When will the gospel of judas be airing on the history channel next?”
esus of Nazareth is the central figure of the Christian faith, whose nature as Son of God and whose redemptive work are fundamental beliefs for adherents of Christianity. “Christ’ became attached to the name Jesus in view of his followers’ conviction that he was the Jewish Messiah ( Christ comes from the Greek meaning “Anointed One’). According to the accounts of St Matthew and St Luke, he was the first-born son of the Virgin Mary, a member of the tribe of Judah, and the betrothed of Joseph, who was a carpenter, and a descendant of David. St Matthew and St Luke relate that before her marriage to Joseph, Mary was chosen to bear God’s son, and conceived through the Holy Spirit while still a virgin. According to a tradition based on St Luke’s Gospel, Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, because arriving there from Joseph’s home town, Nazareth, in order to comply with the regulations of a Roman population census, his parents found there was no room for them in any of the local inns. Ho
