NT Characters: Jesus

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/jesusmp3/">website</a>.</p><p><strong>Semitic words:</strong></p><ul><li><i>Yeshua</i> -- Hebrew name for Joshua (Jesus), meaning "God saves," or "salvation. <i>Yesous </i>-- the Greek word for Jesus and Joshua.</li><li><i>Immanuel -- </i>Hebrew for "with-us God"</li><li>Based on grave inscriptions and other literary sources, the most common names in 1st C. Palestine were, in order: Salome, Simon, Mary, Joseph, Judas, Lazarus, Joezer, John, Martha, and Jesus. (All names Anglicized.)</li></ul><p><strong>Outline of the class</strong></p><ol><li>Birth, family, vocation, celibacy</li><li>Appearance & character</li><li>Ministry & message</li><li>Trek & death (from Caesarea to Jerusalem, and what this means for us)</li></ol><p><br /><strong>References</strong></p><ul><li>No other figure in the Bible has 90 continuous chapters devoted to him (Matthew 1-Acts 1). And no one else appears as frequently in scripture (over 1200 times).</li><li>Immanuel: Matthew 1:23; see Isaiah 7:1,14, 8:8.</li><li>The death of Herod the Great in 4 BC was recorded by Josephus in <i>Jewish Antiquities </i>17.6.4.</li><li>The NT repeatedly refers to Jesus’ brothers, and even his sisters (e.g. Matthew 13:55-56).</li><li>The last time Joseph, Jesus’ father, is mentioned is during a family visit to Jerusalem (Luke 2:41-48).</li><li>Jesus knew from scripture that a forerunner would come, as prophesied in Isaiah 40 and Malachi 3. This was John the Baptist.</li><li>Jesus was righteous. The Bible urges us to defend the cause of the widow (Deuteronomy 10:18); if Mary was widowed, Jesus had a special obligation, and especially if Joseph died when Jesus was still in his teens.</li><li>Though his mission was urgent, he did not rush to begin his ministry. Always he proceeded with a keen sense of divine timing (John 2:4, 7:6,8,30, 8:20, 12:23,27, 13:1, 17:1, 19:30).</li><li>Both Jesus and Paul advocated remaining single as an effective path of service to God, if