The feeling that this painting is meant to convey is that you are the Roman who nailed Jesus to the cross. You can see the top and sides of your helmet and your hand clenching the hammer poised over the nail. We are all sinners. We all nailed Jesus to the cross that day.
When you look at the painting as a whole, you can see the cracked earth of a desert riddled with thorns. At the top left, you can see a man dragging a cross through this unforgiving environment. The image represents the struggle of life that…
When people were crowding Jesus to hear him speak, He climbed into a boat and asked Peter to push it out from shore. Peter obeyed. After Jesus finished teaching, he told Peter to gout and fish, but they had worked hard all night and caught…
The first chapter of Jonah describes a “huge fish” (verse 17 NIV) that swallowed Jonah whole. When people use the term biblical proportions, this large fish comes to my mind. The painting shows a bird’s eye view of an ancient ship in a rainstorm. There…
