The series of images depicting the life of Jesus Christ is perhaps one of the boldest experiments in figuration and narrativisation by Jamini Roy. The language of the Christ paintings is remarkable for their grave, contemplative faces in somewhat hieratic poses with iconicity. In this particular painting the artist has depicted the figure of Christ in a frontal stance with thick black lines along the contours. His right hand is held up in a gesture of preaching while he holds a book in his left.

Jamini Roy narrated episodes from Christian mythology in a way that could communicate itself easily to the ordinary Bengali villager.

In the 1940s, Roy painted one of his most powerful series of images revolving around the life of Jesus Christ. Although, he may have painted occasional images of Christ in the previous decade, he developed the visual idea more fully in the 1940s.

What was most thought-provoking about these paintings was Roy's skill in adapting stories from an alien culture and yet giving them a familiar appearance, as if they were people from our own villages.