Introduction: Who Is Jesus? 1
Chapter 1 Pilgrims 16
Chapter 2 Yes: "How can this be?" 26
Chapter 3 Bethlehem: "She gave birth to her firstborn son." 51
Chapter 4 Nazareth: "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years." 70
Chapter 5 Jordan: "Do you come to me?" 96
Chapter 6 Rejection: "Is not this the carpenter?" 114
Chapter 7 Galilee: "And immediately they left their nets and followed him." 130
Chapter 8 Immediately: "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?" 144
Chapter 9 Gennesaret: "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" 156
Chapter 10 Happy: "Rejoice and be glad." 167
Chapter 11 Capernaum: "They removed the roof above him." 182
Chapter 12 Parables: "He began to teach them many things in parables." 195
Chapter 13 Storms: "Teacher, do you not care?" 224
Chapter 14 Gerasa: "Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones." 240
Chapter 15 Tabgha: "And all ate and were filled." 255
Chapter 16 Bethesda: "There is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes." 274
Chapter 17 Jericho "He was trying to see who Jesus was." 289
Chapter 18 Bethany: "Take away the stone." 312
Chapter 19 Jerusalem: "Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet." 331
Chapter 20 Gethsemane: "He threw himself on the ground and prayed." 354
Chapter 21 Golgotha: "Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last." 369
Chapter 22 Risen: "Jesus said to her, 'Mariam!'" 395
Chapter 23 Emmaus: "Their eyes were kept from recognizing him." 422
Chapter 24 Tiberias: "Do you love me?" 443
Chapter 25 Amen 458
Questions for Personal Reflection or Reading Groups 467
Acknowledgments 477
Notes 481
Bibliography 511
For Further Exploration 517
Index 521
About the Author 537