--- title: Jesus' life and teaching — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Jesus' life and teaching», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jesus began his work when John the Baptist baptised him in the river Jordan and a voice said «This is my Son, whom I love»; then for fort --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Jesus' life and teaching # Jesus' life and teaching Lesson 13 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/0/) — Jesus began his work when John the Baptist baptised him in the river Jordan and a voice said «This is my Son, whom I love»; then for forty days in the desert he was tempted and said no each time, answering with Scripture. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/1/) — He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with «Follow me», and chose twelve apostles as different as a tax collector and a rebel. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/2/) — Asked for the greatest commandment, he said: love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/3/) — He welcomed those others pushed away — children, tax collectors like Zacchaeus, people with leprosy, a Samaritan woman at a well — and their lives changed. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/4/) — For a child today this means: nobody is too small, too bad or too different to be welcomed, and saying sorry includes putting things right. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/6/) — For forty days in the desert Jesus was tempted by the devil and said no each time, using Scripture; Lent remembers these forty days. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/7/) — Jesus called fishermen such as Peter, Andrew, James and John, saying «Follow me and I will make you fishers of people». - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/9/) — Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and the second is to love your neighbour as yourself. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/10/) — When the disciples sent children away, Jesus said «Let the children come to me». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/11/) — Zacchaeus was a short, dishonest tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus; after Jesus went to his house he paid back four times what he had cheated. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/12/) — Martha was busy serving while her sister Mary sat listening to Jesus, and Jesus said Mary had chosen the better part. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/13/) — Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/14/) — Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well, whom others avoided, and offered her «living water». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/15/) — Jews and Samaritans of that time usually kept apart, which is why the woman was surprised Jesus spoke to her. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/16/) — Christians believe Jesus did no wrong, yet he joined ordinary people in being baptised. - ← previous: [The birth of Jesus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/) - next →: [Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)