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Jesus of Nazareth is a carpenter in the Roman client state, Judea.He is torn between his own desires and his knowledge of God's plan for him. His friend Judas Iscariot is sent to kill him for collaborating with the Romans to crucify Jewish rebels, but suspects that Jesus is the Messiah and asks him to lead a war of liberation against the Romans.
A drama based on The Last Temptation of Christ, named Christuvinte Aaram Thirumurivu ('The Sixth Holy Wound of Christ'), written by P. M. Antony and depicting Jesus as a mere good-hearted man instead of the Son of God, was staged in India's state of Kerala. [10] [11] On 10 August 1986, the play debuted in Alappuzha. [12]
The temptation of Christ is a biblical narrative detailed in the gospels of Matthew, [1] Mark, [2] and Luke. [3] After being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus was tempted by the devil after 40 days and nights of fasting in the Judaean Desert.
Front page of the Devocion a las tres horas by P. Alonso Messia SJ.. The Three Hours' Agony (also known as the Tre Ore, The Great Three Hours, or Three Hours' Devotion) is a Christian service held in Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches on Good Friday from noon till 3 p.m. to commemorate the three hours of Christ's hanging at the cross.
The crucifixion of Jesus was the death of Jesus by being nailed to a cross. [note 1] It occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, and later attested to by other ancient sources.
The crucifixion darkness is an event described in the synoptic gospels in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three hours. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most ancient and medieval Christian writers treated this as a miracle , and believed it to be one of the few episodes from the New Testament which were ...
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [1] Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years ...
The Day Christ Died is a 1980 American television film directed by James Cellan Jones, and produced by 20th Century Fox and CBS-TV. A dramatization of the last 24 hours of Jesus Christ 's life, it is based on Jim Bishop 's 1957 book of the same name. [ 2 ]