Only a painting of Jesus miraculously survived when a hellish fire ravaged a 146-year-old Massachusetts church this week.

The artwork, showing Jesus in a white robe with his nail-marked hands extended, hung just inside the front doors of the First Baptist Church of Wakefield, the Boston Globe reported.

It remained intact after the Tuesday evening blaze that may have been caused by lightning striking the steeple area of the 1872 building, Michael Sullivan, the town’s fire chief, told the outlet. A meeting was going on at the church when the blaze broke out, but everyone had escaped before it grew stronger, he said.

The painting will be given to a former pastor of the church, former parishioner Susan Auld told the Globe.

“When the windows were all aglow — every stained glass window was aglow — it looked like you were looking into hell,” Auld said. “It was just an awful, awful sight.”

The Rev. Dr. Norm Bendroth was about to start watching the Red Sox play Game 1 of the World Series when the blaze erupted.

“I was down about a mile away and I just saw this fireball in the sky,” Bendroth told Boston 25. “It just went up like a tinderbox … it’s balloon-style so once the fire starts, you know the whole building just went up quickly.”

The seven-alarm inferno caused about $1 million in damage, and the entire church will need to be torn down. One major concern is the remains of the steeple, which partially collapsed into the church, the local station reported.