Who is Jesus from Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays and what is their importance? "Everyman

Jesus plays a substantial role in only four of the pageants in the collection, and only in those based on New Testament narratives (the biblical Jesus appears, and is referred to specifically, only in the New Testament).

Jesus, like God, manifests a powerful presence in those New Testament-based pageants, specifically as an embodiment of aspects of God, both the merciful ("The Woman Taken in Adultery") and the merciless ("The Judgment"). In other words, even if He does not appear in the pageant Himself, or even if His appearances are relatively brief (as in "The Crucifixion", or "The Harrowing of Hell") the pageant is still about him as a manifestation of God.