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1 When did Jesus die?

2 Who played Peter the movie Jesus?

3 Among these scholars is ________, who supposes in his book on Jesus that "it appears that not only John the Baptist, but possibly Jesus and his family as well, were close to the Qumran community."[148]

4 When was Jesus born?

5 What role did Luca Zingaretti play in the movie Jesus?

6 Who played Joseph the movie Jesus?

7 Jesus presented a view of God as more lovingly parental, merciful, and more forgiving, and the growth of a belief in a blissful ________ and in the resurrection of the dead.

8 Where was Jesus born?

9 What role did Armin Mueller-Stahl play in the movie Jesus?

10 Islam teaches that Jesus ascended bodily to heaven without experiencing the crucifixion and resurrection,[36] rather than the traditional Christian belief of the death and ________.

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan?
  • the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
  • the epic anti-war film Civilization (poster pictured), depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916?
  • the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus, authenticated by the Vatican?
  • publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
  • the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?
  • the Lazarus syndrome is named after Lazarus of Bethany (pictured), who the Bible says was raised from the dead by Jesus?
  • the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
  • the pose of the goddess in Hans Holbein the Younger's Venus and Amor closely echoes that of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper?
  • the view that Jesus and John were lovers, considered a blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
  • the intended occupant of the empty throne (example pictured) may have been Alexander the Great, Buddha, Julius Caesar, or Jesus Christ?
  • the anonymous composer of the 15th-century carol "I syng of a mayden" used traditional imagery deriving from Old Testament texts to celebrate the Annunciation of Jesus?
  • the South Park episode "Margaritaville" portrays Kyle as a Jesus-like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession?
  • the Russian artist Pavel Svedomsky painted six scenes from the life of Jesus in St Volodymyr's Cathedral?
  • nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus?
  • legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
  • according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?
  • actor Greg Kinnear (pictured) fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"?
  • a sculpture of Jesus near TiÅ”kevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
  • Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
  • Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
  • Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
  • although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
  • devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
  • in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, California's Death Valley was used as the setting of Jesus' 40-day journey into the wilderness?
  • it has been suggested that the shepherds in Mantegna's The Adoration of the Shepherds (pictured) are facing Joseph rather than Jesus?
  • in his depiction of the Denial of Peter episode (pictured), Rembrandt portrayed Jesus in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at Peter who faced away from him?
  • in his book James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus?
  • in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?
  • 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
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