Crucifixion, Atonement & Resurrection

Hebrews (New Testament, 13 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah, Abram/Abraham, Moses, David, Aaron, Levi. Key places: Egypt, Salem, Abel, Esau, Jericho, Rahab. Opens with: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,..."

Matthew (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah, David, Abram/Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, Judah. Key places: Aram, Rahab, Babylon, Bethlehem 1, Jerusalem, Egypt. Opens with: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham...."

Luke (New Testament, 24 chapters). Key figures: Aaron, Jacob/Israel, Joseph, David, Mary, Abram/Abraham. Key places: Galilee, Nazareth, Syria, Bethlehem 1, Jerusalem, Ituraea. Opens with: "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,..."

Mark (New Testament, 16 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah, Simon, James (Jacob), Moses, Levi, David. Key places: Jerusalem, Jordan, Nazareth, Galilee, Capernaum, Tyre. Opens with: "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;..."

John (New Testament, 21 chapters). Key figures: Moses, Yeshua the Messiah, Jacob/Israel, Simon, Joseph, Judas. Key places: Jerusalem, Jordan, Galilee, Bethsaida, Nazareth, Cana. Opens with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...."

1 Corinthians (New Testament, 16 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah, Moses, Jacob/Israel, James (Jacob), Adam. Key places: Corinth, Adam, Ephesus, Galatia, Jerusalem, Macedonia. Opens with: "Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,..."

(Matthew 1:16, Luke 3:23, Acts 1:14) Mary, by whom Yeshua was born (Matthew 1:16).

Photogrammetry scan of a rock-hewn Jerusalem burial cave in the Kidron Valley carved directly into the natural limestone bedrock with a low rectangular entrance and interior burial benches—illustrating the architecture of Judean rock-cut family tombs from Isaiah 22:16 to the Gospel accounts of the burial and resurrection of Jesus (Matthew 27:60; John 19:41).