A visual guide to Gospel events: fascinating insights into where they happened and why

The birth and early years of Jesus. Genealogical registers at public archives ; Zechariah at the Altar of Incense ; Moving from Judea ; Encouragement from women in the hill country ; No room in the guest room ; Mary places Jesus in a manger ; Shepherds in the Bethlehem fields ; The redeemer at the temple ; Magi follow the star ; Remaining behind at the temple

Jesus reveals His legitimate authority. John the Baptist preaches in the wilderness ; Jesus is baptized in the living water of the Jordan River ; Jesus becomes a rabbi in the southern Jordan Valley ; The spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness ; Announcement in the synagogue at Nazareth ; Jesus moves to Capernaum ; Catching men at the Sea of Galilee ; Evil spirit in the synagogue at Capernaum ; Authority to forgive sins on Earth ; The centurion's faith in Capernaum ; Temple tax collectors and Jesus question Peter in Capernaum

Jesus's parables and teaching. Salt, light, and a city on a hill ; Broad and narrow roads ; Lord of the Sabbath in a grain field ; Sowing seed near Capernaum ; Sorting fish and the kingdom of God ; A lost sheep in open country ; Extraordinary rescue in an ordinary home ; A neighbor on the Jerusalem-Jericho Road ; Jesus is the gate ; Herod, Jericho, and the kingdom ; The father's household has many rooms ; Glorifying God and the vineyard

Jesus in the world of the Gentiles. Jesus, Jonah, and the Nazareth ridge ; Jesus has to travel through Samaria ; Crossing enemy lines to the other side ; Great faith found in Phoenicia ; Seven baskets in the Decapolis ; Jesus visits the region of Caesarea Philippi ; Fire from heaven on a Samaritan village ; Ten lepers on the road to Dothan ; Did Jesus visit Sepphoris or Tiberias?

Jesus in and around Jerusalem. Jesus expels the temple merchants ; Healing at the pools of Bethesda ; Jesus travels to the temple for the feast of Tabernacles ; Jesus's identity questioned in Jerusalem ; Jesus sends a blind man to the Pool of Siloam ; The father's son in Solomon's colonnade ; Jesus meets Bartimaeus on the Jerusalem-Jericho Road ; Jesus stays in the house of a "sinner"

Jesus faces the Cross. A threat erupts in Bethany ; Mary anoints Jesus's feet in Bethany ; Jesus gets on a donkey at Bethpage ; Caiaphas, Pilate, Jesus, and the temple ; A fig tree on the road to Jerusalem ; Taxes in the temple courts ; A widow's gift at the temple treasury ; The end times, Kidron Valley and the Mount of Olives

The arrest and trial of Jesus. Peter at the servant's seat ; Jesus prays in Gethsemane ; Peter cuts off the ear of the high priest's servant ; Peter's denial in the high priest's courtyard ; Judas throws money into the temple ; The purchase of the potter's field ; The problem with Pilate's quarters ; Pilate sends Jesus to Herod Antipas ; Pilate mocks the chief priests at the judge's seat ; Delayed verdict at the judge's seat

The Crucifixion, Resurrection., and Ascension of Jesus. Crucified at Golgotha ; Crucified between two criminals ; Jesus dies on a cross ; Tearing the Temple curtain ; Joseph of Arimathea goes to Pilate ; Security at the tomb ; From Jerusalem to Emmaus and back ; Jesus meets the Apostles in the Galilee ; Jesus ascends from the Mount of Olives.