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Jesus’ world
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THE LAND
Jesus’ homeland was I
. It is bordered by the
the West, and S
_______________
______ to the North.
Other places near it are E
,L
and the
Sea. A large
valley called the
______ cuts through the landscape of Israel, from Lake H
past the
Sea. In this valley lies the River
_____________________________
important during Jesus’ time as it was used for
land was very f
. The Sea of
was very
. The surrounding
____ in Galilee.
The D
Sea is
km, by
d
and s
. It is thought to be the
Jesus lived in the country town of N
___________ and
and
. Jesus began his pr
,
and the Sea of
_______________. Two references in the Bible to Galilee are
valley of
Sea on
km. It is very b
,h
,
point on earth.
. It sits on a sheltered hill overlooking the
. Four of the cultures that lived there were ____________________ ,
_________________________, ______________________ and __________________.
The most common language was ____________________________.
DAILY LIFE
The food that Jewish people ate was governed by religious ___________. A feature of Roman
food was
.
Look at the food list and put the items in the boxes below according to:
Food I have eaten before....
Food I have never heard of or
food that I don’t know about at
all....
Food I have not eaten before...
OCCUPATIONS
Make a list of the jobs available to people in Jesus’ day that you don’t know about. For homework
tonight find out what each job is about and write a brief description beside the job.
There were many small farms around Galilee, and for the farmers life was tough. Some of the
crops that were grown on the farms were __________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________.
Jesus may have worked on a farm. He showed some understanding of farming in
Mark
.
THE ROMANS AND HEROD
In
BC, civil war began in Palestine between two
. This gave the
Roman General P
an excuse to invade and overrun it. Jerusalem took __________
months to fall to the Romans. P
the Great was the first Roman ruler of Palestine.
Later Antipator’s son H
was given governorship of Galilee. The Jews __________
Herod, and the Sanhedrin Jews had accused him of
.
In
BC, the P
invaded Palestine. Herod
. He met
many famous people when in Rome e.g.C
, Mark
and O__________
Caesar. After the P
had been defeated, Herod was made King of Judea
(southern Palestine). He had to carry out a c
which Emperor Augustus had
ordered. This is recorded in Luke 2:1.
Herod was determined to make his kingdom great, with a vast building programme. He
1. __________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________________
When Herod died, Jerusalem was divided between his three sons, who were also hated by the
Jews.
1. ___________________________
governed
.
2. _____________________________________
governed
______
.
3. ___________________________________________ governed __________________.
In
AD, Emperor T
made P
P
a
prefect or ruler of Judea. He did not like the Jews and was known as a ______________ and
callous ruler.
Although many Jews did not like the Roman rule, the Romans did allow freedom of religion. The
Roman capital was
.