id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9219 Jesus - Wikipedia .html text/html 32188 5320 75 In general, the authors of the New Testament showed little interest in an absolute chronology of Jesus or in synchronizing the episodes of his life with the secular history of the age.[115] As stated in John 21:25, the gospels do not claim to provide an exhaustive list of the events in the life of Jesus.[116] The accounts were primarily written as theological documents in the context of early Christianity, with timelines as a secondary consideration.[117] In this respect, it is noteworthy that the Gospels devote about one third of their text to the last week of the life of Jesus in Jerusalem, referred to as the Passion.[118] Although the gospels do not provide enough details to satisfy the demands of modern historians regarding exact dates, it is possible to draw from them a general picture of the life story of Jesus.[95][115][117] The early Gospel message was spread orally, probably in Aramaic,[245] but almost immediately also in Greek.[246] The New Testament's Acts of the Apostles and Epistle to the Galatians record that the first Christian community was centered in Jerusalem and its leaders included Peter, James, the brother of Jesus, and John the Apostle.[247] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9219.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9219.txt