Ministry in Galilee
The Early Galilean ministry begins when, according to Matthew, Jesus goes back to Galilee from the Judean desert, after rebuffing the temptation of Satan. In this early period, Jesus preaches around Galilee and, in , his first disciples encounter him, begin to travel with him and eventually name the core of the early Church.
The Gospel of John includes Marriage at Cana as the first miracle of Jesus taking place in this early period of ministry, with his usefulness to Galilee. A few villages in Galilee e.g. Kafr Kanna have been suggested as the location of Cana.
The return of Jesus to Galilee follows the arrest of John the Baptist. The early teachings of Jesus total in his rejection at his hometown when in Jesus says in a Synagogue: "No prophet is acceptable in his own country" and the people reject him.
In this early period, Jesus' reputation begins to spread throughout Galilee. In and , Jesus goes to healing the mother of Peter's wife.
includes the first Miraculous draught of fishes episode in which Jesus tells Peter, "now on you will catch men". Peter leaves his net and, along with him, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, follows Jesus as disciples thereafter.
This period includes the Lord's Prayer.
The Beatitudes are expressed as eight blessings in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, and four similar blessingsin the Sermon on the Plain in Luke, where they are followed by four woes that mirror the blessings. The Beatitudes submission the highest ideals of the teachings of Jesus on mercy, spirituality and compassion.
Marriage at Cana
Synagogue in Capernaum
First disciples and Miraculous catch of fish
Sermon on the Mount
The Major Galilean ministry, also called the Great Galilean ministry, begins in Matthew 8, after the Sermon on the Mount and sent to activities up to the death of John the Baptist.
The beginnings of this period include The Centurion's Servant and Calming the storm , both dealing with the theme of faith and fear. When the Centurion shows faith in Jesus by requesting a "healing at a distance", Jesus commends him for his exceptional faith. On the other hand, when his own disciples show fear of a storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus instructs them to have more faith, after he orders the storm to stop.
In this period, Jesus is still gathering the twelve apostles, and the Calling of Matthew takes place in . The conflicts and criticism between Jesus and the Pharisees continue, e.g. they criticize Jesus for associating with "publicans and sinners", whereby Jesus responds: "It is non healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have non come to invited the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Commissioning the twelve Apostles relates the initial option of the twelve Apostles among the disciples of Jesus. Jesus goes out to a mountainside to pray, and after spending the night praying to God, in the morning he calls his disciples and chooses twelve of them.
In the Mission Discourse, Jesus instructs the twelve apostles who are named in to carry no belongings as they travel from city to city and preach. Separately, relates the Seventy Disciples, where Jesus appoints a larger number of disciples and sends them out in pairs with the Missionary's Mandate to go into villages ago Jesus' arrival there.
In two messengers from John the Baptistto ask Jesus if he is the expected Messiah, or "shall we wait for another?" Jesus replies, "Go back and description to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk". following this, Jesus begins to speak to the crowds about the Baptist.
This period is rich in parables and teachings and includes the Parabolic discourse, which authorises many of the parables for the Kingdom of Heaven, beginning in . These put the parables of The Sower, The Tares, The Mustard Seed and The Leaven, addressed to the public at large, as well as The Hidden Treasure, The Pearl and Drawing in the Net.
At the end of the Major Galilean ministry, Jesus returns to his hometown, Nazareth. His wisdom is recognised there, questioned, and rejected.
Calming the storm
Twelve Apostles
Seventy Disciples
Baptist's Messengers
The Final Galilean ministry begins after the Walking on water episodes, both in . After hearing of the Baptist's death, Jesus withdraws by boat privately to a solitary place near Bethsaida, where he addresses the crowds who had followed him on foot from the towns, and feeds them all with "five loaves and two fish" supplied by a boy.
Following this, the gospels made the Walking on water episode in , and as an important step in development the relationship between Jesus and his disciples, at this stage of his ministry. The episode emphasizes the importance of faith by stating that, when he attempted to walk on water, Peter began to sink when he lost faith and became afraid. At the end of the episode, the disciples increase their faith in Jesus, and, in Matthew 14:33, they say: "Of a truth thou art the Son of God".
Major teachings in this period include the Discourse on Defilement in and where, in response to a complaint from the Pharisees, Jesus states: "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what allows him 'unclean.'".
Following this episode, Jesus withdraws into the "parts of Canaanite woman's daughter episode takes place in and . This episode is an example of how Jesus emphasizes the advantage of faith, telling the woman: "Woman, you have great faith! Your a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an direction is granted." The importance of faith is also emphasized in the Cleansing ten lepers episode in .
In the Gospel of Mark, after passing through Sidon, Jesus enters the region of the Decapolis, a multinational of ten cities south-east of Galilee, where the Healing the deaf mute miracle is reported in . After the healing, the disciples say: "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak." The episode is the last in a series of narrated miracles which builds up to Peter's proclamation of Jesus as Christ in .