{"id":1150378,"date":"2021-12-24T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150378"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:34:16","slug":"fact-check-is-this-the-earliest-known-image-of-jesus-with-his-disciples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-this-the-earliest-known-image-of-jesus-with-his-disciples\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is This The \u2018Earliest Known Image\u2019 Of Jesus With His Disciples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-this-the-earliest-known-image-of-jesus-with-his-disciples%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150378&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AshtoMartin\/posts\/10158738125386947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show the \u201cearliest known image\u201d of Jesus and his disciples.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many surviving artworks of them are older than this piece, which dates back to the 18th century A.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AshtoMartin\/posts\/10158738125386947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a>, Jesus is portrayed as standing amid a small crowd of other people. Text above the image reads, \u201cEarliest known image of Jesus &amp; his disciples. Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iconographic images of Jesus and other venerated figures are used by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/flipbooks\/catechism\/650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catholic<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/orthodoxy\/the-orthodox-faith\/worship\/the-church-building\/icons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastern Orthodox<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/copticorthodoxanswers.org\/faith-sacraments-theology\/what-does-the-church-believe-about-icons-and-their-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oriental Orthodox<\/a> churches and some other Christian groups. The Coptic Orthodox Church is part of the larger Oriental Orthodox communion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Coptic-Orthodox-Church-of-Alexandria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is part of the Coptic Museum\u2019s collection. In a May Facebook post, the museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CopticMuseumCairo\/posts\/4408591532505804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a> it as an icon of Apostle Thomas \u201cputting his finger in the side of the wounded Christ in order to believe in the resurrection of Christ\u201d that dates back to the 18th century A.D., according to a translation. The Coptic Museum <a href=\"https:\/\/fakehistoryhunter.net\/2020\/06\/08\/not-the-earliest-known-image-of-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also told<\/a> the website Fake History Hunter that it is \u201c18th Century (AD) Greek style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the icon is not the \u201cearliest known image\u201d of Jesus and his disciples. For instance, he and the disciples appear in Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s 1490s painting \u201cThe Last Supper,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milan-museum.com\/leonardo-last-supper-cenacolo.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milan Museum<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/05\/14\/fact-check-nancy-pelosi-church-not-come-finds-god-gets-help\/\">(RELATED: Did Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Church Ask Her To Not Come Until She \u2018Finds God And Gets Help\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome, Italy, feature a 4th century painting of him teaching his twelve Apostles while seated on a throne, according to the catacombs\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domitilla.info\/idx.htm?var1=docs\/en01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. Images showing them in this situation were fairly common in Christian art from that era, the website says.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/artgallery.yale.edu\/collections\/objects\/34498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yale University Art Gallery<\/a> is home to a painting of Jesus dating back to the 3rd century A.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims to show the \u201cearliest known image\u201d of Jesus and his disciples.Verdict: False Many surviving artworks of them are older than this piece, which dates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}