Original subtitles

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[DISTANT SINGING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

-Joseph, son of David, be not afraid to take thy wife Mary

unto thyself, for it by the power of the Holy Ghost

that she has conceived this child.

And she will bear a son whom thou shalt call Jesus.

For he is to save his people from their sins.

NARRATOR: Behold, the Virgin shall be with child.

And she will bear a son.

And they shall call him Emmanuel which means God with us.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[STREET NOISE]

-Where is he who has been born the King of the Jews?

-We watched his star rise out in the East.

And we have come here to worship him.

[HORSE WHINNYING]

-And in what place will he be born this Christ child?

-At Bethlehem in Judea as was written by the prophet.

-In thou Bethlehem of the land of Judea,

thou art far from the least among the princes of Judea.

For out of thee will rise a leader

who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

-Go now and inquire carefully for the child.

But when you have found him, bring me back word

so that I myself may come and worship him too.

[CHILD PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[ROOSTER CROWING]

[WIND BLOWING]

[ROOSTER CROWING]

-Arise, Joseph, take the child with his mother

and flee into Egypt.

There remain until I give thee word.

Harod is about to search for the child to destroy him.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

NARRATOR: I called my son out of Egypt.

[BABY CRYING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHISTLE]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAMING]

-A voice was heard in Ramah.

Lamentation and great mourning.

It was Rachel weeping for her children.

And she would not be comforted because none is left.

[MOANING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

[MOANING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

-Arise, and take with you the mother and the child

and return to the land of Israel,

for those who sought the child's life are dead.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[WATER BABBLING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Repent ye, for now the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Repent!

For this is the one who was spoken of through the Prophet

Isaiah when he said there is a voice, one

crying in the wilderness.

Prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Straighten out his path.

Who was it warned you o generation of vipers

to flee from the terrible vengeance that is approaching?

Do not presume to say in your hearts

we have Abraham for our father.

I tell you, God has power to raise up

children to Abraham out of Eve's very stones!

The ax is all ready against the roots of the tree

so that every tree which does not bear good fruit

will be hewn down, and cast into the fire!

I have baptized you with water for your repentance, yes,

but there is one following after me far mightier than me,

such a one that I am not even worthy to carry

his shoes for him.

He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

He holds his winnowing fan ready to sweep

his threshing floor clean.

The wheat he will gather, gather it

into the granary of the Lord.

But as for the chaff, he will burn it

in a fire that can never be quenched!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-It is I who ought to be baptized by thee.

And does thou come to me instead?

-Let it be so for the present.

It is well that we should fulfill all proper observances.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

NARRATOR: This is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-If thou art the Son of God, turn

these rocks into loaves of bread.

-Man cannot live by bread alone.

But there is life for him in all that proceeds

from the mouth of God.

-If thou are the Son of God, cast thyself down to Earth

for it is written he has given charge to his angels concerning

thee, and they will hold thee up with their hands

less thou shalt chance to trip on a stone.

-It is also written that thou shalt not

put the Lord thy God to the proof.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I will give thee all of this if thou

will fall down and worship me.

-Away, Satan!

It is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy

God, none other wilt thou serve.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

NARRATOR: The people that abode in darkness

have seen a great light.

For men abiding in a land where death overshadowed them,

light has dawned.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Peter?

Andrew?

Come follow me.

I will make of you fishers of men.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-James and John, sons of Zebedee, come and follow me.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers few.

Pray the Lord to whom the harvest belongs

for more laborers for the harvesting.

Peter, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Thomas, Simon,

Bartholomew, Thadeus, James, the son of Alphaus, Matthew, Judas

Iscariot, you shall be the laborers for the harvest.

Remember, I am sending you out to be like sheep among wolves,

and so you must be wary of serpents

and yet remain innocent as doves.

Do not put your trust in men for they will hand you

over to the courts of judgment and scourge

you in their synagogues.

And you will be brought before governors and kings

on my account so that you can bear witness

before the man before the Gentiles.

Only when they hand you over thus

do not consider anxiously what you are to say

or how you are to say it.

Words will be given you when the time comes.

It is not you who speak.

It is the spirit of your father that speaks in you.

And you will be hated by all men because you bear my name.

Yet there is no need to fear those who kill the body

but have no means of killing the soul.

Fear him more who has the power to ruin body and soul in hell.

Are not sparrow sold too for a penny?

And yet, it is impossible for one of them

to fall to the ground without your Heavenly Father's will.

And as for you, he takes every hair of you

head into his reckoning.

Do not be afraid, then.

For you count for more than a host of sparrows.

Do not believe that I have come to bring

peace here to the earth.

I have come here to bring not peace but a sword.

I have come to set man at variance

with his father and the daughter with her mother

and a daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law.

For man's enemies will be the people of his own house.

He is not worthy of me who loves son or daughter more.

He is not worthy of me who will not take up his cross

and follow me.

He who secures his own life will lose it.

It's the man who loses his life for my sake

that will secure it.

[WEEPING AND WAILING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Lord, if it be thy will, thou has the power to make me clean.

-I so will.

Be thou cleansed.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-You shall thou tell no man of this,

but rather repair to the temple.

Put thyself before the priest, and there offer the gift which

Moses commanded to make the truth known.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

--[INAUDIBLE] spirit [INAUDIBLE] in the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they

shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they

shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you.

And say all manner of evil against you

falsely because of me.

Rejoice and exult because your heavenly rewards

shall be great.

Thus did they persecute the prophets who went before you.

-Which one of you, if your son asked for bread,

would give a stone?

Or if he asked for fish would give him a serpent?

Therefore, if you as much as you are

evil are able to give good gifts to your children,

would not your father in heaven be

more ready to give wholesome gifts to those who ask?

Therefore, all that you wish others to do unto

you even so do you also unto the others

because that is the law and the prophets.

-Think not that I've come to abolish

the laws and the prophets.

I have come not to abolish them but to perfect them.

-You are the salt of the earth.

But if the salt loses its strength,

what is there to salt it with?

It is no longer of any use.

It is to be thrown out for men to trod underfoot.

You are the light of the world.

If it is set high on a mountain, no city can be hidden.

Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel,

but rather on a lamp stand so as to give light

to all the people in the house.

-Do not lay up treasure on the earth

to be eaten by moth and rust or where

thieves can break in and steal.

But lay up treasure for yourselves in heaven

where there is no rust or moths to eat

it or thieves to break in and steal.

No man can serve two masters.

For either he will hate the one and love the other

or devote himself to the one and despise the other.

You must serve either God or riches.

But when thou givest alms, thy left hand must not

know what is given by the right.

For thy giving of alms is to be secret.

Thy father who sees that which is done secretly

shall thus set thy recompense.

-You have heard that it was said an eye for an eye and a tooth

for a tooth.

But I say to you not to resist the evildoer.

And if a man smite on the right cheek,

let him smite also on the other.

You have heard that it was said a man should love his neighbor

and hate his enemies.

But I say to you, love your enemies.

Pray for those who persecute you in order that you may become

your Heavenly Father's children who makes the sun

to rise on the evil and equally on the good, who makes his rain

to fall on the just and equally on the unjust.

Do not judge others or you yourselves shall be judged.

As you have judged, so you will be judged by the same rule.

Awards shall be made to you as you

have made award in equal measure.

But why does thou see the speck of dust

which is in thy brother's eye, but yet does not

consider the beam which is in thy known?

Moreover in praying, do not multiply the words and phrases

in the manner of the heathen, for they think

that by saying a great deal they shall be heard.

Do not be like unto them.

Your Father in heaven knows well what

your needs are even before you ask.

Therefore, you prayer shall be thus.

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 trespasses as we

forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious over your life.

How you shall support it, nor even for the body how you show

clothe it.

For is not life itself a greater gift than food?

And the body more than clothing?

The birds of the air never sew nor do

they reap or gather the grain into the barns.

Your Father in Heaven feeds them even so.

Have you not an excellence beyond theirs?

But which of you for all of his anxiety

is able to add to his height one cubits growth?

And as for clothing, why are you anxious?

Look at the lilies of the field.

Consider how they grow.

They do not spin, neither do they toil.

But I say to you, even Solomon in all of his glory

was never arrayed like one of these.

If God so clothes the grasses of the field

that live today but tomorrow will feed the ovens,

why then how much more you, o you of little faith.

Do not fret then asking what are we eat or what are we to drink

or what are we to put on.

It is for the heathen to busy themselves with such things.

But you have a father in heaven who knows well

that you need all of these things.

Seek then the Kingdom of God and his justice.

And all these things will be given

to you without your having to ask.

Therefore, be not anxious over tomorrow.

But let tomorrow fret over its own needs.

Sufficient unto the day is its own trouble.

Enter by the narrow gate.

For wide is the gate and broad on the way that

leads one to his own destruction.

And many there are who enter that way.

But the gate is exceeding small and the way

is narrow which leads to life.

And few there are who find it.

Father who art lord in heaven and Earth, I give thee

praise that thou has hidden all this from the [INAUDIBLE]

and revealed it to the little children.

Be it so father since this [INAUDIBLE] thy sight.

My father has entrusted everything into my hands.

None knows the son truly except the father.

And none knows the father truly except the son and those

to whom it is the son's good pleasure to reveal him.

Come to me all you that labor and are heavenly burdened,

and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon yourselves and learn from me,

for I am meek and humble of heart.

And you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy

and my burden is light.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Look, thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful

for them to do on the sabbath.

-Have you never read what David did that day when

he and all the others who were there with him were hungry?

How he went into the sanctuary and began

to eat the loaves of proposition,

although neither David nor any of those who were with him

could lawfully do so but only the priests?

Or again, have you not read in the law

that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple

break the sabbath and none blames them?

But I tell you, there is one standing

here who is greater than a temple.

And if you knew what these words signified

I desire mercy and not sacrifice,

you would not so easily judge the innocent.

The son of man has even the sabbath at his disposal.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?

-Which of you if he had but one sheep would not take hold of it

and lift it out if it fell into a pit on the sabbath?

And of far more value than a sheep is a man.

To do good is not unlawful then on the sabbath.

Cast thy crutches away from thee.

Do not make it known that thou has been healed.

So that the words spoken by the prophet

Isaiah may be fulfilled.

Behold my servant whom I have chosen my beloved

and whom my soul is well pleased.

I will lay my spirit upon him, and he

shall proclaim judgment among the Gentiles.

He will not protest and cry out.

None shall his voice in the streets.

He will not [INAUDIBLE] the staff that is already crushed,

or put out the wick that still smolders until the time comes

when he crowns his judgment with victory.

And the Gentiles will put their trust in his name.

-He has to be done away with.

We must find a way.

-This is a desert place and the hour is already late.

-Send the people away so they can go to the villages

and buy food.

-They do not need to go away, for you,

yourselves, can give them food.

-We've here only five loaves and two fishes.

-And bring them to me here.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I wish to pray.

Go across to the other side before me.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-A phantom.

-Take courage.

It is I. Do not be afraid.

-Lord, if it be thee truly, bid me come to thee over the water.

-Come.

-(GRUNTING) Lord, save me!

-Oh, man of little faith.

Why does thou doubt?

[HORSE WHINNYING]

-Is it he whose coming was foretold?

Or must we wait for another?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-It is John who bids that we ask is it thy coming that was

foretold or must we wait for another?

-Go tell John what your ears have heard,

what your eyes have seen of a lame walk, of a blind have

sight, lepers become clean, the deaf hear and the dead

become alive and the poor hear the word of God.

Blessed is the one to whom it is given to have faith in my work.

[GOATS BLEATING]

-When you went forth into the desert,

what was it you expected to see a read trembling in the wind?

What did you expect that you would see?

A man wearing soft, fine garments?

But those who fine garments dwell in the houses of kings.

What was it then that you expected to see?

A prophet?

Yes, and something more I tell you than a prophet.

This is the man of whom it was written behold I send

my messenger before thee who is to prepare

the way for thy coming.

And I say to you among those born of woman that there has

never risen a man greater than John the Baptist.

And yet, the least in the kingdom of heaven

is greater than he.

Ever since the time of John the Baptist, the kingdom of heaven

was open to force.

And the forceful are even now making it their prize.

Whereas all the prophets and the law before John's time

could only speak of things that were to come.

And this, I tell you, if you will make room for it

in your minds that he is that Elias

whose coming was prophesied.

Listen you that have ears to hear with.

But to what shall I liken this generation?

It is like children sitting in the marketplace who

call to their companions and say, we have piped to you

and you have not danced.

We have sung dirges and you have not mourned.

But when John came, he would neither eat nor drink.

And they said of him that he is possessed.

When the son of man came, he ate and drank with them.

And of him they say, here is a glutton.

He loves wine.

He a friend of publicans and sinners.

It is by her own children that wisdom is vindicated.

Woe to you cities in which I have performed miracles

and you have not repented.

Tyre and Sidon would have repented in sackcloth and ashes

long ago if the miracles done in you

had been done there instead.

But I tell you it shall go less hard for Tyre and Sidon

than for you on the day of judgment.

And thou Capernaum, does thou hope to be exalted to heaven?

Thou shalt be thrust down to hell.

-Can this be the son of David?

-It is only through the consent of Beelzebub,

prince of devils, that he casts the devils out.

-He who is not with me is against me.

And who does not gather with me that man scatters.

Therefore, I say unto you there is pardon for all other sins

and blasphemies of men, but not for blasphemies

against the Holy Spirit.

-Master, grant to us some sort of sign.

-Is a wicked and unfaithful generation that demands a sign.

No sign shall be given it for the sign of Jonas the prophet.

For even as Jonas was in the belly of the fish three days

and three nights so will the son of man

be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh will rise up with this generation on the day

of judgment and will condemn it, for they

did penance when Jonas preached to them.

And behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The queen of the South will rise up with this generation

on the day of judgment and will condemn it,

for she came from the ends of the earth

to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

And behold, a greater than Solomon is here!

-Thy mother and thy brother and I

are without waiting to speak with thee.

-When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man,

it roams about the desert in search of a resting place.

And finding none, it says, I will go back

to my own dwelling from which I came out.

And it comes back to find that dwelling empty

and swept out and neatly set in order.

There upon, it goes away and brings

in seven other spirits, more evil than itself.

And together they enter in and dwell there.

And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

-Thy mother is here.

She is with thy brethren.

-Who are my mother and who are my brethren?

Behold!

My mother, my brethren.

Whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven,

that is my brother and sister and mother.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[TOWN NOISE]

-How did he come by this wisdom and these lyricals?

-Is not his mother called Mary?

And his brothers are they not James

and Joseph and Simon and Jude?

-And his sisters, do they not all live near us?

-Then how is it that all of this has come to him?

-Well, isn't he the son of the carpenter?

-A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country

and in his own house.

-Good master, so that I may win eternal life,

tell me, what good work shall I do?

-Why would thou ask me about life?

One there is who is good.

He is God.

Thou would enter into life, keep thou the commandments.

-Which ones?

-Why these.

Thou shalt not kill nor commit adultery.

To steal, thou must not, nor bear false witness.

Honor thy father and mother.

And love thy neighbor as thyself.

-All of these laws I have observed.

What more do I lack?

-If thou which indeed be perfect, give away

all thou hast so the kingdom of heaven

shall be where they treasure is.

Then come back and follow me.

Men, I say to you, with difficulty will

a rich man enter into heaven.

And further I say to you, it would be easier for a camel

to pass through the eye of a needle

than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

-Away!

I Go!

Leave the Lord in peace, children.

-Let the little children be.

Do not keep them away from me, for it is to such

as these belongs the kingdom of heaven.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I am well-please with your dancing.

Ask of me what you will and I shall grant it.

-Have brought me here on a dish the head of John the Baptist.

-It is granted.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Let us depart from here to some deserted place to be alone.

Come, let us cross to the other side.

-Lord, let me first go and bury my father.

-Do thou follow me?

Leave the dead to bury the dead.

-Master, I will follow thee wherever thou goest.

-Foxes have dens and the birds have nests.

But the son of man has no where to put his head.

NARRATOR: Now all thy gates shall echo with laments.

All thy cities ring with cries.

All Philistia swoon away.

From the north, a smoke comes ever nearer.

In the streets, men walk girded with sackcloth.

[INAUDIBLE] square echo with loud

crying that breaks into tears.

-Who do men say the son of man is?

-Some say thou must be John the Baptist.

-Others say Elias.

-Others say Jeremiah.

-Or another prophet.

-But who do you say that I am?

-Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.

-Blessed art thou, Simon, born of Jonah,

for not through flesh and blood was this revealed to thee,

but by my father who is in heaven.

And I say to thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock

I will build my church.

And the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

And whatsoever thou shall bind on earth

shall be bound in heaven.

And whatsoever thou would loose on earth

shall be loosed also in heaven.

Do not tell any man that I am the Christ.

Now you must know that I am going up to Jerusalem.

There I will suffer many things from the elders and the scribes

and even from the chief priests.

And there I will be put to death.

-Never, Lord, to thee no such thing could befall.

-Get thee behind me, Satan.

In my path [INAUDIBLE] stone.

For these are the thoughts of man, not of God.

If any man wishes to come my way, let him renounce self.

Let him take up his cross and follow me.

The son of man is to be betrayed and given

up into the hands of men.

And they will kill him.

But on the third day, he will rise again.

[CHILD LAUGHING]

-Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

-Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become

like little children, you will not

enter the kingdom of heaven.

He is greatest in the kingdom of heaven

who humbles himself like this little child.

And whoever receives one such little child for my sake

receives me.

But for whoever causes sin in one of these little ones who

believe in me, it were far better for him

that a great millstone be hung around his neck

and he be cast into the depths of the sea.

Woe to the world because of scandals,

for it must needs be that these scandals come.

But woe to the man through whom scandals come.

If thy hand or thy foot is an occasion of failing to thee,

cut it off and cast it away from thee.

Better for thee to enter into life

crippled or lame than to have two hands

or two feet when thou art cast into the eternal fire.

Tell me this, if a man has 100 sheep and one of them

has gone astray, does he not leave those 99

others on the mountainside and go out

looking for the one that has strain?

And if by good fortune he finds it,

he rejoices more I say to you over that one

than over the 99 which never strayed from him.

-Lord, when my brother sins against me

how often have I to forgive him?

Up to seven times?

-I do not say to thee seven times but 70 times seven.

[MUISC PLAYING]

-We are going now to Jerusalem.

And there the son of man will be given up

into the hands of the chief priests and the scribes.

And they will condemn him and put him to death.

And these will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles

to be mocked and scourged and crucified.

But on the third day, he will rise again.

[STREET NOISE]

-Go into the village there, the one that faces us.

The first thing that you will find there

is a she-ass teethered and a colt by her side.

Untie them and bring them to me.

And if anyone says anything to you,

you must say the Lord has need.

Immediately, he will let you have them without more ado.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-It is Jesus, the son of David.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-It is written, my house shall be a house of prayer,

but you have made o it a den of thieves.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHILDREN YELLING]

-Dost thou hear what these are saying?

-Yes.

Have you never read in the structure out of the mouths

of babes and sucklings thou has perfected praise?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-May no fruit ever come from thee hence forward.

-But how could it wither so quickly?

-Amen, I say to you if you have faith and waver not,

not only will you do what I have done to the fig tree,

but even if you shall say to this mountain arise and hurl

thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

And all things whatsoever you ask

for in prayer you shall receive.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

-What is the authority by which you do these things?

-And who was it that gave it to you?

-I too have a question to ask of you.

If you can tell me the answer, I will tell you

in return what is the authority by which I do these things.

The baptism of John, can you tell

me whence it came from heaven or from man?

-If we tell him it was from heaven,

he will ask us then why did you refuse to believe in John?

And if we say it came from man, we

have reason to be afraid of the people

for they all look upon John as a prophet.

We are unable to answer.

-Then you will not learn from me what

is the authority by which I do these things.

What of this, once there was a man with two sons.

To the first one, he spoke thus, away

with thee, my son, and work in my vineyard today.

And the son responded, very well, I will do so,

but he never did.

And the father turned to the other son

and spoke to him, likewise.

The second son refused his father's bidding.

But afterwards, he relented and went.

Now which of the two fulfilled his father's will?

-Of course, the second one.

-Yes, believe me the publicans and the harlots

are much farther along the road to the kingdom

of heaven that any of you.

For when John came among you following all do observances,

he could win no belief from you.

But the publicans believed in his words and the harlots also.

And you, even though you witnessed this, even then,

you refused to repent and believe that his work was good.

Hear now one more parable.

There was a rich man who planted a vineyard.

He walled it in and dug a wine press and built a tower in it.

Then he let it out to some vine-dressers

while he went on his travels.

When the appointed time drew near,

the man servants were made to visit

the vine-dressers to claim his revenues.

Where upon the vine-dressers laid hands upon his servants.

One they beat.

One they killed outright.

The third they stoned.

And he sent other servants on a second errand,

more than he'd sent at first, but they were used no better.

Finally, this man sent to the vine-dressers

his only son and the belief they might respect his son.

But when the vine-dressers saw the son approaching they said

among themselves if we capture the son

we may keep for ourselves the inheritance.

And l hands upon him, they killed him

and cast his body forth from the vineyard.

And now when the master of the house

returns, what will he do to these vine-dressers?

-When the master of returns he will

exact retribution from them.

He will destroy them and let out the vineyards

to others who will give him the fruits thereof

which are his due.

-In the scripture, you have read these words.

The very stone the builders did reject

has become the cornerstone.

This, then, is the Lord's doing.

And it is marvelous in our eyes.

I tell you, then, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you

and given out to a people who will make it bear fruit.

And whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken

while he who lies under it will be ground into powder.

For many are called but few are chosen.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Master, we know well that thou art's sincere.

and that thou words teach sincerely the way of God.

And we know too that thou holdest no one in awe

and make little of the distinctions

between different kinds of men.

Tell us then what thinkest thou of this.

Is it indeed lawful to render tribute to Caesar or not?

-Why do you put me to the test, hypocrite?

How pay you this tribute?

With what coin?

Whose name does it bear and whose likeness?

-Caesar's.

-Well, then render to Caesar what is

Caesar's and to God what is God's.

-Master, of which in all the laws would you say

is the greatest commandment?

-I would say thou shalt love the Lord thy

God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul

and with thy whole mind.

This is the greatest of the commandments and the first.

And the second it's like, thou shalt

love thy neighbor as thyself.

-Scribes and Pharisees have established themselves

in the place from which Moses used to teach.

Do what they tell you then.

Continue to observe what they tell you, but do not imitate

their actions, for they tell you one thing and do another.

They fasten up packs to heavy to be borne

and lay them on men's shoulders.

And they themselves will not stir a finger to lift them.

They act always so as to be a mark for men's eyes.

Boldly written are the texts they carry.

And deep is the hem of their garments.

Their heart is set on taking the chief places at table

and the first seats in the synagogue.

And having their hands kissed in the marketplace

and being called rabbi among their fellow men.

But you are not to claim the title of rabbi.

You have but one master.

And you are all brethren alike.

Now are you to call any men on Earth your father.

You have put one father.

And he is in heaven.

Nor are you to be called teachers,

for you have but one teacher, Christ.

Among you the greatest of all is to be the servant of all.

And the man who exalts himself will be humbled.

And the man who humbles himself will be exalted.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,

you hypocrites that shut the door of the kingdom of heaven

in men's faces.

You will either enter yourselves not

let others enter when they would.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,

you hypocrites that encompass sea

and land to gain a single proselyte.

And then make the proselyte twice as

worthy of damnation as yourselves.

Woe upon you blind leaders who say if a man swears

by the temple it goes for nothing.

If he swears by the gold in the temple his oat stands.

Blind fools!

Which is greater, the gold or the temple

that consecrates the gold?

And again, if a man swears by the altar, it goes for nothing.

If he swears by the gifts on the altar, his oath stands.

Blind fools!

Which is greater, the gift or the altar

which consecrates the gift?

A man who swears by the altar swears at the same time

by all that is on the altar.

The man who swears by the temple swears at the same time by him

who has made it his dwelling place.

And the man who swears by heaven swears not only

by God's throne, but by him who sits upon it.

Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees.

You hypocrites that will award to God his tithe that

would be of mint or dill or sesame.

And have forgotten the weightier commandments

of the law-- justice, mercy, and honor.

O you did ill to forget one duty while you performed the other.

You blind leaders.

You who have strained out the gnat

while you have swallowed the camel.

[YELLING]

-Call upon you scribes and Pharisees,

hypocrites that scour the outward part of cup and dish

but all within is running with avarice and incontinence.

Scour the inside of the cup and dish first thou blind Pharisee

so that the outside too may become clean.

Woe upon you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites,

that are like whitened sepulchers, bare and outward

show when they are full of dead men's

bones and all manner of corruption within.

You too seem exact over your duties outwardly to men's eyes

while there is nothing within but hypocrisy and iniquity.

O to you hypocrites who build up the tombs of the prophets

and engrave the monuments of the just while you cry with pride,

if we had lived in our father's times

we would not have taken part in murdering the prophets.

And just so you bear witness of your own ancestry.

It was your fathers who slaughtered the prophets.

It is for you to complete your father's

reckoning, serpents that you are.

Brood of vipers.

How then will you escape from the judgment of hell?

And now behold!

I am sending prophets and wise men

and men of learning to preach to you.

Some of them you will put to death and crucify.

Some you will scourge in your synagogues

and persecute them from city to city

so that you will make yourselves answerable for all the blood

of just men that is shed on the earth.

From the blood of the innocent Abel all the way to the blood

of Zacharias, son of Barachias whom

you slew between temple and altar.

Ah, believe me, this generation shall

be held answerable for all of it!

Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem, still murdering the prophets

and stoning the messengers that are sent to thee.

How often have I been ready to gather thy children together

as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings.

And thou did refuse it.

And now look to your houses which are left to you

desolated.

I say to you, you will see nothing of me

hence forward until the time when you will be saying blessed

is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Do you see onus?

Believe me, there will not be one stone

left on another in this place.

It will all be thrown down.

-We must bring him within our power, but cunningly,

of course.

And put him to death.

We shall wait till after the feast.

Otherwise, there could be disturbances among the people.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-What's the sense of this waste?

This ointment could possibly have been sold for much money

and given to the poor!

-But why do you vex this poor woman?

Where was the evil in what she did for me?

The poor you have among you always.

But I am not always among you.

In pouring this ointment over my body,

she was preparing me for my burial.

I promise you in whatever part of the world

this gospel is proclaimed, the story of this woman

will be told in such a way that the memory of what she did

will be preserved.

-How much will you give me if I had him over to you?

-30 pieces of silver.

-Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.

-Lord, tell me, is it I?

-Tell me, Lord, is it I?

-Lord, is it I?

-Lord, is it I?

-Lord, is it I?

-It is that one who dipped his bread with me

in the dish who will betray me.

Indeed, as it was written of him, the son of man

goes his way.

But woe to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed.

For that man it were better he had not been born.

-Master, is it I?

-Thou has said it.

Take ye of this and eat, for this is my body.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Take ye of this and drink, for this is my blood.

The new covenant is being shed for many unto

the remission of sins.

And I say to you, I shall henceforth never

drink of this fruit of the vine until the day

when I shall drink it new with you

in the kingdom of my father.

Tonight, all of you will lose courage because of me

for so it is written.

I will smite the shepherd and all of his flock

shall be scattered.

But after I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

-Even though all others should do so, I will deny thee never.

-Amen, I say to thee, during this night

before the cock crows, thou shalt deny m thrice.

-Although it should mean to die with thee, I will not.

-Rest here a while.

I wish to go and pray.

Peter, and you also James and John, come with me.

My soul is sorrowful even unto death.

Remain here and watch with me.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHISTLING]

-Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me.

But yet, not as I will but as thou willest.

Were you then not even able to watch with me for one hour?

Watch and pray to avoid temptation.

For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-My father, if this cup cannot pass away from me and I must

drink it, then may thy will be done.

[YELLING]

-Put back thy sword into its place!

For all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

Or does thou suppose I cannot entreat my father and he will

even now burnish me with more than 12 legions of angels?

How then are the scriptures to be fulfilled that thus it must

take place as against a robber you

have come out with swords and clubs to seize me.

I sat with you daily in the temple teaching

and you did not lay hands on me.

But all of this was so ordained to fulfill

what was written by the prophets.

-Master?

-Oh my friend, on what errand does thou come?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Let those who would accuse him come forward.

What hast thou then to accuse this man of?

-This man said I have the power to destroy the temple of God

and raise it again in three days.

-I, too, heard him say these things.

-Has thou no answer to make to the accusation

these men bring against thee?

I adjure thee by the living God to tell us

whether the Lord Christ son of the living God.

-Thou hast said it.

And moreover, I tell you this, hereafter

you shall see the son of man sitting at the right hand

of the power and coming upon the clouds of heaven.

-He has blasphemed!

-Blasphemed!

-This man has blasphemed!

[YELLING]

-Blasphemed, I tell you!

--[INAUDIBLE] blasphemy, what further

need have we of witnesses?

He has blasphemed!

[YELLING]

-Behold!

Now you have heard the blasphemy.

What is your finding?

-The penalty is death.

-He is liable to death!

-Death.

-He is liable to death.

-He is liable to death.

-Smite him!

Smite him!

[YELLING]

Call thyself a prophet Christ.

Tell us who it is that smote thee!

[LAUGHTER]

-Thou went also with Jesus the Galilean.

-I do not know what thou art say.

-This one also went with the Nazarene.

-I do not know the man.

-It is without doubt thou art one of them.

For even thy speech betrays thee.

-I swear.

I swear in the name of the living God,

I know nothing of the man.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[WHIMPERING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-He shall be put to death.

Lead him away and hand him over to Pontius Pilate.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I have sinned.

I sinned in betraying innocent.

-What is that to us?

It concerns thy self only.

It must not be put in the treasury,

being that it is the price of blood.

-We should put it to use and buy with it

the potters field as a burial place for strangers.

And thus it shall be known as the field of blood.

-Dost thou not hear all the testimony

they bring against thee?

-Today is the [INAUDIBLE], and as is usual on this day,

I shall release a prisoner, one of your own choosing.

Whom do you wish that I release to you?

Barabbas or Jesus whom they call the [INAUDIBLE].

[YELLING]

-But what am I to do then with [INAUDIBLE] call the Christ?

[YELLING]

-But what evil has he done?

I have no part in [INAUDIBLE].

It concerns you only.

[YELLING]

-Hail, king of the Jews!

I salute thee!

Come, come, kneel before him.

-Look!

Here's a crown.

A crown of thorns for the king of the Jews.

-The cross!

Let him carry his cross!

-Here, take this upon your shoulders, king of the Jews.

[YELLING]

-Hey you!

Come and help carry this cross.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[HAMMERING AND SCREAMING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[HAMMERING AND SCREAMING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

NARRATOR: Hearing you will hear, but not understand.

And seeing you will see, but not perceive

for the heart of this people has been hardened.

And with their hears they have been hard of hearing.

And their eyes, they have closed.

Lest at anytime they see with their eyes

and hear with their ears and understand with their mind.

-My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?

-He's calling upon Elias for help.

-Wait, wait.

Let us see whether Elias is coming to save him.

[SCREAM]

[RUMBLING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Do not be afraid for I know that

seek Jesus who was crucified.

He's not here, for he is risen, even as he said.

Go and tell his disciples he's risen.

He's going into Galilee before you,

and you shall see him there.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-All power in heaven and on Earth has been given to me.

Go, therefore, and make disciplines of all nations,

baptising them in the name of the Father

and the Son, the Holy Spirit, teaching

them to observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I shall be with you always,

even unto the consummation of the world.

[MUSIC PLAYING]