Jesus Christ

"You do know that Jesus was just a man."

- Eve

Jesus Christ was a human who became the central figure of Christianity.

Castiel confirmed that Luke from the New Testament was indeed a prophet. Since he is a prophet, and most of his prophetic writings are about Jesus, it is implied that Jesus had supernatural significance.

Jesus Christ's symbolic crucifix has been featured many times through rosaries and churches often with an image of him nailed on it.

Mentions

 * Dean Winchester: Christmas is Jesus's birthday.
 * Sam Winchester: No; Jesus's birthday was probably in the fall. It was actually the winter solstice festival that was co-opted by the church and renamed Christmas. But I mean the yule log, the tree, even Santa's red suit is all remnants of Pagan worship.


 * Edward Carrigan: All of a sudden, this Jesus character is the hot new thing in town. All of a sudden, our altars are being burned down, and we’re being hunted down like common monsters.
 * Season 3, A Very Supernatural Christmas


 * Eve: What is right for me?
 * Rick: This emptiness you feel inside -- it's really a hunger for him.
 * Eve: You do know that Jesus was just a man.
 * Rick: Sure, but he is also the son of God, sent here because he loves us.
 * Season 6, ...And Then There Were None


 * Vesta: It only got pathetic when I started having to do it myself. Because of that hippie from Bethlehem -- before him, they practically threw virgins at me.
 * Season 9, Rock and a Hard Place


 * Sam Winchester (about the homeless encampment where Metatron is currently located sees him as a new Jesus): There's a homeless encampment. The way the folks talking he's got them convinced he's some kind of new Jesus or something.
 * Season 9, Do You Believe In Miracles?


 * Gabriel: Hey what's up shorties? Remember me? The guy who died for your sins? No, not the cat with the beard and the sandals. The hot one.
 * Season 9, Meta Fiction

Appearances

 * Season 1
 * Hook Man
 * Season 2
 * Houses of the Holy
 * Season 3
 * Sin City
 * A Very Supernatural Christmas
 * Season 4
 * I Know What You Did Last Summer
 * Season 5
 * 99 Problems
 * Season 6
 * ...And Then There Were None
 * Season 7
 * Meet the New Boss
 * Season 8
 * Sacrifice
 * Season 9
 * I'm No Angel
 * Rock and a Hard Place
 * Meta Fiction
 * Do You Believe In Miracles?
 * Season 10
 * Paint it Black (image)


 * Season 13
 * War of the Worlds
 * The Bad Place

Lore

 * The angel Joshua seems to have borrowed some of Jesus' traits along with the name. Firstly, of Jesus it is said that he is the only one who has seen the face of God the Father (John 1:18, 6:46), and the show's angel Joshua was the only one who spoke with God (albeit not face to face). Secondly, after Jesus rose from the dead, one of his female disciples did not immediately recognize him and mistook him for a gardener (John 20:15), and in the show, the angel Joshua is called a "gardener". Additionally the name Joshua is reminiscent of Jeshua, the Aramaic name of Jesus.
 * In Christian Theology, including all Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant thought, God has revealed himself to be Trinity (tri-unity) - that is, God is one in being or substance, and simultaneously three in person - the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. The paradox of the Trinity is that God is eternally One and eternally Three, such that that Father is fully God, the Son is fully God, and the Holy Spirit is fully God, and there is only one God, yet the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Spirit, and the Father is not the Spirit. Thus, Jesus (the Son of God born as a man) could pray to God, and yet also be God.
 * Some believe that the Archangel Michael and Jesus are one and the same.

Trivia

 * As has happened with other characters of Christianity, there are some differences between how Jesus is presented in the Christian scriptures and the way he has been mentioned in the series. Whereas in the former he is God or the Son of God, in the latter, he is said (at least by Eve) to have been nothing but a man. Though Jesus has never been depicted in the series, the rise of the religion he found has provided context to some storylines. With the coming of Jesus on Earth, the pagan deities Madge and Edward Carrigan and Vesta lost almost all of their followers, and without sacrifices they were weakened.
 * In the novel Supernatural: Unholy Cause, Judas says that Jesus was no God, while Castiel disagrees.
 * According to the bible, Jesus was pierced by a spear while he was crucified. The spear in question has been found in the cache of the Men of Letters.
 * In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Amara is searching for God in a church. After killing the people in there, she looks to a stained glass with an image of Jesus on it. Then she talks to the image, waiting for an answer from God.
 * In a special webisode of Ghostfacers, Harry Spangler mistook Castiel for Jesus Christ.
 * In Swan Song Chuck answering the phone hoping it was "Mistress Magda" might be a reference to Mary Magdalene, a Disciple of Jesus Christ in the New Testament that some believe to be a prostitute or even the wife of Jesus (a theory made famous by the book the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown).
 * In Meet the New Boss, Castiel looks at the mosaic window to see the image of Jesus. He rights himself, scorching the pew in the process and as he walks out, the image of Jesus has been replaced by that of him.