Judas?
I've not been abIe 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.
I aIways beIieved action - poIiticaI action -
..wouId soIve everything.
I thought it was enough to think cIearIy and act cIearIy, 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 I fit to be one of his discipIes?
I...
I shouId go home.
Judas, don't Iie to yourseIf.
The truth is that, in your heart,...
..you no Ionger beIieve that Jesus of Nazareth...
..is the Messiah.
There's onIy one way to know the truth.
You knew that the very first time that you came to see me.
Let Jesus prove himseIf...
..before the Sanhedrin.
It's too Iate.
He won't accept it.
(Zerah) Why?
There are many infIuentiaI members of the counciI who admire Jesus.
He wouId be fairIy judged.
If he is the Messiah, God wiII not abandon him.
If he is not,...
..then you wiII have heIped to save IsraeI from yet another faIse prophet.
(singing, drumming and clapping)
~ AIIeIuia!
We are happy to eat this Passover with you.
I have Ionged with aII my heart to share it with you.
It was for this Passover that I came into the worId.
(Jesus) I shaII not be with you much Ionger.
(all) What?!
You wiII Iook for me, but...
..where I am going you cannot come.
Master, I wiII foIIow you wherever you go.
I wiII Iay down my Iife for you.
Peter,...
..this very night before the cock crows twice...
..you wiII have denied three times that you even know me.
Oh, my Lord! Never!
Never!
I wiII never deny you.
You wiII aII Iose faith.
The shepherd shaII be struck and the sheep wiII be scattered.
- I wiII not Iose faith! - Peter... Peter...
I have prayed for you,...
..and, once you have recovered,...
..you in your turn must give strength to your brothers.
TruIy I teII you...
..one of you is about to betray me.
(murmurs ofdisbelief)
Master,...
..I'm sick at heart.
Who wiII betray you?
Is it I?
He who dips his bread in the dish when I dip mine,...
..he shaII be the one.
What you are going to do,...
..do it quickIy.
Where's he going?
I don't know.
BIessed be thou, O Lord our God,...
..who has bIessed us with thy Laws,...
..and made bread issue from the earth.
From now on...
..this wiII 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 Iife.
This is the bread of Iife.
Whoever eats of this bread...
..shaII have eternaI Iife.
Eat it,...
..for this...
..is my body.
Do this in remembrance of me.
From now on...
..this cup wiII not onIy be a memoriaI and sacrament...
..of the covenant God made with our fathers on Mount Sinai.
This is my bIood,...
..the bIood of the new covenant, which is to be poured out for many.
I shaII not drink again of the fruit of the vine...
..untiI the day I drink it with you...
..in my Father's kingdom.
And now I give you a new commandment,...
..that you Iove one another as I have Ioved you.
Greater Iove hath no man than this,...
..that a man Iay down his Iife for a friend.
And if you Iove one another...
..aII men shaII know that you are my discipIes.
Father,...
..the hour has come.
GIorify thy Son that thy Son may gIorify thee.
Keep in thy name those thou hast given me.
I do not pray for these onIy...
..but aIso for those...
..who beIieve in me through their word.
I am the way,...
..the truth,...
..and the Iife.
(distant howling)
(whispers) Peter!
Father,...
..if it is possibIe,...
..Iet this cup pass from me.
Let it be...
..as you,...
..not I, wouId 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.
(Zerah) Quiet. Don't make any noise.
(whispers) You go that way.
Try not to wake them.
Judas!
(disciple) What's happening?
You traitor!
You betrayed him!
Peter, the onIy way the Master can save himseIf is by speaking to the Sanhedrin!
Leave him aIone! Let him go!
They'II kiII him!
Jesus!
Andrew!
John!
Jesus!
No, Peter!
Get away, scum!
- Arrest them aII! - Zerah!
It was me you sought.
You have found me. Let them go.
Take him away!
(soldier) Take him to the Sanhedrin!
(disciple) We must do something!
No!
We must do something for him!
Brothers, better save ourseIves!
Where did they take him? Where have they taken him?!
- He's the one who got the soIdiers. - 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, pIease,...
..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 triaI.
Your Jesus is accused of bIasphemy.
You've been an invaIuabIe heIp to us, Judas.
Come and see me when aII this is over.
Oh!
(acolyte) WeII, you got what you wanted.
So get out of here.
Come on, get out of here, move yourseIf!
(man) I've never understood how that Iiar couId have fooIed so many peopIe.
You beIieved in him, didn't you?
(woman) WeII, I admit I beIieved in him, but we all beIieved in him.
- Now you know the truth! - He said many things that I Iiked.
And he did some good things.
Good things? They were tricks of the deviI!
(woman) AII right! We know that he was a Iiar and a bIasphemer and he betrayed us.
And now he wiII pay.
I'm sorry to wake you up, but they've arrested the Nazarene.
- They did? - Yes. In the garden of Gethsemane.
Master Nicodemus...
(shouting)
Brethren! Brethren!
Brethren!
Caiaphas, that he is bound Iike a common thief! It's most unseemIy, sir.
Jesus, it is not our intention...
..to treat you as a criminaI.
But...
..we want you to expIain to this assembIy...
..the nature of your teachings.
What is this doctrine...
..you and your discipIes are spreading through Judaea?
I have spoken openIy...
..for aII the worId to hear.
I have taught in the synagogues and in the TempIe.
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.
I find nothing in his doctrine which denies the basic principIes of our faith.
Rabbi, we faiI to understand the meaning of many of your sayings.
For instance, there are witnesses who say that...
..you cIaim that you couId destroy the TempIe...
..and rebuiId it in three days!
No-one couId rebuiId the TempIe in three days.
What he's said must have some symboIic meaning. Come...
I heard him say he couId rebuiId it in two days!
- (laughter) - Three days, four days, do you hear?
- Witnesses can't even agree. - How can we remember every detaiI?
There was a riot, which Jesus himseIf provoked,...
..but for which the Romans wiII hoId us responsibIe!
The riot was provoked by Barabbas!
(Joseph) The Romans need no excuse! We know what they have done to us!
AII of us here can remember...
..the occasion, not so many years back,...
..when over a thousand of our peopIe were naiIed to the waIIs of JerusaIem...
..because there weren't enough scaffoIds to satisfy the Romans' Iust for bIood!
None of us, I'm sure, wants to give any more victims...
..to Pontius PiIate... than we can prevent.
Of course not, Joseph.
We're aII agreed upon that. As Caiaphas has said, this is not a triaI.
We... We Ieft our homes, we came here tonight,...
..hoping that Jesus of Nazareth wouId expIain to us the purpose of his mission,...
..and heIp to heaI the divisions in our community.
Brother, we have often heard that you have come to bring Iove and brotherhood.
I beg you, bring peace to our gathering tonight.
TeII me,...
..it has been said that you procIaimed yourseIf...
..the Son of God.
I ask you now,...
..in the name of the EternaI,...
..are you...
..the Messiah,...
..the Son of God?
I am.
(gasps)
(man) He must be mad!
And you shaII see the Son of Man...
..sitting at the right hand of the power of God.
Hear, O IsraeI,...
..the Lord our God,...
..the Lord is one!
We have heard enough.
Let him be taken before the procurator, Pontius PiIate,...
..in whose hands Iies the finaI authority...
..for triaI and judgment.
(shouting andjeering)
(man) They got him at Iast!
Let me get cIoser!
They shouId crucify him!
Son of God?!
KiII him!
Stone him!
BIasphemer!
WeII, what happened to him?
They're sending him to Pontius PiIate.
We know how that wiII end up, don't we?
Wait a minute! I know you.
You were with that Jesus!
- You're one of his foIIowers. - No, I don't know him.
But he is. Look!
And I know him. He is one of his foIIowers.
- Yes! I've seen him! I've seen him! - No!
He's a Iiar! Arrest him!
I teII you, I don't know him!
HeIp me!
What's going on?
He's a friend of Jesus, a discipIe.
Don't Iet him go!
PIease...
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?
(cock crows)
(footsteps)
Free Barabbas!
Set Barabbas free!
- Let Barabbas go! - He's one of us!
Free Barabbas!
You had no right to arrest him! Free Barabbas!
- WeIcome, Proc... - WeIcome?!
I Ieave for one week and I come back to a mob in the street, and you dare to say...
.."weIcome"!
Who's this Barabbas?
He's a ZeaIot we arrested. His foIIowers have disturbed the crowds.
I don't think their noise wiII disturb my judgment.
Look,...
..take a hundred men and cIear the street.
I'm tired.
With respect,...
- ..Procurator... - PIease, I'm so tired!
JerusaIem is fuII of peopIe. There are many hotheads.
Yes, and they'II cooI when they see the exampIe we make of their Barabbas.
Pontius PiIate, I'm afraid there's another case.
- Another one? - Yes, submitted by the Sanhedrin itseIf.
- It concerns a GaIiIean 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 usefuI to us,...
..consider it extremeIy important.
Even urgent.
Urgent?! Urgent to whom?!
I'm sorry.
Maybe next week.
But first...
..we'II deaI with Barabbas.
PiIate, there's a deIegation from the Sanhedrin waiting outside.
It is Ied by Zerah himseIf.
They have this preacher, this Jesus of Nazareth, with them.
They want you to judge him.
Judge him?
Zerah himseIf? It must be important.
No. No, no, no.
I don't want to get invoIved in their reIigious quarreIs.
This is the monthIy report of the province.
It's wise not to offend them unnecessariIy. I think you shouId see them.
WeII, have them brought in.
Don't stand there. Bring them in.
PiIate, I regret... I'm afraid we must go out to them.
We must go to them?
Yes, according to their...
..beIiefs...
WeII, they cannot come into a house of a Roman,...
..not on Passover.
They wouId be defiIed.
DefiIed.
I forgot about that.
AII right.
We'II go to them.
Bring them to the Great HaII.
How does one govern such peopIe?
Procurator,...
..we have found that this man, Jesus of Nazareth,...
..distorts our peopIe's views on the reIationship between God and the state.
Furthermore, he perverts the very heart of our reIigion.
I'm not concerned with your reIigious Iaws.
My function as governor here is to keep the peace and administer Roman justice.
We know that, Procurator, but this man aIso threatens the estabIished order.
If he were not a criminaI, we wouId not have brought him to you.
He caIIs himseIf the Christ, which means the Anointed One.
Thank you.
I too know some Greek.
What eIse has he done?
Has he spoken against the Emperor or against Rome?
WeII, Procurator, not directIy, no, but...
Not directIy? Then you'II have to judge him according to your Law.
Procurator, for us this man Jesus is a bIasphemer.
If we were a seIf-governing nation, we'd have the right to exact punishment...
..under the Law of Moses.
He entered JerusaIem caIIing himseIf the King of the Jews!
A cIaim we totaIIy reject!
King of the Jews?
WeII, whatever eIse he may have done, such a cIaim is treason.
True, too. AII right, aII right.
I'II taIk 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 Ieaders of the Sanhedrin accuse you of preaching perverted doctrines.
Come.
They aIso say you caII yourseIf the King of the Jews.
WeII, are you King of the Jews?
If my kingdom were of this worId,...
..my foIIowers wouId 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.
AII who can accept the truth hear my voice.
And what is...
..the truth?
Hm!
No, this man's no criminaI.
He's a dreamer.
Take him away!
Have him fIogged as a token of Roman justice. That shouId wake him up.
Procurator,...
..we, the Ieaders of the Sanhedrin,...
..have aIways had the same aim as you:
The peacefuI administration of our country for the good of our peopIe, and...
Oh, pIease, pIease, pIease!
Don't taIk to me about the peopIe.
As Iong as they obey,...
..you care as much about your chiIdren of IsraeI...
..as we do the mob in Rome.
Now, Zerah,...
..Iet us speak... directIy.
Why does the Sanhedrin...
..consider this man so dangerous...
..that they send you yourseIf here to make sure that he is condemned?
Perhaps for the same reasons as you.
If you knew him as weII as we do,...
..you wouId aIso find him dangerous.
That's enough! Put his cIothes back on.
I saw him enter JerusaIem as a king! Look at him now!
He's a king?!
The King of the Jews!
We shouId dress him Iike a king.
- Give me your cIoak. - 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.
HaiI, Your Majesty!
High and mighty Majesty!
(laughter)
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 wiII be getting worried!
(scraping)
Ecce homo.
BehoId the man.
WeII? What have you got to say for yourseIf now?
Speak!
Who are you?
What are you?
WeII, say something!
Don't you want to defend yourseIf?
Do you want to die?!
Don't you reaIise I have the power to reIease you or have you crucified?!
You wouId have no power over me...
..if it had not been given you from above.
QuintiIius...
Isn't there an ancient custom...
..honouring Passover...
..where the Procurator can reIease a prisoner...
..sentenced to death...
..as an act of mercy?
Yes.
That custom stiII exists.
And we have two prisoners?
- Barabbas? - And Jesus.
So Iet the peopIe decide.
I've made my decision.
The peopIe wiII decide.
- Zerah... - (soldier) Take him away!
(Quintilius) 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 I Iive! - Be prepared.
Barabbas must be freed at aII costs. Now Iook, we can put our men aII over.
Do you understand?
We meet at the TempIe.
(fanfare)
As a sign...
..of his magnanimity...
..and his benevoIence,...
..our divine Emperor has decided...
..that the custom of reIeasing...
..one prisoner,...
..sentenced to death,...
..in honour of your Passover,...
..shaII continue.
We have...
..two prisoners.
One,...
..Jesus of Nazareth,...
..accused of treason,...
..by procIaiming himseIf...
..King of the Jews.
Can you work a miracIe 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?
CaII yourseIf a king?!
Or...
..Barabbas,...
..accused of sedition and murdering a Roman auxiIiary.
That's the man they caII the Son of God?!
Barabbas!
Free Barabbas! He's one of us!
- Freedom for Barabbas! - Why don't you free yourseIf, Jesus!
Which...
..of the two...
..shaII be reIeased to you?
Jesus of Nazareth,...
- This must not happen! - ..guiIty of procIaiming himseIf...
- ..King of the Jews,... - Look, he's wearing a crown!
..or...
..Barabbas?
(cheering)
- ReIease Jesus! He is the true prophet! - (crowd shouting)
- He's our saviour! ReIease him! - Jesus is a man sent from God!
Free Barabbas!
FaIse prophet!
He betrayed us! KiII the Nazarene!
Jesus!
We want Barabbas!
Free Barabbas! Barabbas!
Jesus!
- Barabbas! - Jesus!
Shut up, you sIut!
Jesus!
Free him!
Take the Nazarene!
He's a faIse prophet!
Free Barabbas!
We can't Iet him go.
- We can't Iet Barabbas get away. - Yes.
- The soIdiers won't Iike that! - Wait...
PiIate,...
..you're not going to free Barabbas,...
..an assassin and enemy of Rome?
I wonder...
..who is the reaI enemy?
Jesus of Nazareth must be saved!
Let it be written...
..that Jesus of Nazareth...
..is guiIty of treason...
..by procIaiming himseIf...
..King of the Jews.
And his sentence,...
..to be crucified.
(cheering)
ReIease Barabbas now!
Do not kiII him! He is innocent!
Mark, where's the Iast prisoner? Come on!
Here's your man.
Come on.
Ah, the King of the Jews.
- Hurry up, this crowd worries me. - Here, take him.
(shouting)
Come on! Make room! Make room!
Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
- He is a faIse prophet! - Is that justice?!
Get back! Get back! Make way!
Have you no heart!
Save yourseIf, Jesus!
Keep this mob back!
Use your spears!
You betrayed us! You betrayed us! We beIieved you, and you betrayed us!
Get back, you scum! Come on! Come on!
He's a traitor!
He's a prophet!
Traitor!
Crucify him!
Oh, Lord!
Argh!
Arrest him! Arrest him!
Take down that sign! It is an insuIt! He is not the King of the Jews!
- Those are the orders we received! - Take down that sign!
Out of the way!
You cannot kiII him! You have no right to do it!
Now, aII of you, stay back!
Father,...
..forgive them.
They know not what they do.
Hey!
- Who are you? - She is his mother.
Can you prove it?
Hey!
She is his mother.
Go to him.
- And who are you? - PIease.
I'm one of the famiIy.
Is that right?
Yes.
She is one of the famiIy.
Go, then.
(man) The Romans won't Iet you get cIose.
(women sobbing)
John,...
..behoId your mother.
Woman,...
..behoId your son.
(thunder)
He saved others.
Why can't he save himseIf now?
He was despised...
..and rejected of men.
Man of sorrows,...
..and acquainted with grief.
He was oppressed...
..and affIicted, yet...
..he opened not his mouth.
He was brought as a Iamb to sIaughter,...
..and as a sheep...
..before its shearer is dumb...
SureIy...
..he hath borne our griefs,...
..and carried our sorrows.
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and affIicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,...
..he was abused for our iniquities,...
..and... through his wounds,...
..we are heaIed...
..and...
..born again.
(thunder)
Eli,...
..Eli,...
..lama sabachthani?
(Jesus gasps)
(sobbing)
Father,...
..into thy hands...
..I commit my spirit.
It...
..is...
..accompIished.
(rainfall)
(thunder)
(weeping and wailing)
Hey, you, the famiIy! Come on, you can take the body.
(weeping and wailing continues)
(wails)
(thunder)
Hey! Stop!
Who are you? Where are you going?
We are the famiIy of Jesus of Nazareth, who Iies here.
What do you want?
To enter the tomb.
Why?
To anoint the body.
To bring fresh Iinen,...
..herbs and spices.
It is our custom.
Why didn't you do that when you brought him here?
(Martha) The Sabbath began. We couId not buy them.
What do you think?
(soldier) They're onIy three women. Let them go.
I suppose it'II be aII right. You'II need an army to move that stone.
AII right, then. Let's go together, but we'II need some heIp.
Hey, LentuIus, wake up!
Come with us!
Marcus, you watch the bridge!
AII those priests, too. Are they stiII around?
Can't wait to get away from this pIace, back to Rome.
Where are you going?
Why do you seek the Iiving among the dead?
Jesus is not there.
He's gone!
Come!
Jesus is not here.
- Are you sure? - I swear by Jupiter, HercuIes and Mars!
You've been awake aII night and haven't moved.
That's right! We were given strict orders. Nobody's been near that tomb.
Those Jewish priests were with us aII the time.
WeII, then, who moved the stone?
(knocking)
(footsteps)
- Who is it? - Me. PhiIip.
- Did anyone foIIow you? - No.
- Are you sure? - Of course I'm sure.
Are they stiII Iooking for us?
On every corner one sees TempIe guards and Roman soIdiers.
This pIace isn't safe. We must go somewhere eIse.
- But where can we go? - I wish we couId go to GaIiIee.
Peter...
Peter!
TeII us,...
..what shouId we do?
We must do what the Master wouId have wanted.
The Master's dead, Peter.
(banging)
- I thought you said you weren't foIIowed! - I wasn't!
- Mary... - Peter!
AII of you,...
..I have seen him.
(Matthew) Seen who?
The Master.
You've seen him?
Yes.
He is risen.
I saw him.
I saw him!
This morning we went to the tomb, and near the tomb was a man...
..and a young boy.
And the man said to me, "Why do you Iook for the Iiving among the dead?"
"Jesus is not here."
So we went to the tomb and we saw the stone was upturned.
The grave... the tomb was open.
We Iooked for him.
He was not there.
- You mean his body wasn't there? - Has it been stoIen?
No, no, no. Let me finish.
When we were Ieaving the cemetery,...
..I saw another man.
He saw how distraught we were.
He said, "Woman,...
..why do you weep?"
And then he said my name.
"Mary..."
"Mary."
And it was then that I saw...
..it was Jesus.
I feII to my knees...
..and I reached for him.
"Touch me not,...
..for I have not yet ascended to my Father", he said.
"But go to my brothers,...
..and teII them."
You don't beIieve me.
You don't beIieve me!
I teII you, I saw him!
- It was our Lord! - Mary...
Mary!
John...
Oh, John...
You don't beIieve me.
You!
Mary...
You're tired.
PIease!
PIease go.
I saw him, John.
I saw him.
Women's fantasies.
Fantasies?
Was his death a fantasy?!
I saw him die!
I was there and I wept at his feet!
Why shouId he not then appear to me?!
He is risen.
He toId me to teII you,...
..and I have done so.
You wouIdn't beIieve her! When he raised Jairus's daughter, you didn't beIieve it!
What do you mean? You beIieve her story?!
WeII, do any of you beIieve it?
Do you, Andrew?
Do you, James?
And you, Matthew?!
Do you,...
..Peter?
Yes.
How can you?
Because he said so.
Because he wanted it to be so.
He wanted everything to happen...
..just as it did.
And I have aIways beIieved him.
But... Peter,...
..you denied him. You denied him three times!
Yes!
I denied him because I was a coward!
We are aII cowards!
We accused Judas of being a traitor, but we all betrayed him!
We aII...
..abandoned him.
At Ieast our brothers in the Sanhedrin who condemned him didn't know him!
The Romans...
..did not know him.
But we...
We ate with him.
We Iived with him.
We knew he was the Christ!
And stiII we betrayed him!
Brothers, don't you... can't you see?
Thomas...
You asked me if I beIieve he is risen.
Yes, I do.
For I know in my heart he wiII not...
..abandon us.
I know in my heart he has forgiven me...
Us.
Forgiven aII of us.
This is preciseIy what I feared.
His discipIes must have removed the stone and taken away the body.
ImpossibIe! I had guards here as you requested.
And your priests were here, too.
Now it begins.
It aII begins.
lt was written...
..the Son ofMan will suffer,...
..and on the third day...
..will rise again from the dead to enter his glory.
You are my witnesses to this.
Now my Father in heaven is reconciIed to the worId.
And as he sent me...
..so I am sending you.
Receive the HoIy Spirit.
Go Iike Iambs among woIves.
Make discipIes of aII nations.
Baptise them in the name of the Father,...
..and of the Son,...
..and of the HoIy Ghost.
Teach them the gospeI and the commandments I gave you.
Now...
..I am Ieaving the worId again,...
..and going to the Father.
Oh, Lord, stay with us.
The night is faIIing.
The day is aImost over.
Don't be afraid.
I am with you every day...
..tiII the end of time.
Visiontext subtitIes: Natasha Cohn & HeIen Stewart