Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view.

He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Jesus depicted delivering the Sermon on the Mount.

7: 18 ); further, he relates that locals thought the image to be a memorial of the healing of the woman with an issue of blood by Jesus ( Luke 8: 43-48 ), because it depicted a standing man wearing a double cloak and with arm outstretched, and a woman kneeling before him with arms reaching out as if in supplication.

The first or " Semitic " form showed Jesus with short and " frizzy " hair ; the second showed a bearded Jesus with hair parted in the middle, the manner in which the god Zeus was depicted.

But by making an icon of Jesus, one is separating his human and divine natures, since only the human can be depicted ( separating the natures was considered nestorianism ), or else confusing the human and divine natures, considering them one ( union of the human and divine natures was considered monophysitism ).

) Several monks are depicted climbing a ladder ; at the top is Jesus, prepared to receive them into Heaven.

She is often depicted on icons bearing a vessel of ointment, not because of the anointing by the " sinful woman ", but because she was among those women who brought ointments to the tomb of Jesus.

Jesus ' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey is depicted on an early 1900s Bible card illustration.

Another major work is The Tribute Money in which Jesus and the Apostles are depicted as neo-classical archetypes.

The soundtrack features music and imagined dialogue scripted by Greenaway for the 126 " wedding guests, servants, onlookers and wedding crashers " depicted in the painting, consisting of small talk and banal chatter that culminates in reaction to the miraculous transformation of water to wine, according to the Gospels the first miracle performed by Jesus.

Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.

A cartoon that was printed in The Gateway, " Antlers of the Damned ," depicted Jesus Christ and featured a dog sodomizing Space Moose.

In January 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney condemned Corpus Christi, which opened for Mardi Gras, because it depicted Judas seducing a gay Jesus as well as Jesus ' administration of gay marriage between two apostles.

In saying 13, Peter and Matthew are depicted as unable to understand the true significance or identity of Jesus.

He maintained that all divine pairings in world myths and religions depicted in art e. g. Isis / Osiris, Aphrodite / Cupid, Asherah / EL, Mary / Jesus and others are retellings of the tale of Semiramis and Tammuz.

A private individual built it by 1816 so that local people could worship Jesus as depicted as Esquipulas ; preservationists bought it and handed it over to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1929.

The infant Jesus is depicted as European with Italianate features.

This last interpretation has often incited violence against Jews ; according to the Anti-Defamation League, " Passion plays historically unleashed the torrents of hatred aimed at the Jews, who always were depicted as being in partnership with the devil and the reason for Jesus ' death ".

In Christianity, the end times are often depicted as a time of tribulation that precedes the Second Coming of the Christian Messiah, Jesus, who will usher in the Kingdom of God and bring an end to suffering and evil and all things wrong with the current world which is tainted by original sin.

Flashbacks of Jesus as a child and as a young man with his mother, giving the Sermon on the Mount, teaching the Twelve Apostles, and at the Last Supper are some of the images depicted.

For example, in the third chapter of Matthew, verses 13-16, describing the baptism of Jesus, the 1611 version reads:

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

* Steiner also believed that there were two different Jesus children involved in the Incarnation of the Christ: one child descended from Solomon, as described in the Gospel of Matthew, the other child from Nathan, as described in the Gospel of Luke.

By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is portrayed as being the Son of God from the time of birth, and finally the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word () as existing " in the beginning ".

In the Book of Matthew 24: 15, of the New Testament, Jesus gives attestation to Daniel, " When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand )".

Ruth figures as one of four females named in the genealogy of Jesus at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew ( Matthew 1: 1-17 ).

Matthew 2: 13 cites Hosea's prophecy in that God would call His Son out of Egypt as foretelling the flight into Egypt and return to Israel of Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus Christ.

Both Matthew and Luke record a tradition of Jesus ’ interpretation of the story of Jonah ( notably, Matthew includes two very similar traditions in chapters 12 and 16 ).

In the New Testament e. g. Matthew 1: 1, 1: 18 ; Mark 1: 1 ; John 1: 17 ; 17: 3 ; 9: 22 ; Mark 9: 40 ; Luke 2: 11 ; 22: 2, the word Christ is preceded by Jesus.

While the Gospels of Mark and Matthew begin by calling Jesus both Christ and the Son of God, these are two distinct attributions.

In the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Pilate, it might appear from the narratives of Matthew and Luke that Jesus at first refused a direct reply to the high priest's question: " Art thou the Christ?

According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.

Criticism of Christianity and Christians goes back to the Apostolic age, with the New Testament recording friction between the followers of Jesus and the Pharisees and scribes ( e. g. Mark 7: 1-23 and Matthew 15: 1-20 ).

Among the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, the message to his followers that one should " Turn the other cheek " and his example in the story Pericope Adulterae, in which Jesus intervenes in the stoning of an adulteress, are generally accepted as his condemnation of physical retaliation ( though most scholars agree that the latter passage was " certainly not part of the original text of St John's Gospel ") More militant Christians consider Romans 13: 3 – 4 to support the death penalty.

The term is used by Jesus Christ in the Olivet discourse, according to both the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark.

In the Matthew account, Jesus is presented as quoting Daniel explicitly.

In Matthew 24 Jesus states:

" ( 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15 ) " As his crowning miracle, Satan will claim to be Jesus " ( Matthew 24: 23, 24 ).

The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped … Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations … Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you .” 14: 2-5 In Matthew, Jesus says, " The sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.