The Rev. Michael Woolf’s pulpit was lined with mini Jesus figurines Sunday morning as he stood and faced his congregation.

Under his suit, his body was marred by bruises sustained when he was arrested by state, county and local police with 20 others during a clergy-led protest outside the immigration facility in Broadview on Friday. Woolf said he spent seven hours in custody.

“Jesus himself was a criminal by state accounts,” he said during his sermon at Lake Street Church of Evanston, where he has led the congregation for nearly seven years.

Friday’s gathering was intended to provide religious counseling to detainees at the facility, though an official there again denied clergy members access to detainees. When demonstrators attempted to move to the street to get closer to the facility

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