JESUS His Unknown Side (Archimandrite Vassilios Bakoyiannis)

“Habit is the gravesite of admiration.” Habit can transform the most unique things into common. The same is true of spiritual matters. The fact that the Son of God became man and He was crucified for our sake, is not as “moving” to us as it should be. If it were, we would glorify the incarnate Lord night and day. We need to look at Christ as if we were hearing about Him for the first time in our lives. Therefore, dear readers, let us read this book, as if we have never heard of Christ, as if He were a stranger. To feel, even in this way, a minimum of His greatness, exclaiming along with David, “Who is so great a God as our God?” (Ps. 76:14)

“The higher we ascend into the sky, the greater it seems, and the more we know about Christ, the greater He seems.” (Metropolitan of Nikopolis Meletios)

 

PROLOGUE

We may know every detail about the life of a Saint, but we have minimal knowledge about the life of Christ. We mostly know just the essentials of His life. As if everything else is not worth mentioning. Nevertheless, even a “minute” detail about His life, is worth more than the whole story of a Saint!

In this book, we are bringing to light some “details” from His life that are hidden in the Gospels, which we usually pass by as unimportant, ultimately not knowing everything we should know about Christ.

I hope this book can bring us even a millimeter closer to our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

 

Contains

 

PART I

UNTIL HIS PUBLIC LIFE

  1. His Birth
  2. In Egypt
  3. In Nazareth
  4. Vocation: Carpenter
  5. His appearance

 

PART II

ΤΗΕ SIGNS OF HIS DIVINITY

  1. “Many other things…”
  2. The first signs of His Divinity
  3. “Healing all Kinds of sickness…”
  4. “As one having authority”
  5. Because He was God

 

PART III

WHAT THE JEWS THOUGHT OF JESUS

  1. The political situation in Palestine
  2. Jerusalem. Capernaum
  3. His relatives
  4. “Even His brothers did not believe in Him”
  5. How the Jews saw Jesus
  6. Did they believe in Him as God?
  7. Messiah. Pharisees. Scriptures
  8. Jesus flouted Pharisees’ laws

 

PART IV

BEARING THE CROSS FOR THREE YEARS

  1. Forty days with the devil
  2. Three years with the devil
  3. Homeless & hungry
  4. Blooded sermon
  5. His soul’s pain

 

PART V

PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION

  1. “Going up to Jerusalem”
  2. Monday. Tuesday
  3. Wednesday. The betrayal
  4. Thursday night. The arrest
  5. Thursday night. Jesus’s trial
  6. Friday morning. At the Praetorium
  7. Judas. Caiaphas. Pilate

 

PART VI

THE CRUCIFIXION

  1. Friday noon
  2. Holy Friday. 12-3 PM
  3. Holy Friday evening. The Burial

 

PART VII

CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

  1. The nightmare of the Pharisees
  2. “The last deception”
  3. How and when did He Rise?
  4. A great shock in Jerusalem

EPILOGUE

  1. We trust the eyewitnesses
  2. “Let us smear our being”

 

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St John of Damascus: “Should we say that there are many Gods? If so, we must recognize that all of these gods, should all have the same wisdom, the same power, and the same goodness. Because, if, for example, one is wiser than another, then the less wise one is not a god, because God is perfect in wisdom, and power, and goodness. God means perfectness.

Nevertheless, if there is no difference among them, and all of them have the same identity in all respects, this shows that we do not have many gods, but one God, because this very identity in all respects declares the existence of one God!” (P.G. 94: 800-1.Adaptation). Who is Jesus Christ “for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man.”

 

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1st English Edition. 2020. All rights reserved

Translated by Fr. Efstathios Varvarelis

Cover design:

Chrysostomos Tromboukis, BA

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The Greek author, the Archimandrite Vassilios Bakoyiannis was born in 1953. He is a graduate of the Theological Academy of Athens and of the Theological School of the University of Belgrade. He received his M.A. in Theology from St. Vladimir’s Seminary and his Ph.D. from the Atlantic International University (U.S.A.). In 1974 he began writing and since then has written over 50 spiritual books. The publication of his books in Greece has been exclusively undertaken by “Thavor” publications, which have been exclusively established for this purpose and for which he exclusively writes. Several of his books have been translated from the Greek language into English, German, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Arabic, Serbian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Swahili. He was ordained in 1980 and serves the Holy Metropolis of Patras in Greece.

 

ΟΤΗΕR BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PUBLISHED BY THE SAME PUBLICATIONS

1. Tearful Eyes 2. Christian or an Actor? 3. The world’s Final call 4. A Monk’s Adventure 5. Confronting the Devil 6. After Death 7. Great Christian Feasts 8. Forty Stormy Years 9. Battles & Passions. Anger, Hatred, Envy 10. Confession 11. Lion-Tamer 12. Highly Favored One. The Life of Mariam (The Virgin Mary) 13. St. John Chrysostom. Holy Communion. How & when 14. Food & Spirituality 15. Heresy in One

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