c. 4 BCE–c. 30 CE
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Jewish teacher and healer from first-century Judea whose preaching on the kingdom of God became foundational for Christianity.
About Jesus Christ
From a small village in Galilee came a teacher who would reshape human history. Jesus of Nazareth worked with his hands as a carpenter until around age thirty, when he left home to wander the countryside, teaching in synagogues, healing the sick, and gathering an unlikely band of fishermen, tax collectors, and outcasts. He taught in parables, vivid stories that subverted expectations: a hated Samaritan becomes the hero, a prodigal son is welcomed home, the last workers receive the same wage as the first. His message was radical: love your enemies, forgive seventy times seven, the kingdom of God belongs to the poor and the peacemakers. He ate with sinners, touched lepers, and challenged religious authorities who burdened ordinary people with rules they couldn't keep. Within three years, he was executed by Roman crucifixion at the instigation of threatened authorities. His followers claimed he rose from the dead.
Best for
Ethical Reflection
Turning convictions into daily practice
Community Life
Building merciful, just relationships
What you can learn
- •Read parables as invitations to action
- •Practice mercy, justice, and reconciliation
- •Hold conviction with humility and compassion
- •Embody radical love through service to the marginalized
- •Build communities that reflect divine principles of equality and inclusion
- •Navigate conflict through nonviolent resistance and transformative dialogue
Questions to ask Jesus
Try these conversation starters, or ask anything you're curious about.
Starter
- Someone has hurt me badly, how do I even begin to forgive?
- What does it really mean to love my neighbor, especially when I don't like them?
- How do I find meaning and purpose when life feels ordinary and small?
Deeper
- I want to help the poor and suffering, but I feel overwhelmed, where do I start?
- How do I challenge injustice without becoming hateful toward the unjust?
- What's the difference between genuine faith and just following religious rules?
Expert
- Help me build a community that practices radical generosity and welcome.
- How do I confront powerful people who are harming others, with both truth and love?
- What does it mean to lay down your life for others in everyday choices?
Example conversation with Jesus
Topic: The Parable of the Sower and Finding Meaning
You
I feel like my life is stuck in a rut. Nothing I do seems to grow or matter. How do I find meaning in the ordinary?Jesus
Let me tell you about a farmer who went out to sow seed. Some fell on the path and birds ate it. Some fell on rocky ground and sprang up quickly, but withered in the sun because it had no root. Some fell among thorns and was choked. But some fell on good soil and produced a harvest, thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold. The kingdom of God is like that seed. It grows quietly, in hidden places, in ordinary soil. The question is not whether your life is dramatic enough. The question is what kind of soil your heart has become.You
What do the thorns represent? I feel like there are things choking out the good in my life but I can't identify them.Jesus
The thorns are the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, the desire for more and more things. They grow alongside the good seed and slowly strangle it. I have seen this many times: people whose hearts are generous but whose days are consumed by anxiety about tomorrow. Consider the lilies of the field. They do not toil or spin, yet even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. I do not say that work is wrong. I say that worry steals the life from your days. Pull up the thorns by turning your attention to what truly matters.You
But how do I actually do that? It's easy to say "don't worry" but much harder to live that way.Jesus
You are right, and I do not ask you to pretend worry away. Start with the smallest thing. Feed someone who is hungry. Visit someone who is lonely. Give away something you are clutching too tightly. When you serve others, the thorns begin to lose their grip, because you discover that your life matters not through what you accumulate but through what you give. The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed. It is already among you, in every act of mercy, every moment of genuine love. Begin there, and the seed will grow.Key ideas
- •Love of God is inseparable from love of neighbor.
- •Parables unsettle in order to reveal the heart.
- •Mercy and justice must meet in action.
How to apply
- •Practice generosity and reconciliation.
- •Use stories to open moral imagination.
- •Center the marginalized in ethical decision-making.
Intellectual approach
Sources & further reading
Primary sources
- Canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
- Pauline and early Christian writings
- Josephus; Tacitus (references)
Recommended reading
- Jesus: A Very Short Introduction - Richard Bauckham
- The Historical Jesus - John Dominic Crossan
Influences
- Hebrew Bible
- Second Temple Judaism
Contemporaries
- John the Baptist
- Pontius Pilate
- Herod Antipas
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