Scripture says: "Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, and of her was born Jesus ... God sent an angel to tell you to care for Mary, you obeyed in spite of the mystery which surrounded her ...

The Bible says she lived in Nazareth when Romans ... considered quietly leaving her until an angel came to him in a dream and told him not to. The birth of Jesus is mentioned in just two Gospels ...

Jesus' right hand is raised in blessing ... The Crucifixion is flanked on the side panels by The Annunciation above the Virgin and Child Enthroned surrounded by angels and the 'Stigmatisation of St ...

As a child, Martin watched Franco Zeffirelli’s miniseries “Jesus of Nazareth,” and grew fascinated with the scene of a dead man exiting his tomb upon the Lord’s command. For a previous ...

Good Friday commemorates the suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth more than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. At first glance, Good Friday seems like the ultimate misnomer.

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

This month, the historian Nathanael Andrade weighs in with a new book, “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.” In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world ...

There are certainly no serious and credible historians — atheist, agnostic, or otherwise — who dispute the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth’s death, burial, and the empty tomb. And ...

But the big question for me was, ‘Why do we care?’” says Pagels, referring to how the story of Jesus of Nazareth has been embraced by so many over the past two millennia. “How does that ...