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Manu-Kahu by Brett a'Court
Victory Over Death 2 by Colin McCahon
Christ on the Cross by Albrecht Dürer

John 12:20–36 Losing Life and Finding Life


Transport by Antony Gormley
Tame Buzzard Line by Richard Long
Christ driving the Traders from the Temple by El Greco

1 Kings 8:14–61; 2 Chronicles 6:3–7:3 The Dedication of the Temple


Gjion Biamishtea by Carlo Gianferro
Arch, from the series 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors', by Ai Weiwei
Bela Lugosi by Monica Lundy

Numbers 35; Deuteronomy 4:41–43; Joshua 20 Cities of Refuge


Theodor Metochites presenting model of the church of the Chora to Christ by Unknown artist
Rondanini Pietà by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Wooden Reliquary Box with Stones from the Holy Land by Unknown Syrian or Palestinian artist

1 Peter 2:1–10 A Living Stone and a Chosen People


Ezekiel's Vision of the Wheel and the Four Living Creatures by Jost Amman after Melchior Bocksberger
Descriptio Rote secunde iuxta vitulum. Et secunda pars secunde dispositionis, from Henricus de Carreto's 'De Rotis Ezechielis' by Unknown artist, Northern Italy
A panel from the Book of Ezekiel Window by Unknown French artist

Ezekiel 10 Great Wheels of Fire


Martinian of Palestine: Scene, encountering shipwrecked woman, from Vitae patrum by Unknown Italian artist
Paul's Shipwreck (Shipwreck of Apostle Paul on Malta) by Ludolf Backhuysen I
The Apostle Paul's Shipwreck, from Pauline Epistles with commentary by Petrus Lombardus by Unknown Spanish artist

Acts of the Apostles 27 ‘A Rough Rude Sea’


Marriage feast at Cana, with an historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of Jonah being cast from his boat and praying in the sea, with two grotesques battling in the lower margin, from the Queen Mary Psalter by Marriage feast at Cana, with an historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of Jonah being cast from his boat and praying in the sea, with two grotesques battling in the lower margin, from the Queen Mary Psalter
Psalm 68; A bearded, crowned king, standing naked in water up to his chest in a shaft sunk into the earth, from The Luttrell Psalter by Psalm 68; A bearded, crowned king, standing naked in water up to his chest in a shaft sunk into the earth, from The Luttrell Psalter by Unknown English artist
Henry as David kneeling in prayer among ruins, from Henry VIII Psalter by Jean Mallard [attrib.]

Psalm 69 A Cry for Deliverance


Antichrist and the 'Times of the Gentiles', from Dispensational Truth or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages by Clarence Larkin
A Chronological Chart of the Visions of Daniel and John (first chart) by Joshua V. Himes (printer); Designed by Charles Fitch
Daniel 7: The Beast with Ten Horns by Basil Wolverton

Revelation 13 Beastly Sights


Model of a female, half skeletal, half living by Unknown English artist
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) by John Gerrard
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem by Rembrandt van Rijn

Jeremiah 4 Raising Standards


Joseph interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams by Peter von Cornelius
The Triumph of Joseph by Hilaire Pader
Scenes from the life of Joseph from the Golden Haggadah (upper right: Pharaoh's dream; upper left: Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's dream in front of his counsellors; lower right: Joseph ordering the arrest of Simeon; lower left: Joseph) by unknown artist

Genesis 41 Joseph’s Rise to Power


Give or Take by Louise Bourgeois
A Scullion at Christ Church College, Oxford by John Riley
Terracotta votives; marble finger (S 1492), from excavation at Asklepieion by unknown artists

1 Corinthians 12 You are the Body of Christ


The Last Supper, from the Maestà by Duccio
Iscariot Blues by Chris Ofili
The Upper Room by Chris Ofili

Matthew 26:20–25; Mark 14:17–21; Luke 22:14, 21–24; John 13:21–30 The Apostle Judas


We Are All Prostitutes, from the Market Street Cinema series by Leon Mostovoy
Peter von Cornelius by Emile Jean Horace Vernet
Mother and Child Juniper Fleming

Genesis 38 Tamar


Amerika (Baseball) by Ronald B. Kitaj
Kangxi vase by Unknown Chinese artist
Two forked branches and twig. Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire. September 1978 by Andy Goldsworthy

Ezekiel 37:15–28 Ezekiel’s Two Sticks


The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo. An old man with a golden halo (God) swoops down from the upper left-hand corner. He points to the universe below, depicted as a series of concentric circles with the Earth in the centre. The sun and other cosmic bodies are depicted within the concentrated universe. On the right-hand side, nude figures (Adam and Eve) are being evicted from a garden by an angel (nude with wings & halo). Beneath, four rivers flow from arid ground
God as Creator of the World with a Compass, from the Bible moralisée by Unknown artist. •	In the centre sits a bearded, long-haired, haloed figure (Christ), dressed in blue and red. In his arm, he holds the universe in the form of a sphere of swirls of blue, green, black, and yellow. In his other hand, he holds a geometric compass, the needles pressed against the sphere’s centre and edge. An angel sits in each corner against a golden background. They hold up a quatrefoil frame which encircles Christ.
The Separation of Light and Dark by Michelangelo Buonarroti. God in the centre is clothed in red surrounded by four nude figures, one in each corner. The four sit in different positions atop respective stone platforms, in front of stone pillars. Two bronze shields/medallions are between them on opposing sides of the composition. God is framed by the stone pillars, shown in a contrapposto pose, and lifts his hands into the sky and separating the light from darkness.

Genesis 1:1–2 In the Beginning


The Carrying of the Cross by Simone Martini
Second Station. Part of The Stations of the Cross / Lema Sabachthani (series) by Barnett Newman
Christ Carrying the Cross by Jan van Hemessen

Matthew 16:24–28; Mark 8:34–9:1; Luke 9:23–27 Forfeit and Gain


The Course of Empire: Desolation by Thomas Cole
The Hymn to the Virgin Icon; Eπί Σοί Xαίρει…(In Thee Rejoiceth...), an icon depicting a multitude of scenes by Theodoros Poulakis
Alexander the Great as the Third King, from the Vision of Daniel by Adriaen Collaert after Maerten de Vos

Daniel 7:1–8, 15–28 Daniel’s Four Beasts


The testimony of scripture no. 1 by Colin McCahon
A Letter to Hebrews by Colin McCahon
A Letter to Hebrews (Rain in Northland) by Colin McCahon

Hebrews 11 A Question of Faith


Salome's dance; the death of St John the Baptist, from the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book' by Unknown English artist
Salome Dancing for Herod by Hans Horions
Costume Design for Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Exster

Matthew 14:6–11; Mark 6:21–28 Salome’s Dance


The Pharisee and the Publican by Jesus Mafa Project
Ecclesia and Synagoga, from the south transept portal of Strasbourg Cathedral by Unknown artist
The Pharisee and the Publican, from Tetraevangelion by Unknown artist

Luke 18:9–14 The Pharisee and the Tax Collector


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Jacob and the Angel by Jacob Epstein
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Genesis 32:22–32 Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Two Travellers by Jack B. Yeats
Tobias and the Angel by Andrea del Verrocchio and workshop
Glass fragment with Tobias and the Fish by Unknown Roman artist

Tobit 6–7 Tobias and the Angel

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Annunciation by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi
The Annunciation, by Filippo Lippi

Luke 1:26–38 The Annunciation

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