These are extracted (with some minor revisions) from a list given in GOD and Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Wayne Wall.Both Jesus and Sherlock Holmes:
- had a “biographer” that was a close companion (Matthew, John Watson)
- had a “biographer” that was named John (John, John Watson)
- had a “biographer” that was a physician (Luke, John Watson)
- were bachelors
- were sought out by both rich and common people
- had somewhat of an adversion to publicity at various times
- amazed their contemporaries
- stayed with a woman named named Martha (Mrs. Hudson, Martha)
- are likened to hounds (Watson compared Holmes to a hound, Jesus is sometimes called The Hound of Heaven)
- each chose a band of helpers to assist in the mission (the street urchins, the disciples)
- each had a reptilian nemesis (Moriarty is described as having reptilian facial movements, Genesis 3-the serpent-the dragon-Revelations 12:9)
- dramatic confrontations with the nemesis
- had premonitions of death (though Holmes’ were somewhat uncertain)
- forsaken by friends (Holmes complained Watson forsook him for a wife, disciples forsook Jesus)
- saw death as a sacrifice (Holmes was willing to die to get rid of Moriarty)
- each climbed a mountain to meet death (Reichenbach, Golgatha)
- they were left to die between two malefactors (Moriarty/Moran, the two theifs)
- narrowly escaped being stoned (Holmes dodged Moran’s stones, Christ’s escaped stoning)
- one involved in their death also died through a fall (Moriarty, Judas)
- each was exiled in a foreign land to escape death (Hiatus in Tibet and elsewhere, exile in Egypt)
- each had a tomb of sorts (Doyle called Reichenbach Falls a “worthy tomb” for Sherlock)
- a search after suspected death failed to produce a body (suspected death because Holmes was only believed to have died)
- each had a period of absence following suspected death
- each communicated with a brother after suspected death (Mycroft, James)
- each was brought back to life (Holmes by reappearing and not actually being dead, Jesus by resurrection)
- Each re-appeared on an “Easter Sunday” (the murder of Robert Adair was a good Friday and Homes appeared two days later)