James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Pharisees and the Sadducees Come to Tempt Jesus, 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper. Brooklyn Museum.
Even before the events of Holy Week, there had been an ongoing effort to arrest and kill Jesus.
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Orrente, Pedro (1580-1645). Entry into Jerusalem (1620). Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum, Russia.
How important was Jesus's passion to the gospel writers?
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Shroud of Turin's 3D info.
The Shroud of Turin is between a picture and a statue.
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Antonio Ciseri (1821-1891), Ecce Homo, 1871. Gallery of Modern Art, Florence, Italy.
The Caesarea stone: first archaeological evidence for Pontius Pilate.
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Shroud of Turin with enhanced blood images, by Ray Downing.
Digital enhancement of the blood images on the Shroud of Turin highlights the nature of the wounds depicted.
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Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929). The Last Supper, 1896.
Jesus' trip to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover put in motion a series of events that culminated in his death and resurrection.
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Gethsemane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
The oldest olive trees in Gethsemane could be direct descendants of the trees Jesus was amongst on the night of his arrest.
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The Caiaphas ossuary. Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Caiaphas' bones: the first remains of a bibliical personality ever discovered.
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Copyright Ken Dark.
British professor Ken Dark and his team dated this Nazareth house to the first century.
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In the late 1540s Rembrandt took a radical turn in his depictions of Christ that changed the future of Christian art.
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Ray Downing and his team constructed a 3D computer graphics model of a boat which had been found buried in the Sea of Galilee and dated to the time of Jesus. The virtual boat appeared in the History Channel special Jesus: the Lost 40 Days.
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James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Woman with an Issue of Blood (1886-1896). Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper. Brooklyn Museum.
Perhaps the greatest insight into how Jesus performed his miracles comes from the story of the woman with a hemorrhage who got cured by touching Jesus' cloak.
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In 1968, archeologists found the remains of an iron spike 4.53 inches long incrusted into the heel bone of a man who had been crucified during the administration of Pontius Pilate.
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