Visit of the 3 Wise Men (Matthew 2:11)

     When Jesus had been born in Bethlehem, King Herold had found out from the 3 Wise Men from the east visiting that there had been a new King of the Jews born, as they had seen his star in the sky. Furious by this new heir, King Herold had wanted to get rid of Jesus, so he had asked the 3 Wise Men to return after they had gone to visit the child. The 3 Wise men had followed the star until it had stopped in the sky, in which the child was under. When the 3 of them saw Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary and Joseph the carpenter, they were elated! The 3 Wise men had each given him a gift, those being frankincense, gold and myrrh. Later that night, each of them had been warned in a dream to not go back to King Herold, and they had agreed not to and had started to travel back to the east.

Jesus in the Temple (Luke 3:11)

     Every year, Jesus and his parents went to the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday of Passover. When Jesus was 12, they had gone to the Temple to celebrate as per usual, but this time instead of leaving with his parents, he had stayed at the temple, listening to what the teachers within had to say. Jesus’s parents could not find him in the crowd of their relatives when they were leaving, but had assumed that he was within it so they didn’t bother looking for him yet. Only after a day’s trip is when they had started to get seriously concerned about their son’s whereabouts, as they could not find him in the crowd. They had returned to the temple and had found Jesus 3 days later, in which everyone surrounding him had been in awe of all of the things he knew! 

Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13)

     People from far and wide had gone to John the Baptist, to be baptized by him in the river named Jordan, confessing their sins to John while in the river. One of these people had been none other than Jesus, who had come from Galilee to request for John to baptize him. “I shouldn’t be the one baptizing you, you instead should be the one baptizing me! I’m not even worthy to hold your shoes!” John had retaliated. Jesus had still wanted to be baptized by John as he believed that it was right that way. John had complied, and had gone on to baptize Jesus. When getting out of the water, God’s spirit, in the form of a dove, had come down from the heavens. The voice from above had said, “This is my dearest son, who I am very happy with!”.

Feeding the 5000 (Matthew 14:13-21)

     When John the Baptist had passed away, Jesus’ disciples had been the one to break the news. Jesus, affected by this, had traveled by boat away from where he was currently residing, which people had found out already! When Jesus hit the shore, he had seen the crowd of people, and had felt bad for them, and had started to heal the sick people in it. At night Jesus’ disciples urged that Jesus was to send everyone back to their own home towns, so that these people could buy their own food. Jesus, to tackle this, had instead suggested that the disciples feed them instead. “ We only have 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, how are we supposed to feed all of these people with only this?” the disciples urged but Jesus still requested that they would gather the crowd and bring them to him. While everyone was sitting on the grass, Jesus had raised the bread and fish up, blessing it. He broke the food with his disciples so they were the ones to hand it out to the crowd. After the meal, all were stuffed and happy with their meal, and they were left with 12 baskets of extra food.

The Man born blind is healed (John 9:1-17)

     When passing by a man born blind, Jesus’ disciples had started to question whether it was himself who had sinned or rather his parents. Jesus had rather said that he was born blind so that God and his abilities could possibly be shown to him directly. Jesus had mixed his spit with mud, and had rubbed it on the blind man’s eyes and told the man to wash out his eyes afterwards. After the man came back he had no longer been blind! People had been confused by this, “isn’t that the guy who’d always pester us for things?”, “How can you be the man who was blind if you are not now?” The man 

explained that he was the blind man, and how Jesus was the one that had healed him.

The Beatitudes (Matthew 5-7)

     On a mountain, surrounded by his disciples and a crowd of people, Jesus had started to share his teachings with them all. Jesus had been repeatedly stating the type of people who would be the ones to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus urges this idea that we, as people are naturally humble, and that God is the right one, that we should be seeing each each other as equals, not thinking of ourselves higher than others or less than others, and that the only one above us is God, and that we as people should depend on him. After Jesus had been done teaching, all of the people in the crowd had been in awe of what he had said.

Jesus in the Garden (Matthew 26:36-46)

     After the events of the Last Supper, Jesus had taken 3 of his disciples to Gethsemane to pray. He told his disciples to not fall  asleep and be on the lookout as Jesus would go deeper into the garden to pray. Jesus had been in distress as he knew what would happen to him in his near future, and he wanted to be sure that God would not leave his side in his time of suffering. When going back to where his disciples were, he found them sleeping and had woken them up. “You three could not not even stay awake for just an hour?” he stated and he went back to pray the same prayer. Coming back again he had found his disciples sleeping a second time and had woken them up again and had gone back to praying. Jesus had come back a third time to find the 3, once again, sleeping. Not that it had mattered the third time, as it was time for his betrayer, Judas, to sell him out.

Jesus’ crucifixion (Matthew 27)

     Jesus had been met with Pontius Pilate, to see if he was guilty and if he had to be sent to die. Pilate had seen though that the elders and chief priests had wanted him dead out of jealousy, and that Jesus had actually done no evil. He instead made a proposal, release Jesus the Messiah, or release Barabbas the prisoner, and the crowd had demanded that Barabbas be released, and that Jesus should be crucified. Jesus had been taken by soldiers to prepare for his crucifixion, in which he was humiliated by them, given a crown of thorns as they chanted, “hail king of the Jews!” They then took Jesus and his cross to Golgotha where his cross would stand. Even when Jesus had been nailed on the cross, the soldiers had continued to mock him, but some people had been there to mourn instead. When Jesus had eventually passed on the cross, there had been a strong storm, the ground had been violently shaken and the soldiers had come to the conclusion that Jesus was truly the son of God.