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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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!
We want Barabbas!
Free Barabbas! Barabbas!
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.
Come on! Make room! Make room!
Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
- He is a false prophet! - ls that justice?!
Get back! Get back! Make way!
Have you no heart!
Save yourself, Jesus!
Keep this mob back!
Use your spears!
You betrayed us! You betrayed us! We believed 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! lt is an insult! He is not the King of the Jews!
- Those are the orders we received! - Take down that sign!
Out of the way!
You cannot kill him! You have no right to do it!
Now, all 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? - Please.
l'm one of the family.
Is that right?
Yes.
She is one of the family.
Go, then.
The Romans won't let you get close.
women sobbing)
John,...
..behold your mother.
Woman,...
..behold your son.
He saved others.
Why can't he save himself now?
He was despised...
..and rejected of men.
Man of sorrows,...
..and acquainted with grief.
He was oppressed...
..and afflicted, yet...
..he opened not his mouth.
He was brought as a lamb to slaughter,...
..and as a sheep...
..before its shearer is dumb...
Surely...
..he hath borne our griefs,...
..and carried our sorrows.
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,...
..he was abused for our iniquities,...
..and... through his wounds,...
..we are healed...
..and...
..born again.
Eli,...
..Eli,...
..lama sabachthani?
Father,...
..into thy hands...
..I commit my spirit.
It...
..is...
..accomplished.
Hey, you, the family! Come on, you can take the body.
Hey! Stop!
Who are you? Where are you going?
We are the family of Jesus of Nazareth, who lies here.
What do you want?
To enter the tomb.
Why?
To anoint the body.
To bring fresh linen,...
..herbs and spices.
It is our custom.
Why didn't you do that when you brought him here?
The Sabbath began. We could not buy them.
What do you think?
They're only three women. Let them go.
l suppose it'll be all right. You'll need an army to move that stone.
All right, then. Let's go together, but we'll need some help.
Hey, Lentulus, wake up!
Come with us!
Marcus, you watch the bridge!
All those priests, too. Are they still around?
Can't wait to get away from this place, back to Rome.
Where are you going?
Why do you seek the living 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 all 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 all the time.
Well, then, who moved the stone?
- Who is it? - Me. Philip.
- Did anyone follow you? - No.
- Are you sure? - Of course l'm sure.
Are they still looking for us?
On every corner one sees Temple guards and Roman soldiers.
This place isn't safe. We must go somewhere else.
- But where can we go? - I wish we could go to Galilee.
Peter...
Peter!
Tell us,...
..what should we do?
We must do what the Master would have wanted.
The Master's dead, Peter.
- I thought you said you weren't followed! - I wasn't!
- Mary... - Peter!
All of you,...
..I have seen him.
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 look for the living 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 looked for him.
He was not there.
- You mean his body wasn't there? - Has it been stolen?
No, no, no. Let me finish.
When we were leaving 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.
l fell 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 tell them."
You don't believe me.
You don't believe me!
l tell you, l saw him!
- It was our Lord! - Mary...
Mary!
John...
Oh, John...
You don't believe me.
You!
Mary...
You're tired.
Please!
Please 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 should he not then appear to me?!
He is risen.
He told me to tell you,...
..and I have done so.
You wouldn't believe her! When he raised Jairus's daughter, you didn't believe it!
What do you mean? You believe her story?!
Well, do any of you believe 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 always believed him.
But... Peter,...
..you denied him. You denied him three times!
Yes!
I denied him because I was a coward!
We are all cowards!
We accused Judas of being a traitor, but we all betrayed him!
We all...
..abandoned him.
At least 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 lived with him.
We knew he was the Christ!
And still we betrayed him!
Brothers, don't you... can't you see?
Thomas...
You asked me if I believe he is risen.
Yes, I do.
For l know in my heart he will not...
..abandon us.
I know in my heart he has forgiven me...
Us.
Forgiven all of us.
This is precisely what I feared.
His disciples must have removed the stone and taken away the body.
lmpossible! I had guards here as you requested.
And your priests were here, too.
Now it begins.
lt all 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 reconciled to the world.
And as he sent me...
..so I am sending you.
Receive the Holy Spirit.
Go like lambs among wolves.
Make disciples of all nations.
Baptise them in the name of the Father,...
..and of the Son,...
..and of the Holy Ghost.
Teach them the gospel and the commandments l gave you.
Now...
..I am leaving the world again,...
..and going to the Father.
Oh, Lord, stay with us.
The night is falling.
The day is almost over.
Don't be afraid.
I am with you every day...
..till the end of time.
Visiontext subtitles: Natasha Cohn & Helen Stewart