The Words of
Jesus the Christ,
the Son of God:
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children.-Luke 7:31-35***Zechariah the priest and Elizabeth were elderly when their only son John the Baptist was physically conceived in Elizabeth's womb. Months after John the Baptist was conceived, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Elizabeth's relative Mary, a virgin. John the Baptist was born into the tribe of Levi to Zechariah and Elizabeth. Jesus the Christ was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of he Lord God. John the Baptist baptized repenters in the Jordan River, and in Aenon, and in a place on the other side of the Jordan. John the Baptist proclaimed that he baptized with water and Jesus the Christ will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. The disciples of Jesus baptized those who came to them in Judea. John the Baptist lived as a Nazirite (Nazarite), fulfilling the words spoken by an angel to Zechariah. Jesus did not live as a Nazirite. Matthew (Levi), the disciple and apostle of Jesus the Christ, was a publican, a tax collector who worked at the tollhouse collecting taxes from the Israelites for the Roman Empire, the rulers of the land. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that a group of publicans went to be baptized by John the Baptist, and group of publicans and sinners were in a crowd listening to Jesus, and Zacchaeus the publican went to see Jesus. Jesus mentioned publicans in a parable and in a lesson he taught. Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus was betrayed, arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven. Sometime before Jesus was betrayed, John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod Antipas the tetrarch, ruler of Galilee for the Roman Empire.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 6:1-27, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Information:
justified = edikaiothe = dikaioo/dikaios = approved, make, show or declare righteous
of = apo = by
Reference Scripture:
And Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?-Matthew 16:13
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