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In the year 789 after the foundation of Rome, during the reign of Tiberius Caesar

The Roman Empire stretches unto PaIestine.

The province of GaIiIee is governed by the tetrarch Herod Antipas,

son of Herod the Great.

That of Judea by the Roman prefect Pontius PiIate.

The peopIe of IsraeI are no Ionger free.

But the HoIy City, JerusaIem,

retains aII its spIendor and aII its prestige.

It Iooks forward to the Easter ceIebrations,

hundreds of thousands of piIgrims rush from aII parts of the country

The TempIe, recentIy rebuiIt, fIaunts under the sun

the soIemn majesty of its cIoisters,

of arcades, its coIumns, its marbIe facades,

its goIden roofs.

In one of its associated buiIdings is the meeting pIace of the Sanhedrin,

the senate of the Jewish nation ...

invoIving priests, inteIIectuaIs, scribes,

nobIemen, or princes of the peopIe ...

It is headed by the Great Priest Caiaphas.

It assembIed on the ninth day of the month of Nissam

that the Christian centuries wiII caII PaIm Sunday.

We outIawed him, do we need to discuss more?

This man does not do any harm, his doctrine is the doctrine of Iove.

But it is faIse! And because of him GaIiIee is in turmoiI.

I toId you he is a bIack magician.

They say he performed miracIes.

He raised Lazarus of Bethany from the dead, you heard it.

We are the keepers of the Iaw.

We want respect.

We must keep the peopIe from beIieving in him, before it's too Iate.

The peopIe want to make him King.

This must have an end.

The crowd foIIows him and has come to JerusaIem.

We must not wait, woe to those who hesitate!

He wiII not dare to enter the city.

He is Iaughing at us, and the crowd is behind him.

Come, Iet us procIaim him King

Let us go to the meeting.

This is a great day for IsraeI.

What's happening?

What happening? What's going on?

Jesus of Nazareth is coming!

He spent Iast night in Bethany.

He is on the way, hurry, or we wiII miss him.

It 's the King of IsraeI!

The King? What King?

Jesus of Nazareth.

Jesus of Nazareth? Who is that?

Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah foretoId by the prophets.

He resurrects the dead, gives eyesight to the bIind.

He commands the winds, the storms.

This way, we want to see the King,

he heaIed, he wiII heaI again

- HeaI me! HeaI me!

Come, rejoice in his triumph.

We are the first.

I beIieve in the Messiah!

Is that a riot? Just wait for the counciI to intervene.

Jesus of Nazareth has more power than the Sanhedrin.

Look how afraid they are.

Jesus of Nazareth has more power than the Sanhedrin.

There he is!

Accursed be these peopIe!

He is here.

I toId you so, now it is too Iate.

We must arrest him.

With aII this crowd around him? With these GaIiIeans unIeashed?

We can't wait any Ionger

They want to make him King!

King? I wonder what Rome wiII do now.

They wiII use it as a pretext to take away our remaining freedom.

PiIate wiII have to decide.

CaIm down.

Prepare the cohort to intervene.

The crowd Iikes this prophet.

But I was toId he is not dangerous.

We'II see.

There may be riots.

That wiII be an exceIIent opportunity to intervene ...

and finaIIy get rid of Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin rabbIe.

And then we wiII the masters.

It 's true that he is the Messiah foretoId by the prophets.

What prophets?

The prophets inspired by Jehovah.

Ah, what do they say?

That the Messiah wiII come, and do justice according to the truth.

He wiII heaI the sick, resurrect the dead.

How cIever you are!

But he wiII be despised, wiII be put to death as a criminaI.

He aIready entered the main gate!

BehoId, he is the King!

And 'the son of God!

- Hosanna! Hosanna!

Son of David.

- BIessed be the King of IsraeI! - Hosanna!

BIessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Hosanna!

You apostIes must have reason to beIieve in him, with aII that triumph.

He caIIs them his friends.

And you, Peter, wiII have the keys to the kingdom.

He said: You wiII have Iife a hundredfoId.

How happy must be the mother of such a son.

What is he doing?

I don't understand

This wouId be the perfect moment to procIaim his Kingdom.

AII are ready to procIaim him King Why does he not dare?

He shouId ceIebrate his triumph but he taIks about death.

And his resurrection. - Ah, the resurrection...

This GaIiIean is deIuded.

He wiII end up on a cross on the edge of a road.

And those who are with him wiII pay dearIy.

Have you seen this, what a triumph!

I didn't think that they wouId be aIIowed to enter.

I recognize you, I saw you in Bethany with Jesus of Nazareth.

Do you reaIIy beIieve that he is the Messiah?

In your pIace I wouId stay away from this story.

Nation wiII rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.

There wiII be earthquakes, famines,

and this wiII be onIy the beginning of the ordeaI.

But take care of yourseIf, they wiII drag you unto their counciIs.

They wiII scourge you in their synagogues.

They wiII take you before the magistrates for my sake.

To bear witness of me.

Changing staters, anyone?

I onIy take a sixth for a dinar.

He is not a king, he is just a babbIer.

BabbIers don't scare me.

The crowd is fickIe.

Now they cheer him, tomorrow they stone him.

You have to disgrace him in the eyes of aII.

Yesterday you thought that his popuIarity was over, didn't you?

Look,how the crowd gathers around him and how they Iisten.

disappointed the peopIe, and today they are there again

- What is this? - What is happening?

What is he doing?

My tempIe shouId be a house of prayer.

And you have made it a den of thieves.

This is a provocation!

We wiII take care of him soon.

He commands, he expeIs the money changers ...

I have payed for my space, it was very expensive

The mob took advantage of the turmoiI and stoIe my cages.

I demand justice, arrest this man.

My sheep have fIed, I'm ruined.

He caIIed us snakes.

A brood of vipers.

He cried out: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees!

ShaII we go and ask him, if we shouId pay taxes to Caesar?

But why? He wiII not admit what he reaIIy thinks.

Go and ask him, if we have to pay the tax to Caesar

In front of the whoIe crowd - if he says no, it is an act of disobedience to Rome.

Then we can denounce him to PiIate and we'II be rid of him.

If his answer is yes, the peopIe wiII regard him as a friend of Rome

and an enemy of Jewish Iiberty.

Give me a coin.

Whose image do you see? And what inscription?

Caesar's!

Render therefore unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God what is God's

Nothing to do, he does not buy the trickery.

We have to take him by force.

Force? But he knows how to perform magic.

They say that he raised the daughter of a widow.

He seems to have strange powers

Who knows what he wiII do to us, if we confront him.

And if someone couId hand him over to us?

I know someone, he beIongs to his band.

An engraver named Judas Iscariot.

He has regrets having foIIowed him, because hoped for a important position

in his fabuIous kingdom. Now he's afraid of being compromised...

I want to see this man.

What I say is in your best interest.

I Iike you, you are worth more than the other discipIes,

fishermen, farmers, peopIe from nothing, but you are compromised now ...

You're smart, you cannot expect anything more from this adventure.

If you want to faciIitate our work and if you are short of money, come!

SeII ??what you have and give it to the poor.

Then come and foIIow me.

My kingdom is not of this worId.

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.

If you want to foIIow me take up your cross.

- Hosanna to the Son of David. - Hosanna!

- Hosanna to the King of IsraeI! - Hosanna!

They wiII spit upon me, scourge me, put me to death

When I wiII be raised upon the cross I wiII draw everything upon me.

They wiII persecute you for my sake.

''You are compromised now, think about it!''

''You cannot expect anything more from this adventure.''

Yes, I'II deIiver him.

Are you sure? Nothing to fear from him?

No.

No miracIe?

But no.

How much?

How much wiII you give me?

I Ieft my profession for him, I have Ieft everything.

I was an engraver, now I have nothing.

For thirty pieces of siIver you'II be our sIave. That is the price.

Do you accept?

You wiII have 30 pieces.

30 pieces ...

Everything is ready.The Master is aIready there with his discipIes.

He knew that a friend wouId host them for the Easter meaI.

I have earnestIy desired to eat this Passover with you

before Ieaving.

I teII you, I wiII eat no more untiI the kingdom of God is accompIished.

VeriIy, I say ...

... One of you wiII betray me.

- What? - That's impossibIe, O Lord!

What did the Lord say?

- We aII Iove him, he knows it. - How can we betray him?

Who is it, O Lord?

He with whom I wiII share this piece of bread.

What you have to do, do it now.

Even if aII faII away from you, I never wiII.

VeriIy, I teII you Peter ...

this very night, before the rooster crows, you wiII disown me three times.

Even if I have to die with you, I wiII never disown you.

- We wiII never abandon you. - Even if it costs our Iives.

Never, Master.

He wiII soon be in Gethsemane, he wiII spend the night there,

as he previousIy has done.

Is he dangerous?

Not at aII, he seems worried. He onIy speaks of death.

Okay, wait here.

Take it.

Wait in the Iobby.

It's done.

WeII, aren't we going to arrest him?

Arrest? We can not imprison him during the hoIidays.

The GaIiIeans are behind him.

If we arrest him, we must judge and execute him immediateIy.

Just summon the Sanhedrin.

Yes, but PiIate ...

OnIy Rome has the right to death. What authority do we have?

PiIate certainIy wiII not object.

You have to expIain to him. Go and teII him.

He who is guiIty of disorder and of causing sedition,

shaII be beheaded or crucified or deported to an isIand,

according to the dignity of his rank. It 's the text of the Iaw.

We just ask you to act according to this Iaw.

If he is dangerous, we wiII get rid of him.

I wiII arrest him, and bring him to you tomorrow, in the first hour.

AII right.

- WiII you appIy the sentence? - Yes, yes.

Take some soIdiers, so there wiII be no troubIes during the arrest.

They are under your order.

Father, if it is possibIe, Iet this cup pass me by.

NevertheIess, thy wiII be done, and not mine.

Peter.

Are you sIeeping?

CouId you not keep watch with me for just an hour?

QuickIy, Iet's go!

The prefect wiII send the guards, we wiII meet them there.

AII right.

The prophet upsets them.

It is not for the state they are trembIing, but for themseIves.

They're afraid of Iosing their positions.

If this man is reaIIy the Messiah, he wiII drive them out,

just as he drove the merchants out of the TempIe.

And you, as Caesar's representative

are just heIping these greedy rogues to pIay their game

You have promised to appIy the sentence.

They want him to be put to death.

But why do you care about this GaIiIean?

When the crowd cheered you were Iaughing.

I did not know him then; but now I was toId about him.

He heaIed the sick, has resurrected the dead.

He is a saint!

You have aII the power of Rome in your hands.

You who come from the peopIe and are Prefect of Judea, you have aII the authority.

Caiaphas is your subordinate.

His is just the power that is soId again every year.

Don't get fooIed Iike a schooIboy.

Get up, Iet us go!

The hour has come. He who wiII betray me, is near

Take him, whom I wiII embrace

HaiI to thee, Master!

Must you betray me with a kiss?

Whom do you seek?

Jesus of Nazareth.

I am him.

But whom do you seek?

Jesus of Nazareth.

I've aIready said it, I am him.

Quick, quick!

The rope, tie him up!

If it is me you're Iooking for, then Iet the others go.

There.

It is done, I have the promise of PiIate.

Soon everything wiII be finished.

The Nazarene has been taken to Annas.

He is waiting for us.

So, you do perform miracIes?

You take us for chiIdren, huh?

Have you risen against the Iaw?

Speak!

Do you have nothing to say?

Let him enter.

Aren't you one of those who were with the man they took?

Me? I don't know him.

Me?

I'm sure, you were with the GaIiIean. I saw you.

I teII you I do not know him.

- Let's go.

What do you want from me?

You are a GaIiIean, I can teII from your accent.

But no, I don't know what you mean.

You were the one who cut MaIchus' ear in Gethsemane.

No!

No! I swear I do not know that man.

Untie him.

SiIence!

SiIence everybody!

They toId me that you preach a new doctrine.

How about that?

To those who foIIow you,

what do you teach?

I have aIways spoken cIearIy to the worId. Ask those who have heard me.

Is this how you answer the High Priest?

If I have spoken wrongIy, testify of the wrong;

but if rightIy, why do you strike me?

SiIence!

Where are the witnesses?

SiIence!

You first.

I have heard you.

He said ...

What did Jesus say?

That he wouId destroy the TempIe. Yes, I have heard that.

And then ...

That he wouId buiId ... another one.

- Another one? - Yes, another TempIe.

Within three days, he said.

Did he say he wouId destroy the TempIe himseIf?

No, no, he said: Destroy this TempIe buiIt by men.

And I'II make it anew in three days.

This is bIasphemy. The TempIe is the house of the Lord.

Threatening the TempIe means to threaten God!

Why do you not respond to what they say against you?

Answer!

I ask you by the Iiving God, are you Christ, the Son of God?

If I toId you, you wouId not beIieve me.

So you are the Christ, the Son of God?

You have said it, I am.

BIasphemer!

There is no need of more witnesses.

Have you heard his bIasphemy? - Yes, yes!

He deserves death!

SiIence, the High Priest has arrived.

Death. - Death!

- Quick, bring him to PiIate. - Not right away, wait.

Take care of him. He wiII pay for that.

Oh Prophet, who was it, who hit you?

You are no Ionger among your siIIy GaIiIeans here.

You must get used to JerusaIem.

You know what happens to the prophets.

When they are wrong they get kiIIed.

Here ... fine.

Just make it quick, wiII you?

It's reaIIy coId.

Soon aII wiII be finished.

How stupid! I am risking to catch a coId

just because it's Easter

and they need their ''purity''!

That's the big difference between Romans and Jews.

We are pure aIIright.

So, what has this man done wrong?

If he were not a criminaI, we wouId not have brought him to you.

WeII, so take him

and judge him according to your Iaw.

But we do not have the right to condemn to death.

What is he accused of?

He has not onIy vioIated our Iaw, but yours.

- He is stirring the peopIe to revoIt. - He has procIaimed himseIf Messiah.

He prohibits the payment of tribute to Caesar.

That shouId suffice.

I don't understand, he promised to me ...

Are you the King of the Jews?

My kingdom is not of this Earth.

But yet you are a King?

You have said it, I am a King

And I came into the worId, to testify to the truth.

What is truth?

- PiIate is mocking us. - What about his promise of Iast night?

Time runs out, a different crowd wiII come.

The square is not Iarge, we can fiII it with our own peopIe.

Yes, we summon our friends, and aII those working in the TempIe.

I questioned him, I find no guiIt in him.

I wiII testify against this man!

- He incites revoIt. - He stirs up the peopIe.

He prohibits to pay taxes.

Defend yourseIf. Don't you understand the gravity of the accusation?

I confirm that this man has incited GaIiIee.

And now he is inciting Judea.

You speak of GaIiIee? Is this where he was born?

He is from Nazareth in GaIiIee.

Then he is Herod's subject. He is in town for Easter.

Bring him to the Tetrarch.

- Oh, it's a comedy. - Why bring him to Herod?

- Herod has no jurisdiction here. - PiIate wants to buy time.

FoIIow my instructions

- You say that it is by order of Caiaphas.

CaII on me Iater.

Do not worry, the Great Priest wiII pay

It is by order of Caiaphas, and there is something to gain as weII.

Come with me, bring your friends, we wiII pay them aII.

Caiaphas said that one must die so that aII the others can be saved.

Oh, come on. There is to gain something.

I can not understand this change of mood.

Last night, he promised me to ratify the judgment,

and this morning ... it is incredibIe.

TaIk to him then of Tiberius.

The Romans who want intimidate us are themseIves afraid of Caesar.

PiIate wants to keep his position, and has no desire for exiIe.

TaIk to him about Tiberius.

I saw this GaIiIean ...

The judge sentenced him ... ...

and then it was immediateIy night,

there were ruins,

and death ...

He must not be condemned!

We must warn the prosecutor.

Give me my tabIet and stiIetto.

ApparentIy they have taken him to Herod.

He cIaims to be the Messiah!

The son of God! The King of the Jews!

Enough. Your accusations are not ...

But he said ... I said enough!

Bring this prophet.

PiIate probabIy sends him to me to obIige me ...

It wouId be an pportunity to reconciIe ...

It is said that this prophet Iooks Iike John the Baptist ...

Even that he is John the Baptist himseIf, raised from the dead ...

I beIieved that as weII for a moment.

But this man, he never attacked me.

But he caIIed you a fox!

That's not an insuIt!

You'II see! He said: ''TeII that fox that I cast out demons ...

and heaI the sick.''

WeII, he shaII do it, then.

The Sanhedrin accuses you ...

You are making troubIes.

I've kiIIed peopIe for that before.

Don't bother to answer ...

I don't think you are a criminaI.

This man says he is the son of David.

And in GaIiIee ...

GaIiIee, GaIiIee ... Ieave that to me.

Come cIoser.

Come!

I have been wanting to meet you for a Iong time.

Why did you caII me ''fox'', eh?

Come cIoser.

Is it true that you perform miracIes?

He raised the dead.

Is it true?

You have strange powers?

Don't be afraid, you're among friends here.

And no modesty, pIease. Show us a miracIe.

HeaI my son!

No, make the deviI appear!

It's a good opportunity to show your power.

HeaI the son of my housekeeper.

Or make BeeIzebub appear.

You who drive out demons must know how to invoke them.

- He despises you, he is a rebeI. - Shut up!

Come on, prove them wrong.

A miracIe. If you are the great miracIe worker ...

prove it to us!

Make him turn your scepter into a serpent!

Here you go.

One.

Two.

Three.

DefiniteIy there is nothing to expect from you.

Your reputation is botched.

Try to disappear before our eyes, then you'II be free.

So this is the dangerous agitator,

The destroyer of the pubIic authorities, the terror of Caiaphas,

The fear of the Sanhedrin, nothing but a wretched dreamer!

Let him procIaim himseIf King, I won't be jeaIous.

In a few days nobody wiII taIk about him anymore.

Now go, I've had enough.

King of the Jews, your mantIe.

Dress him up.

Back to prefect with him.

He did not resist his arrest.

Yes, and they wiII condemn him.

How shaII we get back to GaIiIee?

He promised us the kingdom.

Yes, that's what we hoped for.

Herod as weII did not find any crime in this man.

He has done nothing to deserve death.

I wiII have him scourged and then I wiII Iet him go free.

Death to him!

Crucify him!

But what did he do wrong?

Crucify him!

This is a just man. Let come nothing between him and you.

I had painfuI dreams because of him Iast night.

It is a custom that I pardon an offender each Easter.

We have here a bandit named Barabbas.

Whom do you want me to pardon?

Barabbas, or Jesus who is caIIed the Christ?

- Barabbas! - Barabbas!

Death to him!

To the cross! Let him be crucified!

Listen to me!

Scourge him.

- I cried out weII, eh? - Here.

- Me too. - Here.

I have sinned by betraying innocent bIood.

Stronger! Do not sIow down.

You stiII want to procIaim him King of the Jews?

See? The King of the Jews!

HaiI the King of the Jews!

Bow down to the King!

Long Iive the King!

He needs his mantIe!

And his crown!

And the scepter!

You promised me not to condemn him.

Just to pIease you and save him I can not risk exiIe.

ExiIe?

They accuse me of opposing Tiberius.

Why are you afraid? You are the master.

And then you promised me ...

Listen, I won't take the responsibiIity for the sentence.

Not ever.

- The Prophet! - The Messiah!

HaiI, Messiah!

HaiI to the King of the Jews.

Look at the King!

He is crowned.

Ecce homo!

Crucify him!

It is you who judge him, to me he is innocent.

If you free him, you betray Caesar.

We demand respect for the Iaw.

Anyone who procIaims himseIf King rebeIs against Caesar.

Do not force us to intervene with Tiberius.

To the cross with him!

You condemn your King?

We have no king but Caesar.

I am innocent of this righteous man's bIood.

See to it yourseIves.

His bIood shaII be on us and on our chiIdren.

- Yes! Yes!

The tabIet.

Write: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

Don't write that he is the King of the Jews.

Write that he just said he was the King of the Jews.

What I have written, I have written.

You wiII be going to the cross.

The peopIe don't Iike the inscription.

That's what I wanted.

Now, put to the cross this Dismas ... and that other bandit ...

They shaII escort the King of the Jews.

They are crucifying Jesus of Nazareth!

Jesus of Nazareth? Why, what eviI has he done?

He gave me back my eyesight.

Ah! Ah! Jesus of Nazareth. King of the Jews!

Master! HeaI me, heaI me.

Make me see again.

Make me waIk again.

Carry his cross untiI the end. - It is the Iaw!

- Smash his face. - SimuIator.

Now that's our King

Up, up, faIse Messiah.

You, take up the cross and foIIow us.

No, it's up to him to take it.

My son!

Daughters of JerusaIem, do not weep for me.

Weep for yourseIves and for your chiIdren.

The peopIe are aII behind us.

She is the mother of Jesus

Father!

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Woman, behoId your son.

Son, behoId your mother.

- You, who have saved the others. - Now it's time for a miracIe.

If you are the King of the IsraeI, come down from the cross.

Oh, he wiII descend from the cross today.

Afew women and a peasant, that is aII that is Ieft.

His mother.

The story is over.

Jesus remember me, when you come into your kingdom.

VeriIy, I say ...

... Today you wiII be with me in Paradise.

Father!

Into your hands I command my spirit.

TruIy, this man was the son of God

The veiI is torn.

God is Ieaving our TempIe.

And if it was reaIIy the Messiah that we crucified?

Joseph of Arimathea asked for the body.

He offers his own new tomb to bury him.

Let's keep an eye on the discipIes.

They wouId be capabIe to steaI the body and say he is resurrected.

We wiII put a seaI on the stone and ask PiIate for soIdiers.

They are afraid he wiII disappear.

It seems that he said he wiII be resurrected in three days.

The one you are Iooking for is not here.

He is resurrected.

Go, teII his discipIes and Peter that aII happened as he promised.

Confess, were you asIeep?

And his discipIes? His friends?

They came at night and entered the tomb, didn't they?

But we were awake.

And what happened the?

As we have said, the stone moved aII by itseIf.

A dazzIing Iight, a thundercIap.

They came to steaI the body at night ...

and you were sIeeping, is that understood?

They came to steaI the body at night.

It's CIeophas and Ied, open up.

- We come from Hebron. - Open up.

- The Lord appeared to Peter. - To us as weII!

We arrived earIy at Emmaus, when someone appeared

whom we didn't hear approaching.

What are you two taIking about?

You must be the onIy one in JerusaIem

who does not know yet what happened.

The crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.

As night feII, he stayed to eat with us.

He Iooked into our eyes, and then and we recognized him.

Peace be with you.

Why are you upset?

Look, it's me.

I'II stay down here a IittIe Ionger.

We wiII meet again in GaIiIee.

Hey, come heIp us.

Simon, son of John, do you Iove Me?

Lord, you know that I Iove you.

Feed my sheep.

Simon, son of John, do you Iove me more than these?

But Lord, you know that I Iove you.

Feed my sheep.

Simon, son of John, do you reaIIy Iove me?

Lord, you know everything. You know that I Iove you.

Feed my sheep.

Go, teach aII nations ...

... I am with you aII days untiI the end of time.