What were the major teachings of Jesus?

Answer 1

What Jesus emphasized most was to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Now neighbor doesn't mean neighbor in your neighborhood, it means those who are kind to you and care for you. He also taught people to love their enemies.

AnswerAmong all of Jesus' teachings the most central was that He himself was God and the way of salvation for that reason. He proved this to be true by His glorious, historical resurrection, a historically attested fact. John 14:6 stresses this.

Answer 2

Jesus came to fulfil God's covenant with humanity. The Jews had gradually moved away from God's love for humanity and had developed laws and an oppressive society that was not godly, but the exact opposite of what God had intended. Rather than write God';s law on their hearts, they paid lip-service to it. Worship became a thing to be done with no real commitment. They 'went through the motions' but their hearts were elsewhere. The great prophet Isaiah made this perfectly clear in his prophesy:

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God,

you people of Gomorrah!

"The multitude of your sacrifices-

what are they to me?" says the LORD.

"I have more than enough of burnt offerings,

of rams and the fat of fattened animals;

I have no pleasure

in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

When you come to appear before me,

who has asked this of you,

this trampling of my courts?

Stop bringing meaningless offerings!

Your incense is detestable to me.

New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-

I cannot bear your evil assemblies.

Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts

my soul hates.

They have become a burden to me;

I am weary of bearing them.

When you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide my eyes from you;

even if you offer many prayers,

I will not listen.

Your hands are full of blood;

wash and make yourselves clean.

Take your evil deeds

out of my sight!

Stop doing wrong,

learn to do right!

Seek justice,

encourage the oppressed.

Defend the cause of the fatherless,

plead the case of the widow. (from Isaiah chapter 1)

In contrast, Jesus preached God's all-embracing, unconditional and perfect love for the whole of humanity. When questioned about his mission, Jesus gave us two commandments:

1. that we should love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

2. that we should, in return for this love, love our neighbours (ie fellow humans) as much as we would love our very selves.

These two commandments summed up the whole of God's kingdom on earth and the Law of Moses as described in the Torah.

Answer 3

You have to exist to have teachings.

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Jesus' teachings as we know them come from one of the four gospel writers- Mark Matthew Luke and John. They basically tell the story of Jesus before his crucifixion. They each tell of a compassionate, loving, divine Jesus. Through parables and other stories, Jesus teaches people to love each other, and be faithful to God. Those are basically the most basic of Jesus' teachings.

Answer 4

Some of the basic teachings of Jesus were: love your neighbor; turn away from sin and death; and give your life to the most powerful, amazing, almighty God, who created heaven and earth. Jesus taught us that he is the Son of God and that by believing in Him we receive eternal life (rather than punishment in Hades/Hell). He taught "blessed are" in the beatitudes and for the most important thing in life is to love others and God first.

Answer 5

Because we are taught to rely on the gospels, most people are astonished to learn that we really know so little about what Jesus taught. We can certainly say that the Christian religion must reflect some of Jesus' teachings when it says he taught us to love one another and obey the commandments.

One problem is that the gospels were not really written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - they were anonymous and were only attributed to those authors later in the second century. Furthermore, New Testament scholars have established that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were substantially based onMark and a hypothetical document now known as the 'Q' document. Any material added by the authors of Matthew and Luke, that is not found in Mark or Q, can be regarded as probably created by those authors. John's Gospel was, in turn, loosely based on Luke, with some material taken direct from Mark. The Jesus Seminar, a theological research group, concluded that in the four canonical gospels and the Gospel of Thomas, only about 18 per cent of sayings attributed to Jesus were likely to have been said by Jesus himself, with nearly all the sayings that appear in John's Gospel seen as inauthentic. Nearly every teaching attributed to Jesus seems to have originated after his death.

If Mark's Gospel was our earliest narrative about Jesus, we should examine this to establish what Jesus taught, and fortunately we can do so by looking at the parallel structure around which it was written. We can see at event E in the table that follows (Mark 1:22) that the people were astonished at what Jesus taught, but we are not told what this was. At matching event E', the people were again amazed, but again we do not know what was said.




Jesus did not teach that he was the son of God, refusing until the very end to acknowledge this status. It was left to outsiders such as the demons (event H) and the high priest (event S') to tell the reader of this. In event S, Jesus asked who people said he was, but he said nothing. At event H', Jesus even denied any divine status, "Why call me good? There is none good but God."

What we know about what Jesus would have taught, we know from events, not from what we are told of his teachings. God told us at event C and C' that Jesus was his beloved son. He had the ability to cast out spirits (event F and F').

At event K, Jesus rebuked the wind, calming the storm. At K', Jesus rebuked the 'sons of thunder', recalling the previous event. He taught them that whoever will be greatest will be servant of all.

The two stories in pair L share some interesting features:

• In both cases when we expect to be told the character's name, he is left nameless. In verse 5:9 Jesus asks the demoniac his name, the only occasion in the gospel where he does so, yet we are never told his name: the demons answer, saying, "My name is Legion, for we are many." Bartimaeus is not a personal name, but means 'son of Timaeus', which was repeated in Greek (translated into English).
• The demoniac in the first story calls out to Jesus not to torment him.
  Blind Bartimaeus cries out for mercy, rather like asking not to be tormented, rather than beg to be allowed to see, as we would expect.
• The demoniac is naked. Bartimaeus casts off his garment (although possibly retaining other clothing).
• Both stories have close parallels in the Greek classics.

A . John explains the coming of Jesus (Mark 1:1-8)

B .The baptism of Jesus (1:9)

C . The voice of God from heaven, "Thou art my beloved son" (1:11)

D . The forty days in the wilderness as an allusion to Elijah and Moses (1:13)

E . The people were astonished at what Jesus taught (1:22)

F . Jesus casts out an unclean spirit (1:23-26)

G . Pharisees took counsel with the Herodians how they might destroy Jesus (3:6)

H . Demons, whenever they see Jesus, fall down and say that he is the Son of God.

-- Jesus commands that they tell no one of this (3:11-12)

I .. Jesus calls the 12 disciples (3:13-19)

J .. Jesus rejects his own family: he has a new family, his followers (3:31-35)

K . Jesus rebukes the wind (4:36-41)

L . The demoniac, wearing no clothes (5:15), cries out that Jesus not torment him and Jesus sends out the demons (5:1-20)

M . Jesus comes into his own country (6:1)
-- Where he was brought up

N . The people misunderstand Jesus and he can do no mighty work (6:2-6)

O . Jesus sends out the disciples and curses those who will not receive them (6:7-11)
-- in sending the disciples with authority and expecting all to receive them, Jesus is asserting his own authority

P . Herod thinks that Jesus is John the Baptist risen from the dead (6:14)

Q . Herodias and her daughter conspire to kill John the Baptist (6:16-29)

R . Feeding the thousands, and related miracles and discourses (6:33-8:21)

S . Who do people say that I am (8:27)

T . Peter affirms faith in Jesus as the Christ (8:29)

U . Whosoever shall be ashamed of me: of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed (8:38)

V . The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and scribes (8:31a)

W . Be killed and after three days rise again (8:31b)

X . Prophecy of second coming (9:1)- Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God coming with power.

B' .The Transfiguration of Jesus (9:2-3)

C' .The voice of God from heaven, "This is my beloved son" (9:7)

D' . Jesus talks to Elijah and Moses then to the disciples about Elijah (9:4-13)

E' .A great multitude was amazed at Jesus (9:15)

F' .Jesus cast out a dumb spirit (9:17-27)

G' .They shall kill the Son of man and he shall rise on the third day (9:31)

H' .Jesus clarifies his divine status, saying that he is not God: "Why call me good? There is none good but God" (10:18)

I' . Peter says the disciples have left all and followed Jesus (10:28)

J' . Those who have left their family for Jesus have a new family: all Jesus' followers (10:29-30)

K'. Jesus rebukes the 'sons of thunder', James and John (10:35-45 - cf 3:17)

L' .Blind Bartimaeus cries out for mercy and casts off his clothes, then Jesus heals him (10:46-52)

M' .Jesus comes into Jerusalem (11:1-10)
-- Where he will die

N' .Jesus misunderstands the fig tree that can provide no fruit (11:13-14)

O' .Jesus casts out them that sold and bought in the Temple and curses them for making the Temple a den of thieves (11:15-17)
-- Jesus is asserting his authority

P' .Jesus asks whether the baptism of John is from heaven or of men, and the priests, scribes and elders can not answer (11:30-33)

Q' .Parable of husbandmen who conspire to kill the vineyard owner's son (12:1-9)

X' .Prophecy of second coming (chapter 13)

-- on clouds of glory, within the lifetimes of some of those to whom he was speaking

R' .The Last Supper (14:17-25)

S' .Art thou the Christ, Son of God (14:61)

T' .Peter denies Jesus three times (14:66-72a)

U' .And when he thought thereon, Peter wept (14:72b)

V' .The chief priests, elders and scribes delivered Jesus to Pontius Pilate (15:1)

-- Delivering Jesus is a similar concept to rejecting him.
-- Both parts of the pair involve chief priests, elders and scribes

W' .Jesus dies and on the third day rises again (15:37, 16:6)

A' .The young man explains the departure of Jesus(16:6-8)

The most famous teachings from the 'Q' document are the first four beatitudes, which are found in Matthew's Sermon on the Mount and Luke's Sermon on the Plain. Matthew adds a further four beatitudes that are based on Old Testament sources and are therefore unlikely to have been taught by Jesus: for example Matthew's beatitude for the meek is likely to have been inspired by Psalm 37:11. The four beatitudes from Q that might have been taught by Jesus are (Mathew's version):

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
2. They that mourn: for they will be comforted
3. They which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
4. they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The beatitudes in Luke are so different in meaning, although the words are almost the same, that it is unclear what Jesus actually taught:

1. Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
2. Those who are weeping, for they will laugh
3. The hungry, for they will be satisfied
4. Followers of the Son of Man, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 6

As a matter of opinion, one may say that everything Jesus taught was 'major' as He filled the Law of God to the fullest giving us the spiritual aspect of it. He came to reveal 'the Father' whom no one knew up to that point - many think the God of the Old testament is 'the God who became the Father' but in reality it was the Word who became the Christ, Jesus (see 1 Corinthians 10:4). He also came to reveal the Kingdom of God and that humankind is now expected to repent and seek it out. Most importantly keeping God's Law of love. And the list goes on...:

Matthew 5:17New King James Version (NKJV)Christ Fulfills the Law17 Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.



Mark 1:14-15New King James Version (NKJV)Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.





John 14:21New King James Version (NKJV)21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.

Answer 7

based on love, peace, forgiveness, and that anyone had a place on heaven.

Answer 8

Salvation in him alone through a genuine faith