Key players

A changing world

1. Young Jesus of Nazareth : The massacre in Bethlehem ; Growing up in Nazareth ; Archelaus, heir of Herod the Great ; Passover customs in the first century AD ; Missing ; Jesus sits with the rabbis ; The Temple Mount ; The carpenter

2. Jesus the preacher : John baptizes Jesus ; Baptism in first-century Jewish culture ; Temple hierarchy ; Turning out the moneylenders ; Ritual sacrifice ; Nicodemus questions Jesus ; Preaching from a fishing boat ; The sermon on the Mount ; Mary of Magdala ; John the Baptist is murdered ; Defeated ; "Who do people say I am?" ; The feast of tabernacles ; The Jewish religious year

3. The last week, day by day : The passover journey begins ; The triumphal entrance into Jerusalem ; "Hosanna" ; "Render unto Caesar" ; Judas Iscariot, betrayer ; The Last Supper ; Jesus is arrested ; Caiaphas judges Jesus ; Herod judges Jesus ; Pilate judges Jesus ; Lashed ; Crucified ; Entombed ; Guarded ; The tomb is empty

Afterword ; The history after Jesus's death ; Counting years ; Jerusalem: holy city to the world ; How we know about the life of Jesus ; The New Testament ; Flavius Josephus ; Tacitus ; Archaeological evidence ; The Dead Sea Scrolls ; The purple cloak ; The symbol of the cross ; Thirty pieces of silver ; A world of many tongues ; Some facts about the first century AD ; The Roman Empire in 44 BC ; Roman government and citizens ; Roman religion ; Roman legionnaires ; Roman roads ; A walk through twenty-first-century Jerusalem ; Time line of Jesus's life.