jesuses

Example Sentences

• "In his Antiquities, of the twenty -eight high priests who held office from the reign of Herod the Great to the fall of the Temple, no fewer than four bore the name Jesus: Jesus ben Phiabi, Jesus ben Sec, Jesus ben Damneus and Jesus ben Gamaliel. Even Saint Paul makes reference to a rival magician, preaching ‘another Jesus’ (2 Corinthians 11,4). The surfeit of early Jesuses includes:[…]"
• ">>> WHO IS JESÚS? / > / > / > Don't you know? He's the bloke down the road that sells firewood. He also / > drinks too much and gets into fights. / Yeah, but you live in Spain, don't you. Not a lot of Jesuses (Jesi?) around here."
• "I explained it above ... he obviously only appears every 4000 - 5500 years, so the fools still have another 2000+ years to wait for him to appear again. ;-) / Of course, there's probably hundreds of Jesuses (Jesi??) born every year in Spanish speaking countries, so even if the fictional fool did come back he'd need to use a different name ... maybe Zingnut-weeblebuster. ;-)"
• "The Manichaeans had two Jesuses, an impassive and a passive, a Savior of souls and a Savior of bodies."
• "Witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, and sorcery may not play prominent parts in American religion, but faith healing and miracle working are extremely important - to such an extent that they, too, have tended to become organized and institutionalized, much to the horror of the more liberal religionists who are aghast at plastic Jesuses on automobiles and towers of faith at Oral Roberts University."
• "One Christmas, he talked me into going around town stealing all the baby Jesuses out of creche scenes. We had Jesuses that lit up from underneath and Jesuses whose crowns lit up and Jesuses whose hands and feet moved. We had porcelain Jesuses and plastic Jesuses and wooden Jesuses..."