Wandering Jew

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Wandering Jew

A Jew of medieval legend condemned to wander until the Day of Judgment for having mocked Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion.

wandering Jew

Any of several trailing plants chiefly of the genus Tradescantia, often having variegated purplish foliage and widely grown as houseplants.

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wandering Jew

1. (Plants) any of several related creeping or trailing plants of tropical America, esp Tradescantia fluminensis and Zebrina pendula: family Commelinaceae

2. (Plants) Austral a similar creeping plant of the genus Commelina

Wandering Jew

(European Myth & Legend) (in medieval legend) a character condemned to roam the world eternally because he mocked Christ on the day of the Crucifixion

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Wan′dering Jew′

1. a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.

2. any of various creeping plants of the spiderwort family, with green or variegated leaves, as Zebrina pendula.

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Wandering Jew - a legendary Jew condemned to roam the world for mocking Jesus at the Crucifixion

Jew, Hebrew, Israelite - a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties

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wandering Jew

a. (Bot) → miseria

b. the Wandering Jew → l'ebreo errante

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And so we came at last to another wonder, of deep and abiding interest-- the veritable house where the unhappy wretch once lived who has been celebrated in song and story for more than eighteen hundred years as the Wandering Jew. On the memorable day of the Crucifixion he stood in this old doorway with his arms akimbo, looking out upon the struggling mob that was approaching, and when the weary Saviour would have sat down and rested him a moment, pushed him rudely away and said, "Move on!" The Lord said, "Move on, thou, likewise," and the command has never been revoked from that day to this.

When the guide pointed out where the Wandering Jew had left his familiar mark upon a wall, I was filled with astonishment.

All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide.

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On one wall the subjects were described as "Illustrations of the Passions;" on the other, as "Episodes in the Life of the Wandering Jew." Chance speculators like myself were gravely warned, by means of the inscription, to view the pictures as efforts of pure imagination.

Feeling no great desire, after these specimens, to look at any more of the illustrated Passions, I turned to the opposite wall to be instructed in the career of the Wandering Jew. Here a second inscription informed me that the painter considered the Flying Dutchman to be no other than the Wandering Jew, pursuing his interminable Journey by sea.

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A wanderer am I, who have walked long at thy heels; always on the way, but without a goal, also without a home: so that verily, I lack little of being the eternally Wandering Jew, except that I am not eternal and not a Jew.

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Up under the wooden ceiling there were little half-windows with white curtains, and pots of geraniums and wandering Jew in the deep sills.

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He never even seemed to come to his work on purpose, but would slouch in as if by mere accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or went away at night, he would slouch out, like Cain or the Wandering Jew, as if he had no idea where he was going and no intention of ever coming back.

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To add color, she has grouped purple Wandering Jew, Dusty Miller and marigold, with lavender behind to add a sweet fragrance as Hendry enjoys her back patio.

Garden of Month belongs to Hendry

The Dutchman legend was eventually fused with that of the 'Wandering Jew,' a mythical figure who, because of mocking Jesus at the Crucifixion, was damned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.

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Entertaining, informative and paying little regard for political correctness, his latest UK tour, The Wandering Jew, explores his experiences of being raised an orthodox Jew.

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Duterte was referring to the Wandering Jew, a legendary character who was doomed to walk on earth until the end of the world because he taunted Jesus.