the governor. But being a Roman citizen Paul appealed for a hearing before the Emperor.
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He made this journey as a prisoner. Between the third missionary journey and the journey to Rome, Paul is in Jerusalem and Caesarea.
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Paul arrives in Rome under house arrest and soon writes is four Prison Epistles.
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The Book of Acts, which is an account of the growth and expansion of Christianity after the death of Jesus down through close to the end of the ministry of Paul.
