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The earliest writings of what became the New Testament show how the first disciples gave words to their understanding of Jesus by turning to the Hebrew Scriptures as they prayed and worshipped together.
Expressions like Lord and Christ (Messiah), and particularly the phrase Son of Man, are crucial to an understanding of the person of Christ, but it is the disciples’ experience of the resurrection of Christ which marked the coming alive of faith, and, gradually, around this experience they set accounts of the words and deeds of Christ expressed in the four Gospels.