The document discusses Jesus Christ being the promised Messiah according to Christian scripture and tradition. It describes how Jesus was nurtured in the Jewish faith and fulfilled God's promise to remain with his people. It highlights key events from the infancy narratives, including Jesus being consecrated in the Temple of Jerusalem according to Jewish law and tradition. The document emphasizes that Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel as the promised Savior.

1. Jesus, the Promised
Messiah
Chapter 8

2. Key Information
 Nurtured by his family and community, Jesus
was raised in the rich traditions of the Jewish
faith.
 John’s Gospel begins with a prologue in which
we read that the Word, Jesus Christ, who was
with God and is God, took on our human nature
and lived among us as a human being.
 The coming of Jesus Christ fulfilled the promise
made by God to remain with his people forever
and to send the Messiah to lead and save them.

3. Key Information
 Jesus Christ is true God and true man
 The Temple in Jerusalem was a sacred
place where Jewish people gathered to
worship God.
 To consecrate is to made sacred for God.
 We can learn from Scripture that Jesus’
family were devout Jews.

4. Key Information
 The laws of Moses required that a
firstborn son be consecrated to the Lord
after his birth.
 The accounts of Jesus’ birth and
childhood found in the first two chapters of
the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are
called the infancy narratives.
 Jesus’ mother, Mary, and foster-father,
Joseph, were devout Jews.

5. Key Information
 The words In the beginning were used by
the Gospel John to signal that a great new
creation begins in Jesus Christ.
 In Luke’s infancy narrative we read of the
young Jesus, so interested in his faith that
he stays behind in the Temple while his
family journeys home after Passover.
 To consecrate someone to God is to make
him or her sacred for God.

6. Key Information
 The Infancy Narratives are the accounts of
Jesus’ birth and childhood in the Gospels of
Matthew and Luke.
 In one Gospel story about the young Jesus, we
read about him as a young man so interested in
his faith that he stays behind in the Temple of
Jerusalem after the feast of Passover.
 In the words of Simeon and the response of
Anna, who saw the baby Jesus being
consecrated in the Temple of Jerusalem, we find
the true expression of Israel’s hope for the
promised Messiah.

7. Key Information
 The word, Jesus Christ, is without losing
his divine nature, took on our human
nature and lived among us as a human
being.
 Jesus Christ was conceived by the power
of the Holy Spirit.
 In the Temple in Jerusalem, Simeon, a
man full of faith in the Lord, took the infant
Jesus in his arms and praised God.

8. Key Information
 In the words of Anna, a holy woman with the gift
of prophecy, we find the true expression of
Israel’s hope for the promised Messiah.
 In Jesus Christ, “God is with us” and has
become one of us.
 Consecrate is to make sacred for God.
 The infancy narratives emphasize that Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, is descended from the
family line of David, who was of the line of
Abraham.

9. Key Information
 The temple was the sacred place where Jewish
people gathered to worship God.
 To be consecrated is to be made sacred for
God.
 In the Infancy Narratives it is proclaimed that
Jesus is the promised Savior, and he will carry
out God’s plan of salvation.
 God’s promises to his people, which can be
found in the Old Testament, were fulfilled in
Jesus Christ.

10. Key Information
 God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 22:18,
fulfilled in the tracing of Jesus’ ancestry back to
David and Abraham in Matthew 1:1–17;
prophecy that “the virgin will be with child” in
Isaiah 7:14; fulfilled in God’s call to the Virgin
Mary to be the mother of his only Son.
 Matthew 1:22–23; the verses in Isaiah 9:5–6 that
begin “For a child is born to us, a son is given to
us . . .” and the announcement of the fulfillment
of that prophecy in the angel’s words to Mary in
Luke 1:32–33.