下面为大家整理和介绍的是一个关于耶稣的SAT写作经典素材。耶稣是东西方世界最著名的一个人，关于他的任何事都属于大家耳熟能详的，但是相对的也是最有说服力的。所以大家可以在备考SAT写作考试的时候适当的应用一下。

　　Jesus Christ(耶稣基督)

　　The central figure of the Christian faith, whose nature as "Son of God' and whose redemptive work are traditionally considered fundamental beliefs for adherents of Christianity. "Christ' became attached to the name "Jesus' in Christian circles in view of the conviction that he was the Jewish Messiah ("Christ').

　　Jesus of Nazareth is described as the son of Mary and Joseph, and is credited with a miraculous conception by the Spirit of God in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. He was apparently born in Bethlehem c.6--5BC(before the death of Herod the Great in 4BC), but began his ministry in Nazareth. After having been baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan (perhapsAD28--29, Luke 3.1), he gathered a group of 12 close followers or apostles, the number perhaps being symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel and indicative of an aim to reform the Jewish religion of his day.

　　The main records of his ministry are the New Testament Gospels, which show him proclaiming the coming of the kingdom of God, and in particular the acceptance of the oppressed and the poor into the kingdom. He was apparently active in the villages and country of Galilee rather than in towns and cities, and was credited in the Gospel records with many miraculous healings, exorcisms, and some "nature' miracles, such as the calming of the storm. These records also depict conflicts with the Pharisees over his exercise of an independent "prophetic' authority, and especially over his pronouncing forgiveness of sins; but his arrest by the Jewish priestly hierarchy appears to have resulted more directly from his action against the Temple in Jerusalem.

　　The duration of his public ministry is uncertain, but it is from John's Gospel that one gets the impression of a 3-year period of teaching. He was executed by crucifixion under the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator, perhaps because of the unrest Jesus's activities were causing. The date of death is uncertain, but is usually considered to be in 30 or 33. Accounts of his resurrection from the dead are preserved in the Gospels, Pauline writings, and Acts of the Apostles; Acts also refers to his subsequent ascension into heaven.

　　The New Testament Gospels as sources for the life of Jesus have been subject to considerable historical questioning in modern Biblical criticism, partly in view of the differences amongst the Gospel accounts themselves (with the differences between John's Gospel and the other three often casting doubt on the former). Form criticism has drawn attention to the influences affecting the Jesus-traditions in the period before the Gospels were written, and when traditions were being transmitted mainly in small units by word of mouth. Redaction criticism has, in addition, drawn attention to the creative role of the Gospel writers.

　　Some scholars have been pessimistic about efforts to reconstruct the life of Jesus at all from our Gospel sources, and have distinguished between the "Jesus of history' and the "Christ of faith', with only the latter being theologically significant for faith. More recent scholars have often attached greater importance to the historical Jesus for Christian faith, and in particular efforts have been made to present a credible hypothesis about the historical Jesus in terms of the social, political, and cultural situation in Palestine in the early 1st-c. Limited references to Jesus can also be found in works of the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius; and other noncanonical Christian traditions circulated about Jesus, many of which are late and probably spurious.

　　关于耶稣的小故事很多，大家可以在平时备考SAT写作素材的时候进行一些积累，会非常有用。SAT写作话题的广泛性决定了SAT写作素材的积累也是非常多样化的，尤其是像耶稣这样的名人的描述，如果能够选择一个恰当的切入点会更加的得当。