The First Announce
At the age of 30 years nearly, Jesus leaves his family and town, Nazareth.
He begins the season of the public activity, and to run along the Galilee: Cafarnao, Corazin and Betsaida, the towns of the lake, are visitated in the itinerant preaching of the "Rabbi".
Cafarnao is the second homeland of Jesus and the way of the Sea, "via Maris", passes through of it. Then this crossroads of caravans, traffic and people that travels, is the ideal place for the preaching of the Gospell.
The roads, the synagogues, the hospitables houses, like Peter's and Mattew Levi's, the little squares of the villages, the fresh fronds of the trees, the picturesque western shores of the Galilee sea, or the poop of a simple boat, moored in a bend of the same lake, are the background of his preaching.
Jesus preaches and operates some extraordinary miracles. These are proved by historical truth. Jesus attracts irresistiblely the people: the fishers, the peasants, the sheperds, the humbles men of Israel. But also the cultured persons are fashinated by his word and dignity which reveals something of very diverse compared with the "Rabbi" of Israel.
Matthew, Mark and Luke write, in their gospels, about this Jesus's Power to fascinate the people. Matthew writes: "And many people followed him from the Galilee, from the "ten towns", from Jerusalem, from Judee and from beyond the Jordan river" (Mt 4,25).
Mark even says that Jesus teachs with particular authority: "And they were astonished at his teaching, for the taught them as one who had authority and not as the scribes"(Mr 1,22).
The same thought is confirmed by Luke, the third evangelist(Luke 4,22).Also the hebrew historian Joseph Flavio declares that: "(Jesus) attracted to him many Israelites and Greeks" (Joseph Flavio, Judaic antiquity XVIII, 63, in Storia di Gesù Rizzoli, pag. 367: Le folle della Galilea di Fabrizio Foresti)
On the event Jesus which does miracles and portents, we have the testimony of the evangelists and, in the same time, a solid attestation. It's that of Babylon's Talmud, collecting of writings which belong to the disciples of those scribes and pharisees proud opponents of Jesus' preaching in the religious legal observance of the Bible. Well then, in these writing Jesus is accused to be a wizard and to do marvels.
Deriving from proud opposers of the Christ, this affirmation, which shows traces of antichristian controversy, is obliged to recognize the thaumaturgical authority of Jesus, interpreted, in this case, as magic.
Jesus lives his mission by words and events. Many Jesus' sayings are written in the Gospels, but many other ones are written out of the Gospels, also because, in the ancient christian community, the oral tradition is very important. There are some Jesus' Sayings, called "Agrapha", disseminated in the Apostles' Act and in other writing, also apocryphal. The ancient christianity didn't recognize authentic these writing. But they originate by very ancient traditions of the Palestine, and they are in in consonance with Jesus' teaching. Now we are writing some Jesus' saying that can be authentic certainly:
"There's more joy in giving that in receiving"(Acts 20,35)
"What are with me, don't have understood me" (Peter's Acts , apocryphal writing cap. X)
"And only in that case you'll be happy, when you'll look at you brother with love" (Gospel of the Hebrews, mentioned by Saint Jefome)
"Become sagacious money-changer" (very mentioned by ancient christian writer: Origene, pseudoclementine homily, Jerome, etc.
"Raise the stone and you'll find me there; split the wood, and I am there" (Ossirinco papyrus,I).
TO THE DISCOVERY OF JESUS OF NAZARETH
