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Person

Jesus Christ

Also called Lord, Son, Lamb, Saviour, God, Holy, Word, JESUS, Light, Prince, Master, Branch and 12 more

Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of the New Testament. The Gospels tell of his teaching and healing in Galilee, his crucifixion in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate, and his followers' proclamation that he had risen from the dead. See Matthew 4:23, Mark 15:15, Luke 24:6, Acts 2:32.

Mentioned in 1,809 verses across 26 books, first in Philemon 1:1. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections), not counting Old Testament verses read as about them.

How artists have pictured him

4 works from different centuries and traditions. Each shows how its time and place imagined Jesus, not how he looked. The Gospels never describe what he looked like, so every image of him is an interpretation.

The Good Shepherd, Wall painting, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome — **3rd c.** · *The Good Shepherd*. Wall painting, Catacomb of Priscilla, RomePublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

Christ Pantocrator, Encaustic icon, St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai — **6th c.** · *Christ Pantocrator*. Encaustic icon, St Catherine's Monastery, SinaiPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

Christ and Abbot Mena, Coptic icon from Bawit, Egypt (Louvre) — **6th–7th c.** · *Christ and Abbot Mena*. Coptic icon from Bawit, Egypt (Louvre)Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Rembrandt, Head of Christ — **c. 1648–56** · Rembrandt, *Head of Christ*Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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At a glance

Name

Jesus

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 4 BC · died c. AD 30

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Historians also date this period from evidence outside the Bible, and their dates can differ from this reckoning.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Siblings

James (Brother of Jesus)
Joses
Jude
Simonson of Joseph (Mary's Husband)

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

God435 verses
Holy Spirit59 verses
Simon Peter58 verses
Paul39 verses
David30 verses
Pontius Pilate19 verses
Moses19 verses
John the Baptist16 verses
Satan14 verses
Timotheus14 verses
Abraham10 verses
Elijah10 verses
Phillip the Apostle8 verses
Judas Iscariot8 verses

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Jerusalemdied here; scene of “Joseph and Mary return from Egypt” +20 more28 shared verses
Bethlehemborn here; scene of “Birth of Jesus”
Galileescene of “Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee”; scene of “Jesus visits Galilee” +13 more25 shared verses
Nazarethscene of “Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth”; scene of “Childhood of Jesus” +3 more20 shared verses
Judeascene of “Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee”; scene of “Good Samaritan Parable Taught”10 shared verses
Capernaumscene of “Jesus in Capernaum”; scene of “Peter's Mother-in-law and Others Healed” +14 more5 shared verses
Jordanscene of “John Baptizes Jesus”; scene of “Teaching and Healing in Perea to Jerusalem”4 shared verses
Sea of Galileescene of “Fishers of Men”; scene of “Seaside Parables and Miracle” +3 more3 shared verses
Canascene of “Water to Wine”3 shared verses
Bethanyscene of “Jesus meets Martha and Mary”; scene of “Lazarus Raised form the Dead” +1 more3 shared verses
Caesarea Philippiscene of “Peter's Confession "Upon this Rock"”; scene of “Foretelling the Death and Resurrection”2 shared verses
Sidonscene of “Healing Canaanite Daughter”1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 10 verses in Philemon, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Philemon

Philemon 1:1
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker,
Philemon 1:3
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:5
because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
Philemon 1:6
I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.
Philemon 1:8
So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
Philemon 1:9
I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.
Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings,
Philemon 1:25
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

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Read as a prophecy of Jesus in Christian tradition

The Theographic dataset makes this link following Christian interpretation. Jewish interpretation reads these verses differently, usually of a figure in the writer's own time or of a messiah still to come, and many Christian scholars also read a meaning for the writer's own day. These 22 verses are not counted above.

Genesis 49:10
Numbers 24:17
Deuteronomy 18:15
Quoted at Acts 3:22, Acts 7:37
1 Chronicles 17:13
Quoted at Hebrews 1:5
Psalms 2:7
Quoted at Acts 13:33, Hebrews 1:5, Hebrews 5:5
Psalms 2:12
Psalms 16:10
Quoted at Acts 2:27, Acts 13:35
Psalms 110:1
Quoted at Matthew 22:44, Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42, Acts 2:34, Hebrews 1:13
Psalms 110:5
Isaiah 7:14
Quoted at Matthew 1:23
Isaiah 8:8
Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 40:3
Quoted at Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3, Luke 3:4, John 1:23
Isaiah 49:7
Jeremiah 33:15
Daniel 7:13
Quoted at Mark 14:62
Daniel 9:25
Zechariah 6:12
Zechariah 9:9
Quoted at Matthew 21:5, John 12:15
Malachi 3:1
Quoted at Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, Luke 7:27
Malachi 4:2

Events

Events the dataset lists Jesus Christ as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 4004 BC
Creation of all thingsGenesis 1:1–2:3
c. 4 BC
Joseph and Mary return from EgyptMatthew 2:19–22 · at Jerusalem
c. 4 BC
Joseph and Mary return to NazarethMatthew 2:22 – Luke 2:39 · at Nazareth
c. 4 BC
Birth of JesusLuke 2:1–20 · at Bethlehem
c. 4 BC
Jesus CircumsizedLuke 2:21
c. 4 BC
Temple Presentation of JesusLuke 2:22–38 · at Jerusalem
c. 4 BC
Childhood of JesusLuke 2:40 · at Nazareth
c. AD 9
Jesus as a child in the TempleLuke 2:41–50 · at Jerusalem
c. AD 9
Jesus Growing UpLuke 2:51–52 · at Nazareth
c. AD 26
John Baptizes JesusMatthew 3:13 – Luke 3:22 · at Jordan
c. AD 26
Temptations of JesusMatthew 4:1 – Luke 4:13
c. AD 27
Jesus Leaves Judea toward GalileeMatthew 4:12 – John 4:4 · at Judea, Galilee

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Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

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Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ (Acts 17:3; 18:5; Matt. 22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus spoken of by Isaiah (61:1), and by Daniel (9:24-26), who styles him “Messiah the Prince.”

The Messiah is the same person as “the seed of the woman” (Gen. 3:15), “the seed of Abraham” (Gen. 22:18), the “Prophet like unto Moses” (Deut. 18:15), “the priest after the order of Melchizedek” (Ps. 110:4), “the rod out of the stem of Jesse” (Isa. 11:1, 10), the “Immanuel,” the virgin’s son (Isa. 7:14), “the branch of Jehovah” (Isa. 4:2), and “the messenger of the covenant” (Mal. 3:1). This is he “of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.” The Old Testament Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4; Isa. 11:2-4; 49:6; John 5:37; Acts 2:22).

To believe that “Jesus is the Christ” is to believe that he is the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1 Cor. 12:3; 1 John 5:1).