The Gospel Of Jesus, Illustrated

Seton Program Books Only: The Illustrated Gospel for Children. The Illustrated Gospel for Children This children's book is a youthful yet tasteful comic-book style presentation of the life of Jesus, with vibrant and expressive four-color illustrations and simple but engaging text.

The moving story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is told in a way young readers will find attractive. It includes fifty crucial episodes from the Gospel which are largely keyed to the Sunday lectionary -- so they help little ones prepare for Mass. Magnificat's Illustrated Gospel would make a good First Communion gift or back-to-school present.

Miracles of Jesus in the Gospel of John

Jesus integrates the spirit and letter see Mt 5: We see this personified in St. Joseph, who obeys the law but in a compassionate manner. A model disciple within the Gospel, St. Joseph exemplifies the integration of justice, mercy and obedience that we are to emulate. God is compassionate and forgiving, so we can always start anew. The Gospels provide no biographical data on their author. They do not even include his name.

The Gospel of Luke tells the story of how Jesus creates a new Israel. | The Bible Project

We must rely on tradition and inference for guidance as to his identity. How likely is it that a tax collector would have the background and scribal skills necessary to compose such a polished Gospel? Of course, apostolic authorship as distinct from origin of a Gospel is not essential to it being inspired, so the exact identity is not crucial. The closest the Gospel comes to a description of its author may be Matthew These study aids give you the layout of the Gospel, survey the prominent themes, and place the Gospel in its historical, canonical and contemporary context.

A good Catholic commentary can also help.

My recommendation for beginning and intermediate readers is the Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by The Liturgical Press, but you can hardly go wrong with any contemporary Catholic commentary. Consult a priest, deacon or someone well acquainted with the Scriptures for their recommendations. Many cycles covered only one of these groups, and others combined the Life of the Virgin with that of Jesus.

Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. The main scenes found in art during the Middle Ages are: These scenes also could form part of cycles of the Life of the Virgin:. After the Early Christian period, the selection of scenes to illustrate was led by the occasions celebrated as Feasts of the Church , and those mentioned in the Nicene Creed , both of which were given prominence by the devotional writers on whose works many cycles appear to be based.

Another influence, especially in smaller churches, was liturgical drama , and no doubt also those scenes which lent themselves to a readily identifiable image tended to be preferred. Devotional practices such as the Stations of the Cross also influenced selection. The miracles of Christ did not score well on any of these counts.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

The difficulties this could cause are shown in the 12 small narrative scenes from the Gospel of Luke in the 6th-century St. Augustine Gospels ; about a century after the book was created captions were added to these images by a monk, which may already misidentify one scene. However, some miracles commonly used as paradigms for Christian doctrines continued to be represented, especially the Wedding at Cana and Raising of Lazarus , which were both easy to recognise as images, with Lazarus normally shown tightly wrapped in a white shroud, but standing up.

Paintings in hospitals were more likely to show scenes of the miraculous cures. An exception is St Mark's Basilica in Venice where a 12th-century cycle of mosaics originally had 29 scenes of the miracles now 27 , probably derived from a Greek gospel book. The scenes originating in the apocryphal Gospels that remain a feature of the depiction of Life of the Virgin have fewer equivalents in the Life of Christ , although some minor details, like the boys climbing trees in the Entry to Jerusalem , are tolerated.

Water to Wine

The Harrowing of Hell was not an episode witnessed or mentioned by any of the Four Evangelists but was approved by the Church, and the Lamentation of Christ , though not specifically described in the Gospels, was thought to be implied by the accounts there of the episodes before and after. Vernacular art was less policed by the clergy, and works such as some medieval tiles from Tring can show fanciful apocryphal legends that either hardly ever appeared in church art, or were destroyed at some later date.

By the Gothic period the selection of scenes was at its most standardized. Early Christian art contains a number of narrative scenes collected on sarcophagi and in paintings in the Catacombs of Rome.

Miracles are very often shown, but the Crucifixion is absent until the 5th century, when it originated in Palestine , soon followed by the Nativity in much the form still seen in Orthodox icons today.