The Life and Times of Paul and Myself

My closest friend would have to be Paul. I have accompanied him on his missionary journeys, and while he was imprisoned not once, but twice. During his long sufferings, I tended to his wounds and aided him with positive vibes and thoughts. On Paul's second missionary journey, I cared for him, Silas, and Timothy. In addition, I was there during his third missionary journey, and together these two lasted a span of around seven years.

Since Paul is an apostle of Jesus, his knowledge and experience of being with the Lord first hand has incredibly helped me out for composing my piece of Jesus' good news. The sole purpose of Paul's journeys are to enlighten all people about Jesus Christ. I have thoroughly learned the gospel of Jesus by listening and learning from Paul. We are both constantly teaching and learning from each other. I expect our friendship only to grow stronger as we travel on our numerous endeavors.

An Orderly Account

I created my gospel as an addition to the "narratives" of Jesus, which many other authors have written as a basis to thoroughly understand Jesus. I have critically studied oral and written Jewish traditions so that I can make an orderly account of Jesus' good news. By doing this I am able to prove that Jesus is Lord and Christ and that God has fulfilled his promise to bring redemption to the world.

In addition, I wrote my account of Jesus' good news for Gentile-Christians so that they will know the full truth about Jesus' mission. To help them I even included the Missio Dei, which is chapter 4 verse 18. The Missio Dei is stands for, "Mission of God", and is, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed".

Importance of Women

All throughout Jesus' ministry, I want to glorify the women in his life because they aid and tend to him even more so than some of his closest apostles. Many of these women seem to always be at his side even in dangerous situations. For example, during the time of Jesus' crucifixion, his closest followers were always near and weeping for him. Many of them, who were women, followed him from Galilee, which shows their great belief and commitment to him. In addition, these women wrapped his body up, prepared spices and perfumed oils for him, and set his body in his tomb. Carefully tending to his corpse, some of theses women were the first to discover that his body was missing three days later. Mary Magdalene, Joana, and Mary mother of James told the eleven apostles about Jesus' resurrection, which astounded them because they felt it would be themselves to discover an event like this.

Their immense adherence to Jesus' authority, grace, power, and wisdom demonstrates the tremendous faith they have in him. From these examples I understand and feel that Jesus had many close relationships with all the women in his life. These amazing stories of gratitude towards Jesus have helped me develop my accounts on the good news of Jesus Christ.