If so, it seems fitting to deposit one’s sperm in the holiest place possible.
I tried that. I’m not allowed in The Vatican anymore.
They’re not too happy with stampeding cattle, either.
FTR, there’s nothing in the Gospels about Mary Magdalene having been a prostitute. Jesus cast seven demons out of her, none specifically sex-related. She’s not even named as the woman who washed His feet with her hair and anointed (you should pardon the expression) with (spike)nard (truly horrible-smelling stuff; YMMV). Centuries later Pope Gregory I, taking creative liberty, called her a prostitute reformed by Ol’ Jerusalem Slim.
A better avatar would be Imperia, an historically loose commemoration of the prostitutes who serviced the clergymen in attendance at the Council of Constance.
There’s a tradition that Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus was the same person as Mary Magdalen, and also the same person as the woman caught in adultery who was about to be stoned. But it’s not really based on anything: The Bible never says anything like that, and Magdala (where, surprise surprise, Mary Magdalen was from) is a different place from Cana (where Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were from).
While we’re at it, the name “Veronica” isn’t Biblical, either. That’s the name tradition gives to the woman who wiped his face, from the legend that an image of his face remained on the cloth (and thus was a “True Image”, “vera icon”). But playing the odds, the woman who did so was likely to be one of the three Marys, or maybe Martha.
It’s possible, of course, that Mary Magdalen was a prostitute, and it’s quite likely that, even if not her, there were at least some prostitutes among Jesus’ following. The Bible does say that he associated with the outcasts of society, and caught some flak for it.
The bad thing about this image is that it pretends that Jesus was a caucasian European. The scholarly consensus is that he looked like today’s Iraqis (cite: Wikipedia).
Jesus was a Jew.
(cite: lots of bumper stickers)
If that’s your criteria, how about Jeff Chandler as Our Lord and Savior?
I’m guessing he was probably closer to Oded Fehr:
Yabba dabba.
I believe that scholars have recently settled on a re-translation of the shortest verse in the Bible John 11:35 as “Jesus waxed.”
Got bad, got it bad, got it bad…
Hey that’s another candidate for beefcake Jewish Jesus. The miracle of the loaves and fishes and hard boiled eggs
You said it wrong.
Aww shucks, thanks, I’m touched.
Don’t much care if it rains or freezes …