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43 unusual facts about Jesús


Abdisho IV Maron

Abdisho, whose name is spelled in many different ways (Abdisu, Abd-Jesu, Hebed-Jesu, Abdissi, Audishu) meaning Servant of Jesus, was born in Gazarta on the River Tigris, son of Yohannan of the house of Mari.

Amlan Das Gupta

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

Anna Ali

One of the pieces of evidence for Ali's claims is that of a photograph allegedly depicting Jesus during one visit.

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.

Benjamin Roden

One of the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists is that on October 22, 1844, God, the Father, and Jesus moved from the throne from which they ruled the universe to the judgment throne in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary in order to fulfill the antitypical Day of Atonement wherein they were to go through the books of records in order to judge the people's deeds to determine their rewards or punishments.

BoneTown

The player goes through the game completing missions for various individuals in a style reminiscent of the Grand Theft Auto video games; missions include participating in pornographic films and beating up someone who believes they are Jesus.

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.

Darius de Haas

Among his more recent acting projects has been playing Jesus in the Alliance Theatre's re-imagining of Webber-Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar (re-titled JCS Gospel).

Death of God theology

Most notably, Blake refused to view the crucifixion of Jesus as a simple bodily death, and rather, saw in this event a kenosis, a self-emptying of God.

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

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.

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.

These mean that the children will be able to attend activity days to learn about Jesus and meet up with other GB members, they will also have resources adapted to meet the specific child's needs.

History of Tunisia

The calendar used in this article is a solar calendar, the traditional western or the Gregorian calendar, with the years dating from an approximate birth date of Jesus 'Isa in Islam, designated either B.C. for Before Christ, or thereafter A.D. for Anno Domini.

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.

Jeshua

It is usually considered to be the original Hebrew and/or Aramaic form of the name of Jesus.

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.

The ship is shaped like a double-edged sword a la Book of Revelation.

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.

Limelight Department

The presentation contained thirteen, ninety second sections which portrayed the life of Jesus from birth to death.

Maria Jeyarani David

Maria was into lecturing and teaching at various academic institutions abroad and later in the United States before she started her "healing ministry" that focuses on miraculous healings of diseases through Jesus, since 1986.

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.

Michael Baumgarten

He then travelled throughout Germany, demanding justice, telling the story of his life (Christliche Selbstgesprache, 1861), and lecturing on the life of Jesus (Die Geschichte Jesu. Fr das Verständniss der Gegenwart, 1859).

Nulla in mundo pax sincera

The text dwells on the imperfections of a world full of evil and sin, and praises Jesus for the salvation he offers from it.

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.

Prem Mandir

There is a mosaic of Jesus seated in a meditation pose above a lotus like an Indian holy man.

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-Simon-les-Mines, Quebec

It is named after Simon the Zealot, one of Jesus' apostles, while "les Mines" refers to a small gold mine that was discovered and exploited in the mid-nineteenth century.

Sarras

In the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Joseph of Arimathea and his followers visit the island on their way to Britain; while there Joseph's son Josephus is invested as a bishop and shown the mysteries of the Grail by Christ himself.

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 Encantadas

The narrator last sees her riding to her hometown on the back of a donkey, an image strongly evoking Christ's ride into Jerusalem in John 12:12-20.

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.

Three Versions of Judas

"God became a man completely, a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of being reprehensible - all the way to the abyss. In order to save us, He could have chosen any of the destinies which together weave the uncertain web of history; He could have been Alexander, or Pythagoras, or Rurik, or Jesus; He chose an infamous destiny: He was Judas."

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.

Verna Bloom

She has had roles in more than 30 films and television episodes since the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of Jesus, in The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988 and Marion Wormer in Animal House in 1978.

Virology Journal

Jesus then took her by the hand and the fever immediately left.

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.

You Get Me

After she started following Jesus, her perspective of life took a drastic change.


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."

Adolph Ernst Knoch

Knoch was put off by the doctrine of the Trinity, saying that its sense of Divinity of Jesus Christ as being equal with God the Father is not biblical.

Alexander Morrison

Alexander B. Morrison (born 1930), Canadian scientist, academic, civil servant and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Automobile folklore

The figure is well known enough to have inspired a folk song Plastic Jesus, originally attributed to Ed Rush and George Cromarty, which has acquired many anonymous folk variants.

Bartholomew Cubbins

Robert L. Short, in his book The Parables of Dr. Seuss, points out that Bartholomew shares a name with one of the Apostles of Jesus.

Bartimaeus

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

Black Pope

Adolfo Nicolás, 30th (and current) Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

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

Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

On Christmas Eve in 1800, knowing they could face the guillotine for their actions, Father Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de Chevalerie officially established the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary with a mission to spread the message of God's unconditional love as manifested through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and finding God's mercy through the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Constitutional references to God

The invocation of God and Jesus in the Preamble of the Constitution of Ireland has been cited in Supreme Court rulings.

Creed

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

Cura te ipsum

:23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” - Gospel of Luke chapter 4:23

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.

Daughters of Jesus

That same year, on 1 July, the Daughters of Jesus of Brittany merged with an older congregation of the same name founded in 1820 in Vaylats in southern France.

Elbert Smith

Elbert A. Smith (1871–1959), American leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

FARC files

During the diplomatic crisis caused by the 2008 unrest in Bolivia, the United States government froze the assets of several senior members of the Venezuelan Government: ex-Interior Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, senior DISIP director Henry de Jesús Rangel and military intelligence chief Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, accusing them of "arming, supporting and financing" the FARC and their "killing of innocents", according to information discovered on Reyes' computers.

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.

Gallery East

In June, Dark Week, which was described as a “boho free-for-all,” featured alt-culture performances such as 24 bands lip syncing their own music, including performances by The Dark, Young Snakes, Red, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and Peter Dayton, as well as "The Wonderful World of Jesus" and The Dark's "89 Systems".

Governmental theory of atonement

The satisfaction view argues that Christ made satisfaction to the Father for the sins of humanity by His sacrifice on the Cross, penal substitution theory argues that Jesus received the full and actual punishment due to men and women, while the Christus Victor view emphasises the liberation of humanity from the bondage of sin, death, and the Devil.

Howard Hunter

Howard W. Hunter (1907–1995), fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Ignacio López

Íñigo Oñaz López de Loyola (Saint Ignatius of Loyola) (1491-1556), founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

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).

Jesuit Historical Institute

The Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu (MHSI) are critical editions of primary sources from the first centuries of the Society of Jesus’ history.

Jesus Army Productions

Jesus Army Productions came out of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

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 María de Leizaola

Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez (7 September 1896, San Sebastian - 16 March 1989) was a Basque politician and was named President of the Basque Government in exile after José Antonio Aguirre's death in 1960.

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.

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 Chessell Buckler

Buckler did a lot of work in Oxford, carrying out repairs and additions to St. Mary's Church, and Oriel, Brasenose, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges.

JSH

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

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

In Don Winslow's novel The Power of the Dog the character Father Parada is based on parts of Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo's life and death.

KJNP

KJNP is a broadcasting call sign, standing for King Jesus North Pole.

Leroy Johnson

Leroy S. Johnson (1888–1986), leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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.

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.

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.

Nuestra Señora de Lourdes Chapel

In 1992, the Jesus and the Children and the Holy Spirit stained-glass windows were restored, with a $22,000 donation from Esso Standard Oil Company.

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.

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.

Russell Nelson

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

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.

Until Death Do Us Part

Jesus' codename comes from enemies who witness his abilities and can only exclaim "Jesus" in response.

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).