Sentence examples for presentation of jesus from inspiring English sources

He never spent more than the £2,000 he invested in Guercino's Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, purchased in 1953 and which hangs in the National Gallery.

Candelaria takes its name from the traditional blessing of candles in Catholic churches, an observance that still occurs that day, though the church emphasizes the feast's scriptural origins as the presentation of Jesus.

Upstairs a quiet library is a great spot to read a newspaper with locals on the weekends or to see the painting "Presentation of Jesus in the Temple" by Giovanni Bellini, one of the city's underappreciated masterpieces.

The use of the Deep Purple front man Ian Gillan in the lead role on the original Superstar album underscored the lyrical presentation of Jesus as world-weary, cynical star and collapsed the space between the secular and the religious icon.

A presentation of Jesus material in the form of more or less disconnected sayings (as in the so-called Q Source, composed of independent sayings, behind Matthew and Luke, and in the Gospel of Thomas; see below The two- and four-source hypotheses) tends to fit a Christology in which Jesus is viewed as a teacher of Wisdom, an envoy of Wisdom, or as Wisdom herself.

After the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Joseph, Mary and Jesus return to Nazareth.

By contrast, so much of what passes for radical subversion in artistic presentations of Jesus is on the level of a sophomoric stunt.

Candlemas, also called Presentation Of The Lord, or Presentation Of Christ In The Temple, orHypapante, in the Christian church, festival on February 2, commemorating the occasion when the Virgin Mary, in obedience to Jewish law, went to the Temple in Jerusalem both to be purified 40 days after the birth of her son and to present Jesus to God as her firstborn (Luke 2 22 38).

She performs this service for hundreds of statues each year around this time, as Mexican Roman Catholics prepare to celebrate the Feast of Candelaria, or Candlemas, which marks the presentation of the infant Jesus at the temple — and the end of the holiday season — 40 days after Christmas.

She will still be in the company of the Blessed Virgin Mary who, on the day of Jesus' presentation at the Temple, was told by the prophet Simeon that a "sword would pierce her soul".

It is also a serious presentation of one plausible portrait of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.