richard2

Perhaps it is all taken and expanded from the instance in the Book of Revelations where it says Jesus has eyes like blazing fire:

"His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire." Rev 1:14.

Toto

Matt 21:15 only says: But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they were indignant.

This was after he cleaned out the Temple, as illustrated in the OP

Vorkosigan

Toto, are you saying that a verse has gone AWOL from Matthew?

Toto

AWOL? You mean the verse that would describe rays of light coming from Jesus' eyes and incinerating the guards who would have arrested him for creating a ruckus in the Temple? That's the missing element.

That might have livened up Mel Gibson's movie at bit.

But I suspect that Jesus didn't gain that supernatural power until after his resurrection.

Ben C Smith

The Aurora claims that the gospel of the Nazarenes (Nazoraeans) had this detail. Jerome frequently quotes the gospel of the Nazoraeans, and even claims to have translated it into Greek and Latin. The immediate conclusion is that the gospel of the Nazoraeans did indeed have this detail, and Jerome derived it from there. But I am sure that other scenarios are possible.

Ben.

andrewcriddle

I suspect that the ultimate source of this legendary detail is the reference in Exodus 34 to Moses' face shining and frightening the Israelites.

Andrew Criddle

Steven Carr

Jesus could glow in the dark before the resurrection. See the Transfiguration.

Of course, a body which could walk on water and glow in the dark was not a docetic body, nor a spiritual body.

Although Jesus was God made Flesh, he only had a spiritual body after the resurrection. Before then he had a perfectly natural body like you and me (except for the glowing business). Ask any apologist.

Steven Carr

I'm sure you are right.