The Ascension Depicted in the Rabbula Gospel Book
This is one of the earliest Christian manuscripts to be illuminated with (the oxymoronic) “large miniatures.”
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”