Warning: The following contains spoilers for Immortal X-Men #1, on sale now from Marvel Comics.

In Immortal X-Men #1 (by Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck, David Curiel, and VC's Clayton Cowles), Exodus makes a startling assertion in an attempt to convince Hope Summers to join the Quiet Council: "The Nazarene Mutant inspired a church among the humans by raising a couple from the dead." Despite Marvel's fantastical worlds, it has largely avoided the topic of Jesus. However, the allusion is clear—the mutant from Nazarene that raised people from the dead and inspired a church is none other than the historic figure of Jesus Christ. There are huge implications because the founder of a major world religion is implied to be one of the earliest mutants. If it is true, this could change the understanding of human history within the Marvel Universe entirely.

Exodus’ statement is quite easy to ignore. The Nazarene Mutant? That title is new within Marvel. However, a bit of religious knowledge points to Jesus Christ as the Nazarene Mutant, at least within the fictional Marvel Universe. The title “Nazarene” has been historically applied to Jesus. In the original Greek, it simply means “of Nazareth” and references the small town in northern Israel where Jesus grew up. It was a location that was seen to be of no great import. Even one of the early disciples reflected, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46). Of all of the people to come from Nazareth, Jesus is the most important.

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Could Exodus be right? Mutants have been around since the time of Christ and before. Apocalypse himself was born in 3000 BCE, at least three millennia before Jesus. Jesus was also known for raising the dead. In the Gospels, Jesus is recorded as raising three different people from the dead: the widow’s son, the soldier’s daughter, and his friend Lazarus. As Hope Summers has demonstrated, resurrection is something mutants can definitely do.

Jesus performed many other miracles—if he was a mutant, these would be demonstrations of his power and all of them have been repeated by other mutants in recent years. Jesus changed water into wine at the wedding of Cana (his first miracle) in a clear demonstration of molecular manipulation. Duplicating loaves and fishes from a small lunch to feed a mob is something Legion as a warper of reality could do as well. As Storm does, Jesus calmed a raging tempest while at sea. Jesus healed a blind man, a leper, a paralytic, and others—an ability that Exodus himself has demonstrated.

With this many distinct powers in one person, if Jesus was a mutant, he was an Omega-level mutant rivaling Jean Grey and others. Other mutants have influenced religious followings amongst humans so within the Marvel Universe, the creation of the Christian church could have arisen from humans following a mutant.

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Yet, this changes so much of human history. The Church of Christ has altered and impacted human history like no other institution. If it were revealed that the source of their worship was a mutant, humanity would have to deal with significant change to the status quo. The mutants would no longer be just a recent development—instead, they would be integrated into the core of human history in a way that makes them essential to the development of society.

There’s one final question remaining. If Jesus were a mutant, an omega-one at that, where is he now? Is Jesus the mutant still alive? Is Jesus still involved in world events or has he gone into isolation? Does Exodus know more than he is saying?

Whether Marvel will actually venture into this territory is questionable. Within our world, there are many that would view such a story as being sacrilegious. Yet, Marvel has explored a potential appearance of Jesus alongside superheroes in a 1974 Ghost Rider storyline. In that story, Mephisto transformed a demon into a Jesus-lookalike to manipulate Johnny Blaze, the Ghost Rider. That version simply went by the title "Friend" and was never explicitly named Jesus. Within the X-Men universe, the potential to explore the ramification of Jesus as a mutant is significant. There is even a possibility that we’ve seen the Nazarene Mutant in a different guise already.

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