Worship of the Golden Calf, Lucas Van Leyden, 1530, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Netherlands You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me but showing steadf

Resurrection of Christ, Gerard Seghers 1620, Musee du Louvre, Paris France For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. Matthew 28:4 The story of the resurrection of Christ is bookended by two stories of the attempt to guard the tomb. On Saturday, after Jesus burial the evening before, the Jewish authorities approached Pilate with their suspicion that Jesus' disciples would steal the body and spread a rumor of his resurrection. Pilate refused to provide a guar

Pieta, Franz Von Stuck, 1891, Stael Kunstinstitut Frankfurt Am Main, Germany So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. Matthew 27:59-61 There are many sculptures and paintings of the Pieta, the Deposition of Christ's body. The most famous of which is Michela