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Jesus of Nazareth

יֵשׁוּעַ · Ἰησοῦς ὁ Ναζαρηνός · ܝܫܘܥ · عيسى

ca. 5 a.C. – ca. 30Racconto che unisce storia, teologia e tradizione

Predicatore ebreo della Galilea, crocifisso a Gerusalemme per ordine del prefetto romano Ponzio Pilato intorno all'anno 30, dal cui movimento ebbe origine il cristianesimo. Ciò che sappiamo di lui proviene soprattutto dai vangeli, scritti in greco da quaranta a settant'anni dopo da autori che credevano nella sua risurrezione. La critica storica accetta la sua esistenza, il battesimo ricevuto da Giovanni, l'annuncio del regno di Dio e la morte in croce; quasi tutto il resto è oggetto di interpretazione teologica e di dibattito.

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Con le sue parole

«The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.»

Marcos 1:15. Griego: SBLGNT; inglés: King James Version (1611); español: traducción propia.

La sua idea centrale

The kingdom of God: It is the centre of Jesus's preaching according to the Synoptics: the expression appears more than a hundred times in the gospels and almost never in the rest of the New Testament.

Biografia

5 min di lettura

Traduzione assistita dall'originale spagnolo, in attesa di revisione da parte di un traduttore madrelingua.

Il problema delle fonti

Gesù non scrisse nulla, e nessuno dei suoi contemporanei ha lasciato una testimonianza giunta fino a noi. I documenti cristiani più antichi sono le lettere di Paolo di Tarso, scritte intorno agli anni Cinquanta, che si interessano appena alla sua vita terrena: se ne ricava che era ebreo, che ebbe dei fratelli — uno di loro, Giacomo, guidava la comunità di Gerusalemme —, che celebrò un'ultima cena e che morì crocifisso. I quattro vangeli canonici, composti tra il 70 circa (Marco) e il 90–110 circa (Giovanni), sono anonimi: i nomi di Marco, Matteo, Luca e Giovanni furono loro attribuiti nel II secolo. Non sono biografie in senso moderno, ma proclamazioni di fede che raccolgono tradizioni orali e scritte, ordinate secondo le esigenze di comunità concrete. Tra le fonti non cristiane, lo storico ebreo Flavio Giuseppe (93 circa) lo menziona due volte — uno dei passi fu ritoccato da copisti cristiani —, e Tacito (116 circa) ricorda che «Cristo» fu giustiziato da Ponzio Pilato sotto Tiberio.

Con questi materiali la ricerca moderna — da Reimarus nel XVIII secolo fino alle successive «ricerche» del Gesù storico — ha cercato di separare ciò che si può affermare con probabilità da ciò che appartiene alla fede. Esiste un ampio consenso su un piccolo nucleo di fatti; intorno a esso, le ricostruzioni divergono profondamente.

La Galilea

Gesù — in aramaico Yeshua, forma abbreviata di Giosuè — nacque verso la fine del regno di Erode il Grande, morto nel 4 a.C. I racconti dell'infanzia di Matteo e di Luca lo fanno nascere a Betlemme, la città di Davide, ma per vie tra loro inconciliabili; la maggior parte degli storici li considera composizioni teologiche e colloca la sua origine reale a Nazaret, un piccolo villaggio della Galilea, territorio governato dal tetrarca Erode Antipa. Sua madre si chiamava Maria (Miriam); suo padre, secondo i vangeli, Giuseppe, un artigiano (tekton). Marco nomina quattro fratelli e menziona delle sorelle. Parlava aramaico e con ogni probabilità conosceva l'ebraico delle Scritture; non vi sono prove che predicasse in greco.

Crebbe in una Galilea ebraica e rurale, a poche ore da Sefforis, la città ellenizzata che Antipa stava ricostruendo, in un tempo di tensioni economiche e di attese religiose: il dominio romano, le tasse, la purità del Tempio e la speranza che Dio restaurasse Israele erano preoccupazioni diffuse.

Giovanni il Battista e il regno di Dio

Il primo fatto ben attestato della sua vita adulta è il battesimo ricevuto da Giovanni, un profeta che sul Giordano annunciava il giudizio imminente e predicava un battesimo di conversione. La scena metteva in imbarazzo gli stessi evangelisti — perché il Messia si sottoponeva a un battesimo per il perdono dei peccati? —, ed è proprio per questo che gli storici la ritengono autentica. Luca la data al quindicesimo anno di Tiberio, cioè intorno al 28–29. Dopo l'arresto di Giovanni per mano di Antipa, Gesù avvia la propria attività attorno al lago di Galilea, con centro a Cafarnao.

Il suo messaggio si riassume in una formula: il regno di Dio si è avvicinato. Lo annuncia in parabole tratte dalla vita contadina — il granello di senape, il lievito, il seminatore, il tesoro nascosto —, lo rende visibile in pasti aperti a pubblicani e peccatori e lo accompagna con guarigioni ed esorcismi che, secondo le fonti, gli attribuivano perfino i suoi avversari, pur contestandone l'origine. Sceglie dodici discepoli, numero che evoca le dodici tribù d'Israele. La sua etica è radicale: amare i nemici, perdonare senza limiti, non accumulare ricchezze, rovesciare le gerarchie. Chiama Dio Abba, «padre». Discute con altri maestri sull'interpretazione della Legge — il sabato, la purità, il divorzio — all'interno del giudaismo del suo tempo, non contro di esso. Se egli si considerasse il Messia, o il «Figlio dell'uomo» della tradizione apocalittica, è una delle questioni più dibattute dell'intera ricerca.

Gerusalemme

Intorno all'anno 30, in occasione della Pasqua, Gesù sale a Gerusalemme con i suoi seguaci. Tutti e quattro i vangeli narrano un incidente nel Tempio — il rovesciamento dei tavoli dei cambiavalute — che molti storici considerano la causa scatenante del suo arresto. Dopo un'ultima cena con i Dodici, viene catturato di notte nel Getsemani, interrogato dalle autorità del Tempio e consegnato al prefetto Ponzio Pilato, che lo condanna alla crocifissione, la pena romana riservata agli schiavi e ai ribelli. Il cartello sulla croce, «il re dei Giudei», compendia l'accusa politica. I vangeli divergono sul giorno — Giovanni colloca la morte alla vigilia di Pasqua, i sinottici nel giorno stesso della festa —, sui dettagli del processo e sulle parole pronunciate sulla croce. Morì in poche ore e fu sepolto quello stesso giorno.

Dopo la croce

Poco dopo, i suoi discepoli affermarono che Dio lo aveva risuscitato e che era apparso loro. L'elenco più antico di queste apparizioni lo trasmette Paolo intorno al 54 (1 Corinzi 15). Lo storico non può né verificare né confutare la risurrezione, che è oggetto di fede; può però constatare che quella convinzione trasformò un movimento di rinnovamento ebraico in una religione che, in tre secoli, sarebbe diventata quella dell'Impero romano. I titoli di Cristo («unto»), Signore e Figlio di Dio, la dottrina della sua duplice natura e quella della Trinità, fissate nei concili di Nicea (325) e di Calcedonia (451), sono elaborazioni di quella fede.

Molte memorie

Accanto ai quattro vangeli canonici ne circolavano altri: raccolte di detti come il Vangelo di Tommaso, racconti della passione come quello di Pietro, dialoghi gnostici come quelli di Maria o di Filippo, vangeli dell'infanzia. La loro scoperta — soprattutto a Nag Hammadi (Egitto), nel 1945 — ha mostrato la varietà del cristianesimo dei primi secoli. Per l'islam, Gesù (Isa) è uno dei grandi profeti, nato da una vergine, ma né crocifisso né divino. Per l'ebraismo, un maestro ebreo la cui messianicità non è riconosciuta. Per la storia, un profeta galileo del I secolo la cui figura resta, duemila anni dopo, una delle più studiate e discusse dell'umanità.

Fonti: Nestle, Eberhard y Erwin; Aland, Barbara y Kurt, et al. (eds.). Novum Testamentum Graece, 28.ª ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 2012; y Holmes, Michael W. (ed.). The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Society of Biblical Literature / Logos, 2010 (texto griego citado, CC BY 4.0). · Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 5 vols. Doubleday / Yale University Press, Nueva York y New Haven, 1991–2016 (trad. esp.: Un judío marginal, Verbo Divino). · Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. Allen Lane / Penguin, Londres, 1993 (trad. esp.: La figura histórica de Jesús, Verbo Divino, 2000). · Theissen, Gerd y Merz, Annette. Der historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gotinga, 1996 (trad. esp.: El Jesús histórico, Sígueme, Salamanca, 1999). · Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 1999.

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La vita, anno per anno

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  1. ca. 5 a.C. · 0 anni

    Birth

    Matthew places the birth under Herod the Great, who died in 4 BCE; hence the conventional date of c. 6–4 BCE. The infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke are incompatible in their itinerary and scholarship regards them as theological compositions. Years BCE are expressed as negative numbers.

    Probabile

  2. ca. 4 a.C.

    Death of Herod the Great

    His kingdom is divided among his sons: Galilee passes to the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who will rule the territory where Jesus grows up.

    Documentato

  3. 6

    Census of Quirinius

    Judea becomes a Roman province and the legate of Syria, Quirinius, conducts a fiscal census (Josephus, Antiquities 18.1). Luke links it to Jesus's birth, which clashes with Matthew's chronology; it is one of the classic problems of research.

    Documentato

  4. ca. 8 · 12 anni

    The boy in the Temple

    The only episode of his youth in the canonical gospels (Luke 2:41–52): at twelve, Jesus stays behind in the Temple debating with the teachers. It is a tradition found only in Luke.

    Tradizione

  5. 26

    Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judea

    Pilate governs Judea from 26 to 36. The inscription found at Caesarea in 1961 confirms his office of praefectus.

    Documentato

  6. ca. 28 · 32 anni

    Baptism by John

    Jesus is baptised by John the Baptist. Luke (3:1) dates the start of John's preaching to the fifteenth year of Tiberius (c. 28–29). The baptism is considered very probably historical because it embarrassed the evangelists themselves.

    Probabile

  7. ca. 28

    Preaching in Galilee

    He proclaims the kingdom of God in parables, performs healings and exorcisms and gathers a group of Twelve. The length of the ministry ranges from one year (Synoptics) to about three (John, who mentions three Passovers).

    Probabile

  8. ca. 29

    Execution of John the Baptist

    Herod Antipas imprisons and executes John. Josephus (Antiquities 18.116–119) ascribes it to fear of revolt; the gospels, to John's criticism of Antipas's marriage to Herodias.

    Documentato

  9. ca. 30

    Entry into Jerusalem and the Temple incident

    At Passover Jesus reaches Jerusalem and overturns the money-changers' tables in the Temple, an act many historians regard as the immediate cause of his arrest.

    Probabile

  10. ca. 30

    Last supper, arrest and crucifixion

    After a supper with the Twelve he is arrested, questioned by the Temple authorities and crucified on Pilate's orders on the charge of claiming to be "king of the Jews". Tacitus and Josephus confirm the execution under Pilate. Astronomical calculations for 14 Nisan point to 7 April 30 or 3 April 33.

    Documentato

  11. ca. 30

    Belief in the resurrection

    His disciples claim that he has risen and appeared to them. It is an object of faith, not a verifiable fact; the belief is documented by Paul around 54 (1 Corinthians 15:3–8), who passes on an earlier formula.

    Tradizione

  12. ca. 50

    Paul's letters

    Paul's authentic letters (c. 50–58) are the oldest surviving Christian documents and mention some facts about Jesus: his Jewish origin, his brothers, the last supper and the crucifixion.

    Documentato

  13. ca. 70

    Gospel of Mark

    The oldest gospel is composed around the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Rome (70). Matthew and Luke use it as a source around 80–90; John is written c. 90–110.

    Probabile

  14. ca. 93

    Flavius Josephus mentions Jesus

    In the Jewish Antiquities Josephus refers to "Jesus, who was called Christ", brother of James (20.200), and devotes a passage to him (18.63–64) that Christian copyists interpolated; most specialists believe it contains an authentic core.

    Documentato

  15. ca. 116

    Tacitus and the execution of "Christ"

    Narrating the fire of Rome under Nero, Tacitus (Annals 15.44) explains that the Christians' name comes from Christ, executed by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

    Documentato

  16. 325

    Council of Nicaea

    The first ecumenical council defines the Son as "consubstantial" with the Father; Chalcedon (451) will fix the doctrine of his two natures, divine and human, in one person.

    Documentato

  17. dicembre 1945

    Discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices

    Farmers find in a jar twelve fourth-century Coptic codices and the loose leaves of a thirteenth, containing among other texts the complete Gospel of Thomas and the Gospels of Philip and of Truth.

    Documentato

  18. 1961

    Discovery of the Pilate inscription

    An Italian expedition discovers in the theatre at Caesarea a reused stone bearing the name of Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judea: the first archaeological evidence of the governor who condemned Jesus.

    Documentato

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The Gospel according to Mark — Jesus of Nazareth

Raccolta posteriore · ca. 70

The Gospel according to Mark

Τὸ κατὰ Μᾶρκον εὐαγγέλιον

The shortest and oldest of the canonical gospels. It begins without an infancy narrative, with the baptism in the Jordan, and moves swiftly through the Galilean activity—healings, exorcisms, parables of the kingdom—to the passion in Jerusalem, which takes up almost a third of the text. Its Jesus is a man of action who imposes silence about his identity (the "messianic secret"), and his disciples often fail to understand him. The original ending (16:8) closes with the women fleeing the empty tomb "for they were afraid"; verses 16:9–20 are a later addition.

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The Gospel according to Matthew — Jesus of Nazareth

Raccolta posteriore · ca. 85

The Gospel according to Matthew

Τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγέλιον

The gospel the early Church placed first and the most quoted in the liturgy. It organises Jesus's teaching into five great discourses, the first being the Sermon on the Mount (chs. 5–7), with the beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the golden rule. It presents Jesus as a new Moses and the fulfilment of Israel's Scriptures, with frequent fulfilment quotations, and opens with its own genealogy and infancy narrative (the magi, the flight into Egypt). It ends with the sending of the disciples to all nations.

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The Gospel according to Luke — Jesus of Nazareth

Raccolta posteriore · ca. 85

The Gospel according to Luke

Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον

The most literary of the gospels, written in careful Greek and addressed to one Theophilus. It contains its own infancy narrative (the annunciation, the manger, the shepherds) and exclusive parables—the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, the rich man and Lazarus—that stress mercy towards the poor, women and the marginalised. It sets Jesus's life in the history of the Empire (Augustus, Tiberius, Quirinius) and narrates a long journey to Jerusalem. On the cross it transmits the words of forgiveness and of surrender to the Father.

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The Gospel according to John — Jesus of Nazareth

Raccolta posteriore · ca. 100

The Gospel according to John

Τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην εὐαγγέλιον

Very different from the other three: it begins with a prologue on the Logos that "became flesh", replaces the parables with long discourses and seven "signs" (water turned into wine, the raising of Lazarus), and puts in Jesus's mouth the "I am" sayings (the bread of life, the light of the world, the way, the truth and the life). It places the cleansing of the Temple at the beginning and the crucifixion on the eve of Passover. It has been the main source of Christian Christology and mysticism.

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The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Πεπλήρωται ὁ καιρὸς καὶ ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ· μετανοεῖτε καὶ πιστεύετε ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ.

VerificataMarcos 1:15. Griego: SBLGNT; inglés: King James Version (1611); español: traducción propia.

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  • «He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.»

    It belongs to the episode of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11), which is missing from the oldest manuscripts of the gospel (P66, P75, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus) and in others appears in different places, even in Luke. Textual criticism regards it as an ancient tradition added to the text, not an original part of John.

  • «Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.»

    Luke 23:34a is missing from important early witnesses (P75, Vaticanus, Bezae, and a corrector's hand in Sinaiticus). Editors print it in double brackets: it is ancient but probably not part of Luke's original text.

  • «Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature… They shall take up serpents.»

    It comes from the "longer ending" of Mark (16:9–20), absent from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and unknown to Clement of Alexandria and Origen. It is regarded as a second-century addition harmonising Mark's abrupt ending with the other gospels.

  • «God helps those who help themselves.»

    It is often attributed to Jesus or the Bible, but it appears in no biblical text. The widespread English wording comes from Algernon Sidney (1698) and Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack (1736); the idea has precedents in Greek antiquity.

  • «It is more blessed to give than to receive.»

    It is an agraphon: it appears in no gospel. Only Paul quotes it in the Acts of the Apostles (20:35) as "words of the Lord Jesus", and its origin cannot be verified; it has parallels in Greek literature.

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«"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34).»

Ἐλωῒ ἐλωῒ λεμὰ σαβαχθάνι; ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον Ὁ θεός μου ὁ θεός μου, εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με;

There is no direct testimony: the gospels are later and do not agree. Mark (15:34–37) gives as the only sentence on the cross the Aramaic cry of Psalm 22:1 and adds that Jesus expired "with a loud cry", without words. Matthew (27:46–50) follows Mark, with the Hebrew form "Eli, Eli", and repeats the final cry. Luke (23:46) omits the cry of abandonment and puts in his mouth Psalm 31:5: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"; before that, the prayer of forgiveness for his executioners (23:34, textually doubtful) and the promise to the good thief (23:43). John (19:30) ends with "It is finished" (tetelestai), after entrusting his mother to the beloved disciple and saying "I thirst". The Gospel of Peter (5:19) gives another variant: "My power, O power, you have left me." Devotional tradition harmonised all these sayings into the "Seven Last Words"; historians see in each version the theology of its evangelist.

Fonte: Nestle, Eberhard y Erwin; Aland, Barbara y Kurt, et al. (eds.). Novum Testamentum Graece, 28.ª ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 2012; y Holmes, Michael W. (ed.). The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Society of Biblical Literature / Logos, 2010 (texto griego citado, CC BY 4.0).

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  • Che cos'è l'Assoluto? Dio esiste?

    God is the Father who cares, forgives and reigns

    Un Dio personaleLo dice espressamente

    According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus does not discuss God's existence: as a first-century Galilean Jew he presupposes it, and radicalises it as relationship. Asked about the first commandment he quotes the Shema: the Lord is one, and is to be loved with all one's heart (Mk 12:29–30). He addresses God as Father, and Mark preserves the Aramaic word Abba in the Gethsemane prayer (Mk 14:36); he teaches people to ask for daily bread and forgiveness (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) and describes a Father who knows what is needed before it is asked and who clothes the lilies of the field. The heart of his preaching is the Kingdom of God, the sovereignty of that God breaking into history. The Absolute is, in these texts, someone who sees, hears, forgives and acts.

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  • Chi sono io? Esiste un vero sé?

    One's life is worth more than the world; whoever gives it up gains it

    Un'anima creata e immortaleSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    The Synoptic Gospels record no theory of the self, but they do contain statements about the worth of the person before God. Jesus asks what it profits someone to gain the whole world and lose their life (psyche), and states that whoever wishes to save it will lose it, and whoever loses it for his sake and the gospel's will save it (Mk 8:35–37). In Matthew he urges not fearing those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul (Mt 10:28), and assures that even the hairs of one's head are numbered (Mt 10:30). The self thus appears as a unique life, known by God, not reducible to the body, found in self-giving rather than self-assertion. Christian tradition later developed, with Greek categories, the doctrine of the created, immortal soul.

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  • Perché soffriamo?

    He gives no theory of pain: he heals it, shares it and announces its end

    La separazione da DioSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    The Synoptic Gospels do not attribute to Jesus a systematic explanation of suffering, and in one passage he expressly rejects the most common explanation of his time. Told of some Galileans killed by Pilate and of eighteen people crushed by the tower of Siloam, he asks whether they were more guilty than others and answers no, though he adds a call to repentance (Lk 13:1–5). In other scenes, however, he links healing to the forgiveness of sins (Mk 2:1–12). His response to pain is above all practical: he heals the sick, eats with the excluded, declares the poor and those who weep blessed (Lk 6:20–21) and announces a Kingdom that reverses their lot. In Gethsemane he asks that the cup pass and accepts it (Mk 14:36). The theology of redemptive suffering comes later.

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  • Che cosa accade dopo la morte?

    God is not God of the dead but of the living: the dead will rise

    Vita eterna e resurrezioneLo dice espressamente

    According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus shares with the Pharisees the Jewish hope in the resurrection of the dead. When the Sadducees, who denied it, put to him the case of the woman married in turn to seven brothers, he answers that those who rise will be like angels and that God is not God of the dead but of the living. His parables announce a final judgement with two destinies — eternal life or punishment — decided by one's conduct towards the least, and that of the rich man and Lazarus describes an immediate fate after death. In Luke he promises the crucified wrongdoer to be with him that very day in paradise. The Gospel of John, later and more theological in composition, puts on his lips that he himself is the resurrection and the life. His followers' faith in his own resurrection is the centre of the later tradition.

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  • Come si raggiunge la liberazione o la salvezza?

    Repent and receive the Kingdom of God, which comes as gift and demands deeds

    Attraverso la grazia e l'amoreSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus's central proclamation is that the Kingdom of God has come near and that one must repent and believe (Mark 1:15). Entry into the Kingdom is presented as a gift: to the question of who can be saved, he answers that for humans it is impossible, but not for God (Mark 10:27), and the Kingdom belongs to those who receive it like children. At the same time, the same texts demand a concrete response: doing the Father's will, renouncing binding wealth, forgiving, and in the judgement scene of Matthew 25 the criterion is works of mercy towards the least. Grace and conduct thus appear intertwined, without the doctrinal systematisation that came later.

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  • Serve un maestro?

    Follow him, the one Teacher; among disciples, all are brothers

    IndispensabileLo dice espressamente

    According to the gospels, Jesus acted as an itinerant teacher who called people to follow him (Mark 1:17) and formed a group of disciples. Personal following is the centre of his proposal: knowing a doctrine is not enough, one must go after him. At the same time, in Matthew 23:8-10 he forbids his disciples to be called rabbi, father or teacher, because they have only one Teacher and are all brothers. John's gospel takes the centrality of his figure further by presenting him as the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). The position is therefore that of an indispensable and unique teacher, who at the same time relativises any human authority among those who follow him.

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  • Il mondo è reale?

    The Father cares for lilies and birds; the world is His work

    Una creazione buona e realeLo dice espressamente

    In the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus speaks of the natural world as a creation God cares for: the Father feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the field (Matthew 6:26-30), makes his sun rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust (Matthew 5:45). His parables draw on seeds, harvests, nets and yeast, with no trace of the material world being illusory or evil in itself. The danger lies not in creation but in attachment to wealth and anxious worry. John's gospel uses «world» in another sense, often as the human order that rejects God, though it also states that God so loved the world that He gave His Son.

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  • Che cos'è l'amore?

    Loving God and neighbour sums up the Law; the enemy too

    Amore di Dio e del prossimoLo dice espressamente

    According to Mark's Gospel, when asked about the first commandment Jesus joins two texts of the Torah: to love God with all one's heart (Deuteronomy 6:5) and one's neighbour as oneself (Leviticus 19:18), and declares that there is no greater commandment. Luke illustrates who one's neighbour is with the parable of the Samaritan, which turns the despised foreigner into a model of active compassion. The most radical feature of the Synoptics is love of enemies: in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus asks his hearers to love those who persecute them and pray for them, so as to be children of the Father, who makes the sun rise on the evil and the good. John's Gospel, composed later, formulates a new commandment — love one another as I have loved you — and defines the greatest proof of love as laying down one's life for one's friends.

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  • Siamo liberi o è tutto determinato?

    A call to conversion that presupposes freedom, under a providence that cares for everything

    Un libero arbitrio realeSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    The gospels contain no doctrine of free will, but their very form presupposes it. According to Mark, Jesus' preaching begins with a call: the time is fulfilled, repent and believe in the good news (Mk 1:15). That demand for change, the parables of decision and the judgement according to what each did with the hungry and the stranger (Mt 25:31-46) only make sense if the person can respond or refuse. Alongside this, the synoptics transmit a radical trust in providence: not a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father knowing, and even the hairs of the head are counted (Mt 10:29-31). Jesus does not reconcile the two in theory; he lives them as filial trust and responsibility at once.

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    Praying in secret to the Father, calling him Abba, with a child's trust

    Amicizia con DioLo dice espressamente

    The gospels show Jesus withdrawing to pray alone, at dawn or by night (Mk 1:35; Lk 6:12), and attribute to him a teaching on prayer centred on the filial relationship. In the Sermon on the Mount he asks for prayer in secret, without heaping up words, because the Father knows what we need, and teaches the Lord's Prayer (Mt 6:5-13). In Gethsemane he calls him *Abba*, an Aramaic term of family intimacy (Mk 14:36). The Gospel of John, later and more theological in composition, has him tell the disciples that he no longer calls them servants but friends (Jn 15:15). Prayer is neither technique nor rite, but personal trust in a Father who listens, joined to conformity with his will.

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    He argues from Scripture, yet what is revealed is hidden from the wise

    Scrittura e ragionamentoSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    The gospels show Jesus debating with scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees using the tools of the Jewish exegesis of his time. Facing the Sadducees, who deny the resurrection, he reproaches them for knowing neither the Scriptures nor the power of God and argues from the burning-bush passage: God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and is not God of the dead but of the living (Mk 12:24-27). Luke presents him explaining to the disciples at Emmaus what the Scriptures said about him (Lk 24:27). But the synoptic tradition also attributes to him a thanksgiving because the Father has hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little ones (Mt 11:25-27). Reason interprets Scripture; knowledge of the Father is a gift.

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  • Ritirarsi dal mondo o trasformarlo?

    Retreats for prayer and a mission among the sick, the poor and sinners

    Impegnarsi nel mondoSi deduce dalla sua dottrina

    According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus did not found a separate community like that of Qumran nor live as a hermit, although he withdrew to deserted places to pray. His mission unfolds in the villages, synagogues, houses and roads of Galilee, among the sick, the poor, tax collectors and sinners, with whom he shares table fellowship, which earns him criticism. He sends his disciples to heal and proclaim the kingdom, and in the parable of the last judgement he makes care for the hungry, the stranger, the sick and the prisoner the decisive criterion. At the same time, he refuses to turn his message into a political programme: asked about the tribute, he answers that one should give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. The kingdom he proclaims transforms human relations here, but is not identified with any power of this world.

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Jesus of Nazareth · The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

Loving the enemy too: the Tibetan monk reads the Sermon on the Mount

According to the Gospel of Matthew (5:43–48), Jesus asks his hearers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, so as to be children of the Father who makes his sun rise on the evil and the good; Luke (10:25–37) turns the despised Samaritan into a model of active compassion. The Dalai Lama distinguishes ordinary affection, which depends on the other being close to us, from genuine compassion, which rests on recognising that everyone, the enemy included, wishes to be happy and avoid pain (Ethics for the New Millennium). Both reject a love limited to those near us, deliberately extend it to the adversary and measure it by action, not feeling. For both, moreover, the enemy offers a privileged occasion to practise that love.

Perché: The relationship is documented: at the 1994 John Main Seminar in London the Dalai Lama commented on Gospel passages, among them the Sermon on the Mount, and his remarks were published as The Good Heart. He acknowledged the ethical affinity and pointed out frankly the underlying difference. In the Gospels love of the enemy is grounded in imitation of a Father who loves all; in Tibetan Buddhism, in the equality of all beings before the wish for happiness and in interdependence, without a creator God. They agree on the practice and its demands, not on the ultimate reason that sustains it, and neither seeks to erase that distance.

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Jesus of Nazareth · Thich Nhat Hanh

The Holy Spirit as the energy of mindfulness: a Zen monk before the living Christ

In Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh proposes reading the word God, when contemplative Christians use it, as a name for the ultimate dimension of reality, comparable to nirvana: the water as against the waves. In the same work he presents the Holy Spirit as the energy of mindfulness that heals and makes present, and he sees in prayer in secret and in the trust in the Father asked for by the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 6:5–13) a way of returning to the present moment. The Gospels present a Jesus who withdraws to pray alone and teaches not to multiply words. Both locate what is decisive in a presence that transforms whoever welcomes it, rather than in adherence to formulas.

Perché: The relationship is documented in one sense: Thich Nhat Hanh read and commented on the Gospels, was in dialogue with Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, and in 1995 published Living Buddha, Living Christ to show convergences. His reading draws on Paul Tillich's theology, which speaks of God as the ground of being. The affinity, however, is asymmetrical: the Gospels present a personal God, the Father who sees, listens and forgives, and Thich Nhat Hanh translates that language into the Buddhist ultimate dimension, in which there is no creator. Many Christian and Buddhist theologians consider that the translation blurs real differences. It is a bridge built from one bank.

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Jesus of Nazareth · Paramahansa Yogananda

Christ consciousness: a yogi comments on the Gospels

Yogananda devoted an extensive commentary to the Gospels, published posthumously as The Second Coming of Christ, and the organisation he founded honours Jesus alongside the masters of his lineage. What he finds there is a teaching of personal communion with God: Jesus withdraws to pray alone, calls God Abba in Gethsemane (Mk 14:36) and teaches asking with a child's trust of a Father who knows what is needed (Mt 6:5–13). Yogananda teaches exactly that prayer, to a God addressed as Father, Mother or Friend (How You Can Talk with God), and joins it to a meditation technique. For both the Absolute is someone who listens and answers, and prayer is intimacy rather than formula.

Perché: The relationship is documented in one direction: Yogananda read and commented on the Gospels and presented Jesus as a realised master. His reading, however, is yogic and Vedantic: he distinguishes the historical Jesus from a universal Christ consciousness, reads some passages in terms of reincarnation and meditative technique, and conceives God as having a formless ground besides a personal face. None of this appears in the Synoptics, which present a first-century Jew who presupposes the God of Israel and announces his Kingdom, and Christian theology rejects reincarnation. They agree on the way of praying, not on the doctrine surrounding it.

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Jesus of Nazareth · Confucius

The golden rule in two languages, and the exact point where they part

The Analects sum up conduct in reciprocity: what you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others (15.24); the Gospels state the same rule positively: treat others as you would have them treat you (Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31). For both, love of the other is the centre of moral life: asked what humaneness is, Confucius answers that it is to love others (12.22); asked about the first commandment, Jesus joins love of God and of neighbour (Mk 12:28–34). Both demand that this love become concrete conduct. But they part before the enemy: Confucius rejects repaying evil with good and proposes answering offence with uprightness (14.34); Jesus asks his hearers to love the enemy and pray for the persecutor (Mt 5:43–48).

Perché: There was no contact between them; the convergence comes from a widespread moral intuition, reciprocity, found in very diverse traditions. The divergence before the enemy is explained by each one's framework. Confucius thinks of a society ordered by graded relationships, beginning with the family, where love has measure and justice requires that each act receive its due. Jesus speaks from the imminence of the Kingdom of God and from the imitation of a Father who loves all without distinction, which breaks every measure. One seeks the harmony of the city; the other announces a justice that overflows it.

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Jesus of Nazareth · Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

Abba versus the arrow: a Father who listens and a question that leads nowhere

According to the Synoptics, Jesus presupposes the God of Israel, quotes the Shema (Mk 12:29–30), calls God Abba in Gethsemane (Mk 14:36) and teaches his followers to ask him for bread and forgiveness: the Absolute is someone who sees, listens and acts. In the Pali canon the Buddha does not deny the gods but places them within the cycle of rebirth; the Brahmajala Sutta (DN 1) describes ironically how Brahma comes to believe himself the creator of the world, and the Cula-Malunkya Sutta (MN 63) compares one who demands metaphysical answers to a wounded man who will not let the arrow be removed. For Jesus the relationship with God is the centre of life and of the Kingdom he announces; for the Buddha liberation depends on no creator. They agree in answering suffering with practice, healing and teaching, rather than with theories.

Perché: The contradiction is real, but it should be framed carefully. Jesus is a first-century Jew who does not argue for God's existence but radicalises it as a filial relationship; the Buddha teaches in an India full of speculation about the creator and the atman, and deliberately sets those questions aside because they do not lead to the end of suffering. They do not, then, answer exactly the same question: one announces whom to turn to; the other, how to extinguish the cause of pain. Both reach us, moreover, through texts of faith fixed decades or centuries later. The difference over a personal God, however, is not apparent: the Buddhist tradition has always maintained it.

Aneddoti e racconti

Aneddoti e racconti

Racconto agiograficoc. 28 (tradicional)

The temptations in the wilderness

After the baptism the Spirit drives Jesus into the wilderness, where he spends forty days. Mark says only that he was with the wild beasts and that Satan tempted him. Matthew and Luke develop the scene into three trials: turning stones into bread to satisfy hunger, throwing himself from the pinnacle of the Temple so that angels might bear him up, and receiving all the kingdoms of the world in exchange for bowing down to the devil. Jesus answers each time with a quotation from Deuteronomy—"Man shall not live by bread alone". The forty days evoke Israel's forty years in the wilderness and the fasts of Moses and Elijah: the account presents Jesus as the faithful son who passes the tests in which the people had failed.

Origine del racconto: Mark 1:12–13; Matthew 4:1–11 and Luke 4:1–13, which differ in the order of the last two temptations and derive from the Q source. It is a theological narrative built on texts from Deuteronomy (6–8); historians do not regard it as verifiable.

Fonte: Robinson, James M., Hoffmann, Paul y Kloppenborg, John S. (eds.). The Critical Edition of Q. Fortress Press / Peeters, Mineápolis y Lovaina, 2000. ISBN 9780800631499.

Tradizione oralec. 28–30

"He is beside himself": Jesus's family

When Jesus returns to Capernaum the crowd presses in so that they cannot even eat. His relatives, hearing of it, go out to seize him, for they said: "He is beside himself." Soon after his mother and brothers arrive and send for him from outside. Jesus, looking at those seated around him, answers: "Who is my mother, or my brethren? Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." Matthew and Luke keep the second scene but drop the first, that of the family who think him mad.

Origine del racconto: Mark 3:20–21 and 3:31–35; parallels in Matthew 12:46–50, Luke 8:19–21 and Thomas 99. The omission of Mark 3:21 by the later evangelists is cited as an example of the "criterion of embarrassment": an awkward memory unlikely to have been invented.

Fonte: Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 5 vols. Doubleday / Yale University Press, Nueva York y New Haven, 1991–2016 (trad. esp.: Un judío marginal, Verbo Divino).

Tradizione oralec. 29–30

"Who do you say that I am?"

On the way to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, at the northern edge of Galilee, Jesus asks his disciples what people say about him. Some say he is John the Baptist; others, Elijah or one of the prophets. "But whom say ye that I am?" Peter answers: "Thou art the Christ." Jesus orders them to tell no one and begins to announce that the Son of Man must suffer many things, be rejected and be killed. Peter takes him aside to rebuke him, and Jesus, turning, rebukes him harshly: "Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men." In Matthew the scene is expanded with the promise to Peter that he will be the rock on which the Church is built.

Origine del racconto: Mark 8:27–33; Matthew 16:13–23 (with the promise to Peter, 16:17–19, only in Matthew); Luke 9:18–22. Historians debate whether the scene preserves a memory or is a composition on messianic identity; the passion predictions are generally regarded as written after the event.

Fonte: Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 5 vols. Doubleday / Yale University Press, Nueva York y New Haven, 1991–2016 (trad. esp.: Un judío marginal, Verbo Divino).

Tradizione oralec. 30

The money-changers' tables

In the days before Passover Jesus enters the court of the Jerusalem Temple, the greatest sanctuary of Judaism, where money was changed to pay the Temple tax and doves were sold for sacrifice. He overturns the money-changers' tables and the sellers' stalls and stops anyone carrying goods through the precinct, quoting the prophets: "My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." From then on, says Mark, the chief priests seek a way to destroy him. John places the episode at the start of the public ministry; the Synoptics, in the last week.

Origine del racconto: Mark 11:15–18; Matthew 21:12–13; Luke 19:45–46; John 2:13–22. It is one of the episodes E. P. Sanders regards as historically most secure and the probable cause of the arrest; its meaning (protest against commerce, symbolic announcement of the Temple's destruction) is debated.

Fonte: Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. Allen Lane / Penguin, Londres, 1993 (trad. esp.: La figura histórica de Jesús, Verbo Divino, 2000).

Contestatoc. 30 (tradicional)

The woman taken in adultery

While Jesus is teaching in the Temple, the scribes and Pharisees bring him a woman caught in adultery and remind him that the Law of Moses commands that she be stoned. They ask what he says, so as to have grounds to accuse him. Jesus, stooping, writes with his finger on the ground. As they persist, he straightens up and says: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her," and writes again. One by one, beginning with the eldest, they withdraw. Left alone with her, he asks where her accusers are: "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." No one knows what he was writing on the ground.

Origine del racconto: John 7:53–8:11. It is missing from papyri P66 and P75 and the codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus; some manuscripts place it after John 21:25 or after Luke 21:38. Papias seems to have known a similar story. It is probably an ancient tradition that circulated independently and was incorporated into the fourth gospel in the fourth to fifth centuries.

Fonte: Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2.ª ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft / United Bible Societies, Stuttgart, 1994.

Racconto agiograficoc. 30 (tradicional); relato del s. III–IV

The letter to King Abgar

According to a tradition from Edessa, King Abgar, being ill, wrote to Jesus asking him to come and heal him and offering him refuge from the hostility of the Jews. Jesus is said to have answered with a short letter: blessed are you for having believed without seeing; I cannot come because I must fulfil that for which I was sent, but after my ascension I will send you one of my disciples who will heal you. After Jesus's death the apostle Thaddeus (Addai) comes to Edessa, heals the king and converts the city. It is the only writing antiquity attributed to Jesus's own hand, and for centuries it was copied on amulets and carved on city gates.

Origine del racconto: Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 1.13, who claims to have translated the letters from Syriac from the archives of Edessa; expanded version in the Syriac Doctrine of Addai (c. 400). The decree attributed to Pope Gelasius (6th century) declared them apocryphal. No historian regards them as authentic.

Fonte: Eusebio de Cesarea. Historia eclesiástica 3.39 (testimonio de Papías sobre Marcos y Mateo) y 6.12 (Serapión de Antioquía sobre el Evangelio de Pedro), c. 325. Trad. esp. Argimiro Velasco Delgado, BAC, Madrid.

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The kingdom of Godreino-de-dios
It is the centre of Jesus's preaching according to the Synoptics: the expression appears more than a hundred times in the gospels and almost never in the rest of the New Testament. The Greek basileia tou theou renders a Jewish idea, the reign or sovereignty of God, rather than a territory: the moment when God will assert his will and restore Israel and the world. Jesus announces it as imminent ("has come near"), but also as present in his exorcisms ("if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you", Luke 11:20) and as something that grows in secret, like the mustard seed. This tension between present and future is the great question of research: Albert Schweitzer saw in Jesus an apocalyptic prophet expecting the end of the world; C. H. Dodd, a "realised kingdom"; others, a programme of social renewal for Israel. Matthew, out of Jewish reverence for the divine name, speaks of the "kingdom of heaven".

A concept of Second Temple Judaism (Daniel, psalms, synagogue prayers) that Jesus makes the core of his message.

Fonte: Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 1999.

Abba: God as fatherabba
Mark preserves in Aramaic Jesus's invocation at Gethsemane: "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee" (14:36), and Paul attests that the first Greek-speaking communities still used the Aramaic word in prayer (Galatians 4:6; Romans 8:15). The Lord's Prayer begins with the same invocation. Joachim Jeremias argued that Abba was a childlike, intimate term ("daddy") without parallel in Jewish prayer and that it revealed a unique filial consciousness; later research has qualified both claims: Abba was also the form used by adults, and the idea of God as father is frequent in the Hebrew Bible and in the Judaism of the time. What seems characteristic of Jesus is the centrality of this relationship and his teaching that the disciples may address God in the same way, with trust, asking for daily bread and forgiveness.

The basis of Christian prayer and of the later Trinitarian theology of sonship.

Fonte: Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 5 vols. Doubleday / Yale University Press, Nueva York y New Haven, 1991–2016 (trad. esp.: Un judío marginal, Verbo Divino).

Love of enemiesamor-a-los-enemigos
The commandment to love one's neighbour comes from the Torah (Leviticus 19:18), and Jesus joins it to love of God (Deuteronomy 6:5) as the summary of the Law (Mark 12:28–34). What the sayings tradition attributes to him as distinctive is its radical extension: "love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you" (Luke 6:27–28; Matthew 5:44), with the images of turning the other cheek, giving the cloak as well and walking the second mile. The justification is theological: God makes his sun rise on the good and the evil. Historians regard it as one of the most characteristic features of his teaching, since it is rarely formulated so absolutely in ancient literature. It has been read as the ethics of the imminent kingdom, as a strategy of non-violent resistance to Roman occupation (Walter Wink) or as a personal ideal; it inspired, among others, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Ethical core of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) and the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6), deriving from the Q source.

Fonte: Robinson, James M., Hoffmann, Paul y Kloppenborg, John S. (eds.). The Critical Edition of Q. Fortress Press / Peeters, Mineápolis y Lovaina, 2000. ISBN 9780800631499.

The parablesparabolas
The most characteristic form of Jesus's teaching according to the Synoptics: short stories drawn from the everyday life of Galilee—the sower, the leaven, the net, the hidden treasure, the labourers in the vineyard, the prodigal son, the good Samaritan—that compare the kingdom of God with something unexpected. The Greek parabole renders the Hebrew mashal, which covers comparison, proverb and riddle; the form was known in rabbinic literature. Adolf Jülicher (1888) broke with the traditional allegorical reading and argued that each parable has a single point; C. H. Dodd and Joachim Jeremias tried to recover their meaning in Jesus's own situation, distinguishing it from the interpretations of the early Church, which already appear in the gospels themselves (the explanation of the sower, Mark 4:13–20). Their structure—a surprising twist that forces the listener to take sides—makes them one of the strata most likely to go back to Jesus.

A Jewish wisdom genre reworked as proclamation of the kingdom; the Gospel of Thomas preserves independent versions of several of them.

Fonte: Funk, Robert W., Hoover, Roy W. y The Jesus Seminar. The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. Macmillan, Nueva York, 1993.

The Son of Manhijo-del-hombre
It is the expression Jesus most often uses of himself in the gospels—about eighty times—and almost only in his own mouth. In Aramaic, bar enash can mean simply "a human being" or work as a circumlocution for "I". But the book of Daniel (7:13) describes "one like a son of man" who comes on the clouds and receives from God the everlasting kingdom, and later apocalyptic literature (the Parables of Enoch) made him a heavenly figure of judgement. The gospel sayings fall into three types: about his earthly activity ("the Son of man hath not where to lay his head"), about his suffering and about his future coming. Whether Jesus used the expression, whether he identified himself with Daniel's figure or spoke of another, or whether the titles are the community's creation, is one of the most debated and unresolved problems in the research.

A Christological title of Jewish apocalyptic origin, practically abandoned after the gospels.

Fonte: Theissen, Gerd y Merz, Annette. Der historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gotinga, 1996 (trad. esp.: El Jesús histórico, Sígueme, Salamanca, 1999).

Messiah and Christmesias
Mashiach, in Hebrew, and christos, in Greek, mean "anointed": the king or priest consecrated with oil. In Jesus's time some Jewish groups expected a Davidic messiah who would free Israel from foreign rule; others, priestly or prophetic figures; and many, none. The gospels present Jesus as reluctant to use the title (Mark's "messianic secret"), and the inscription on the cross—"king of the Jews"—indicates that he was executed as a messianic claimant, which many historians take as a reliable fact. Belief in the resurrection transformed the title: a crucified messiah was, as Paul writes, "a stumblingblock to the Jews"; Christians reinterpreted it through Isaiah's songs of the suffering servant and the psalms, and "Christ" very soon became a proper name. Judaism does not recognise Jesus as the expected messiah; Islam gives him the title (al-Masih) without its Christian sense.

A concept of Second Temple Judaism that became the central title of Christian faith.

Fonte: Fredriksen, Paula. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity. Alfred A. Knopf, Nueva York, 1999.

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  • Manresa, Barcelona · España

    Cova de Sant Ignasi: Spiritual Exercises in Manresa

    Centre d'Espiritualitat Cova de Sant Ignasi (Compañía de Jesús)

    In a cave above the Cardoner river at Manresa, Ignatius of Loyola spent long months in prayer in 1522 and 1523 and there conceived his Spiritual Exercises, a method of contemplation centred on the life of Jesus that is still practised worldwide. The site is now a Jesuit spirituality centre offering silent prayer retreats, courses of the Exercises and visits, and it is the goal of the Ignatian Way that sets out from Loyola. It is one of the most established paths in the Christian tradition for contemplating the Gospels in retreat, open to people of any background.

  • Taizé, Borgoña · Francia

    Taizé Community

    Communauté de Taizé

    Taizé is an ecumenical monastic community founded by Brother Roger in a small Burgundy village, where brothers from different Christian confessions live together. Every week it welcomes thousands of young people, as well as adults and families, to share common prayer three times a day, with its simple, repetitive chants, reflection on biblical texts in small groups and community life. Far from proselytism, its approach centres on the Gospel and on what the community calls a pilgrimage of trust on earth, which also continues in European youth meetings held in different cities.

  • Jerusalén, Belén, Nazaret, Cafarnaún y otros santuarios · Israel y Palestina

    The Holy Land with the Franciscan Custody

    Custodia de Tierra Santa (Custodia Terrae Sanctae)

    Since the fourteenth century, the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land have looked after many of the places linked to the life of Jesus of Nazareth: the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth and Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee. Its website brings together information on pilgrimage, visiting each shrine and services for pilgrims, such as the office that coordinates group celebrations and a Christian information centre in Jerusalem. It is the historical reference for visiting the settings of the Gospels, whatever one's confession.

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  • GRC · Uncial griega · s. II (el primer editor lo fechó en 100–150; dataciones posteriores llegan hasta c. 200)

    Papiro Rylands 457 (P52)

    Testimone conservato
    Fragmento de códice de papiro de 8,9 × 6,0 cm
    Custode
    John Rylands Library, Universidad de Mánchester · P. Ryl. Gr. 457
    Digitalizzazione
    www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-…
  • GRC · Uncial griega · s. IV (mediados)

    Codex Sinaiticus

    Testimone conservato
    Códice de pergamino; unos 400 folios conservados de los aproximadamente 730 originales
    Custode
    British Library (la mayor parte); partes en Leipzig, San Petersburgo y el Sinaí · British Library, Add MS 43725
    Digitalizzazione
    codexsinaiticus.org/en/…
  • COP · Copto (sahídico) · c. 350 (copia)

    Códice II de Nag Hammadi

    Testimone conservato
    Códice de papiro encuadernado en cuero
    Custode
    Museo Copto, El Cairo · NHC II
  • COP · Copto (sahídico) · s. V (copia)

    Papyrus Berolinensis 8502 (Códice de Berlín)

    Testimone conservato
    Códice de papiro; faltan las páginas 1–6 y 11–14 del Evangelio de María
    Custode
    Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlín · P. Berol. 8502
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Relazioni

Relazioni

Influenze, discepolati e affinità. Si distingue la relazione documentata dalla somiglianza individuata per analisi.

  • Ricevette l'influenza di

    Juan el Bautista

    Jesus was baptised by John and probably belonged to his circle before beginning his own preaching; Josephus documents John independently (Antiquities 18.116–119).

    Relazione documentata

  • Influenzò

    Pablo de Tarso

    Paul did not know Jesus in life, but his letters (c. 50–58) are the first Christian documents and shaped the interpretation of his death and resurrection.

    Relazione documentata

  • Influenzò

    Francis of Assisi

    Francis made the literal imitation of Jesus's poor life according to the gospels the rule of his order; his biographers narrate the stigmata as identification with the Crucified.

    Relazione documentata

  • Influenzò

    Rumi

    In the Masnavi, Jesus (Isa) frequently appears as a figure of the spirit and of the power to heal, following the Qur'anic and Sufi tradition.

    Relazione documentata

  • Idee affini a

    Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

    Since the nineteenth century their teachings on renunciation, compassion and love of enemies have been compared; there is no documented historical link between them.

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Fonti

Fonti

Bibliografia e cataloghi consultati per questa scheda.

  1. Wikidata, entidad Q302 «Jesus / Jesús de Nazaret» (346 enlaces entre wikis; P31: figura religiosa y personaje bíblico, no Q5). Registra como nacimiento -7, -5 y -2, y como muerte el 7 de abril de 30 y el 3 de abril de 33; lugares de nacimiento Belén (Q5776) y Nazaret; nombre nativo ישו.
  2. Nestle, Eberhard y Erwin; Aland, Barbara y Kurt, et al. (eds.). Novum Testamentum Graece, 28.ª ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 2012; y Holmes, Michael W. (ed.). The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Society of Biblical Literature / Logos, 2010 (texto griego citado, CC BY 4.0).
  3. Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 5 vols. Doubleday / Yale University Press, Nueva York y New Haven, 1991–2016 (trad. esp.: Un judío marginal, Verbo Divino).
  4. Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. Allen Lane / Penguin, Londres, 1993 (trad. esp.: La figura histórica de Jesús, Verbo Divino, 2000).
  5. Theissen, Gerd y Merz, Annette. Der historische Jesus: Ein Lehrbuch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gotinga, 1996 (trad. esp.: El Jesús histórico, Sígueme, Salamanca, 1999).
  6. Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 1999.
  7. Flavio Josefo, Antigüedades judías 18.63–64 (Testimonium Flavianum) y 20.200, c. 93–94; Tácito, Anales 15.44, c. 116. Ediciones de la Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press).
  8. Robinson, James M., Hoffmann, Paul y Kloppenborg, John S. (eds.). The Critical Edition of Q. Fortress Press / Peeters, Mineápolis y Lovaina, 2000. ISBN 9780800631499.
  9. Meyer, Marvin (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition. HarperOne, Nueva York, 2007. ISBN 9780060523787.
  10. Ehrman, Bart D. y Pleše, Zlatko. The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 2011. ISBN 9780199732104.
  11. Santos Otero, Aurelio de (ed.). Los Evangelios apócrifos. Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, Madrid, 1956 (ed. bilingüe; reed. 2009, ISBN 9788422014096).
  12. Piñero, Antonio, Montserrat Torrents, José y García Bazán, Francisco (eds.). Textos gnósticos. Biblioteca de Nag Hammadi. 3 vols. Trotta, Madrid, 1997–2000 (vol. II: Evangelios, hechos, cartas).
  13. Kasser, Rodolphe, Meyer, Marvin y Wurst, Gregor (eds.). The Gospel of Judas from Codex Tchacos. National Geographic, Washington, 2006. ISBN 9781426200427.
  14. King, Karen L. The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. Polebridge Press, Santa Rosa, 2003. ISBN 9780944344583.
  15. The Holy Bible, King James Version (1611). Project Gutenberg, n.º 10 (y n.º 8040–8043 para los cuatro evangelios). Dominio público.
  16. James, M. R. (trad.). The Apocryphal New Testament. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924.
  17. Funk, Robert W., Hoover, Roy W. y The Jesus Seminar. The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. Macmillan, Nueva York, 1993.
  18. Dunn, James D. G. Jesus Remembered (Christianity in the Making, vol. 1). Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003.
  19. Inscripción de Poncio Pilato hallada en Cesarea Marítima (1961). L'Année épigraphique 1963, 104. Museo de Israel, Jerusalén.
  20. Fredriksen, Paula. Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity. Alfred A. Knopf, Nueva York, 1999.
  21. Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2.ª ed. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft / United Bible Societies, Stuttgart, 1994.
  22. Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanack, Filadelfia, 1736 («God helps them that help themselves»); antecedente en Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government, 1698.
  23. Eusebio de Cesarea. Historia eclesiástica 3.39 (testimonio de Papías sobre Marcos y Mateo) y 6.12 (Serapión de Antioquía sobre el Evangelio de Pedro), c. 325. Trad. esp. Argimiro Velasco Delgado, BAC, Madrid.
  24. Universidad de Mánchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Papiro Rylands P52 (P. Ryl. Gr. 457), fragmento del Evangelio de Juan (18:31–33, 37–38), 8,9 × 6,0 cm; Manchester Digital Collections.
  25. Robinson, James M. (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 3.ª ed. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1988 (relato del hallazgo de 1945 en la introducción).
  26. British Library. «Codex Sinaiticus», ficha de la colección (Add MS 43725) y Codex Sinaiticus Project.
  27. Tomás de Celano. Vita prima sancti Francisci (c. 1228–1229). Trad. esp. en San Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época, ed. J. A. Guerra, BAC, Madrid.
  28. Rumi, Jalal al-Din. The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí. Ed. y trad. R. A. Nicholson, 8 vols., E. J. W. Gibb Memorial / Luzac, Londres, 1925–1940.
  29. Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. Vol. 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971 (formación de la cristología y de la doctrina trinitaria hasta Nicea y Calcedonia).
  30. El Corán, azoras 3:45–59, 4:157–158, 5:116–117 y 19:16–36 (Jesús/ʿĪsā, hijo de María). Trad. inglesa de Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. Nueva York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
  31. Smith, Morton. Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1973.
  32. Horner, George (trad.). Pistis Sophia. Introducción de Francis Legge. Londres: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1924. Project Gutenberg, n.º 76266.
  33. Bell, H. Idris y Skeat, T. C. Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and Other Early Christian Papyri. Londres: British Museum, 1935 (editio princeps del Papiro Egerton 2).
  34. Wikisource (en). «The Apocryphal New Testament (1924)», transcripción de M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924, con una página por texto.
  35. Wikisource: «Biblia Reina-Valera 1909» (es, una subpágina por capítulo) y «Bible (American Standard)» (en, American Standard Version, 1901).
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  • Fechas: nacimiento c. 6–4 a. C. (se ha adoptado 5 a. C., aproximado) y muerte en 30 (o 33) d. C.; Wikidata registra -7, -5, -2 y los días 7 de abril de 30 y 3 de abril de 33. La elección del 30 sigue la opinión mayoritaria, no un dato cierto.
  • Wikidata clasifica a Q302 como figura religiosa y personaje bíblico, no como ser humano (P31=Q5); se ha usado igualmente como identificador.
  • Custodio actual del Códice Tchacos (Evangelio de Judas): según lo publicado, debía entregarse al Museo Copto de El Cairo; no se ha podido confirmar su paradero ni signatura, por lo que no se ha incluido en «manuscripts».
  • El sitio del Museo Copto de El Cairo no respondía el 2026-10-23; no se ha podido comprobar si existe digitalización pública del Códice II de Nag Hammadi.
  • No se ha localizado en Open Library un ISBN verificable para la Lutherbibel ni para la Bible de Jérusalem (Cerf); faltan ediciones alemana, italiana, rusa, árabe e hindi con ISBN de los evangelios.
  • Evangelio de Pedro y Evangelio de la infancia de Tomás: falta una edición española con ISBN distinta de la antología de Santos Otero.
  • Programas de afiliación: ninguno verificado (Trotta, BAC, Desclée, Oxford University Press no publican uno accesible). Lista vacía.
  • El documental de Frontline «From Jesus to Christ» solo se ha encontrado en subidas de terceros; buscar una versión oficial de PBS insertable.
  • Sala de lectura, evangelios canónicos en español: se registra la Reina-Valera 1909 (Wikisource, una subpágina por capítulo). La traducción de Félix Torres Amat (m. 1847; ed. de 1836) también está en Wikisource como página única por evangelio, con sus notas, en https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Sagrada_Biblia_(XIII)/Mateo (y /Marcos, /Lucas, /Juan; capítulos «CAPÍTULO II…», split «inline»); no se registra porque la sala admite un solo texto por obra e idioma.
  • Sala de lectura en inglés: se registra la King James Version (Wikisource, edición de Oxford de 1772). La American Standard Version (1901) se descartó porque no se ha podido documentar la fecha de muerte del último revisor superviviente, que la guarda de derechos exige.
  • Evangelio de Tomás: no existe traducción libre en EE. UU., la UE y España del texto copto completo (hallado en 1945); solo se registran en inglés los fragmentos griegos de Oxirrinco en la traducción de M. R. James (1924). La versión española de Wikisource es anónima y moderna y no se registra.
  • Apócrifos en español: las páginas de Wikisource del Evangelio de Pedro, del Pseudo-Mateo y del Evangelio árabe de la infancia no identifican traductor ni edición de origen; se registran con caution:true hasta identificarlo (posiblemente Edmundo González-Blanco, 1934, que no sería libre en EE. UU. hasta 2030).
  • Sin texto libre para la sala de lectura: Evangelio de María, de Felipe, de Judas, fuente Q y textos de Nag Hammadi (traducciones posteriores a 1945); también los fragmentos judeocristianos (Hebreos, Ebionitas, Nazarenos, Egipcios), que James 1924 reúne en una sola página compartida que el importador no puede separar.

Ricerca effettuata il 2026-10-23