{"id":2128387,"date":"2025-11-01T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128387"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:28:03","slug":"why-ancient-christian-artists-gave-jesus-a-magic-wand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-ancient-christian-artists-gave-jesus-a-magic-wand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ancient Christian Artists Gave Jesus a &#8220;Magic&#8221; Wand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AO1nGsQ2MXE?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https:\/\/ground.news\/religionforbreakfast<\/p>\n<p>Join our Patreon community! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/religionforbreakfast<br \/>\nSelect imagery\/video supplied by Getty Images and Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Christian art often shows Jesus holding what looks like a magic wand. Was he being portrayed as a magician? This video explores the cultural meaning behind these images, and what they reveal about early Christian views of power and miracles.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AO1nGsQ2MXE\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https:\/\/ground.news\/religionforbreakfast Join our Patreon community! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/religionforbreakfast Select imagery\/video supplied by Getty Images and Reuters Ancient Christian art often shows Jesus holding what looks like a magic wand. Was he being portrayed as a magician? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2128388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1761974882_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128389,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128387\/revisions\/2128389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}