M’y nr

Timing

Stage

Place

Event

Matt.

Mark

Luke

John

Remarks

THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

Jesus conceived

Ain Karem

Virgin Mary visits Elisabeth

Return to Nazareth

Bethlehem

Jesus born

Any confusion about the census of Quirinius is dealt with here and here - it does not require any stretching to accept that Luke is accurate.  The apographe that he speaks of is not the apotimesis of 6AD when Quirinius gathered taxes and there was rioting, which Jews and gentiles would both remember, and an apographe has to occur first in order to gather the taxes later.

Bethlehem

Circumcision and naming

Not recorded.  At eight days after birth, they surely are still close to Bethlehem.  The Holy Family would have quickly vacated the cattle grotto (these still exist in Bethlehem), since Joseph would have time to find somewhere better and people would leave the area once they had been recorded in the census.  Mary has family nearby, probably Joseph too.  They surely would not have gone far from Bethlehem or Jerusalem with a newborn, knowing that at 40 days they would have to present Him at the Temple.

1

Jerusalem

Presentation at the temple

2:22-38

Note that Luke alone is recording this, consistent with him taking witness from the Virgin Mary.

2

Jerusalem

Visit of the Magi

The Magi went south from Jerusalem, if the precession of Jupiter is assumed, which is the only good explanation for ‘follow the star’.  If the Magi visited much later, then the Holy Family is in Nazareth.  The Magi are also told not to return to Jerusalem, which presumably means they realise Herod is dangerous.  I wonder if they tell the Holy Family?  It seems that Herod’s edict comes somewhat later, when he realises the Magi are not coming back.  Sheen, referencing Suetonius, states that this edict to kill the first-born was across the Roman Empire in response to a widespread expectation that a great king would be born, and only enacted by Herod [Sheen, Life of Christ].

Nazareth

Early infancy

3

Egypt

The flight into Egypt - there until Herod’s end

2:13-18

4

Nazareth

Grew in body, mind and spirit

2:19-23

2:39-40

Herod the Great dies in 4 BC.

5

Jerusalem Temple

Christ Child in the Temple

2:41-50

Jesus is aged 12, the age of reason or adulthood, and it is Passover.  The Holy Family returns to Nazareth where Jesus is obedient to his parents. Again Luke is recording this, consistent with him taking witness from the Virgin Mary.

6

Nazareth

Worked in Joseph’s carpentry

6:3

2:51-52

7

THE MINISTRY

River Jordan

Baptised by St. John

3:13-17

1:9-11

3:21-22

8

Jericho wilderness

Temptation of hunger

4:1-4

1:10-12

4:1-4

I was surprised to see the three temptations separated in Mathesy’s table.  I imagined these happening while Jesus is in the cave of Quarantania and His placement precariously at the Temple was some vision or spiritual experience perhaps.  To support a wider interpretation of this period of forty days, Shuzako Endo supposes that Jesus is in contact with the Essenes who inhabit the area near Quarantania.  Later, Jesus points the disciples to a man bearing a water jug in Mark 14:3 and Luke 22:10, which is well supposed to be a woman’s task of the early morning - except for the Essenes, says Endo.  I have found reference to Bargil Pixner, author of Paths of the Messiah, who discovered the Essene Gate near the SW corner of the city wall (hence the Essene Gate which allowed them to access the latrines in the valley - Deuteronomy 23:12-14).  He supports that the Essenes numbered very few women.

The Essene Community had in their writings a "Messianic Meal”.  James Tabor suggests that the man was carrying water from the Pool of Siloam into the Essene quarter and this was a way of identifying the pre-arranged ‘Upper Room’, if it was an Essene building.  However I note that Tabor also holds to the early Last Supper interpretation which Jimmy Akin strongly holds is unnecessary and Tabor refers to ‘artos’ as leavened bread, when it may also refer to unleavened; and Jesus clearly says ‘prepare a Passover meal’ which to my mind has to include unleavened bread.  Link1 and link2.

9

Wing of the Temple

Temptation or spiritual pride and presumption

4:5-7

4:9-13

10

Quarantania

Temptation of worldly gain

4:8-11

4:5-8

11

Bethany beyond the Jordan

The great announcement

1:19-51

Mathesy uses the longstanding name of ‘Bethabara’ adopted by Origen who couldn’t find a ‘Bethany beyond the Jordan’, and this name stuck beyond the KJV.  Yet the text says ‘Bethany beyond the Jordan’.  Openbible states that this is now most likely thought to be west of the Jordan and at the same latitude as Galilee, rather than south at the location Al-Maghtas where the Baptism of Jesus is commonly venerated now.  Expositors and exegetes reproduced at Biblehub tend towards a location nearer Galilee, though not unanimously.  From my limited research, John 3:23 puts John the Baptist in the southern reaches of the Jordan later on, because there was plenty of water there, implying his original area of ministry had dried up.  It would be fitting for him to have to move nearer to Jerusalem after having established an unassailable reputation.  John was a ‘voice crying out in the wilderness’, though this may not bear on any baptismal location if he was west of Jerusalem, as Tissot quotes others, in terms of John coming of age and learning to live in the desert.  For baptism, though, the early mentions of Jesus and the disciples imply they are near Galilee, so it seems more natural to me to put John first in the wilderness west of the Sea of Galilee, and then later in the south near the Jordan.  Andrew, on observing Jesus, In John 1:40, Andrew and John the Evangelist hear John the Baptist name Jesus, and they follow Jesus and meet with Him.  Andrew ‘first’ finds his brother Simon (Peter) to introduce him to Jesus, and ‘the following day’ (John 1:43) Jesus goes into Galilee and finds Philip, presumably somewhere near Bethsaida since Andrew, Simon and Philip are all from there (John 1:44).  It seems implausible that Al-Maghtas, which is 100 metres from the Jordan but 100 km south of the Lake of Galilee, would naturally be called ‘Bethany beyond the Jordan’, though it is east of the other Bethany near Jerusalem.  That is my position so far, and the evidence is mixed.

12

Cana of Galilee

The first miracle

2:1-11

13

Capernaum

Stay of a few days

2:12

14

Ist Passover, April

Jerusalem

Cleaned the Temple

Started His ministry

Taught Nicodemus

2:13-25

3:1-21

15

River Jordan

Baptised and preached

3:22-36

16

Jacob’s Well

Met the woman with the pitcher

4:5-26

17

Capernaum

The Capernian received Him

4:43-45

18

Cana in Galilee

Miracle of the sick

4:46-54

I assume ‘Cana in Galilee’ here is the same as ‘Cana of Galilee’ in Mathesy’s number 12.

19

Synagogue Nazareth

The Nazarenes sought to kill Him

4:16-29

20

Capernaum

Began to pray that men should repent

4:13-17

1:14-15

4:30-32

21

By the Sea of Galilee

Called Peter, Andrew, James and John

4:18-22

1:16-20

22

Synagogue Capernaum

Preached and cast out a devil

1:21-28

4:33-37

23

Peter’s House Capernaum

Healed Peter’s mother-in-law and many others

8:14-17

1:29-34

4:38-41

24

Solitary place

Prayed and made first circuit

1:35-39

4:42-44

25

Peter's house Capernaum

Preached and healed the palsied man

9:2-8

2:1-12

26

Peter's ship

The fishing miracle

5:1-11

27

Synagogue Capernaum

Healed the withered hand on the Sabbath

12:9-14

3:1-6

6:6-11

28

By the Sea of Galilee

Great multitudes followed Him

12:15-21

3:7-12

29

Mount Hattin

Prayed all night and called the twelve

3:13-19

6:12-16

30

Mount Hattin

Cast out devils

6:17-19

31

Mount Hattin

The Sermon on the Mount

5:6-8

6:20-49

32

In a house

Was thronged so He could not eat

3:19-21

33

Bethsaida

Healed a leper

8:1-4

1:40-45

5:12-15

34

Desert

Prayed to His Father

5:16

35

Capernaum

Was met by the centurion and healed his servant

8:5-13

7:1-10

36

Nain

Raised the only son

7:11-15

37

By the Sea of Galilee

Great multitudes following Him

13:1-2

4:1

38

On the Sea of Galilee

Awoke and stilled the tempest

8:23-26

4:35-39

8:22-24

39

Country of Gergesenes

Healed two demoniacs sending devils into swine

8:28-34

5:1-20

8:26-39

40

Jairus’ House Capernaum

Raised Jairus’ daughter

9:23-26

5:35-43

8:49-56

41

Peter’s House Capernaum

Healed two blind men, cast out a devil

9:27-34

42

Nazareth and villages

Healed the sick and sent forth the twelve

13:54-58

6:1-13

9:1-6

43

2nd Passover, April

Jerusalem

Healed on the Sabbath at the pool of Bethesda

5:1-9

44

Tiberias

Death of St. John reported to Jesus

14:10-12

6:30-31

9:9

45

Desert of Bethsaida

Healed the sick and fed 5,000

14:13-22

6:32-45

9:10-17

6:1-14

46

Mountain

Prayed

14:23

6:46

6:15

47

On the Sea of Galilee

Jesus and Peter walk on the water

14:24-33

6:47-52

6:16-21

48

Sea of Galilee

Many touched His clothes and were healed

14:34-36

6:53-56

49

Synagogue Capernaum

Discourse upon the bread of life and washing of hands; many turn back; Peter first professed

15:1-14

7:1-16

6:22-71

50

Peter’s House Capernaum

Parable of the food

15:15-20

7:17-23

51

Borders of Tyre and Sidon

Healed the Phoenician girl

15:21-28

7:24-30

52

Mountain Decapolis

Healed the lame, the blind, the dumb and the maimed

15:29-31

53

Near the mountain

Put His fingers in a man’s ears and touched his tongue

7:31-37

54

Mountain

Fed 4,000 men

15:32-28

8:1-9

55

By the Sea of Galilee

Warned the disciples against sign-seekers

16:5-12

8:13-21

56

Bethsaida

Blind man healed

8:22

57

Near Bethsaida

Put spittle on a blind man’s eyes and opened them

8:23-26

58

Coasts of Caesarea Philippi

Peter’s second grand confession

16:13-20

8:27-30

9:18-21

59

Mount Hermon

Was transfigured

17:1-8

9:1-8

9:28-36

60

Mount Hermon

Healed the lunatic boy

17:9-18

9:9-27

9:37-45

61

Peter’s House Capernaum

Miracle in the sea; spoke of humility and paid the tribute coin

17:24-27

9:33-40

Feast of Tabernacles, September

Galilee

Waited before going to the Feast in Jerusalem

7:1-9

62

Feast of Tabernacles, September

Jerusalem

Taught in the Temple; the Jews send officers to arrest Him

7:10-53

63

Mount of Olives

He abode a night

8:1

64

Temple

Wrote on ground; released accused woman

8:2-11

Temple Treasury

I am the light of the world; I judge no man

8:12-20

65

Jerusalem

Healed a man born blind on the Sabbath

9:1-11

66

Capernaum

Sent forth the 70; denounced certain cities

10:1-16

69

Martha’s house, Bethany

“Martha, Martha: but one thing is needful”

10:38-42

67

Beth Shean

Healed two lepers

17:11-19

68

Coasts of Judea

Spoke of divorce; blessed children; taught the young ruler

19:1-26

10:1-27

18:18-27

70

Feast of Dedication, December

Jerusalem

Spoke of security of believers; “the Jews took up stones again to stone Him”

10:22-38

71

Beyond the Jordan - where John first baptised

Many believed on Him there

10:40-42

“In the same place where He was”

Hears that Lazarus is sick; waits two days; pronounces him dead

11:3-7

72

Four days later

Near Bethany

Met the weeping sisters and wept

11:17-37

73

Tomb of Lazarus

Raised the dead Lazarus

11:38-44

74

Martha’s house, Bethany

Anointed by Maria, Martha’s sister

12:1-7

75

Ephraim

Remained in silence because of persecution

11:54

76

Near Jericho

Healed a blind man

18:35-43

77

Departing from Jericho

Opened the eyes of two blind men

20:29-34

10:46-52

78

Near Jericho

Conversion of Zachaeus

19:10

79

Martha’s house, Bethany

Stayed there

12:11

80

THE HOLY WEEK

Bethany to Temple

Triumphal entry

21:1-11

11:1-10

19:29-44

12:12-19

81

Jerusalem

Cleaned the Temple and healed many

21:12-16

11:15-18

19:45-48

82

Bethany

Passed the night

21:17

11:11

83

At a fig tree

“No man eat fruit of thee, hereafter forever!”

21:18-19

11:12-14

84

Temple

Foretold its destruction

24:1-2

13:1-2

21:5-8

85

Mount of Olives

Described the destruction of Jerusalem

24:5-25

13:2-37

21:6-38

86

Day of preparation, Thursday night

Jerusalem

Lord’s Supper

87

THE PASSION

Mount of Olives

“All ye shall be offended because of me this night”

26:30-35

14:26-31

22:39

88

Gethsemane

Left eight disciples sleeping and told Peter, James and John the sorrow of His Soul

26:36

14:32-34

89

Place of agony

Prayed that the cup might pass

26:39

14:35-36

90

Gethsemane

Betrayed, arrested and bound

26:46:56

14:42-52

22:46-53

18:1-11

91

Before Annas

First trial - first condemnation

18:12-23

92

Before Caiaphas

Second trial - second condemnation

26:57-66

14:53-64

22:54

18:24

93

Guard room

First mockery

26:67-68

14:65

22:63-65

94

The Sanhedrin

Third trial - third condemnation

22:66-71

95

Judgement Hall

Fourth trial - first acquittal

27:1-14

15:1-5

23:1-5

18:28-38

96

Before Herod

Fifth trial - second acquittal; second mockery, “He opened not His mouth”

23:6-11

97

Pavement

Sixth trial - third acquittal. “I am innocent of the blood of This just person!”

27:15-26

15:6-15

23:12-25

19:1

98

Praetorium

Seventh trial - fourth acquittal; the Crown of Thorns

27:27-30

15:16-19

19:2-3

99

Pavement

Eighth trial - fifth acquittal, “Behold the Man!”

19:4-8

100

Judgement Hall

Pilate’s interview with Jesus

19:9-11

101

Pavement

The last great appeal “Behold your King!”

19:12-16

102

Pavement to Golgotha

“Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me!”

27:31-33

15:20-22

23:25-32

19:16-17

103

Golgotha

Mocked and crucified

27:31-56

15:23-41

23:33-49

19:18-30

104

In Sepulchre

Soul in paradise

27:57-61

15:42-47

23:50-58

19:38-42

105

THE RESSURECTION

Near Sepulchre

Appeared to Maria Magdalena

16:9-11

20:11-18

106

Near Jerusalem

Met the Holy Women

28:9-10

107

Emmaus

Wonderful Bible lesson; breaks bread

16:12-13

24:13-32

108

Jerusalem

Appeared to the Apostles and rebuked Thomas

16:14

24:33-48

20:19-31

109

Sea of Galilee

Fishing miracle, “Feed My sheep!”

21:1-14

110

Mountain

Great Communion

28:16-20

111

Bethany

Farewell benediction acts

1:1-12

24:50