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37 unusual facts about Jesus


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Controversially, he was once introduced as being "bigger than Jesus" in reference to a misquoted claim by John Lennon claiming that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

Amlan Das Gupta

He learnt Latin and Greek from Raymond Pilette, Jesuit father of St Xavier's College, Calcutta.

Apostle

In the Latter Day Saint tradition, Apostles and prophets are believed to be the foundation of the church, with Jesus Christ himself the chief cornerstone.

Bachal Isu

The Bachal Isu (or "Staff of Jesus") was a Christian relic.

Bangkok Christian Hospital

They considered medical healing as part of their mission, as Jesus had commanded them to "Heal the Sick".

Bangued Christian Hospital

They considered medical healing as part of their mission, as Jesus had commanded them to "Heal the Sicks".

Baptist General Convention of Texas

Baptist General Convention of Texas beliefs include Bible inspiration, the priesthood of the believer, the sanctity of life, the virgin birth of Christ, salvation through the death of Jesus Christ, and that Christ is the head of the church.

Boøwy

Around the same time, Hotei was in Tokyo after being expelled from high school for saying "Jesus had long hair" when his teacher warned him about his hair being too long.

Christian Hermann Weisse

In his addresses on the future of the Protestant Church (Reden über die Zukunft der evangelischen Kirche, 1849), he finds the essence of Christianity in Jesus' conceptions of the heavenly Father, the Son of Man and the kingdom of Heaven.

Death of God theology

Van Buren and Hamilton offered secular people the option of Jesus as the model human who acted in love.

This negation is subsequently itself negated at the Crucifixion of Jesus, resulting in the emergence of the Holy Spirit, God as both concrete (the church) and absolute (spiritual community).

Ernest M. Howse

For example, he did not believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus.

Ferragut

They also had a conversation about religion discussing matters such as the Holy Trinity, the Genesis, the Immaculate Conception and Resurrection of Jesus.

Gabrielle Bossis

This book mainly describes the conversion between Jesus and Gabrielle.

Girls' Brigade

The badge incorporates symbols from the three original organizations and is, therefore, in itself a symbol of union, as well as faith and allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Holy Sponge

It was dipped in vinegar (or in some translations sour wine) and offered to Christ to drink during the Crucifixion, according to Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36; and John 19:29.

Ipsissima verba

Ipsissima verba also refers to the appearances of Aramaic words throughout the gospels that might be the actual words Jesus physically spoke.

Israel Law Review

In 1969, Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn published an article in the journal, which was reported on by the Associated Press and picked up widely by newspapers, in which he indicated that Jewish officials sought to save Jesus from Roman execution, but he refused to cooperate.

Jesus, Friend of Sinners

"Jesus, Friend of Sinners" received positive reviews from critics upon the release of Come to the Well, with many critics praising the song's lyrical content.

Written by Mark Hall and Matthew West and produced by Mark A. Miller, it was released as the second single from the band's 2011 album Come to the Well.

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

In 2011, The Music Tapes performed a cover of this song using Bryars' original tape sample for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series.

Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son is a 1999 film that was adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name by Denis Johnson.

John Wilhelm Rowntree

He played a large part in enabling the Religious Society of Friends to incorporate an understanding of modern science (such as the theory of evolution), modern biblical criticism, and the social meaning of Jesus's teaching into their belief systems.

Kevin Swayne

Swayne is an avid Christian who often talks about how his mother taught him the importance of Jesus in his daily life.

King of Kings: The Early Years

Gameplay was split into three games, each illustrating a Bible story relating to the early years of Jesus.

Paul Nicholas Mason

The novel celebrates a fictional pilgrimage from Peterborough, Ontario, to the small village of Lakefield, where there is, Mason asserts, a statue of a blue-skinned Jesus with healing powers in the basement of St. John's Anglican Church.

Pitman, New Jersey

The land had an auditorium located on a central meeting ground, and twelve roads originated from the central area as spokes on a wheel, each representing one of the disciples of Jesus.

Raising of the son of the widow of Nain

This is the first of three miracles of Jesus in the canonical gospels in which he raises the dead, the other two being the Jairus' daughter and of Lazarus.

The raising of the son of the widow of Nain is an account of a miracle by Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of Luke.

Rajadhiraja St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Cathedral, Piravom

About 2000 years ago, after the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, Judaea, in the days of king Herod, it is said that "Wise men" from the east (The Magi) reached Bethlehem through Jerusalem.

Saint Mohrael

Before she was martyred Jesus appeared to her and promised that whoever mentions her name or intercedes through her that God would answer his/her requests because she accepted suffering with great joy and patience and that whoever calls his daughter after you then I will bless that house.

Stu Grimson

He became a born-again Christian in the early 1990s and led the NHL's Christian Fellowship ("Jesus was no wimp," Grimson said in one interview).

The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name

It is written from the viewpoint of a Roman centurion who is graphically described having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion, and also claims that Jesus had had sex with numerous disciples, guards, and even Pontius Pilate.

United States v. Extreme Associates

The director's cut version also contains a scene where Jesus steps off the cross and has sex with an angel.

Webb Simpson

After his first PGA tour win, he thanked his "...Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ".

Who We Are Instead

The album features two covers: "Lonely People," from the 1974 America song, and "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," from the 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars.

Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers

Its motto is Ecce Agnus Dei, Ecce Qui Tollit Peccata Mundi: Latin for "Behold the Lamb of God, Who Takes Away the Sins of the World", in reference to Jesus.


¡Allá tú!

It's hosted by Jesús Vázquez, but during Jesús's break to focus on another Endemol show, Operación Triunfo, Silvia Jato and Arturo Valls hosted.

Abgar V

The story was later elaborated further by the church historian Evagrius, Bishop of Edessa (c. 536-600), who declared for the first time (as far as is known) that the image of Jesus was "divinely wrought," and "not made by human hands."

Bartimaeus

"Blind" Bartimaeus (Biblical), a person in the Gospel of Mark who is miraculously healed by Jesus

Chakhei

2. Nazareth Vaih: A street named after Nazareth in the Holy Bible, which is the name of the town in Israel, the place where Jesus Christ was raised up, is somehow an attraction for visitors from outside.

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Fernando Ortega also recorded "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" on his 2011 album, "Christmas Songs".

Creed

Jehovah's Witnesses contrast "memorizing or repeating creeds" with acting to "do what Jesus said".

Darrell Stuckey

Stuckey established "Living4One", an organization to "help people discover that they were created to influence the world in a positive way" through living for Jesus.

David Burton

H. David Burton (born 1938), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Encompass World Partners (formerly Grace Brethren International Missions), CE National, Brethren Missionary Herald Company and Women of Grace USA are ministries formed by the FGBC to help fulfill their mission of making Jesus known.

Galilee, Rhode Island

The village is named after the fishing village of Galilee, the hometown of Jesus according to the Bible.

George V. Grigore

In movies he plays the most important characters of the history of being like: Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Rasputin, Pugachov, Hagendorf, John the Apostle and the fiction character like vampire Bruno, Malik The Profet, and many priest and monk characters.

Heine Totland

He has played the leading parts in a number of musicals: Twice as Judas, twice as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, as Marius in a highly successful staging of Les Miserables as Freddy Trumper, and The American in Chess.

Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez

She is the foundress of The Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.The actors for her cause is Hermanas de la Caridad del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús of Spain.

Jacques-Philippe Lallemant

Lallemant is also the author of “Le Sens propre et littéral des Psaumes de David” (Paris. 1709) and of “L’Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction nouvelle” (Paris, 1740), of which there have been countless editions and translations.

James Tyrie

On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-à-Mousson, as professor of Scripture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffaeus, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France and Germany, and played his part in the Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593).

Jesus Christ in comparative mythology

Tryggve Mettinger, former professor of Hebrew bible at Lund University, is one of the academics who supports the "dying and rising gods" construct, but he states that Jesus does not fit the wider pattern.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster

Halley's Comet has been approaching Mars for quite some time, and the nations of Earth send a mission to investigate the Comet, as some form of life has been detected inside the gas of the comet.

Jewish views on religious pluralism

Maimonides, one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in persecution from followers of these new faiths as they attempted to supplant Judaism (in the case of Christianity, called Supersessionism).

John 8

Papias (circa AD 125) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman "accused of many sins" as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage; there is a very certain quotation of the pericope adulterae in the 3rd Century Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum; though without indicating John's Gospel.

John Dickson

John B. Dickson (born 1943), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Joseph Merrill

Joseph F. Merrill, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

JSH

Joseph Smith—History, a part of the sacred texts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Kushiel's Dart

According to the Christian Bible, Mary Magdalene was one of the closest female friends of Jesus, and was the first to discover that he had been resurrected.

Lucas Evangelista

Even in a crisis of club, the young praised his goal, dedicating it for his father (in Brazil, that day was Father's Day), Jesus.

Marcus Julius Alexander

Marcus along with his family were contemporaries to the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the lives of The Apostles of Jesus.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Matt Mikalatos

Matt Mikalatos, the main character in this book, discovers that the Jesus he’s been with is a fake, and goes searching for the real one, all the while encountering many other “imaginary Jesuses” along the way.

Matthew 3:13

Clarke notes that according to tradition Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River five miles south of the Allenby Bridge, today the site of a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to John the Baptist.

Moshe Rosen

Moishe Rosen (1932–2010), founder of the organization Jews for Jesus

Museo Matris Domini

There is another series of frescoes of great emotive and narrative quality, representing Jesus among the Doctors, the Baptism, the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Saint Catherine of Alexandria upon the Wheel, Saint Martin and the Pauper, Jesus entering Jerusalem, and the Miracle of the reanimation of Napoleone Orsini by Saint Dominic, showing the young man falling from his horse.

Pange Lingua

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis - by Venantius Fortunatus, 6th Century, celebrating the Passion of Jesus Christ.

Pär Lagerkvist

Among his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as the man who was freed instead of Jesus, Barabbas; and the Persian King, Ahasuerus.

Parmley

LaVern W. Parmley (1900–1980), the fifth general president of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Pavel Svedomsky

Working in the St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev, Svedosmky painted the northern and southern naves of the cathedral, creating six scenes from the life of Jesus: The Resurrection of Lazarus, The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, The Last Supper, The Agony in the Garden, The Trial of Pilate, The Crucifixion and The Ascension.

Peter in Islam

Shia Muslims maintain that every major prophet had a disciple who became the Imam, or leader, after his death: Adam had Seth; Noah had Shem; Abraham had his sons; Moses had Joshua; and Jesus had Peter.

Pierre Coton

At this period a book published by Santarelli, an Italian Jesuit, who attributed to the pope the power of deposing kings who were guilty of certain crimes, and under such circumstances of absolving their subjects from their allegiance, was the object of severe attacks from the many enemies of the Society of Jesus in France.

Pius Melia

He entered the Society of Jesus on 14 August 1815, taught literature at Reggio, and afterwards was engaged in preaching.

René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New-York).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna

Josip Stadler, Servant of God - the first modern archbishop of Vrhbosna and the founder of the religious order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus.

Russell Nelson

Russell M. Nelson (born 1924), American physician and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Samoan Assemblies of God in New Zealand Incorporated

#Salvation "is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ".

Sources for the historicity of Jesus

Peter Schäfer states that there can be no doubt that the narrative of the execution of Jesus in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth, but states that the rabbinic literature in question are not Tannaitic but from a later Amoraic period and may have drawn on the Christian gospels, and may have been written as responses to them.

The Adulterous Woman

The title of the story is taken from John 8:3-11 - The Adulterous Woman, in which a mob brings an adulteress before Jesus for judgment, the usual punishment for adultery being death by stoning.

The Gospel According to the Meninblack

The original gatefold LP release features as its inside artwork a reproduction of The Last Supper, altered to depict a solemn Maninblack standing watchfully to Jesus' left, in place of Philip.

The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?".

Victor Brown

Victor L. Brown (1914–1996), Canadian leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

William Naranjo

William de Jesús Naranjo Jaramillo (born August 18, 1978 in Riosucio, Caldas) is a male long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Pan American Games (2003 and 2007).