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The 13th century witnessed a turning point in the portrayal of the powerful Kyrios image of Jesus as a wonder worker in the West, as the Franciscans began to emphasize the humility of Jesus both at his birth and at his death via the Nativity scene as well as the crucifixion.
The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
The birth of Jesus at Christmas is all about hope, peace, joy and love, writes Lauren Green of Fox News this holiday season — here's why this matters and the origin stories of each.
And with, "Gold, Frankenstein, and myrrh," according to one child. "I don't know how it would survive in that barn," a child comments about the baby Jesus. "Too stinky.
Jesus' lineage in Islam, going back to his great-grandfather. The Qurʼan upholds the virgin birth of Jesus [118] and thus considers his genealogy only through Mary (Maryam), without mentioning Joseph. Mary is very highly regarded in the Qurʼan, the nineteenth surah being named for her.
In Bethlehem, the home of Jesus' birth, a season of grieving for Palestinian Christians. Laura King. December 19, 2023 at 6:00 AM. ... about two-thirds of them women and children, ...
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.