Collage of the images described
Paleochristian art - painting -The Healing of the Paralytic
Christ as Good Shepherd - Catacombs of Callisto
Christ as Good Shepherd - Catacombs of Priscilla
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The earliest images of #Jesus survive from Dura-Europos, Syria (c. AD 235), showing him clean-shaven. Later, #Roman #catacombs depict him as the Good Shepherd, still youthful, before the now-familiar bearded Jesus appears in 4th-century #Rome.