Jesus and the Apostles Art Analysis Acts 1:1-26

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Jesus and the ApostlesArt AnalysisActs 11-26

• by Alyssa Paulus

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Ascension of Jesus

• Acts 16-11
• The Ascension
• John Singleton Copley, 1775
• Different from Luke 2450-53
• While the apostles look up toward the heavens two
  men dressed in white appear
• Men of Galilee, why are you standing there
  looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken
  up from you into heaven will return in the same
  way as you have seen him going into heaven.

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Apostles Return to Jerusalem

• Acts 112
• Disciples Return
• Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695
• Eleven apostles (excluding Judas) return to
  Jerusalem

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Community in Jerusalem

• Acts 113-14 Jean Colombe, 1486

• Eleven apostles, with some women, Mary the
  mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

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Death of Judas

• Matt 273-5
• Judas deeply regretted what he had done
  Flinging the money into the temple, he departed
  and went off and hanged himself.
• Acts 118
• He bought a parcel of land with the wages of
  his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open
  in the middle, and all his insides spilled out.

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Death of Judas

• The Remorse of Judas
• Edward Armitage, 1866

• Judas Hangs Himself
• Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695