JESUS: HIS UNKNOWN SIDE



We may know every detail about the life of a Saint, but we have minimal knowledge about the life of Christ. We mostly know just the essentials of His life. As if everything else is not worth mentioning. Nevertheless, even a “minute” detail about His life, is worth more than the whole story of a Saint!

In this book, we are bringing to light some “details” from His life that are hidden in the Gospels, which we usually pass by as unimportant, ultimately not knowing everything we should know about Christ.

I hope this book can bring us even a millimeter closer to our Saviour, Jesus Christ.


CONTENTS

PART I
UNTIL HIS PUBLIC LIFE
1. His Birth
2. In Egypt
3. In Nazareth
4. Vocation: Carpenter
5. His appearance

PART II
ΤΗΕ SIGNS OF HIS DIVINITY
1. "Many other things..."
2. The first signs of His Divinity
3. “Healing all Kinds of sickness…”
4. “As one having authority”
5. Because He was God

PART III
WHAT THE JEWS THOUGHT OF JESUS
1. The political situation in Palestine
2. Jerusalem. Capernaum
3. His relatives
4. "Even His brothers did not believe in Him"
5. How the Jews saw Jesus
6. Did they believe in Him as God?
7. Messiah. Pharisees. Scriptures
8. Jesus flouted Pharisees’ laws

PART IV
BEARING THE CROSS FOR THREE YEARS
1. Forty days with the devil
2. Three years with the devil
3. Homeless & hungry
4. Blooded sermon
5. His soul’s pain

PART V
PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION
1. “Going up to Jerusalem”
2. Monday. Tuesday
3. Wednesday. The betrayal
4. Thursday night. The arrest
5. Thursday night. Jesus's trial
6. Friday morning. At the Praetorium
7. Judas. Caiaphas. Pilate

PART VI
THE CRUCIFIXION
1. Friday noon
2. Holy Friday. 12-3 PM. 145
3. Holy Friday evening. The Burial 149

PART VII
CHRIST'S RESURRECTION
1. The nightmare of the Pharisees
2. "The last deception"
3. How and when did He Rise?
4. A great shock in Jerusalem

EPILOGUE
1. We trust the eyewitnesses
2. “Let us smear our being”


PART I
UNTIL HIS PUBLIC LIFE

2. In Egypt (pg. 19-21)

(...) As elderly Joseph was rejoicing his new home and his new environment suddenly an Angel said to him: “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him” (Mt. 2:13). (...)

The trip would last at least one week. They passed the desert that separates Palestine from Egypt; they would spend the night wherever they could, in makeshift “taverns” of the time or abandoned homes or caves or under the trees, eventually making it to Egypt. (...)

However, Herod learned that Jesus fled to Egypt, and gave orders to the Jews of Egypt to hunt them down. In addition, the pagans, seeing that their idols (their gods) had become dust from the simple presence of the Child Christ, had risen up and turned against the Holy Family. Thus things did not happen as the Holy Family would have wanted.

They landed in Farama (known as Pelusium) and stayed in a cave. Being a dangerous border area at the time, they did not stay for long there and they boarded a boat to cross the Nile River towards the west.

Their second stop was in the town Basta. But they did not stay here for a long time either. Every now and then the Holy Family was forced to move from village to village or from city to city. They had to move a total of seven times! (Allam, Sara in www.egypttoday.com.). Think of their suffering and the suffering of Little Jesus! (...).

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