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Compiled by Jack Wheeler – Clovis Ca jack@powerpointstojesus.com

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The Life of Christ

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The Geography of the Gospels

Questions

Geography of the Gospels

• Where was Jesus born?– Bethlehem of Judea (2:1)

• Where did Joseph take Jesus to escape Herod?– Egypt (2:19)

• Where did Jesus grow up?– Nazareth (2:23)

• Where did John the Baptist begin his preaching?– The wilderness of Judea (3:1)

Passages are from the book of Matthew

Geography of the Gospels• Where did Jesus come from

to be baptized? Where was he baptized?– Galilee (3:13)– Jordan River

• Where did the Spirit lead Jesus to be tempted?– The Wilderness (4:1)

• Where did Jesus go when he heard John had been put into prison? – Galilee (4:12)

Geography of the Gospels• Capernaum was in the

borders of what two tribal territories?– Zebulun and Naphtali (4:13)

• Peter, Andrew, James, and John made their living fishing where?– Sea of Galilee (4:18-21)

• Jesus’ fame spread throughout where?– Syria (4:24)

Geography of the Gospels• Multitudes followed Jesus

from where?– Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem,

Judea, and beyond Jordan (4:25)

• Jesus commended the faith of a Roman centurion where? – Capernaum (8:5-13)

• Where did Jesus stop storms?– Sea of Galilee (8:23-27)

Geography of the Gospels• Where did Jesus heal two

demoniacs?– Country of Gergesa on the

other side of Galilee (8:28)• On their first preaching tour

where did Jesus send the disciples? – The lost sheep of Israel (10:6)

• Where did Jesus tell them not to go?– The way of the Gentiles nor in

the cities of the Samaritans (10:5)

Geography of the Gospels• In what cities will it be better

than for those cities that reject Christ’s disciples?– Sodom and Gomorrah (10:15)

• What cities did Jesus pronounce his “woes” unto? – Chorazin, Bethsaida, (11:21)

• What cities would have repented if they had seen the works that Jesus did around Galilee?– Tyre and Sidon (11:21)

Geography of the Gospels• From what place did the

scribes and Pharisees try to entrap Jesus concerning their traditions?– Jerusalem (15:1)

• Jesus healed the daughter of a Canaanite woman where?– In the borders of Tyre and

Sidon (15:21-22)• Where was Jesus and His

disciples when Peter declared his faith in His deity?– Caesarea Philippi (16:13)

Geography of the Gospels• Jesus told His disciples He

must suffer and die where?– Jerusalem (16:21)

• Peter found money for the temple tax in the mouth of a fish where?– Capernaum (17:24)

• Jesus then departed from Galilee and went where?– Judea beyond Jordan (19:1)

Geography of the Gospels• On the way to Jerusalem

Jesus healed two blind men near where?– Jericho (20:17, 29-34)

• Jesus rode a donkey from where to where?– Bethphage near the Mount of

Olives to Jerusalem (21:1)• Jesus was said to be the

prophet of where?– Nazareth of Galilee (21:11)

Geography of the Gospels• Jesus spent the first night of

that last week before His death in what village?– Bethany (21:17)

• On what city did Jesus pronounce that they killed the prophets?– Jerusalem (23:37)

• Where was Jesus when he predicted the destruction of the temple?– Mount of Olives (24:3)

Geography of the Gospels• A woman anointed Jesus’

feet in what city?– Bethany (26:6)

• Where did Jesus go after eating the Passover meal?– Mount of Olives to a place

called Gethsemane (26:30, 36)• Where did Jesus say he

would meet His disciples after His resurrection?– Galilee (26:32)

Geography of the Gospels• Where was Simon from who

carried the cross of Jesus?– Cyrene (27:32)

• Where was Jesus crucified?– Golgotha (27:33)

• Joseph, the one who buried Jesus, was from where? Arimathea (27:57-60)

Geography of the Gospels• The angels told the women

at the tomb that Jesus was going where?– Galilee (28:7)

• The account of the great commission recorded in Matthew was given on a mountain where?– Galilee (28:16-20)

Where Did These Events Happen?________ Jesus’ first miracle performed here___________ Jesus pronounced judgment on these three cities:_________________________________ Walking on the water___________ Caesarea Philippi was the sight of what event that

would unfold at Pentecost?___________ The boyhood home of Jesus___________ Woman at the well of Samaria (city)___________ Country where Jesus taught on marriage___________ Birthplace of Jesus and David___________ Lazarus raised from the dead___________ Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus___________ Ascension

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