"A poor, pregnant woman, abandoned by her lover, is given a young angel by Christ in his stead, but she destroys him on their wedding night by the violence of her sexual embrace. Christ refuses to help a second time, thus sinning against her fated humanness, and is refused forgiveness by her. A blend of stark realism and lyrical fantasy, this controversial work was adapted from an Isaac Babel short story" (Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art). "(The) pessimism...revealed in The Sin of Jesus is the inner landscape of the twentieth-century man, a place that is cold, cruel, heartless, stupid, lonely, desolate--this landscape emerges from Robert Frank's film with a crying, terrifying nakedness" (Jonas Mekas, Village Voice).