His crucifixion is honored on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. The birth of Jesus is celebrated annually on December 25 as Christmas. A small minority of Christian denominations reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three persons of the Trinity. The Nicene Creed asserts that Jesus will judge the living and the dead either before or after their bodily resurrection, an event tied to the Second Coming of Jesus in Christian eschatology. Commonly, Christians believe Jesus enables people to be reconciled to God. Ĭhristian doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return. After his death, his followers believed he rose from the dead, and the community they formed eventually became the early Church. He was arrested and tried by the Jewish authorities, turned over to the Roman government, and crucified on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect. Jesus debated with fellow Jews on how to best follow God, engaged in healings, taught in parables and gathered followers.

His teachings were initially conserved by oral transmission and he himself was often referred to as ' rabbi'.

Jesus was a Galilean Jew, who was baptized by John the Baptist and began his own ministry. The quest for the historical Jesus has yielded some uncertainty on the historical reliability of the Gospels and on how closely the Jesus portrayed in the New Testament reflects the historical Jesus, as the only records of Jesus' life are contained in the Gospels. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited messiah (the Christ), prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. He was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. 4 BC – AD 30 / 33), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.

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