The great painters' gospel : $b pictures representing scenes and incidents in the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with Scriptural quotations, references and suggestions for comparative studyBailey, Henry Turner
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The great painters' gospel : $b pictures representing scenes and incidents in the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with Scriptural quotations, references and suggestions for comparative study
Bailey, Henry Turner
Jesus Christ -- Art; Jesus Christ -- Biography; Painting
_Dore, Plate 54,_ has selected a later moment, "Trust me," Jesus
replied, "a time is coming when it will not be on this mountain or in
Jerusalem that you will worship God the Father."
[Illustration: Jesus and the Woman of Samaria.]
Plate 54. _Jesus and the Woman of Samaria._ Gustave Dore. 1833-1883.
_Hofmann, Plate 55,_ may have chosen to illustrate the twenty-fourth
verse, "God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship
spiritually, with true insight." (John 4:24.)
[Illustration: Jesus and the Woman of Samaria.]
Plate 55. _Jesus and the Woman of Samaria._ H. Hofmann. 1824-
THE CALL OF THE FOUR.
Walking by the sea of Galilee one morning, Jesus saw two brethren,
Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, . . . and two
other brethren, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, with
their nets, for they were fishermen. And he called them: "Come ye
after me and I will make you fishers of men." These four became his
first disciples. (Matt. 4:18-22.)
_Zimmermann, Plate 47,_ has seized upon the moment when Jesus makes
that extraordinary statement. Peter and John are nearest Jesus, the
other two in the background. "Fishers of men;" the phrase is
mysterious; they cannot understand it. Nevertheless, they leave all
and follow Him.
[Illustration: Christ and the Fishermen.]
Plate 47. _Christ and the Fishermen._ Zimmermann. 1832-
Luke gives the account of a miracle between the morning sermon of
Jesus to the crowd upon the beach, and this call of the four
fishermen: "When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, Push off
into deep water, and then all throw out your nets for a haul." "We
have been hard at work all night, sir," Simon answered, "and have not
caught anything, but as you say so, I will throw the nets out." They
did so, and they enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets
began to break. So they signalled to their mates in the other boat to
come and help them; which they did, filling both the boats so full of
fish that they were almost sinking.
_Raphael, Plate 49,_ illustrates the moment, a little later, when
Peter threw himself down at Jesus' knees, exclaiming: "Depart from
me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." (Luke 5:8.) Raphael made this as
a design for a tapestry for the Sistine Chapel, Rome.
[Illustration: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes.]
Plate 49. _The Miraculous Draught of Fishes._ Raphael. 1483-1520.
EARLY GALILEAN MINISTRY.
_Schoenherr, Plate 69, Hofmann, Plate 70, Max, Plate 71,_ give
different interpretations of Matt. 8:16-17. An evening at Capernaum,
when the words of Isaiah (53:4) began to be fulfilled, "Himself took
our infirmities and bare our diseases."
[Illustration: Healing the Sick.]
Plate 69. _Healing the Sick._ Karl Gottlieb Schoenherr. 1824-
[Illustration: Healing the Sick.]
Plate 70. _Healing the Sick._ H. Hofmann. 1824-
[Illustration: Healing the Sick Child.]
Plate 71. _Healing the Sick Child._ Gabriel Max. 1840-
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