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Q1 Narrator The shepherds hurried to see the newborn Babe in a manger, and were the first to spread the Good News or "Gospel" of the Savior's birth.

Q1 Narrator A week later, when the time came for the Baby to be circumcised, He was given the name Jesus, and Joseph and Mary took the Child to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord. In the temple there was a good and devout man named Simeon. The Holy Spirit had promised him that he would not die until he had seen the Christ.

Q1 Narrator In the fifteenth year of the rule of the emperor Tiberius,

Q1 Narrator And God the Holy Spirit came down upon Jesus in bodily form like a dove.

Q1 Narrator When Jesus began His work He was about thirty years old. He returned from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit and was led by the Spirit into the desert where He was tempted by the devil for forty days. In all this time He ate nothing.

Q1 Narrator Then the devil took Him up and showed Him in a moment all the kingdoms of the world.

Q1 Narrator Then the devil took Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the highest point of the temple.

Q1 Narrator And He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up.

Q1 Narrator On the Sabbath He went as usual to the synagogue.

Q1 Narrator By these words Jesus identified Himself as the Messiah, God's Anointed, sent to save His people. These Jews did not accept Him as the Messiah.

Q1 Narrator The Roman occupation in the nation was in evidence everywhere. And the people longed for the Messiah, to free them from the tyranny.

Q1 Narrator This pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him. And Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat.

Q1 Narrator Jesus traveled about, teaching the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve disciples went with Him and so did some women who had been healed of evil spirits:

Q1 Narrator And they sailed on over to Gadara, which is across the lake from Galilee.

Q1 Narrator As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, large crowds met Him everywhere. People were asking Him to show them the way to salvation, and to teach them more about the kingdom of God.

Q1 Narrator The holy temple in Jerusalem had become a marketplace rather than a place of worship.

Q1 Narrator And the council of the elders met to see how they might rid themselves of Jesus.

Q1 Narrator Now the festival of unleavened bread drew near, during which the Passover Lamb would be sacrificed.

Q1 Narrator And an angel from heaven appeared to Him to strengthen Him.

Q1 Narrator And they took Him to Pontius Pilate, the most vicious of all Roman governors. Pilate himself had sentenced thousands of people to a slow death by nailing them to wooden crosses.

Q1 Narrator And Jesus was crucified between two thieves in fulfillment of prophesy, as had been predicted hundreds of years before, by the prophets of God.

Q1 Narrator It was now noon and a darkness fell across the whole land for three hours.

Q1 Narrator Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable member of the council who had not consented to this deed, obtained permission from Pontius Pilate to lay Jesus' body in a tomb before the Sabbath day began at sundown.

Q1 Narrator They went back home and prepared the spices for the body. On the sabbath day they rested as commanded by the Lord.