-
More wine over here!
-
white and red wine. Take it over there.
-
Now, bring that dish here.
-
More wine!
-
I have often wondered about the beliefs of
these nations - the Egyptians, the Syrians.
-
King Herod... er...
to revert to the jews. l wonder,...
-
..is it because they identify future with
past that they have so many prophets?
-
Oh, the prophets.
lt's the sun which breeds them!
-
Many are harmless.
They preach religion, we let them go,...
-
..but some of them preach rebellion
because it is written.
-
Altogether, literacy has had
a disastrous effect on this country.
-
And those we eliminate,...
-
..Rome has taught us that, although
this may be indifferent theology,...
-
..it is very good government.
-
Majesty, l've heard the word Messiah.
-
What exactly is a Messiah?
-
Oh, even you
have heard that awful word, Proculus.
-
Is he a prophet,
or is he something even...
-
Well, Rome, even Rome,
cannot influence men's dreams.
-
And the Messiah is a bad dream...
-
..disguised as a solution to every problem.
-
It's a leveller of scores,
a rewarder of righteousness,...
-
..a scourge for the wrongdoer.
-
It is the bringer of everlasting peace!
-
Then, as l understand it,
from what you have said,...
-
..a Messiah is worse than a prophet,
from the Roman point of view.
-
Oh, from the jewish viewpoint, too.
Only you try telling that to the jews!
-
No, don't. lt's wiser not to consult them
just when a Messiah appears.
-
Crush it underfoot like a scorpion!
-
No, you can tell Great Augustus
that he can rest in peace in Rome.
-
There will be no Messiahs, true or false,
in Palestine while l am alive.
-
Mary! Mary!
-
Come down, Mary!
They're waiting for you!
-
Mary! Mary!
-
Mary, come quickly!
-
Child, your shawl.
-
- Thank you.
- Do not be afraid.
-
Yes, here she is.
-
Joseph.
-
May this betrothal, one to the other,...
-
..Joseph, Mary,...
-
..be blessed and sanctified according to
the Law of Moses and of lsrael.
-
Amen.
-
Who are you?
-
Who are you?
-
How can that be?
-
No man has ever touched me.
-
Behold the handmaiden of the Lord.
-
May it be done unto me
according to your word.
-
Mary,...
-
..Who are you talking to?
-
There's news of Elizabeth.
-
My cousin Elizabeth? what news?
-
She's going to have a son
in three months' time.
-
She conceived the child six months ago...
-
..on the nineteenth day of Tishri.
-
But Elizabeth was always barren.
-
Now she's far too old.
-
What nonsense is this, child?
-
Oh, but it's true.
-
She's going to have a son.
-
And l must go and visit her.
-
Come, Mary. You'll be comfortable.
-
God bless you, child.
-
Here. Take this to my sister in Be'er Kuni
and tell her l'll be with her for Passover.
-
- All right. l will.
- Go safely on your journey.
-
where do you want this grain?
where should l put it?
-
Mary!
-
l've been longing to see you.
-
Mary.
-
So it is true.
-
How did you know? who told you?
-
A messenger...
-
..from God.
-
And he told me another thing.
-
A thing even more wonderful?
-
You're blessed among women,...
-
..and blessed shall be the fruit
of your womb.
-
I too am highly favoured...
-
..that the mother of the chosen
should come to me.
-
From the moment
your greeting reached my ears...
-
..the child in my womb leapt for joy.
-
My soul doth magnify the Lord!
-
And my spirit hath rejoiced
in God, my saviour,...
-
..for he has looked kindly upon
the most humble of his handmaidens...
-
..and he has told me that all generations
shall call me blessed.
-
He who is mighty
has done unto me a mighty thing!
-
- ls it true about Mary's dream?
- Oh, yes.
-
News came that
Elizabeth is going to have a child.
-
- Even though she's past the age?
- Yes. She must be 50.
-
- The wife of Zacharias?
- Yes. She's Mary's cousin.
-
Well, joseph,...
-
..are we going to get an invitation
to your wedding?
-
Plenty of time for that, jotham.
The contract's just been signed.
-
just betrothed
and his beloved's left him already.
-
just like her. She's always been
a bit strange. Not like the others.
-
That's something you'll have to live with.
-
But seriously, joseph,
Mary is remarkable.
-
We all think so.
-
A remarkable girl.
-
Ahhh!
-
Elizabeth is here!
-
Give him to me, Elizabeth.
-
Blessed be thou,
our Lord, King of the Universe,...
-
..who has blessed us
with your commandments...
-
..and ordained us to initiate our sons
in the Covenant of our Father Abraham.
-
Amen.
-
As this child enters the Covenant, so may
he enter into the study of the Torah,...
-
..into marriage, and into good deeds.
-
Amen.
-
This is the seal in flesh of the Covenant
between the Lord and his people.
-
What is the name of the child?
-
His name is...
-
His name shall be john.
-
When you get back to Nazareth,...
-
..tell joseph what you have
seen and heard, what you know.
-
The Lord God gives life
where no life is possible.
-
And one life shall be the Son of God,...
-
..and the other shall be his prophet.
-
Go.
-
Tell all this to joseph.
-
But will he believe me?
will he believe me?
-
God will open his heart.
-
Come on, off you go. Go on.
Play somewhere else.
-
That's it.
-
It is written in the Law...
-
..if, in the time of betrothal,
a woman sins with any other man,...
-
..let them both be taken
beyond the gates of the town...
-
..and stoned to death.
-
That the abomination
may be crushed out of the heart of lsrael.
-
Should a man marry a woman
and she find no favour in his eyes,...
-
..because he has found in her
the stain of uncleanliness,...
-
..let him write a bill of repudiation
and deliver it into her hands.
-
This applies, even if
l haven't taken Mary into my house?
-
Yes.
-
All that is needed
is for a bill to be written...
-
..and delivered
in the presence of two witnesses.
-
No.
-
If I do that, I will expose her shame.
-
I can't.
-
I can't.
-
I'll send her away if l must,...
-
..but in secret.
-
God knows the secret of the heart.
-
Trust in him, and accept.
-
Accept it, joseph.
-
The Lord will not abandon you.
-
Thank you.
-
Oh, no... no...
-
Oh...
-
No...
-
No! No!
-
No!
-
Joseph!
-
Joseph, son ofDavid.
-
Do not be afraid
to take Mary as your wife.
-
It is by the Holy Spirit
that she has conceived.
-
She will bear a son, and you shall
give him the name Jesus, the Saviour.
-
Hey, joseph, joseph!
The bride is arriving! Mary's here!
-
With this ring...
-
With this ring...
-
..be thou consecrated unto me.
-
..be thou consecrated unto me.
-
According to the Law of Moses
and of lsrael.
-
According to the Law of Moses
and of lsrael.
-
May the Lord bless and preserve you.
-
May the Lord
make his face shine upon you.
-
May the Lord lift up his countenance
towards you...
-
..and give you peace.
-
Amen.
-
Ah! Census!
-
It's a trick to increase the taxes.
-
And we all know
where the money ends up - in Rome.
-
But why should it?
-
- What does Rome give us?
- That's not the point.
-
The Romans want to count us -
how many we are, where we are.
-
They want us to know
that they are our rulers.
-
But we should have no earthly ruler.
-
No rule but the Lord. No king but God.
-
It's not for you to remind us of
the Scriptures. Be quiet and go home.
-
I apologise for my son.
He's too young to understand.
-
What are you doing
to the faith of our fathers?
-
All over Galilee are thousands of jews
preparing for what you talk about in there:
-
..the coming of the king who'll liberate us.
But what are you doing about it? Nothing!
-
- We accept Rome's violence like sheep.
- Come!
-
- we are not worthy of the king to come!
- Stop!
-
- The king to come will not bring violence.
- Huh?
-
It is written.
-
He himself is pure from sin.
-
God shall cause him to be mighty
through the spirit of holiness,...
-
..and wise
through the counsel of understanding.
-
Now come home. Stay there till you learn
more respect for your elders.
-
Anna.
-
I must go to Bethlehem.
-
Uh?
-
It's my native town, and...
-
..and Mary must come with me.
-
- Why?
- For the census.
-
So even Augustus obeys God.
-
- The prophecy.
- Yes, the prophecy.
-
For thou, O Bethlehem,
art in no wise the least of cities,...
-
..for from thee shall come forth
a shepherd of my people.
-
Israel.
-
If only... I could come with you.
-
If only...
-
I...
-
Joseph,...
-
..you'll need help...
-
..When he's born.
-
Don't be troubled, Anna.
-
He will be well cared for.
-
Everything will be done as God ordered.
-
They seem to be kings, Lord Melchior,
from different lands.
-
I told you we could not have been
the only ones to see the sign.
-
I am sure that Herod keeps
a strict watch on his frontiers.
-
He must know that we have crossed them.
-
I would have to tell him,
as Balthazar has said,...
-
..that l follow that star wherever it leads.
-
But what will we find?
-
All my calculations showed that there was
to be a new heavenly creature, a new star.
-
lt was even precise as to place and time,...
-
..so l made up my mind to set forth
and seek what they would unfold.
-
You did not know?
-
Only that it would be
something wonderful.
-
The stars are not distant and aloof,
cut off from the lives of men.
-
The rising of a new star entails
an immense labour in the heavens...
-
..that always has its counterpart on earth.
-
The universe is about to bring forth
a prodigy beyond our understanding.
-
Your star, my brother Balthazar,...
-
..is indeed a sign of wonder.
-
The divine Zoroaster says
"The next prophet will show himself...
-
..in a foreign land,...
-
..and the truth he will reveal
will be at first only for his own people."
-
- But there is only one truth.
- And only one God.
-
All the rest are vain,...
-
..or parts of him.
-
The people of lsrael know this.
-
Many of their wise men
have been close to him.
-
And their writings
confirm my calculations.
-
A king is about to be born.
-
Look... Mary...
-
l thought l heard a baby crying.
-
Born in a stable!
-
Ohh... a beautiful child!
-
Come on, put him there in the manger,...
-
..and see if there's some fresh straw
that'll keep him warm.
-
I'll take care of her. Poor girl.
-
Now then,...
-
..have you some water?
-
Give it to me.
-
Come. That's it.
-
who's that?
-
what do you want?
This is no place for you.
-
Get out! Get out, d'you hear me?
-
Off! Off with you.
-
Can't you see?
The poor girl just had a child.
-
That's why we've come. we were told to.
-
Told? By who?
-
we were out there in the fields.
-
This man came to us from nowhere.
-
An angel.
-
"Shepherds," he said,...
-
.."they say that lsrael is a scattered flock
that lacks a shepherd."
-
And then he said
"Tonight the shepherd is born."
-
"It is for you that he comes", he said.
"For the poor."
-
That's why you came here?
-
Yes.
-
The man said...
-
He said...
-
The man said:
"Today, in the City of David,...
-
..a saviour has been born... for you. "
-
"Glory to God in the highest", he said.
-
"And peace on earth
for those whom he loves."
-
Come.
-
They cross my border,...
-
..yet not one of them sends a greeting.
-
- Are they armed?
- Not heavily, Your Majesty.
-
Our spies say
they're equipped to travel fast and far.
-
But they were not heading here.
-
If not here, where?
-
It was Bethlehem, Your Majesty.
-
They followed a star.
-
The new star.
-
Bethlehem?
-
O thou Bethlehem Ephratah,
thou art the smallest...
-
what was that phrase again?
-
Thou Bethlehem Ephratah...
-
..art a little one
amongst the thousands of judah.
-
Out of thee he shall come forth unto me...
-
..who is to be the ruler in lsrael.
-
And his going forth
is from the beginning,...
-
..from the days of eternity.
-
A ruler in lsrael?
-
Have those travellers watched...
-
..all the time.
-
And bring me the names
of all newborn children in Bethlehem.
-
wait.
-
Don't be afraid.
-
where is the child?
-
we have come a long way to greet him.
-
This is the King of lsrael,...
-
..who will take away the sins of the world.
-
I did not know where we were to find you.
-
And coming here... a stable,...
-
..I thought my brothers were mistaken,...
-
..but now I see the justice of it.
-
There could be no other place.
-
Mm. Not in glory,...
-
..but in humility.
-
Accept these poor tokens of our homage.
-
Incense,...
-
..to perfume the halls of the mighty.
-
Gold,...
-
..for kingly rule.
-
Myrrh.
-
The most precious herb of the East,...
-
..and the most bitter.
-
And now... a word of warning.
-
Leave here as soon as you can.
-
Herod's soldiers have followed us,
hoping we'll lead them to you.
-
He knows of this birth.
He'll seek out the child and kill him.
-
Go into Egypt.
-
It may not be for long.
-
Herod's days are numbered.
-
Have those travellers
crossed my frontier again?
-
- Yes, Your Majesty.
- "Yes, Your Majesty"!
-
But the child must still be here.
-
Kill every male child up to one year...
-
No. Two years old.
-
Better the innocent should die
than that the guilty should escape.
-
Guilty?
-
Your Majesty, a child?
-
Guilty in the womb!
-
Guilty in the stars!
-
I'll bring down their stars!
-
I'll snuff them out in blood!
-
This is my world!
-
I will not share it with an infant!
-
There's no room for two kings here!
-
Like a newborn scorpion... underfoot!
-
You know the mark of a real king?
-
Courage,
even in the face of jewish prophecy,...
-
..bits of old parchment,...
-
..old blind men! Hah!
-
Now go to Bethlehem - and make history!
-
- Kill!
- But, Your Majesty...
-
Kill!
-
Kill them all!
-
Kill!
-
Kill them all!
-
Aaargh!
-
Aaargh!
-
Leave my child,
you bloodthirsty murderers!
-
Argh!
-
No! Don't kill him! Don't kill him!
-
No!
-
Don't! Leave me!
-
Argh!
-
King Herod is dead.
-
Taken in the midst of his sins.
-
Struck down by the Lord, to whom the
power and pride of kings are as nothing.
-
You cannot defy God.
-
The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace.
-
Yet the yoke of tyranny
will not be lifted from us.
-
Rome will choose a king from among his
sons, and her grip will become stronger.
-
But you should lift up your hearts,
for the Eternal will not abandon us.
-
He will send us a deliverer.
-
And his dominion is the everlasting
dominion that shall not pass away.
-
And his kingdom,
that which shall not be destroyed.
-
Come.
-
There. Look.
-
Do you see? Nazareth.
-
That's where we live.
-
Hear, O lsrael,...
-
..the Eternal our God, the Eternal is one.
-
Blessed be the name of the glory
of the kingdom for ever and ever.
-
And thou shalt love the Eternal thy God...
-
..with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy might.
-
And these words, which l command thee,
shall be in thine heart.
-
Amen.
-
Amen.
-
Bar"chu et adonai ha"m"vorch.
-
Baruch adonai
ha"mvorach l"olam vaed.
-
Bless God, who has given us the Torah.
-
The Lord God will go before you.
-
Be strong and ofgood courage.
-
Fear not, nor be afraid,
for the Lord thy God will go with you.
-
He will not fail you or forsake you.
-
Amen.
-
Now you're truly a man.
-
Shh-shh-shh-shh.
-
Jesus bar joseph, as
a new adult member of our community,...
-
..you have exercised your right
to read and comment upon the Scriptures.
-
That is your heritage. lt is the heritage
of the children of lsrael,...
-
..but remember that God's word
is spoken in times of light...
-
..and in times of darkness
and persecution.
-
May you always read from the Law
in a time of joy.
-
Amen.
-
May God protect you.
-
May God bring blessings on the boy.
-
The Romans are here.
-
The Romans?
-
Hey, hey! Brothers! Brothers!
-
Quiet!
-
Romans... The Roman soldiers are here.
-
The Romans!
-
Jewish bread. Better than nothing.
-
what's this?
-
Quartermaster. An army must eat,
and it's a long way to jerusalem.
-
But Galilee isn't Roman territory.
-
Huh! The whole world is Roman territory.
-
Hey! Put your sword back. lgnore them.
-
we'll meet with plenty of those
in jerusalem.
-
They're called Zealots.
-
They're mad religious fanatics.
-
You there.
-
Remember this.
-
The Roman army is not a pack of bandits.
-
And we'll deal with the likes of you
in our own good time. Come!
-
May the curse of God
fall upon these murderers!
-
How long must we wait, O Lord,
for you to help us!
-
God has abandoned us.
-
How long!
-
How long!
-
How long, O Lord?
-
I grow old.
-
what of thy promise to the prophets, hm?
where are they?
-
Speak tenderly to jerusalem,...
-
..and tell her
that her time of bondage has ended,...
-
..that her penalty is paid.
-
Salvation is at hand,...
-
..to be shouted from the mountain tops.
-
Comfort ye...
-
Comfort... God, comfort. (coughs)
-
The teaching is clear.
-
Behold, l send my messenger,
and he will clear the way before me.
-
A messenger... before me.
-
A messenger...
-
And the Lord
will suddenly come to his temple,...
-
..and the messenger of the Covenant,
behold, is here.
-
I am the Lord unchanging,
says the Eternal!
-
And you too
have not ceased to be sons of jacob!
-
From the days of your forefathers
you have been wayward...
-
..and have not kept my Laws!
-
lf you will return to me,
l will return to you, says the Lord!
-
Do not think you will be saved
by your rituals, by going to the Temple!
-
lt is not sacrifices the Lord demands!
-
Bring no more vain offerings,
saith the Lord.
-
I delight not
in the blood of bullocks and of lambs!
-
The sacrifice God demands
is a repentant heart!
-
what do we do then to be saved?
-
Change your hearts!
-
Take the right way!
-
The Lord says
my ways are not your ways!
-
John, baptise me! l have sinned!
-
You are the prophet!
Sent to us by God!
-
I baptise you with water,...
-
..that you may be purified
and ready for the coming of the kingdom.
-
Open up your hearts to God.
-
Receive this cleansing life.
-
Save me, save me, john! l have sinned!
-
I am a sinner!
-
Let this water wash away your sins.
-
Stop! Stop! Stop the procession!
-
Message for the King!
-
Your Majesty, he's here.
-
The Baptist.
-
He's here!
-
well?
-
- well? well, what?
- But...
-
well, er... leave him alone.
-
Oh, no.
-
On the march again! Continue!
-
Oh, what harm can he do?
-
He's been out there for years
in the desert,...
-
..living on locusts and prayers.
-
He doesn't incite the people to rebellion.
-
He asks nothing for himself.
-
All he wants is to remain poor and naked.
-
He'd very much
like everybody else to do the same!
-
Oh, now, when the wedding festivities are
over, l'll have him preach at the palace.
-
You can hear him with your own ears.
-
He's a very remarkable man.
-
I am glad there is somebody
remarkable in judaea.
-
Herod!
-
Herod!
-
The tablets of the Law speak plainly!
-
You may marry the wife of your brother
when your brother is dead,...
-
..but not while he lives!
-
This woman, Herodias,
is the wife of your brother Philip!
-
And Philip lives - tetrarch in lturaea.
-
It is written: I have seen thine adulteries
and thine abominations.
-
woe unto them!
-
wilt thou not be made clean?
-
Send back this woman to your brother.
-
Repent!
-
How can you allow this slander
to continue?
-
No, no, no.
-
we decided to be clement
on our wedding day.
-
I am not afraid of your power on earth,
Herod Antipas!
-
lf I do not warn you, you will die in sin...
-
..and the Lord will ask me
to account for your life!
-
Quickly! lnto the palace!
-
John! John!
-
- Repent! Repent!
- The Lord blesses you!
-
For the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
-
Save us!
-
The time has come!
-
The great and terrible day
of the Lord is at hand!
-
Repent...
-
..and change your lives.
-
Every valley shall be exalted,...
-
..every mountain and hill laid low.
-
The winding ways shall be straightened
and the rough ways made smooth.
-
God led you back from Babylon
to serve him, but you betrayed him.
-
Now you are warned. Flee! Flee!
-
Arrest the prophet.
l demandthat you arrest him!
-
Demand?!
-
Demand?
-
That's a strong word, my heart.
-
You must remember.
-
John is right.
-
By the Laws of Moses,...
-
..we have sinned.
-
Come on. Come on.
-
we have sinned.
-
And we go on sinning,...
-
..and very pleasant it is too!
-
Even if l wanted to,
l could do nothing about his reproaches...
-
..until he once more sets foot in Galilee.
-
And then,...
-
..my own, my heart,
we'll throw him into prison!
-
Repent! Repent! Repent!
-
A little repenting won't do him any harm.
-
After all,...
-
..he preaches it.
-
You are born to a new life
through your repentance...
-
..and the Lord pours his blessings on you.
-
The Lord rejoices in repentant hearts.
-
Go in peace.
-
He will forgive you,
if you truly mean it in your heart.
-
Help me, O Lord.
-
Open up your heart.
Be ready for the coming of the kingdom.
-
Let your heart now be cleansed.
-
Forgive me. l have sinned.
-
Help me to be strong.
-
Be strong.
-
lt is l who... who need baptism from you.
-
And yet you come to me.
-
Let it be so.
-
we must fulfil all righteousness.
-
Lord, Eternal Father,...
-
..I hear your voice.
-
This is my beloved son,...
-
..in whom l am well pleased.
-
You are born to a new life
through your repentance...
-
..and the Lord pours his blessings on you.
-
The Lord rejoices in repentant hearts.
-
This water cleanses.
-
Andrew? Philip?
-
Behold...
-
..the Lamb of God,...
-
..who takes unto himself...
-
..the sins of the world.
-
It is him you must follow now. Not me.
-
He must increase,...
-
..as I must decrease.
-
what's happening?
-
They're the guards of King Herod,
come to arrest the prophet!
-
Go!
-
Go on!
-
John, save yourself!
Come with us, please!
-
Leave him! He's a prophet!
-
You cannot arrest him!
He's a man sent by God!
-
My time is over.
-
- Quick!
- what's going on? why are you running?
-
He's back. where's Mary? l must tell her.
-
Mary! Mary! Oh, hurry, hurry!
-
Mary! Mary!
-
Mary!
-
Mary, your son is back.
He's at the synagogue.
-
He went straight to the synagogue.
l saw him.
-
He's back! Oh!
-
And now our reading from the prophets.
-
The prophet lsaiah.
-
who is our reader?
-
- Ah, yes.
- lt's my turn today, Rabbi.
-
The spirit of the Lord is upon me...
-
..because he hath anointed me
to give good tidings to the poor.
-
He has sent me
to heal the broken-hearted,...
-
..to preach deliverance to the captives,...
-
..to give sight to the blind.
-
To set at liberty them that are bruised.
-
To proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord.
-
Amen.
-
Today...
-
..in your hearing...
-
..the Scriptures...
-
..are fulfilled.
-
The Scriptures are fulfilled.
-
Did he say fulfilled?
-
But... how can he dare
to say such a thing?
-
what do you mean?
-
The prophecy you have read can only be
fulfilled by the coming of the Messiah.
-
- Yes!
- By the coming of the kingdom of God.
-
The kingdom of God
comes not in a way foreseen by men.
-
Repent... and believe the good news.
-
The kingdom of heaven,...
-
..behold,...
-
..is suddenly upon you.
-
what?!
-
This man is mad.
-
Blasphemer!
-
Blessed is he who is not ashamed of me!
-
Take this man out!
-
Don't let him touch the Scriptures!
Clear him out!
-
Today,...
-
..in our hearing,...
-
..the Scriptures... are fulfilled.
-
Go away! Go away!
Never come back to Nazareth!
-
Don't let him go! Blasphemer!
-
Stone him! Put him to death!
-
- Stone him to death!
- Blasphemer!
-
That's what he deserves!
-
The Law states clearly - stone him!
-
Don't let him go!
-
Master!
-
Master!
-
Master!
-
we were told
to make ourselves known to you.
-
I am Andrew of Capernaum.
A fisherman by trade.
-
But your follower now, if you'll take me.
-
This is Philip.
-
we were sent by john the Prophet.
The Baptist.
-
He has just been imprisoned
by King Herod Antipas.
-
Andrew.
-
Philip.
-
Come with me.
-
Come on!
-
- Tell me, when was john arrested?
- As soon as he returned to Galilee.
-
He had to return.
So many people were waiting for him...
-
There it is: the Sea of Galilee,
and Capernaum, where l was born.
-
It's a town of fishermen, but it also has
the greatest synagogue in lsrael.
-
You can stay at my brother's house.
-
He's a good man.
-
Simon Peter.
-
The Commandments
God gave to Moses so long ago...
-
..must not remain dead stone
for the reverence of unthinking minds.
-
Dead stone?
The tablets of the Law? Dead stone?!
-
- what do you mean?
- Stone is what the Law is written on.
-
But the Law itself is alive.
-
And living things are constantly changing.
-
- But our Law is eternal.
- You cannot change the Law of Moses!
-
That's right, the Law is here.
-
A man is made of flesh and blood,
and he changes.
-
Doesn't he remain the same man?
-
God wants to write the Law
on your hearts.
-
Rabbi, you said you have come here
to give us the good news.
-
Is this it? The good news?
-
That the Law is living like a man?
-
The good news l bring you is this:
-
Your captivity is over.
-
what does that mean,
our captivity is over? what captivity?
-
Captivity in sin.
-
God fulfils the promise he made
to our people lsrael...
-
..and reconciles himself to man.
-
God is coming to you.
-
To all of you.
-
Even the most wretched.
-
Do not shut the door in his face.
-
Aaargh...!
-
The devil's in him!
-
He's possessed by the devil!
-
Listen to me! Not to him!
-
Aaargh!
-
Hold him down! He's possessed!
-
Rabbi, the demon has tried to throw him
into fire and into water to destroy him!
-
If you can do anything, have mercy!
-
Help my poor faith.
-
Hold him!
-
watch out!
-
Aaargh!
-
watch out!
-
Satan!
-
Aaargh!
-
Satan!
-
Leave... him!
-
The spirit has gone.
-
Father...
-
Oh, my son! My son!
-
Oh!
-
Praised be the Lord.
-
lt's all right! He's all right!
-
Yes, we're all fishermen in our family.
Andrew here knows us well.
-
But l was sent off to learn.
-
All you were fit for, perhaps!
-
And what have you learnt?
-
Oh, that two and two make four,
sometimes,...
-
..that most people seem to be here
to be pushed about,...
-
..that getting on is a fine thing,...
-
..that birth is the beginning of death.
-
But there must be something more
for man between birth and death.
-
Today, when l heard you preaching,
l began to understand.
-
lt gave me hope.
-
Through your words,
the old Scriptures seem to become alive.
-
That's what we want.
-
we want the Law to be alive,...
-
..written in our hearts, not carved in stone.
-
what is your name?
-
John. Son of Zebedee.
-
John.
-
Stay with us.
-
Back!
-
Back!
-
Keep back, you idiot!
-
- why don't you let us in!
- There's my brother now. Simon Peter.
-
And there's my brother - james.
-
He's shouting again. Angry as usual.
-
If anyone's drunk, it's you, you sponge!
-
He doesn't mean it. He's a good man.
-
what's the matter? Poor catch?
-
Poor catch? Nothing!
-
The only things we catch these days
are Roman taxes,...
-
..and while we're out sweating,
working our hands raw on the nets,...
-
..the stinking tax gatherers take half
and give it to the Romans!
-
Bloodsuckers!
-
Go, brother.
-
Go and tell that leech, that two-faced
tax collector of ours, Matthew,...
-
..that if he wants more money out of me,
to put some fish in the lake.
-
Simon, this is the man l told you about.
-
The man john spoke of. john the Baptist.
-
what? Another holy man?
-
Are you another of those
that tell us to be patient,...
-
..and promise us
better times will be ahead?
-
what about now?
-
what about our children?
who will fill their bellies?
-
A lot of talk these days,
while we all starve.
-
Find a holy man who can put an end
to that, then maybe l'll listen.
-
Go out again.
-
- I shall come with you.
- we've just pulled in!
-
Get the nets off the boat.
Please, Simon, do as he says.
-
- why do you listen to these people?
- He's different, Simon. Please!
-
Give me that!
-
Please!
-
what are you staring at?
-
Come.
-
You can preach to the fish.
-
- Cast off. we're going out again.
- l knew he'd do it.
-
Come on, john.
-
He sends us out again,
and we catch all these fish!
-
It's a miracle!
-
It's not a miracle.
Only God can work miracles.
-
They speak these profanities.
They believe him.
-
we must go and speak to him.
-
l've never seen anything like that.
-
My house will not hold any more people!
-
Please!
-
My father is ill!
l want the Master to cure him!
-
Stop! That's enough!
-
Help me up! I can't get up!
I want to see him!
-
There are too many already!
-
Keep back! Keep back!
-
Touch me, Master! Touch me!
-
I can see well from here.
-
Master!
-
lt was amazing. l've been fishing for four
years and l've never seen a catch so big.
-
More.
-
So!
-
There were miracles, were there?
-
And a big catch, inspired by a prophet.
what's his name? jesus? Get out.
-
He's staying with Simon Peter,
the fisherman.
-
Oh, l know him, yes.
-
He owes me back taxes, doesn't he?
-
Move!
-
well, well, well.
-
well, if there's been a big catch,
he can pay, can't he?
-
The kingdom of heaven
is like a treasure hidden in a field.
-
A man finds it, and in his joy
spends everything he has to buy that field.
-
lt's like a merchant
in search of fine pearls.
-
He finds one pearl of great value,
and sells everything to have that pearl.
-
You, you're all fishermen.
-
well, the kingdom of heaven is like a net,
a great net thrown into the sea.
-
Suddenly it is filled.
-
lt's almost bursting.
-
You have to call
to the other boats to come and help.
-
Everybody's working together,
happy, excited.
-
lt's a time for joy.
-
For rejoicing in what God
has freely given you.
-
The tax collector.
-
- Peter, your friend Matthew is here.
- Get out! You're defiling this house!
-
Bloodsucking tax collector!
No place for you here!
-
we don't want you.
-
Out of my house!
-
- You scum! Filth!
- No, Simon, don't.
-
l will not have it defiled by you!
-
l hear you've had a big catch, Simon.
we'll talk about it later, shall we?
-
But what about this friend of yours?
-
This new preacher or teacher
or whatever he is.
-
Am l not allowed to speak with him?
-
Not... in my house.
-
You seem to be unwelcome here.
-
I don't know your name,
but l know what you do.
-
Levi... or Matthew.
l am known by both names.
-
And by others.
-
You and l must meet in a place
where both of us are welcome.
-
Is your house far?
-
why do you ask?
-
l should like to have supper
with you tonight.
-
You would enter the house of a sinner?
-
l would enter any house
where l am welcome.
-
He doesn't seem to realise the scandal
it would cause. Peter, you tell him.
-
l've told him.
-
Tell him again. They're all talking about it.
-
- Meaning some Pharisees, l suppose.
- well, they know the Law.
-
Tax collectors cannot enter a synagogue.
whoever associates with them is defiled.
-
According to the Pharisees.
-
- That's their argument. Peter, tell him.
- l've told him!
-
what do you want from me?
-
l said Matthew's my bloodsucking enemy,
l hate him,...
-
..but all jesus would say was:
"why don't you join us as well?"
-
Andrew.
-
Andrew, l am not like you.
-
l am not a follower
of priests and prophets.
-
l am a fisherman.
l have my family to think of.
-
You followed the Baptist.
Now follow this one.
-
- Peter!
- just leave me alone!
-
why did you bring him here to me?
-
This is my life!
-
My nets...
-
My boats.
-
Go on!
-
Follow him!
-
But leave me!
-
Come on. You can't talk to him
when he's like this.
-
Come on, Philip.
-
This is where l belong.
-
Master!
-
It's a scandal for you
to eat with these people.
-
we've lived our lives honourably,
made sacrifices.
-
They are thieves, whores, usurers.
-
Violent and godless people.
-
Now you eat with such people, who spend
their lives in orgies and perversions.
-
I am not come to call the virtuous
to repentance, but the sinners.
-
They might enter heaven before you.
-
Listen, Master, if you eat with
these people, they will contaminate you.
-
The town will abandon you.
-
- James is right.
- james,...
-
..the heart of the Law is mercy.
-
You can't go.
-
Come, my lovely.
-
He's here.
-
Quiet!
-
Peace be with you.
-
Thank you...
-
..for coming to my house.
-
Rabbi... you are welcome.
-
Seat for the rabbi!
-
- Move!
- No, no, don't move. l'll sit there.
-
wine.
-
This is my brother james.
-
He's in the same business as l am.
-
I drink to you in the name of all here.
-
Rabbi, we want to hear your words.
-
Please, speak to us.
-
- Yes.
- No, no, no. Let's eat first.
-
No! Let him decide.
-
Oh, let him speak!
-
No. No.
-
- I'd like to tell you a story.
- Yes! Yes!
-
Sit down, sit down! Sh-sh!
-
Sit down, sit down.
-
A certain man had two sons,...
-
..and one day the younger
of these sons said to his father:
-
"Give me my share of your estate now."
-
So his father divided his wealth
between his two sons.
-
And a few days later this younger son
set off for a distant land...
-
..and there he squandered all the money
he had on riotous living.
-
Now, not long after this
a great famine swept over the land...
-
..and the boy began to starve.
-
He persuaded a farmer
to hire him to feed his pigs,...
-
..but he was so hungry, even the husks he
fed the swine began to look good to him.
-
And still nobody gave him anything.
-
Finally, the boy came to his senses.
-
At home...
-
..even my father's servants
have enough food, and to spare.
-
And here l am starving to death.
-
I will go home...
-
..and ask my father
to hire me as one of his servants.
-
And so... he set off.
-
Now he was still some distance
from his home...
-
..when his father saw him coming,...
-
..and he was so filled with compassion...
-
..that he ran towards his son...
-
..and embraced him and kissed him.
-
The boy said "Father,
l have sinned against heaven and you."
-
"I am not worthy to be called your son."
-
But his father called for the servants...
-
..and said "Bring me the finest robe
in the house and put it on him."
-
"Put rings on his hands
and shoes on his feet."
-
"Kill the fatted calf.
we must celebrate with a feast."
-
My son was dead...
-
..and is alive again.
-
Now,...
-
..the older brother at this time
was working in the fields,...
-
..and as he came back to the house...
-
..he heard the noise
of music and dancing.
-
He called for one of the servants
and asked what was happening.
-
And he was told.
-
At this,
the older brother became very angry...
-
..and he refused to go into the house.
-
The father came out and tried
to plead with him, but he wouldn't listen.
-
"I have worked for you
all this time, all these years,...
-
..and never once have l disobeyed you."
-
"In all that time
you've never even given me a goat...
-
..so that l can have a feast
with my friends."
-
"My younger brother comes back,
having spent all your money on harlots,...
-
..and for him you kill the fatted calf."
-
"Please," said the father,...
-
.."please,...
-
..try to understand."
-
"You are always with me."
-
"Everything l have is yours,...
-
..but it is right to celebrate."
-
"Your brother was dead,...
-
..and is alive again."
-
"He was lost,...
-
..and is found."
-
Forgive me, Master.
-
I am...
-
I am just a stupid man.
-
welcome to the man from
Nazareth! welcome to our shores!
-
Bring blessings with you!
-
Come save us!
-
- He's coming!
- He's here!
-
Help me, l am ill!
-
welcome to our land!
-
Bless me, Master! Bless me!
-
Take her away.
-
Back to Capernaum.
-
Do not think l have come
to bring peace on earth.
-
I have come not to bring peace...
-
..but a sword.
-
l have come to sow discord
between a man and his father,...
-
..between a daughter and her mother.
-
A man's enemies...
-
..will be members of his own family.
-
You may say we have left our belongings
to become your followers.
-
I tell you this:
-
Anyone who has left home,...
-
..or father, mother,...
-
..wife, children, land,...
-
..for the kingdom of God...
-
..shall be rewarded
a hundred times over...
-
..on earth,...
-
..and inherit the kingdom of God.
-
whoever wants to save his life
will lose it,...
-
..but if a man will lose his life for my sake
and for the gospel l bring you,...
-
..he will save it.
-
For many that are first will be last.
-
And the last first.
-
So do not store up for yourselves
treasure on earth,...
-
..where it grows rusty and moth-eaten
and thieves break in to steal it.
-
Store up treasure in heaven,...
-
..for where your treasure is
there will your heart be also.
-
My name is jairus. l am one of the elders
of the synagogue here.
-
My little daughter is dying.
-
I beg you.
-
Come and lay your hands on her
so that she may be cured and live.
-
Take me to her.
-
He's arriving.
-
He's coming.
He's bringing the man from Nazareth.
-
Master,...
-
..your daughter is dead.
-
Poor child!
-
Do not weep!
-
The child is not dead.
-
Only sleeping.
-
who are you
to come here with your jokes?
-
we've seen she's dead. You haven't.
-
Peace, Thomas. Peace.
-
Talitha kumi.
-
Rise, little girl.
-
Give her something to eat.
-
Oh!
-
She's alive! She's alive!
-
women!
-
Huh!
-
I ask you!
-
why won't they listen?
-
I told my wife I won't be away for long.
-
In any case, the fishing's hopeless.
why not go away?
-
I told her. l said...
-
.."l'll come back in the spring."
-
Don't lie to her...
-
..and to yourself.
-
Lie?
-
Yes.
-
You know very well.
You'll never go back.
-
I will.
-
No, you won't.
-
Never.
-
You'll never fish again,...
-
..you'll never get drunk again,...
-
..and you'll never live
in Capernaum again.
-
None of us will.
-
we'll never be the same.
-
And neither will the lives
of everyone in the whole world.
-
we know why, Simon.
-
we're the first...
-
..to know.
-
You stupid idiots! Go on, go away!
-
And mind your mothers' business,
you crazy...! And your sisters'!
-
You want to burn down my house
to burn me alive?!
-
Get out!
-
Can l come in for a minute?
-
Can l come in for a minute, too?
-
Mm. Come.
-
Come. we'll talk about it, hm?
-
You pigs!
Don't you come near me any more!
-
l'll kill you!
-
what is it? what's going on?
-
Ask those pigs over there.
Those big brave sons of yours.
-
In, boy.
-
There's no peace in this neighbourhood
since you came here. Noise and filth...
-
The curse of God is on you.
-
Don't worry, Mary.
They are only boys' games.
-
Ah! Boys, they would only
burn my house down.
-
The fathers...
-
They're all against me.
-
Not all, Mary.
-
There's a friend of yours in town today.
-
- I have no friends.
- Oh, yes, you have.
-
jesus the Prophet.
-
Friend of outcasts, forgiver of sins. Hm?
-
Hey, according to him,...
-
..the sins of the flesh are nothing
compared to the sins of the soul.
-
Hey!
-
A man will always forgive a man,
but a woman's sin...
-
That's another story.
-
For most people, but not for him.
l've never seen anybody like him.
-
Have you seen him often?
-
If you go round on business like me,
you can't help seeing him.
-
Turn a corner, cross a square,
go into a camp, there he is.
-
Come on.
-
It's been like that for about a year.
-
- You sure you haven't come across him?
- l sleep in the day, don't l?!
-
Sorry, I forgot.
-
well, there are big crowds
following him everywhere,...
-
..sometimes so big
he has to sleep in a field.
-
He thinks nothing of eating and drinking
with thieves and whores.
-
Any scum of the earth
is good enough for him.
-
One of his disciples, as they
call themselves, was a tax collector,...
-
..the thieving swine.
-
But this jesus...
-
well, he says it's not the righteous
that need him, it's the sinners.
-
So you see? You have got a friend.
-
- How about next week?
- Go.
-
Make way! Let us through!
-
Over there!
-
I can see him!
-
I can see!
-
I can see! I can see!
-
- what happened?
- Jesus of Nazareth cured a blind man!
-
- who?
- Jesus of Nazareth!
-
Ezra! Ezra!
-
Master?
-
we should send these people away.
-
we've got nothing to give them to eat.
-
They should go to the villages
where they can find food.
-
There's no need to send them away.
-
You give them something to eat.
-
How? There are thousands of them.
-
we cannot feed them.
-
Is there any food left?
-
This is all we have.
Five barley loaves and two fish.
-
Put the loaves and the fish
in the baskets...
-
..and give them to the people.
-
well, go on!
-
why are you waiting? Do as he says.
-
l'm sorry, there's only one.
That's all we have.
-
- But we're starving!
- Only one? There's plenty!
-
we've really got some food!
How wonderful!
-
A miracle! A miracle!
-
Jesus of Nazareth
has performed a miracle!
-
Master... may l speak with you?
-
what is your name, my son?
-
My name is judas lscariot.
-
Call me a scholar the state finds useful.
l read and write Hebrew, Greek, Latin.
-
I... I translate documents.
-
This has become a country
of many tongues.
-
Now I have never beaten copper,...
-
..nor carved wood, nor...
-
..caught fish as your men have, but...
-
..I know your men.
-
My father is a prosperous builder.
-
He said my son must never have calluses
on his hands, nor brick dust in his hair.
-
My money must make my son
into a scholar.
-
Behold a scholar,...
-
..who wishes to serve you.
-
But do you need... a man like me?
-
The tree is known by its fruit.
-
Come.
-
Stay with us.
-
Blessed are the poor in spirit,...
-
..for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
-
Blessed are those who mourn,...
-
..for they shall be comforted.
-
Blessed are the meek,...
-
..for they shall inherit the earth.
-
Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst for what is right,...
-
..for they shall be filled.
-
Blessed are the merciful,...
-
..for they shall obtain mercy.
-
Blessed are the pure in heart,...
-
..for they shall see God.
-
Blessed are the peacemakers,...
-
..for they shall be called Sons of God.
-
Blessed are those who are persecuted
in the cause of right,...
-
..for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
-
Blessed are you...
-
..when people abuse you
and persecute you...
-
..and speak all kinds of calumny
against you for my sake.
-
Rejoice!
-
And be glad!
-
For your reward will be great in heaven,...
-
..as it was for the prophets
persecuted before you.
-
In your prayers,...
-
..remember your Father knows
what your needs are before you ask him.
-
This is how you should pray.
-
Our Father,...
-
..who art in heaven,...
-
..hallowed be thy name.
-
Thy kingdom come.
-
Thy will be done on earth,
as it is in heaven.
-
Give us this day our daily bread.
-
And forgive us our debts,...
-
..as we forgive our debtors.
-
And lead us not into temptation,...
-
..but deliver us...
-
..from evil.
-
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
cast out devils.
-
Take nothing with you except a staff.
No pack, no food, no money.
-
whenever you come to a town or village,
find who is worthy in it and stay with him.
-
And if at any place
they will not receive you or listen to you,...
-
..shake the dust off your feet as you leave.
-
Sodom and Gomorrah on the Day of
judgment will fare better than that place.
-
I am sending you out
as sheep amongst wolves.
-
Be as wise as serpents.
-
And as harmless as doves.
-
Don't be anxious
about what you are to say,...
-
..how you are to speak.
-
It is not you who speak,...
-
..but the spirit of your Father
speaking through you.
-
Freely you have received.
-
Now freely give.
-
Go.
-
God be with you, Simon Peter.
-
John the Baptist came
neither eating bread nor drinking wine,...
-
..and you said
he was possessed by devils.
-
Here l am,
drinking and eating freely with you.
-
No doubt you'll say
l am a glutton and a drinker.
-
Friend of tax collectors and sinners.
-
Oh, Rabbi,...
-
..you do us an injustice.
-
we respect your achievements,
and we understand their importance.
-
But to what extent
are you prepared to accept our Laws?
-
we hear that you heal the sick
on the Sabbath.
-
Do you want our people
not to rest on the Sabbath?
-
If your sheep fell into a pit
on the Sabbath day,...
-
..wouldn't you get it out? God made the
Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath.
-
we understand that!
we understand what you're trying to say!
-
But is it not confusing to other people?
-
we live by the Law.
-
If we accept the Law
to be ruled by exceptions,...
-
..then we are lost.
-
Today, if it hadn't been for the severity
that we learned from Moses,...
-
..we would not have our Laws.
-
we would not even be a people
any longer.
-
But it is the... the excessive tolerance,
the lack of rigidity in your teaching,...
-
..that has made us feel
that this is a real danger.
-
The Law gives me security.
-
It's a guide to my whole way of life.
-
A measure for judging
this man is right, this man is wrong.
-
You should not judge.
-
But you, as a son of lsrael,...
-
..know that we were chosen by God
from all mankind...
-
..to be the Holy Nation.
-
And, for this,
he gave us our Law, the Torah,...
-
..which is the Law of life.
-
And we have to separate ourselves
from the sinners and be pure and just.
-
But who is just in the eyes of the Lord?
-
what is the heart of the Law?
-
Hear, O lsrael,
thou shalt love the Lord thy God...
-
..with all thy heart,
with all thy soul, with all thy strength.
-
This is the greatest commandment.
-
You said well.
-
You are not far from the kingdom of God,
joseph of Arimathea.
-
But there is another commandment
no less great.
-
You must love your neighbour as yourself.
-
- But who is my neighbour?
- (screaming)
-
No! Stop her! You can't come in!
-
This is no place for the likes of you!
-
what's the matter?
-
Isn't she that woman? That whore?
-
Yes, it's her.
-
She's defiling him.
-
This is no place for you, woman.
Come. Leave quickly.
-
Simon, sit down.
-
But, Rabbi,
you know what kind of a woman this is.
-
Simon, please.
-
Simon.
-
when l came into your house,
you didn't pour water over my feet,...
-
..or kiss me in greeting,
or anoint my head with oil.
-
She has washed my feet with her tears.
-
And dried them with her hair.
-
And anointed them.
-
Daughter,...
-
..your sins,...
-
..and l know they are many,...
-
..are forgiven you
because of the greatness of your love.
-
Only God can forgive sins - no man.
-
Your faith has saved you.
-
Go...
-
..and sin no more.
-
Daughter.
-
Take this ointment.
-
And keep it for my burial.
-
Go in peace.
-
..begged me to touch him
and he could walk!
-
A leper said my shadow had crossed her
and she was cured!
-
They called out to me, "Rabbi! Rabbi!"
-
I didn't know how to preach, either,
then suddenly l found myself speaking.
-
The same power Peter was given.
-
Master, there is great excitement
everywhere about you.
-
who do the people in Galilee
say that l am?
-
Some say john the Baptist.
They will not believe he is dead.
-
They know he is dead, many indeed,...
-
..but they say
you're john the Baptist alive again.
-
And who do you say that l am?
-
I say you are...
-
..the Messiah.
-
The Son... of the living God.
-
ln saying that, Simon bar Jonah,...
-
..you show yourself
to be blessed among men.
-
Flesh and blood
have not revealed this truth to you.
-
It has come from my Father in heaven.
-
So now l will call you Peter,...
-
..the rock.
-
And upon this rock
l will build what l must call my church.
-
The gates of hell will not prevail against it.
-
To you l give the keys...
-
..of the kingdom of heaven.
-
And to you all l say this.
-
Peter has spoken the truth.
-
And now you know it.
-
But you must not reveal it to any man.
-
The time has not yet come.
-
But another time is coming.
-
The time for me to go to jerusalem.
-
Oh, yes, Master.
-
You must go to jerusalem.
The whole city awaits you.
-
The elders of lsrael
must know and recognise you.
-
No, judas. ln jerusalem the Son of Man
will be rejected by the elders...
-
..and the chief priests of the Temple.
-
He will be condemned.
-
He will be handed over
to the unbelievers,...
-
..who will scourge him,...
-
..mock him,...
-
..put him to death.
-
Then,...
-
..after three days,...
-
..he will rise again.
-
Jerusalem will be swarming with pilgrims
getting ready for the Passover.
-
Will he go straight to the city?
-
He said that he would be
put to death there.
-
And that he would rise again.
-
Master, master!
-
Martha and Mary, the sisters of
your friend in Bethany
-
have sent me here to find you.
Lazarus is very ill, near death.
-
Go. Tell them I'll be there
-
- Master, master! He's coming
- Master! Martha's coming
-
He's arriving!
-
My Lord.
-
Lord.
-
If you had been with us,
my brother would not have died.
-
But I know that even now, whatever you
ask of God, God will give it to you,
-
because I believe you are the Christ,
the son of God.
-
He who has come into the world
to give us eternal life
-
Where do you live?
-
Come and see.
-
Lord. Lord.
-
I prayed and prayed for you
to arrive.
-
You could have kept Lazarus
from dying.
-
Take away the stone
-
But he's been dead four days master.
His body must already be decaying!
-
Take away the stone.
-
Give me a hand!
-
Father, thank you for hearing my prayer.
-
Now those who stand round me may believe
-
that I am resurrection and the life.
-
And those who believe in me
shall never die.
-
I went down into the countries
underneath the earth,
-
to the people's of the past,
-
but you lifted my life from the pit,
Lord, my God.
-
Lazarus! Come forth!
-
He that believes in me, but he were
dead, yet shall he live.
-
Too much, too much! Keep it! Ah!
He always complains!
-
Give your sheep.
-
Give your sheep.
-
Thank you!
-
Lord our god, the Lord is one.
-
It is that thou art the Lord, our God,
the God of our fathers.
-
Save your life Father, I'll save you-
-
Here are the documents you
wished to see, master Zerah.
-
Thank you.
-
And I am extremely flattered that you
wished to see me, but why may I ask?
-
Master Zerah, with respect,
-
there are many people in Israel who feel that your
influence in the Sanhedrin offers great hope for the future,
-
and I can think of no better introduction
to the high priest, Lord Caiaphus.
-
Well, since you know so much about me, then you won't
be surprised that we know about your rabbi from Nazareth.
-
Miracles. Raising the dead extraordinary.
-
No, I wish that my duties give me
time to see your Jesus myself.
-
I wish you had, then you would need no persuading
that he is the only man that can bring peace to Israel.
-
- What?
- Well, the zealots know it and so-
-
So, you might be surprised to learn,
do your temple guards.
-
Romans, they're faithfully practical, they would welcome
any body who can bring peace, and if it was a peace
that cost him nothing,
-
so much the better.
-
The Sanhedrin should proclaim Jesus
king ofJudea, and tell the Romans-
-
What? "Look Caesar, we have a new
ruler, one from the royal house of David.
-
One in whom we have every confidence, who
preaches peace, tolerance and love even to you Romans,
-
therefore you can calmly withdraw
your troops. We no longer need them"?
-
You actually put it very well.
-
I would have to put it very well indeed for the Romans
to take away their troops and their procurates,
-
not to mention their tax collectors.
-
I was told of your wit, and this is
hardly the time for it.
-
Alright.
-
You and I should not quarrel.
-
What do you want me to do?
-
Let Jesus of Nazareth prove himself
before the Sanhedrin.
-
I think I can promise you that
he shall have that opportunity.
-
Rabbi, Many days see to you.
-
Please, Jesus save me.
-
Welcome to our city!
-
Hail Jesus!
-
He raised Lazarus from the dead!
-
- Who is this Jesus ofNazareth?
- He's a prophet, a great prophet.
-
A prophet, on a donkey?
-
I saw you with Jerusalem's daughters.
Behold thy king!
-
Son of David! Master,
you are the hope of Israel.
-
You are our prophet and our savior!
-
Jesus has come to save us!
-
Hosanna! Hosanna!
-
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!
-
You cannot buy anything in our
temples with Roman money,
-
you must change it for our
sheckles, you know that!
-
- But it's cheap!
- Well if you don't like it-
-
...You are turning the house of our
lord into a market place! It's a shame!
-
That much?
-
Don't tell.
-
It's some rate that all the
other saucer, dear friend.
-
It's come true ten-
-
Take two instead of one
they are all greatfull.
-
Who fight with lambs.
Who fight with lambs.
-
Jerusalem, the faithful city.
-
She that was full ofjustice,
has become a harlot!
-
Stop him! Have you gone mad?
Have you not heard?
-
What are your multitude of
sacrifices to me, says the Lord?
-
Bring forth no more vain offerings!"
-
Look at my money! Thieves!
-
This is a house of prayer,
-
and you have turned it
into a den of thieves!
-
Stop!
-
Rabbi, my name is Zerah.
I'm a scribe of this holy place.
-
And I, like my brethren, have followed
your mission with great interest.
-
We have heard good things about
you, and are glad,
-
but what you have done today
shocks and surprises us.
-
Do you wish to destroy
this sacred temple?
-
Atemple is not merely of stone.
It is a house of God.
-
It cannot be destroyed as long as
God lives here.
-
Destroy this temple, and in three
days, I will make it rise again.
-
It took centuries to build this temple,
and you think you can build it in three days?
-
You said it,
-
but you have not understood.
-
Rabbi, I understand better than
you think.
-
Master That scribe had every intention of greeting you
in a friendly manner. He wanted to understand your mission.
-
Was it wise to discourage him?
-
He has one of the most open minds
in the Sanhedrin.
-
Open your heart,
Judas Not your mind.
-
Open your eyes and your heart.
-
Master Zerah! Master Zerah!
-
Ah, My dearJudas!
-
You're quite right. Your master
has very little political sense.
-
But he is an extraordinary man
-
and we shall continue to watch is
mission with great interest.
-
He's there.
-
Master I am Barrabas, a zealot.
-
Before he was murdered,
Amos sent word to us, "Trust you."
-
My brothers are ready.
-
Some of them are temple guards.
-
Our day of revenge against
the Romans has come.
-
Everyday their grip becomes tighter.
Our people have become used to oppression.
-
With you to lead them,
and with our swords behind you,
-
they will rise up,
we can teach them to fight.
-
Some of the priests of Sagisis
have said "Obey the laws of Caesar.
-
They do not speak for
the Jewish people.
-
Tell us what to do,
whatever you say we will follow you.
-
Then love your enemies
-
and forgive those who use
and persecute you.
-
The day of forgiveness is at hand.
-
Forgive Herod?
-
Forgive the Romans?
-
Forgive them all.
-
But the, the Romans have butchered hundreds
of innocent people, young people, old people,
lives ended without mercy, without trial.
-
Surely you can't mean to
forgive that, master?
-
We should fight the sword
with the sword.
-
All who take out the sword
shall perish by the sword!
-
But we must end the
weeping in Israel!
-
Barrabas
Your zeal blinds you to the truth.
-
The new Jerusalem will not
build up by murder and uprising.
-
If we still have god we'll fill
the land as water fills the sea.
-
The lion will lie down to the lamb.
-
There will be no more killing
or destroying
-
and the voice of weeping
shall be heard no more.
-
While we wait for that day to come,
our people live in mourning and lamentation.
-
Barrabas,
-
you wish to follow me.
-
I have come to take on my
shoulders the sins of the world.
-
You who'd follow me must
be willing to do the same.
-
Oh no.
-
Barrabas!
-
I'm sorry if I disturb you, Rabbi
-
But I would like to ask
you a great favor.
-
I have servant in my house.
I've had him a long while,
-
and he's good. Love him more
like a son than a servant.
-
He's very sick, dying I fear.
-
Rabbi, in all humility...
-
You would like me to
come to your house.
-
Very well, I will come with you.
-
No. I am unworthy that
you should enter unto my roof.
-
I know that if you say the word,
my servant will be healed.
-
I am a man under authority,
-
but I myself have authority over a hundred
soldiers and if I say to one of them,
-
do this, I know that he will do it
-
and if I say to another go there
I know that he will go.
-
I need not see, I know.
-
So it is enough that you give
the word, and it will be done.
-
Do you hear this man?
-
I have seldom found such faith
among the people of Israel.
-
Go home, your faith has
cured your servant.
-
So he's a friend of the Romans.
-
Theseus! Theseus!
-
The Romans are right! Marcus
is well, your servant is cured!
-
- What?
- Come on
-
Come on! Come and see for yourself.
I can't believe my eyes! He's cured!
-
Come on! Come to your house!
-
Master! Master! Here he is! Here
he is! Over here! The master is here!
-
Stop it! Leave me alone!
-
He does too well as a blind figure!
-
He knows if he could see,
no one would give him anything.
-
Leave me alone! Don't touch me!
-
Don't touch me, I say!
-
Master, that man was born blind. If he has
accepted that's the way it is, then why change it?
-
He lives in darkness.
-
And as long as I am in the world,
-
I am the light of the world.
-
No! Don't! Leave my eyes alone!
I don't want you to touch them!
-
No, don't touch my eyes!
-
You are hurting me! They're burning!
-
What have you done to them?
What have you put on them?
-
Go and wash his eyes.
-
Come on, Let's take him. Come on.
Make way! Make way!
-
Come with us and see!
The master has cured the blind man!
-
Can he see? We're not through yet!
Give him a bath!
-
He hasn't touched water all his life!
-
Give them a good wash!
-
I can see!
-
I am not blind anymore!
-
I can see you!
-
And you!
-
I can see! Brothers!
-
Brothers!
-
I am not blind anymore.
-
I can see everything!
-
Now I know what it means to see!
-
It's a miracle!!
-
I can see the world!
My eyes can see!
-
Brothers! I can see all of you!
All of you!
-
Where is he?
-
Where is he? Where is he?
-
Master
-
I can see.
-
I can see.
-
Do you believe in the son of man?
-
Who is he master,
that I may believe in him.
-
You're seeing him.
It is he that is speaking to you.
-
I believe. Lord.
-
Make way, make way there!
-
Make way, the priest is coming!
-
Out of the way! Habbukuk is here!
-
This lying cheat was never blind.
-
We at the temple know that he was
only pretending to be blind to earn his living!
-
He's right, he's a liar.
-
I've know him a long time,
he's never been blind!
-
And what's your story?
That you can give sight to the blind?
-
I came into this world to give sight
to those who cannot see.
-
And to take away sight from
those who can.
-
What do you mean by that?
That we who are righteous are blind?
-
If you were blind,
you would be without sin,
-
but since you say "We see",
your sin remains.
-
This man works for the devil!
-
Cheat!
-
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites all!
-
When you shut off the kingdom of
heaven against men,
-
you do not join yourselves,
nor do you let others enter.
-
Blind guides.
-
You are stray and inept,
and swallow camel.
-
You bow before the letter of the law,
and violate the heart of the law
-
justice! Mercy! Good faith.
-
You are like white washed tombs,
all fair and clean without,
-
but within full of death
and bones and all corruption.
-
You see these stones, do you not?
-
I tell you there will not be left here one
stone upon another that will not be throne down.
-
Yours is a house of damnation,
-
the home of the ligard and spider.
-
Serpents through their vipers.
-
How can any of you escape damnation?
-
You shall not see me here again,
not until you learn to cry,
-
"Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord,
-
for I and my Father are one
and the same."
-
He is a blasphemer!
-
This is the man!
-
You don't speak for
the people of Israel!
-
Listen to the teachings of our God!
-
He should be stoned to death!
-
He's a blasphemer!
-
Wonder what's going on?
-
I don't like it, I'll take a look.
-
- Look after, stand, will you?
- All right
-
Caspar!
-
A righteous man. A righteous man.
-
Kill the Romans!
-
Come on!
-
He's not the messiah!
He's a false prophet.
-
He a friend of the Romans!
-
Stone him! Stone him! Stone him!
-
Traitor! Traitor to Israel!
-
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
-
He speaks the truth!
-
Stone him to death!
Stone him to death!
-
Peter!
-
If you please,
I've come to offer my help.
-
Master Nicodemus.
-
Yes, I must advise you.
You are in danger.
-
Please persuade your master to
keep away from public places.
-
God must have sent you,
master Nicodemus. You speak to him.
-
Of all people,
he will listen to you. Come.
-
Master!
-
Rabbi.
-
There is to be a meeting
at the Sanhedrin.
-
You have many enemies there,
-
but also friends who know that
you are a teacher come from God,
-
for no man that shows the signs
or has the words that you impart,
-
unless God giveth them.
-
And yet, my heart is troubled,
and my mind confused.
-
You must help me to see the truth.
-
Accept the man to be born again,
Nicodemus.
-
He cannot see the kingdom of God.
-
Born again?
-
Can a man enter his mother's
womb the second time?
-
That which is born of the
flesh is flesh.
-
That which is born of
the spirit is spirit.
-
Do not marvel that I said to you,
"You must be born again."
-
The wind blows where it will,
and you hear the sound of it,
-
but you don't know whence
it comes or whether it goes.
-
And so it is with everyone
who is born with the spirit.
-
God so loved the world that
he sent his own son,
-
that whosoever believed in him
should not perish, but have eternal life.
-
God sent his son to the world
not to condemn it,
-
but that the world should
be saved through him.
-
He came to Jerusalem. The crowd
went wild for his arrival and we did nothing!
-
He then scolded the merchants, so they
sent us beasts for sacrifice from the courtyard
to the temple and we did not intervene!
-
How many times have we protested that the disgrace
of buy traders being allowed in the precincts of the temple?
-
But then we allowed him to preach
in the holy temple itself, and at no time,
-
no time did he recognize
your authority, Caiaphus,
-
nor made sufficient
to the elders of Israel.
-
We must denounce him
in the name of the people of Israel!
-
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that we have that right.
-
Can we honestly say that we represent the
true thoughts and aspirations of the people of Israel?
-
What are you saying?
-
I've often wondered if we, as elders are
too cut off from them and their real problems.
-
How can we guide them if we do not
know what's in their hearts?
-
But without our guidance
they would be lost!
-
People, people will run after
any new thing.
-
They have taken up with this man,
with his hijinx and his exaggerated promises.
-
I have seen him,
I have seen him preach.
-
His words reach into men's hearts,
not like ours.
-
It's not through the old rituals, the old formulas,
but a new vision which seems to answer all their hopes.
-
A message of comfort, of goodness, of purity,
of the virtues of humility.
-
We've heard it all before, from the John
the Baptist and hundreds of others.
-
Yes, how's those who follow
to hate him as the Messiah?
-
He's a blasphemer! He's an imposter!
-
With respect to those more learned
than I, there is one possibility
-
that it seems no one
here is ready to consider...
-
What is it?
-
The possibility that
Jesus of Nazareth
-
may be in fact be the messiah
awaited by our people.
-
A carpenter from Galilee?
-
suddenly, he never misses a chance
to identify himself with them.
-
Exactly!
-
I only know that like our brother
Joseph, I've heard him preach.
-
I was moved lifted out of my soul,
-
and seemed to see all things
in a new and blinding light.
-
I was aware of wonders, signs
that God may be with him,
-
and through him, with us.
-
Do you realize what you are
saying, Master Nicodemus?
-
Let him speak!
-
Listen to him! Let him speak!
Don't shut him down!
-
The coming of the messiah
is the heart of our faith.
-
Why should he not come now?
-
Why do we dream our liberator will be
revealed in glory, a new Solomon, a new David?
-
Is God not allowed to choose
who he wishes?
-
Even the son of a poor carpenter
from Nazareth?
-
David began life as a shepherd.
-
Who are we to decide the way in which
God should choose to help his people?
-
We are grains of sand,
chalk blown in the wind.
-
May the Lord open our
eyes to his wisdom.
-
Master Nicodemus,
I have always respected you.
-
How am I to understand your
defense of this man,
-
whose missions seems to be
to divide our people?
-
Even this noble assembly
has been torn asunder by him.
-
This Jesus of Nazareth must be
an extraordinary man.
-
But is there not one among you who
understands the the real significance of this matter.
-
It is not the Galilean's words that are important.
The so called miracles,
-
even the fact the frenzied crowds hail
him as the messiah, it's not important.
-
The central core of this case is
that this man dares to proclaim...
-
I can hardly make myself say it.
-
This man dares to proclaim himself
-
the, the son of God.
-
This man, while claiming to
uphold the law,
-
perverts our most fundamental beliefs.
-
Our losses, the prophets who claims
to say in the name of God things
-
which God has not commanded,
that prophet must die.
-
if this man Jesus is a false prophet
and a blasphemer,
-
is it not better for one man to die,
than a for a whole nation to perish?
-
However, under Roman occupation,
Caiaphus,
-
the people of Israel may put a goat to
death, but not a man.
-
Thank you, Zerah for reminding
us of our realities.
-
Then he must be charged and
found guilty by the Romans.
-
But Caiaphus,
we have not found him guilty yet!
-
Surely our law does not condemn a man before
first giving him hearing before the elders of Israel?
-
No matter how serious his offense, we cannot
simply hand over one of our brothers to the Romans.
-
Caiaphus, after the Passover let me
persuade Jesus to come to us and explain to us
-
what is in his heart and his mind
when he says he is the son of God.
-
No!
-
Caiaphus to delay would be
too dangerous.
-
We all know what steps Pilate would
take against our people if the unrest continues.
-
Zerah, he must beaken tonight.
-
It could cause even more trouble among the
crowds if our temple guards go searching for him.
-
I think I know the way to reach him.
-
Zerah, don't forget Jesus of Nazareth
is one of our brothers.
-
Judas?
-
I've not been able to find you. You weren't
seen with the Master for the Iast few days.
-
Where have you been?
-
I've been trying to think.
-
Trying to decide what to do.
-
You seemed to be very sure of what to do.
-
Oh, I was.
-
But not now.
-
I'm confused.
-
l always believed action - political action -
-
..would solve everything.
-
l thought it was enough
to think clearly and act clearly, but...
-
But I fear my...
-
..Master does not agree with me.
-
He doesn't need my ideas.
He says the heart is more important.
-
Perhaps he's right.
-
Have I hardened my heart?
-
Am l fit to be one of his disciples?
-
I...
-
l should go home.
-
Judas, don't lie to yourself.
-
The truth is that, in your heart,...
-
..you no longer believe
that Jesus of Nazareth...
-
..is the Messiah.
-
There's only one way to know the truth.
-
You knew that the very first time
that you came to see me.
-
Let Jesus prove himself...
-
..before the Sanhedrin.
-
lt's too late.
-
He won't accept it.
-
Why?
-
There are many influential members
of the council who admire Jesus.
-
He would be fairly judged.
-
lf he is the Messiah,
God will not abandon him.
-
If he is not,...
-
..then you will have helped to save lsrael
from yet another false prophet.
-
~ Alleluia!
-
We are happy to eat
this Passover with you.
-
l have longed with all my heart
to share it with you.
-
lt was for this Passover
that l came into the world.
-
I shall not be with you much longer.
-
What?!
-
You will look for me, but...
-
..where I am going you cannot come.
-
Master, l will follow you wherever you go.
-
l will lay down my life for you.
-
Peter,...
-
..this very night
before the cock crows twice...
-
..you will have denied three times
that you even know me.
-
Oh, my Lord! Never!
-
Never!
-
l will never deny you.
-
You will all lose faith.
-
The shepherd shall be struck
and the sheep will be scattered.
-
- l will not lose faith!
- Peter... Peter...
-
I have prayed for you,...
-
..and, once you have recovered,...
-
..you in your turn
must give strength to your brothers.
-
Truly l tell you...
-
..one of you is about to betray me.
-
Master,...
-
..I'm sick at heart.
-
Who will betray you?
-
Is it I?
-
He who dips his bread in the dish
when I dip mine,...
-
..he shall be the one.
-
What you are going to do,...
-
..do it quickly.
-
Where's he going?
-
I don't know.
-
Blessed be thou, O Lord our God,...
-
..who has blessed us with thy Laws,...
-
..and made bread issue from the earth.
-
From now on...
-
..this will not be the bread of the passage
of our fathers from bondage to freedom.
-
This Passover...
-
..is for you today...
-
..the passage from the bondage of death...
-
..to the freedom of life.
-
This is the bread of life.
-
Whoever eats of this bread...
-
..shall have eternal life.
-
Eat it,...
-
..for this...
-
..is my body.
-
Do this in remembrance of me.
-
From now on...
-
..this cup will not only be
a memorial and sacrament...
-
..of the covenant God made
with our fathers on Mount Sinai.
-
This is my blood,...
-
..the blood of the new covenant,
which is to be poured out for many.
-
l shall not drink again
of the fruit of the vine...
-
..until the day l drink it with you...
-
..in my Father's kingdom.
-
And now I give you
a new commandment,...
-
..that you love one another
as l have loved you.
-
Greater love hath no man than this,...
-
..that a man lay down his life for a friend.
-
And if you love one another...
-
..all men shall know that
you are my disciples.
-
Father,...
-
..the hour has come.
-
Glorify thy Son
that thy Son may glorify thee.
-
Keep in thy name
those thou hast given me.
-
l do not pray for these only...
-
..but also for those...
-
..who believe in me through their word.
-
I am the way,...
-
..the truth,...
-
..and the life.
-
Peter!
-
Father,...
-
..if it is possible,...
-
..let this cup pass from me.
-
Let it be...
-
..as you,...
-
..not l, would have it.
-
(distant howling)
-
(barking)
-
This is your hour, Judas.
-
The hour of shadows.
-
Oh, Master.
-
You betray your master...
-
..with a kiss.
-
That is the man. Arrest him.
-
Quiet. Don't make any noise.
-
You go that way.
-
Try not to wake them.
-
Judas!
-
What's happening?
-
You traitor!
-
You betrayed him!
-
Peter, the only way the Master can save
himself is by speaking to the Sanhedrin!
-
Leave him alone! Let him go!
-
They'll kill him!
-
Jesus!
-
Andrew!
-
John!
-
Jesus!
-
No, Peter!
-
Get away, scum!
-
- Arrest them all!
- Zerah!
-
It was me you sought.
-
You have found me. Let them go.
-
Take him away!
-
Take him to the Sanhedrin!
-
We must do something!
-
No!
-
We must do something for him!
-
Brothers, better save ourselves!
-
Where did they take him?
Where have they taken him?!
-
- He's the one who got the soldiers.
- Zerah...
-
Zerah...
-
Zerah.
-
I must speak to Zerah.
I must speak to Zerah!
-
Is he in here? Did they bring him here?
-
Who?
-
Jesus!
-
Master Zerah, please,...
-
..I don't understand this man.
-
- Zerah... Zerah...
- Yes?
-
Where is this meeting with Caiaphas?
I must be there with Jesus!
-
Meeting?
-
There's no meeting.
-
What?
-
There's a trial.
-
Your Jesus is accused of blasphemy.
-
You've been an invaluable
help to us, Judas.
-
Come and see me when all this is over.
-
Oh!
-
Well, you got what you wanted.
-
So get out of here.
-
Come on, get out of here, move yourself!
-
I've never understood how that liar
could have fooled so many people.
-
You believed in him, didn't you?
-
Well, l admit l believed in him,
but we all believed in him.
-
- Now you know the truth!
- He said many things that l liked.
-
And he did some good things.
-
Good things?
They were tricks of the devil!
-
All right! We know that he was a
liar and a blasphemer and he betrayed us.
-
And now he will pay.
-
I'm sorry to wake you up,
but they've arrested the Nazarene.
-
- They did?
- Yes. In the garden of Gethsemane.
-
Master Nicodemus...
-
Brethren! Brethren!
-
Brethren!
-
Caiaphas, that he is bound like
a common thief! lt's most unseemly, sir.
-
Jesus, it is not our intention...
-
..to treat you as a criminal.
-
But...
-
..we want you to explain
to this assembly...
-
..the nature of your teachings.
-
What is this doctrine...
-
..you and your disciples
are spreading through Judaea?
-
l have spoken openly...
-
..for all the world to hear.
-
l have taught in the synagogues
and in the Temple.
-
I have said nothing in secret.
-
So...
-
..why do you ask me?
-
Ask those who heard me.
-
They are my witnesses.
-
Caiaphas,...
-
..I have heard him preach.
-
l find nothing in his doctrine which
denies the basic principles of our faith.
-
Rabbi, we fail to understand
the meaning of many of your sayings.
-
For instance,
there are witnesses who say that...
-
..you claim that
you could destroy the Temple...
-
..and rebuild it in three days!
-
No-one could rebuild the Temple
in three days.
-
What he's said must have
some symbolic meaning. Come...
-
l heard him say
he could rebuild it in two days!
-
Three days, four days, do you hear?
-
- Witnesses can't even agree.
- How can we remember every detail?
-
There was a riot,
which Jesus himself provoked,...
-
..but for which the Romans
will hold us responsible!
-
The riot was provoked by Barabbas!
-
The Romans need no excuse!
We know what they have done to us!
-
All of us here can remember...
-
..the occasion, not so many years back,...
-
..when over a thousand of our people
were nailed to the walls of Jerusalem...
-
..because there weren't enough scaffolds
to satisfy the Romans' lust for blood!
-
None of us, I'm sure,
wants to give any more victims...
-
..to Pontius Pilate... than we can prevent.
-
Of course not, Joseph.
-
We're all agreed upon that.
As Caiaphas has said, this is not a trial.
-
We... We left our homes,
we came here tonight,...
-
..hoping that Jesus of Nazareth would
explain to us the purpose of his mission,...
-
..and help to heal the divisions
in our community.
-
Brother, we have often heard that you
have come to bring love and brotherhood.
-
I beg you,
bring peace to our gathering tonight.
-
Tell me,...
-
..it has been said
that you proclaimed yourself...
-
..the Son of God.
-
I ask you now,...
-
..in the name of the Eternal,...
-
..are you...
-
..the Messiah,...
-
..the Son of God?
-
I am.
-
He must be mad!
-
And you shall see the Son of Man...
-
..sitting at the right hand
of the power of God.
-
Hear, O lsrael,...
-
..the Lord our God,...
-
..the Lord is one!
-
We have heard enough.
-
Let him be taken before
the procurator, Pontius Pilate,...
-
..in whose hands lies the final authority...
-
..for trial and judgment.
-
They got him at last!
-
Let me get closer!
-
They should crucify him!
-
Son of God?!
-
Kill him!
-
Stone him!
-
Blasphemer!
-
Well, what happened to him?
-
They're sending him to Pontius Pilate.
-
We know how that will end up, don't we?
-
Wait a minute! I know you.
-
You were with that Jesus!
-
- You're one of his followers.
- No, l don't know him.
-
But he is. Look!
-
And l know him.
He is one of his followers.
-
- Yes! I've seen him! I've seen him!
- No!
-
He's a liar! Arrest him!
-
l tell you, l don't know him!
-
Help me!
-
What's going on?
-
He's a friend of Jesus, a disciple.
-
Don't let him go!
-
Please...
-
They're mistaken.
-
I don't know this Jesus they speak of...
-
..nor have I ever heard of him.
-
Go! Just keep quiet here!
-
Don't you know you're on sacred ground?
-
Free Barabbas!
-
Set Barabbas free!
-
- Let Barabbas go!
- He's one of us!
-
Free Barabbas!
-
You had no right to arrest him!
Free Barabbas!
-
- Welcome, Proc...
- Welcome?!
-
I Ieave for one week and I come back to
a mob in the street, and you dare to say...
-
.."welcome"!
-
Who's this Barabbas?
-
He's a Zealot we arrested.
His followers have disturbed the crowds.
-
l don't think their noise
will disturb my judgment.
-
Look,...
-
..take a hundred men and clear the street.
-
I'm tired.
-
With respect,...
-
- ..Procurator...
- Please, l'm so tired!
-
Jerusalem is full of people.
There are many hotheads.
-
Yes, and they'll cool when they see
the example we make of their Barabbas.
-
Pontius Pilate,
l'm afraid there's another case.
-
- Another one?
- Yes, submitted by the Sanhedrin itself.
-
- lt concerns a Galilean preacher.
- I am not interested in their preachers...
-
..or their prophets. You know that.
-
Yes, of course, I know that.
-
The Sanhedrin, whose co-operation
has been very useful to us,...
-
..consider it extremely important.
-
Even urgent.
-
Urgent?! Urgent to whom?!
-
I'm sorry.
-
I'm sorry.
-
Maybe next week.
-
But first...
-
..we'll deal with Barabbas.
-
Pilate, there's a delegation
from the Sanhedrin waiting outside.
-
lt is led by Zerah himself.
-
They have this preacher,
this Jesus of Nazareth, with them.
-
They want you to judge him.
-
Judge him?
-
Zerah himself? lt must be important.
-
No. No, no, no.
-
I don't want to get involved
in their religious quarrels.
-
This is the monthly report of the province.
-
lt's wise not to offend them unnecessarily.
I think you should see them.
-
Well, have them brought in.
-
Don't stand there. Bring them in.
-
Pilate, I regret... l'm afraid
we must go out to them.
-
We must go to them?
-
Yes, according to their...
-
..beliefs...
-
Well, they cannot
come into a house of a Roman,...
-
..not on Passover.
-
They would be defiled.
-
Defiled.
-
I forgot about that.
-
All right.
-
We'll go to them.
-
Bring them to the Great Hall.
-
How does one govern such people?
-
Procurator,...
-
..we have found that this man,
Jesus of Nazareth,...
-
..distorts our people's views on the
relationship between God and the state.
-
Furthermore,
he perverts the very heart of our religion.
-
l'm not concerned with
your religious laws.
-
My function as governor here is to keep
the peace and administer Roman justice.
-
We know that, Procurator, but this man
also threatens the established order.
-
lf he were not a criminal,
we would not have brought him to you.
-
He calls himself the Christ,
which means the Anointed One.
-
Thank you.
-
I too know some Greek.
-
What else has he done?
-
Has he spoken against the Emperor
or against Rome?
-
Well, Procurator, not directly, no, but...
-
Not directly? Then you'll have to
judge him according to your Law.
-
Procurator, for us
this man Jesus is a blasphemer.
-
lf we were a self-governing nation,
we'd have the right to exact punishment...
-
..under the Law of Moses.
-
He entered Jerusalem
calling himself the King of the Jews!
-
A claim we totally reject!
-
King of the Jews?
-
Well, whatever else he may have done,
such a claim is treason.
-
True, too. All right, all right.
-
l'll talk to him.
-
Your Jesus!
-
Not ours.
-
Then whose? Whose?!
-
Bring him in!
-
Is this the man you think so dangerous?
-
This?
-
The man that aspires to be a king?
-
Come.
-
Come, come, come!
-
Now,...
-
..the leaders of the Sanhedrin accuse you
of preaching perverted doctrines.
-
Come.
-
They also say you call yourself
the King of the Jews.
-
Well, are you King of the Jews?
-
lf my kingdom were of this world,...
-
..my followers would have fought
to prevent me from being captured.
-
Oh, you speak of a kingdom.
-
Therefore you must be a king.
-
Are you a king?
-
I am.
-
I was born for one purpose.
-
To bear witness to the truth.
-
All who can accept the truth
hear my voice.
-
And what is...
-
..the truth?
-
Hm!
-
No, this man's no criminal.
-
He's a dreamer.
-
Take him away!
-
Have him flogged as a token of
Roman justice. That should wake him up.
-
Procurator,...
-
..we, the leaders of the Sanhedrin,...
-
..have always had the same aim as you:
-
The peaceful administration of our
country for the good of our people, and...
-
Oh, please, please, please!
-
Don't talk to me about the people.
-
As long as they obey,...
-
..you care as much about
your children of lsrael...
-
..as we do the mob in Rome.
-
Now, Zerah,...
-
..let us speak... directly.
-
Why does the Sanhedrin...
-
..consider this man so dangerous...
-
..that they send you yourself here
to make sure that he is condemned?
-
Perhaps for the same reasons as you.
-
lf you knew him as well as we do,...
-
..you would also find him dangerous.
-
That's enough!
Put his clothes back on.
-
I saw him enter Jerusalem as a king!
Look at him now!
-
He's a king?!
-
The King of the Jews!
-
We should dress him like a king.
-
- Give me your cloak.
- Don't use mine. Use one of those.
-
Here it is!
-
Come on! Here we are. Turn around.
-
Look at him!
-
Hey, wait! If he's a king,...
-
..he needs a crown.
-
Hail, Your Majesty!
-
High and mighty Majesty!
-
I have it!
-
A king's crown!
-
Look what he's got! He's got his crown!
-
- He needs a sceptre.
- Majesty!
-
A perfect fit, Your Majesty.
-
Now he's the king!
-
Tiberius will be getting worried!
-
Ecce homo.
-
Behold the man.
-
Well? What have you got
to say for yourself now?
-
Speak!
-
Who are you?
-
What are you?
-
Well, say something!
-
Don't you want to defend yourself?
-
Do you want to die?!
-
Don't you realise I have the power
to release you or have you crucified?!
-
You would have no power over me...
-
..if it had not been given you from above.
-
Quintilius...
-
Isn't there an ancient custom...
-
..honouring Passover...
-
..where the Procurator
can release a prisoner...
-
..sentenced to death...
-
..as an act of mercy?
-
Yes.
-
That custom still exists.
-
And we have two prisoners?
-
- Barabbas?
- And Jesus.
-
So let the people decide.
-
I've made my decision.
-
The people will decide.
-
- Zerah...
- Take him away!
-
Get down to the prison
and bring Barabbas.
-
Barabbas, remember? Barabbas! Good.
-
Here, here! Listen to me!
-
You two! When I give you the cue,
you shout for Barabbas.
-
Barabbas is depending on you. He has
fought for you. Shout for Barabbas.
-
No, we must save Jesus!
-
- When did they arrest him?
- Last night in the garden of Gethsemane.
-
- That's near where l live!
- Be prepared.
-
Barabbas must be freed at all costs.
Now look, we can put our men all over.
-
Do you understand?
-
Do you understand?
We meet at the Temple.
-
As a sign...
-
..of his magnanimity...
-
..and his benevolence,...
-
..our divine Emperor has decided...
-
..that the custom of releasing...
-
..one prisoner,...
-
..sentenced to death,...
-
..in honour of your Passover,...
-
..shall continue.
-
We have...
-
..two prisoners.
-
One,...
-
..Jesus of Nazareth,...
-
..accused of treason,...
-
..by proclaiming himself...
-
..King of the Jews.
-
Can you work a miracle now, Jesus?!
Ha-ha-ha!
-
Anyone shouting for him
had better watch out.
-
- Look at him, the King of the Jews!
- What's happened to him?
-
Call yourself a king?!
-
Or...
-
..Barabbas,...
-
..accused of sedition
and murdering a Roman auxiliary.
-
That's the man they call the Son of God?!
-
Barabbas!
-
Barabbas!
-
Free Barabbas! He's one of us!
-
- Freedom for Barabbas!
- Why don't you free yourself, Jesus!
-
Which...
-
..of the two...
-
..shall be released to you?
-
Jesus of Nazareth,...
-
- This must not happen!
- ..guilty of proclaiming himself...
-
- ..King of the Jews,...
- Look, he's wearing a crown!
-
..or...
-
..Barabbas?
-
Release Jesus! He is the true prophet!
-
- He's our saviour! Release him!
- Jesus is a man sent from God!
-
Free Barabbas!
-
False prophet!
-
He betrayed us! Kill the Nazarene!
-
Jesus!
-
Jesus!
-
We want Barabbas!
-
Free Barabbas! Barabbas!
-
Jesus!
-
Jesus!
-
- Barabbas!
- Jesus!
-
Shut up, you slut!
-
Jesus!
-
Free him!
-
Take the Nazarene!
-
He's a false prophet!
-
Free Barabbas!
-
We can't let him go.
-
- We can't let Barabbas get away.
- Yes.
-
- The soldiers won't like that!
- Wait...
-
Pilate,...
-
..you're not going to free Barabbas,...
-
..an assassin and enemy of Rome?
-
I wonder...
-
..who is the real enemy?
-
Jesus of Nazareth must be saved!
-
Let it be written...
-
..that Jesus of Nazareth...
-
..is guilty of treason...
-
..by proclaiming himself...
-
..King of the Jews.
-
And his sentence,...
-
..to be crucified.
-
Release Barabbas now!
-
Do not kill him! He is innocent!
-
Mark, where's the last prisoner?
Come on!
-
Here's your man.
-
Come on.
-
Ah, the King of the Jews.
-
- Hurry up, this crowd worries me.
- Here, take him.
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Come on! Make room! Make room!
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Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
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- He is a false prophet!
- ls that justice?!
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Get back! Get back! Make way!
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Have you no heart!
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Save yourself, Jesus!
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Keep this mob back!
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Use your spears!
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You betrayed us! You betrayed us!
We believed you, and you betrayed us!
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Get back, you scum! Come on! Come on!
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He's a traitor!
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He's a prophet!
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Traitor!
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Crucify him!
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Oh, Lord!
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Argh!
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Argh!
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Arrest him! Arrest him!
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Take down that sign! lt is an insult!
He is not the King of the Jews!
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- Those are the orders we received!
- Take down that sign!
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Out of the way!
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You cannot kill him!
You have no right to do it!
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Now, all of you, stay back!
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Father,...
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..forgive them.
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They know not what they do.
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Hey!
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- Who are you?
- She is his mother.
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Can you prove it?
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Hey!
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She is his mother.
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Go to him.
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- And who are you?
- Please.
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l'm one of the family.
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Is that right?
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Yes.
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She is one of the family.
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Go, then.
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The Romans won't let you get close.
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women sobbing)
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John,...
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..behold your mother.
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Woman,...
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..behold your son.
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He saved others.
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Why can't he save himself now?
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He was despised...
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..and rejected of men.
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Man of sorrows,...
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..and acquainted with grief.
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He was oppressed...
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..and afflicted, yet...
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..he opened not his mouth.
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He was brought as a lamb to slaughter,...
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..and as a sheep...
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..before its shearer is dumb...
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Surely...
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..he hath borne our griefs,...
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..and carried our sorrows.
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Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
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But he was wounded
for our transgressions,...
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..he was abused for our iniquities,...
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..and... through his wounds,...
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..we are healed...
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..and...
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..born again.
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Eli,...
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..Eli,...
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..lama sabachthani?
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Father,...
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..into thy hands...
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..I commit my spirit.
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It...
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..is...
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..accomplished.
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Hey, you, the family!
Come on, you can take the body.
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Hey! Stop!
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Who are you? Where are you going?
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We are the family of Jesus of Nazareth,
who lies here.
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What do you want?
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To enter the tomb.
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Why?
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To anoint the body.
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To bring fresh linen,...
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..herbs and spices.
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It is our custom.
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Why didn't you do that
when you brought him here?
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The Sabbath began.
We could not buy them.
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What do you think?
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They're only three women. Let them go.
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l suppose it'll be all right.
You'll need an army to move that stone.
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All right, then. Let's go together,
but we'll need some help.
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Hey, Lentulus, wake up!
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Come with us!
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Marcus, you watch the bridge!
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All those priests, too.
Are they still around?
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Can't wait to get away from this place,
back to Rome.
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Where are you going?
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Why do you seek the living
among the dead?
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Jesus is not there.
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He's gone!
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Come!
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Jesus is not here.
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- Are you sure?
- I swear by Jupiter, HercuIes and Mars!
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You've been awake all night
and haven't moved.
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That's right! We were given strict orders.
Nobody's been near that tomb.
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Those Jewish priests
were with us all the time.
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Well, then, who moved the stone?
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- Who is it?
- Me. Philip.
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- Did anyone follow you?
- No.
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- Are you sure?
- Of course l'm sure.
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Are they still looking for us?
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On every corner one sees
Temple guards and Roman soldiers.
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This place isn't safe.
We must go somewhere else.
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- But where can we go?
- I wish we could go to Galilee.
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Peter...
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Peter!
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Tell us,...
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..what should we do?
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We must do what the Master
would have wanted.
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The Master's dead, Peter.
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- I thought you said you weren't followed!
- I wasn't!
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- Mary...
- Peter!
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All of you,...
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..I have seen him.
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Seen who?
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The Master.
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You've seen him?
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Yes.
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He is risen.
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I saw him.
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I saw him!
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This morning we went to the tomb,
and near the tomb was a man...
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..and a young boy.
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And the man said to me, "Why do you
look for the living among the dead?"
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"Jesus is not here."
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So we went to the tomb
and we saw the stone was upturned.
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The grave... the tomb was open.
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We looked for him.
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He was not there.
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- You mean his body wasn't there?
- Has it been stolen?
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No, no, no. Let me finish.
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When we were leaving the cemetery,...
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..I saw another man.
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He saw how distraught we were.
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He said, "Woman,...
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..why do you weep?"
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And then he said my name.
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"Mary..."
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"Mary."
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And it was then that I saw...
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..it was Jesus.
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l fell to my knees...
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..and I reached for him.
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"Touch me not,...
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..for I have not yet
ascended to my Father", he said.
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"But go to my brothers,...
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..and tell them."
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You don't believe me.
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You don't believe me!
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l tell you, l saw him!
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- It was our Lord!
- Mary...
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Mary!
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John...
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Oh, John...
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You don't believe me.
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You!
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Mary...
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You're tired.
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Please!
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Please go.
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I saw him, John.
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I saw him.
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Women's fantasies.
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Fantasies?
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Was his death a fantasy?!
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I saw him die!
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I was there and I wept at his feet!
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Why should he not then appear to me?!
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He is risen.
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He told me to tell you,...
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..and I have done so.
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You wouldn't believe her! When he raised
Jairus's daughter, you didn't believe it!
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What do you mean?
You believe her story?!
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Well, do any of you believe it?
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Do you, Andrew?
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Do you, James?
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And you, Matthew?!
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Do you,...
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..Peter?
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Yes.
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How can you?
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Because he said so.
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Because he wanted it to be so.
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He wanted everything to happen...
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..just as it did.
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And I have always believed him.
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But... Peter,...
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..you denied him.
You denied him three times!
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Yes!
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I denied him because I was a coward!
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We are all cowards!
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We accused Judas of being a traitor,
but we all betrayed him!
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We all...
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..abandoned him.
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At least our brothers in the Sanhedrin
who condemned him didn't know him!
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The Romans...
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..did not know him.
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But we...
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We ate with him.
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We lived with him.
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We knew he was the Christ!
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And still we betrayed him!
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Brothers, don't you... can't you see?
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Thomas...
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You asked me if I believe he is risen.
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Yes, I do.
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For l know in my heart he will not...
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..abandon us.
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I know in my heart he has forgiven me...
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Us.
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Forgiven all of us.
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This is precisely what I feared.
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His disciples must have removed
the stone and taken away the body.
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lmpossible!
I had guards here as you requested.
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And your priests were here, too.
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Now it begins.
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lt all begins.
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lt was written...
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..the Son ofMan will suffer,...
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..and on the third day...
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..will rise again from the dead
to enter his glory.
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You are my witnesses to this.
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Now my Father in heaven
is reconciled to the world.
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And as he sent me...
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..so I am sending you.
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Receive the Holy Spirit.
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Go like lambs among wolves.
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Make disciples of all nations.
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Baptise them in the name of the Father,...
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..and of the Son,...
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..and of the Holy Ghost.
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Teach them the gospel
and the commandments l gave you.
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Now...
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..I am leaving the world again,...
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..and going to the Father.
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Oh, Lord, stay with us.
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The night is falling.
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The day is almost over.
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Don't be afraid.
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I am with you every day...
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..till the end of time.
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Visiontext subtitles:
Natasha Cohn & Helen Stewart
