Three-Prisons-of-Jesus Doctrine
The doctrine that Jesus underwent three formally enumerated imprisonments of progressive intensity, each ordained to mature a specific divine work: (1) the womb of Mary — “the most narrow and dark prison” (9 months), matured the Incarnation; (2) the Humanity — 33 years, “jailed my Divinity,” matured Redemption; (3) the Eucharist — “the smallest of prisons… until the consummation of centuries,” now maturing the DW Kingdom — Jesus formally self-designating as “the Divine Inmate, the Celestial Prisoner” and the intensity-ordering being inverse to duration: the smallest prison lasts longest and matures the greatest work; distinct from EPC-1 (the fulfilled companionship of mutual imprisonment as the DW mission’s structural condition) in that TPJ-1 concerns Jesus’s own sequential self-imprisonments and their specific redemptive assignments. (E)
Anchors: Philippians 2:6-8; Hebrews 10:5-7; John 6:51-58; 1 Corinthians 11:26; Lamentations 3:6-7; Psalm 88:3-6; Revelation 3:20 — Appearances: 3. Full Registry entry.