Who Is Jesus?

Jesus Christ

Jesus of Nazareth is the central figure of Christianity. Christians believe that he is the Son of God the Father, and is God himself, fully divine and fully human.

According to the Bible, Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried. Then he rose from the dead on the third day, proving his divine identity and offering hope of eternal life to all who trust in him. His life, teachings, death, and resurrection are the foundation of Christian faith.

The Miracles of Jesus

Jesus performed many miracles according to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (the first 4 books in the New Testament of the Bible):

He raised three people from death to life (including Lazarus, the widow’s son at Nain, and Jairus’s daughter).
He gave sight to a man who was born blind.
He made the lame walk.
He healed people with leprosy.
He healed the sick and made mentally ill people become normal (casting out demons).
He fed 5,000 people with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, and they were full afterward.
He calmed a violent storm and walked on water.
He was born of a virgin (his mother - Mary).
He himself rose from death to life (after being crucified, and having a spear pierced through his heart).
After he rose from the dead, in 40 days he appeared to more than 500 people.
After he was resurrected, he showed one of his disciples (Thomas, who didn’t believe Jesus was resurrected) his wounds on his hands, and the side of his body (where his heart was pierced). Thomas later was killed for defending his testimony about Jesus and became a Saint in Christianity.
Then those many people saw him ascend to heaven.

Many of those people suffered brutal, gruesome deaths, just to defend their testimonies of the life of Jesus, that he is the Son of God and is God himself, and all these miracles Jesus did (which go against all common sense and the laws of physics and nature and life-and-death).

Why would they do that? No one would be willing to die to defend what they know is a lie. But in this case, not just one, but dozen of eyewitnesses who had been with Jesus for years were brutally killed just to defend their testimonies, that Jesus died, and rose again from the dead, and ascended to heaven.

These miracles, witnessed by many, are seen by Christians as proofs of his divine identity and authority.