Sentences with phrase «followers after the crucifixion»

That interpretation, it is maintained, arose among his followers after the crucifixion and resurrection.

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Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

Paul's new religion did not fit well with the Jewish beliefs held by the followers of Jesus (led after the crucifixion by Jesus» brother James).

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

It is easy to mark the point at which the Christian message came into being, and that is the moment at which certain of Jesus» followers claimed to have seen him alive again after his death by crucifixion.

Three days after His death by crucifixion, that tomb was found to be empty by a group of His women followers 3.