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Before He set on to teach thousands of people, He chose twelve men to accompany Him and to help Him teach the Word of God. They became what we know now as the Twelve Apostles. This started with the calling of Peter and Andrew (Matthew 4:18-20). He told these two men and the ten after them that He was going to teach them to become more than fishermen that catch fish in the sea. He taught these men how to become fishers of men inviting them to leave their families and the life that they know to help Jesus bring to the people the Kingdom of God. These Twelve Apostles were in parallelism with the Twelve Tribes of Israel of the Old Testament.

His act of establishing the core of His Ministry showed He recognized His need for help. With them, Jesus started his Galilean Ministry, establishing the groundwork of working His way through preaching and healing people (Redford). With them, he made sure that His teachings will carry on even when He has gone from the earth. While gathering His Apostles, He was also gathering a public ministry which consisted of people who readily accepted His miracles and the doubtful who wanted to see more so they can believe in His works are the works of God and not of the Devil.

Jesus loved to teach using parables, using the lessons and hidden messages to interpret and characterize the Kingdom of God and how the people should act to receive the blessing of being accepted in the Kingdom of God. One of His most famous teachings happened during the Sermon on the Mount or what is called The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-20, 38-48). The Beatitudes represented the standard of conduct of the people who would become the citizens of the Kingdom of God (Redford). It described how people should act to gain entry into the Kingdom and to maintain life there.

Jesus’ lessons described mainly how people should repent and act to cleanse themselves and be worthy of the Kingdom of God. His teachings, particularly the Beatitudes showed people that those who are considered unblessed in their earthly life are considered blessed by God and so are worthy of entering the Kingdom of God. Jesus’ teachings revolved around repentance and faith (Hayes). He aimed to make people realize their need to turn to God to feel blessed and fulfilled, to feel contentment, happiness, and love, feelings and emotions that may have been absent in their human life.

 Aside from His teachings and lessons of repentance and love, Jesus also healed through the same line, through forgiveness, repentance and love. To cast doubt in Jesus’ Ministry, the Pharisees evoked people to look at His Teachings and miracles as the work of Satan. This particularly happened when the Pharisees challenged Him to exorcise a demon from a man to which Jesus told them of a lesson about the division of the house. If He was a cohort of Satan, why would he attempt to create internal conflict within Satan’s house just like how Satan divided himself from God? Jesus has always healed through repentance and faith of the people that He healed and that has always been the core of His Teachings, to repent and to have faith to be able to enter the Kingdom of God.

Jesus established His Ministry along the lines of forgiveness, repentance and faith. His works and teachings revolved around how people can be worthy of entering the Kingdom of God. Read More