Jesus

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Jesus
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Family	Mary (mother)
Also known as	God
Statistics
Affiliation	Christianity Bible

"The Wicked Wench is like your pearl of great price."
"Pearl?"
"It's from the Bible, Jack. A parable Jesus told his disciples, about a merchant who saw a perfect pearl, the most wonderful, beautiful one in the whole world, but very costly. The merchant had to have this thing that was so perfect, so he sold everything he had so he could possess it."

―Robert Greene and Jack Sparrow

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher, leader, and the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. He was believed to be the son of God, born of a human mother, Mary. In his life, Jesus often debated with his fellow Jews on how to best follow God, taught in parables, and gathered disciples.

Accounts of Jesus's life and teachings were conserved by the Bible, and the community formed by his followers eventually expanded as a worldwide movement. Christian theology included the belief that Jesus was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, descended into hell, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return to judge the living and the dead. Christians of the time believed Jesus to be the messiah, whose arrival was prophesied in the Old Testament and chronicled in the New Testament.

Biography

Legacy

After his death, his followers became convinced that he rose from the dead, and following his ascension, the community they formed eventually expanded as a worldwide movement. Through Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, Christians believed that God offered salvation and eternal life, with Jesus's death atoning for all sin. The birth of Jesus was celebrated annually, generally on 25 December, as Christmas. His crucifixion was honoured on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Accounts of Jesus's life and teachings were conserved by the Bible.

During the Age of Piracy, sailors and pirates were superstitious because it was a dangerous profession, they didn't want to tempt fate or stir up anything that might cause them to end their lives in a storm. By tradition, as it was a "bad-luck day" for sailing, sailors did not set sail on a Friday because Friday was the day that Jesus Christ was crucified.

Robert "Robby" Greene, the first mate of the East India Trading Company merchant ship Wicked Wench under Captain Jack Sparrow, owned a Bible that he would read from time to time, notably the parable of a pearl of great price, which Jesus told his disciples. Jack Sparrow would be inspired by the Biblical story, having eventually realized the Wicked Wench was like his pearl of great price, so when Davy Jones raised his beloved ship from the bottom of the sea, now half burned and with her hull and masts all charred, Sparrow returned to a life of piracy and rechristened the Wicked Wench as a pirate vessel, the Black Pearl.

As Lieutenant James Norrington of the British Royal Navy examined Will Turner, a young unconscious boy found lying on his back on a small piece of wreckage and hauled safely aboard the HMS Dauntless, Joshamee Gibbs gasped "Mary, mother of God!" All hands on deck, including Governor Weatherby Swann and his young daughter Elizabeth, turned and followed Gibbs's gaze out to the sea where they saw the burning remains of a merchant vessel littering the waves.

Behind the scenes

Jesus Christ was first indirectly mentioned as an interjection in Irene Trimble junior novelization for the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Unlike Trimble's junior novelization and film, where Joshamee Gibbs gasped "Mary, mother of God!" aboard the HMS Dauntless, Gibbs muttered, "Mother of all that's holy..." in Elizabeth Rudnick's junior novelization in 2006. Although the full name "Jesus Christ" was first mentioned by maritime historian David Cordingly in the "Below Deck" bonus feature included in the home video releases for The Curse of the Black Pearl, only "Christ" is said in the "Scoundrels of the Seas" bonus feature, only "Jesus" would first be mentioned in-universe, notably by Robert "Robby" Greene in the 2011 novel The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin.

Jesus Christ (also Christ) would be mentioned as an interjection in Tim Powers' 1987 novel On Stranger Tides, which would be used as inspiration for the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

As directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg detail Hector Barbossa's death in the 2017 sequel Dead Men Tell No Tales, Rønning said the "hands-open fall" was less Jesus savior symbol and more Hans Gruber from the 1988 film Die Hard.

Appearances

• The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Indirect mention only)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization) (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates" (First identified as Jesus Christ)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "Scoundrels of the Seas"

External links

• Jesus on Wikipedia