The Life of Jesus: A Harmonized Timeline A harmonized timeline of Jesus' life from birth to ascension across all four Gospels. This timeline traces the opening movement of Matthew's Gospel — from the genealogy that roots Jesus in Israel's history, through His birth and the visit of the Magi, His baptism by John, His testing in the wilderness, the calling of the first disciples, and into His inaugural Sermon on the Mount where He declares the values of the kingdom.