About this reader
The gospel text is the King James Version. The patristic commentary quoted throughout is drawn from the Church Fathers venerated in the Orthodox Church, chiefly St John Chrysostom, then St Jerome, St Augustine, St Hilary, St Leo, St Ambrose, St Cyril of Alexandria, St Bede, St Cassian, St Peter Chrysologus and St Cyprian, quoted verbatim, nothing paraphrased and nothing invented; each quotation names its own Father and the homily or work it comes from. The icons and frescoes are, with one exception noted below, public-domain or
freely-licensed photographs of Byzantine, Athonite, Serbian, Sicilian-Byzantine and Russian works.
Where the Church has painted a scene more than once, this reader shows several of its icons
side by side, the Theophany at Langadas beside the Theophany in the Russian North, the
Lamentation at Nerezi beside the Lamentation of a Cretan master, and each one carries its own
reading saying where it was made and what it does differently. Every icon shown for a passage
depicts that passage’s own scene, and no image appears under two passages. Orthodox
iconography is built on the feast cycle, the miracles and the saints, and it has no scene-icon
for most of the parables and teaching passages: those passages are given as plain text
rather than illustrated with a general image of Christ that would misrepresent them. A few
passages carry an icon the Church attaches to them without depicting their verses (the Good
Shepherd beside the Lost Sheep, the Prophet Jonah beside the sign of Jonah); each of those says
so on the card.
Images
- 005 Entry into Jerusalem Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 019 Baptism of Jesus Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · 1850 · Athanasios Margaritis · Public domain · Commons
- 024 Crucifixion of Jesus Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · 1855 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 03 Baptism of Christ Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Adam · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 031 Nativity of Jesus Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 042 Transfiguration of Jesus Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · 1885 · Stavrakis Margaritis · Public domain · Commons
- 05 Last Supper Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Adam · 1898 · Asterios Ioannou Anagnostos · Public domain · Commons
- 0663Ha. Hermitage Museum (Hall 143). Icon of the Epiphany · 3-я четверть XVII · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 074 Cursing the fig tree Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · 1855 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 09 Epitaphios Icon in Assumption of Mary Church in Agios Vasileios · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 090 Mathew the Apostle Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 103 Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Langadas · 1927 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 12 Nativity of Jesus Icon in Assumption of Mary Church in Agios Vasileios · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- 18 Triumphal entry into Jerusalem Icon from Saint Paraskevi Church in Adam. · 1846 · Athanasios Vasilikos Adaminos · Public domain · Commons
- 19 Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Icon in Assumption of Mary Church in Agios Vasileios · Before 20 Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Alektor Petrou Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Aponepsis Pilatou Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Apotome Agiou Ioannou Prodromou Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Baiophoros Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Baptism of Christ, Early XIV Century, St Mary Perivleptos Church, Ohrid Icon Gallery · Early XIV Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Cathedral (Monreale) - North arch of transept - Adoration by the Magi · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Cathedral (Monreale) - North arch of transept - Journey of the Magi · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Cathedral (Monreale) - Right wing transept - 2nd Temptation of Christ · 12th centtury · Byzantine medieval · Public domain · Commons
- Cathedral (Monreale) - Right wing transept - Agony in the Garden · 12th centtury · Byzantine medieval · Public domain · Commons
- Cathedral (Monreale) - South arch of transept - Flight into Egypt · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Christ banish tradesmen from Temple (Monreale) · 2010-02-25 11:03:43 · Sibeaster · Public domain · Commons
- Christ before Caiaphas, GRACANICA 1 090A7764 · 2021-09-06 16:00:38 · BLAGO Fund, Inc. · CC BY 4.0 · Commons
- Christ cleans leper man · Mosaic: Byzantine; Photograph: July 2008 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Christ heals two Jericho blind men · 2008-07 · Sibeaster · Public domain · Commons
- Christ's temptation (Monreale) · 2010-02-25 11:00:13 · Sibeaster · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Apostolois Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Iomenos Daimonon Takophon Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Iomenos Paralyton Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Iomenos Thygatera Xananaias Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Iomenos Typhlon · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Pantokrator Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Christos Prodomo Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Crucifixion Icon Sinai 12th century · 2008-04 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Daughter of the head of synagogue is resurrected by Christ · 2010-02-17 12:47:06 · Sibeaster · Public domain · Commons
- Deipnos Mystikos Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Detail of the Massacre of the innocents mosaic at Chora (1) · 2011-09-15 · José Luiz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
- Double-sided icon - Crucifixion and Hodegetria (9-13th c., Byzantine museum) · medieval · Anonymous icon painter · Public domain · Commons
- Elkomenos Prodromos Phylaken Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Entry into Jerusalem (Afon icon) · 16th centurydate QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Epitaphios Threnos Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Evlogesis Pente Arton Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Feeding the multitude, Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna · 2014-02-28 12:33:24 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Fig tree cursed 04-16 · 1502 · Dionisius · Public domain · Commons
- Flagellation of Christ (icon) · 15th centurydate QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Flight into Egypt (12 Sinai) · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Flight into Egypt Icon Mary Evraida Church Kastoria · 19th centurydate QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Gethsemane Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Healing of the Paralytic 04-17 · 2020-11-29 05:54:34 · Dionisius · Public domain · Commons
- Hrist utišava buru na moru, manastir Gračanica · 2017-10-26 14:22:11 · Mickey Mystique · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Icon of the Transfiguration from Saint Catherine's, Sinai · 12th Century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Icon of transfiguration (Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, Yaroslavl) · circa 1516date QS:P,+1516-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Icon with the Virgin of the Tree of Jesse. 1666 (8384481474) · 1666 · Theodore Poulakis · Public domain · Commons
- Ide Topos pou Ekato Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- IkonaZapovediBlazhenGIM · Before 18th century · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Iomenos Asthenoun tas apo Poikilon noson · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Iomenos Daimonizomenon Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Iomenos Daimonizomenous Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Iomenos Gon Ekatonarchou Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Iomenos xeran echon cheira Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- John Tokhabi, Last Judgment, around 1100. Icon, tempera. St Catherine monastery on Sinai, Egypt · 11th centurydate QS:P,+1050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Certain types of Egyptian works (official documents, stamps, works of national folklore) should use specific license tag · Public domain · Commons
- Judas hangs himself. Gelati fresco · 18th century (2008 photo) · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Judas receiving money, icon of Yaroslavl (19 c, priv.coll) · 19th centurydate QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917)Public domain image (according to PD-Russia-expired) · Public domain · Commons
- Judas's kiss (Monreale) · 2010-02-25 11:01:43 · Sibeaster · Public domain · Commons
- Kirillo-Belozersky iconostasis 12 - Last Supper · 1497 · Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917)Public domain image (according to PD-Russia-expired) · Public domain · Commons
- Kiss of Judas (Church of Saint Nicolas the Orphan) · XIV век · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Krinomenos Christou Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Lamentation by Emmanuel Lambardos (Byzantine museum) · 17th centurydate QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Emmanuel Lambardos · Public domain · Commons
- Lamentation icon Nerezi MK · 1164date QS:P571,+1164-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 · Meister von Nerezi · Public domain · Commons
- Massacre of the Innocents (Ionian, 17th c., Byzantine museum) · 17th centurydate QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Anonymous icon painter · Public domain · Commons
- Matthew the Evangelist - icon · Middle of 19th century. Submitted to wikimedia on 2008-05-01 · Unknown Russian icon painter, middle of 19 th cen. · Public domain · Commons
- Menologion of Basil II - Flight into Egypt · 0985 · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain · Commons
- Menologion of Basil II - Massacre of the Innocents · 0985 · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain · Commons
- Monreale - Anointing at Bethany · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Monreale - healing of paralytic · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Monreale - Jesus heals Simon's mother in law · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine · Public domain · Commons
- Monreale - Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · byzantine medieval · Public domain · Commons
- Monreale - Peter Saved from the Waves · 12th centurydate QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · shakko · Public domain · Commons
- Mosaic of the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo · 2020-04-26 07:03:14 · unknown sixth-century AD mosaicist of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna · Public domain · Commons
- Nativity Icon Panagia Evraidos Church 19 Century · 19th centurydate QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Parable of the Wedding Feast 04-14 · 2020-11-29 05:53:48 · Dionisius · Public domain · Commons
- Pilate judgement (icon) · 15th centurydate QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Prodosia Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Prophetes Ionas Dionysiou · 1547 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Prophetes Ionas Ketos Dionysiou · 1547 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- Raising of Jairus' daughter 03-19 · 1502 · Dionisius · Public domain · Commons
- Ravenna, The Good Shepherd mosaic · 2023-12-24 · Gsimonov · CC0 · Commons
- Representation of the Sower's parable · 3 December 2009 · Sulfababy of en.wiki · CC BY 2.5 · Commons
- Rossano Gospels - Cleansing of the Temple · 6th centurydate QS:P,+550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · 6th century anonymous · Public domain · Commons
- RossGospWiseFoolVirginsF4 · 2005-09-08 03:53:24 · Public domain · Commons
- Sealing of Christ's Tomb (Russia, 19th c.) · late 19th centurydate QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719766 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Second Coming by G.Klontzas (16th c.) · late 16th century · Georgios Klontzas · Public domain · Commons
- Separation of Sheep and Goats MET cdi24-144-4s1 · early 20th century (original dated early 6th century) · CC0 · Commons
- Sleeping soldiers by Christ's tomb, Mileševa · 2013-10-30 15:14:11 · Orjen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
- St John the Baptist Late XVII - Early XVIII Cenury St Mary Blonichka Church, Ohris Icon Gallery · Late XVII - Early XVIII Cenury · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Stavrosis Dionysiou · 1547 · Tzortzi Phouka · Public domain · Commons
- Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles by Constantinople master (early 14th c., Pushkin museum) · 14th centurydate QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles Dimitar Molerov Rila Monastery 1835 · 1835 · Dimitar Molerov · Public domain · Commons
- Ten virgins 05-15 · 2020-11-29 06:03:24 · Dionisius · Public domain · Commons
- The Good Shepherd from the Imperial Palace of Constantinople 5th-6th century AD · 5th-6th century A.D. · unknown artist, 5th-6th century A.D. · Public domain · Commons
- The Lord's prayer in Gethsemane - Stavronikita monastery, Mt Athos - Theophanes of Crete, 16th c. · 14 April 2015 · Theophanes the Cretan · Public domain · Commons
- The Twelve Apostles, with later gilding, Greek, Late Byzantine, early 1300s, tempera and gold leaf on wood panel - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06701 · 2016-12-01 15:49:25 · Daderot · Public domain · Commons
- Tokalı Kilise Raising of daughter of Jairus - 2004 6964 · 2004-03-15 15:07:27 · Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Transfiguration of Christ Icon Sinai 12th century · 2008-04 · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Tree of Jesse icon (17 c.) · 17th centurydate QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · Commons
- Victor (iconographer) Tree of Jesse · 1674 · Victor of Crete · Public domain · Commons
- Workers in the vineyard, Minuscule 269 (11th century) · 11th century/11ος αιώνας · Unknown · Public domain · Commons
- Ypestrepseta Triakonta Argyria Ioudas · 1547 · Tzortzis Phouka · Public domain · Commons
The exception is The Nativity of Christ at Matthew 1:18–25: supplied by the reader, not taken from Wikimedia Commons.