What is a Christian? 1

Answer 1 is hardly worth the dignity of a comment; Answer 2 is a mis-reference to Jesus' pilgrimage to Jerusalem when he was on the verge of His teens (the Temple visit, when He stayed behind to talk with the priests, and His parents feared they'd lost Him); Answer 4 is also inside-out. The birth, as the prophets had foretold and as surely you probably remember, occurred at Bethlehem.

This effectively summarises the first four Commandments (see in the Old Testament book of Exodus) and the second six. If one 'gets the principles right' it should be impossible to offend against any of the more detailed stipulations. ('If only ...' : many of us find it a challenge sometimes!)

The point of this masterly story is that just as one might be tempted to give up hope, help may come through a fellow-human being of the least likely kind ~ in this case, a generally despised individual from across the local racial divide. We are encouraged to 'go and do likewise' when we see anyone else in need ~ even if that person is of a kind, in some way, that we would privately rather have nothing to do with.

The formal introduction to the modern Wedding service in many Christian churches makes cheerful allusion to this reported miracle. Jesus made little outward fuss about it at the time, yet it made all the difference to an occasion to which he and his mother had been invited as ordinary family guests.

This relatively minor, yet telling detail is reported as the last of Jesus' public healing miracles.

It is sometimes quite widely (and falsely) assumed that 'seeds = people (or human lives)', as potentially they might have done. But in this case, the seed is 'God's message' which may not always thrive in people's lives because of their various characters, conditions, circumstances and priorities.

'Simon Peter' was Jesus' 'rock', despite letting Him down on various somewhat embarrassing occasions ~ suggesting that Jesus accepts all of us, whatever our faults and lapses.

There is no Scriptural detail of this woman's name, and previous (largely, mediaeval) conflations of her with Mary Magdalene have now largely been discounted by more recent scholarship.

We are on tricky ground if we start hunting for 'a Jesus who loses His cool', if He is proclaimed as the Loving Prince of Peace; but He shared our humanity to the extent of being prey to the same sensitivities and emotions as any of us. The Gospels suggest that He had occasion to 'tick off' (not their usual phrase) his chosen followers for occasional lapses in faith or judgment; it would have perhaps been more surprising if He hadn't. There appear to have been briefly terse 'words' on any or all of these other occasions, though more in sorrow than out of irritation or anger (certainly in the case of Answer 3).
His acknowledged anger in the occasion at Answer 2 ('the cleansing of the Temple') has been termed 'righteous wrath' (i.e. anger that in context is understandable and justified), since the traders were taking established advantage of people under rules about pilgrimage and sacrifice. Jewish tradition, for instance, required certain ritual sacrifices to mark individual and family occasions such as the safe birth of a child (including Jesus Himself): visitors had to buy an 'approved quality' and ritually clean animal of the relevant species (at a mark-up), and using only the proper Temple money (everyday Roman coins being unacceptable in payment for this, since they bore a 'blasphemous' human likeness of the Emperor; so they had to be changed on the way in, once again at captive-market rates of exchange). Small wonder that Jesus registered His displeasure at such schematic commercialisation of 'the House of [His] Father'!

He was grieving for Lazarus, before He then focused Himself and called him back out of the tomb. This story fairly obviously prefigures His own Resurrection.