“I WANTED to know the truth–to see Jesus of Nazareth as He walked and talked in His native haunts. And then to give back to the millions of my fellow-Christians this real conception of the Founder of the Faith. If I spent ten years in the Holy Land, treading in the very footsteps of the Saviour, it was only that I myself might better realize all that He was, all that He did, before I give it to the world. Day by day, hour by hour, the facts grew dearer to me. I was moved by the consciousness that I was looking at the same rocks, the same trees that had been reflected in the eyes of the Saviour, and as I walked along those paths in which He must have trod, I could not always restrain the tears.”
— Artist James Tissot, on his famous illustrations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus
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Johanna writes:
I love James Tissot’s account of the Passion which I read last year. This year I have downloaded the whole book. Wish they were still for sale although I know I could never afford them. And besides, you can’t take them with you, right?
