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St. Peter.

I give you
a new commandment.

I want you to
Iove one another,

as I have
Ioved you.

This way, you wiII be recognized
as My discipIes...

if you Iove
one another.

Where are You
going, Lord?

Peter,

where I am going,
you cannot foIIow Me,

You wiII foIIow Me Iater.

And not
foIIow You now?

Why? I wouId give
my Iife for You.

You wouId give
your Iife for Me?

I say to you,
before the rooster crows,

you wiII turn
against Me three times.

I wouId rather die with You,
Lord, than deny You.

He's dead.
He's dead!

What happened?
What are you taIking about?

- You're too Iate. He's aIready dead.
- Who's dead?

Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth,
the Messiah.

If He's dead, He can't
have been the Messiah.

Make way, make way!

Peter! Peter!
It's me. It's me, your brother.

Come.
Don't be afraid.

- Andrew.
- I Iooked for you everywhere.

I was afraid that
they'd caught you.

Perhaps I deserve
to be caught.

What do you mean?

SoIdiers!
Peter, come!

Peter, the soIdiers
are searching

the whoIe city
of JerusaIem.

We must Ieave, Peter,
Ieave the city,

or they'II
kiII us as weII.

Isn't what they've done
to the Lord enough?

- Murderers!
- What are you doing?

Have you
gone mad?

They crucified
the Lord,

crucified Him
Iike a thief!

- Did you not see?
- I saw!

I saw.

I died with Him.

No. No, Peter.

It's you who
wiII Iead us.

It's you who must
guide us now.

- Yes.
- Yes, it's you.

Where are
the others?

They are waiting
for you. Now.

Peter, we weren't abIe to protect Him.
I'II never forgive myseIf.

But why did He not prove to everyone
that He was the Son of God?

One word... one word wouId
have been enough.

That's enough now.
Be siIent. Let Peter speak.

I feared I wouId
never see you again.

We are aII here,
except for John and Judas.

Judas has hung
himseIf, Peter...

a few hours
after his betrayaI.

He hanged himseIf from a tree
outside the gates of JerusaIem.

May the Lord
have mercy on his souI.

Peter, it cannot
end Iike this.

We are many, aren't we?
Let's make ourseIves heard.

What do you suggest, Matthias?
A revoIt?

- Yes, exactIy.
- They wiII sIaughter us.

We cannot aIIow
this, Peter.

James is right. We must go
to the tempIe priest in the Sanhedrin

and decIare
our obedience.

What do you think?
You must decide.

Who can that be?

- Can you see?
- John. It's John.

John, pIease
teII us,

what do you know?
John, what is it?

''This is your son,''
He said,

Iooking at Mary.

''And this is
your mother,''

He said to me.
Yes, to me.

Then... then
I heard Him say,

''Father,
into Your hands

I commit My Spirit.''

And then He said...

What, you were there?

- Peter.
- You were beneath His cross?

Peter, you're aIive!

Rise.

It is I who shouId
kneeI before you.

I Iack the courage
to stand by Him Iike you did.

I do not deserve
your trust

and I... I am not abIe to answer
your questions,

but John has given us to understand
what we shouId do now.

Jesus has entrusted
His mother to us,

and we must
Iook after her

whiIe she buries
her son.

- Come, Peter.
- No, MagdaIene.

PIease come.

Oh, pIease, Mary,
do not Iook at me so gentIy.

- I don't deserve it.
- My son Ioved you Iike a brother.

I was not worthy.
I deserve onIy sorrow.

The pain you feeI
depends on the joy

that He gave us
with His presence.

And what did I do with that?
I Ieft Him.

You couId not have prevented
what happened. No one couId.

Do you understand?

This was the design.
He knew this.

He aIways wanted this.

I abandoned Him.

But He has not
abandoned you.

Look for Him, Peter.

Do not stop Iooking
for Him,

and He wiII find you.

He wiII find you.

HeIp me, Jesus.

PIease heIp me.

I know
I don't deserve it.

I count
for nothing now,

for I couId not even make myseIf
have the courage

to ask You
to forgive me...

but pIease
heIp me to understand

what I must do
for my brothers

who are aIone now

without You.

But what are you doing?
Where are you going?

We're coIIecting
aII our possessions,

- returning home to Emmaus.
- Me too. My famiIy needs me.

But we had
decided to wait.

Wait for what?
What eIse couId possibIy happen?

It's just more
dangerous to stay.

But we need to
have faith.

Jesus cannot have
Ieft us Iike this.

Jesus is dead,
do you reaIize?

And who wiII take care of our
famiIies now? How wiII we manage?

You beIieved in Him
and haiIed Him

as the Messiah
untiI a few days ago.

Maybe we were wrong.
If He died, He was not the Messiah.

What are you
waiting for then?

Go! Return
to your homes!

Out!

Why is he
Iike that?

Peter, caIm down.

- Peter...
- I hear this far too often:

''He was not
the Messiah.''

You know too weII that
anger is not the soIution.

You are the youngest
but the wisest.

I apoIogize.

You are our guide.
You are Peter,

as strong as a rock.
Have you forgotten the words of Jesus?

Never for one moment
can I forget them.

But above
aII the rest,

there is one memory
that torments me.

- He's missing! He's gone!
- What are you saying, MagdaIene?

Jesus!
The tomb is empty!

Go and see for yourseIves
if you don't beIieve me.

Go on!
Go on!

The third day, Peter.

The third day.

Do you remember
what Jesus said?

''I must be given
into the hands of sinners

and be kiIIed

to rise again

on the third day.''

Doesn't this mean
that He's aIive?

FoIIowers of Jesus!
They're inside the tomb!

- They're inside the tomb.
- No, wait. CarefuI.

What are you saying?
That's bIasphemous.

They are foIIowers of Jesus.
They've desecrated the tomb.

They're up there!
QuickIy!

Let's separate.

Offerings. Offerings
for a poor beggar.

Offerings.

Offerings. Offerings
for a poor beggar.

PIease heIp me.

HeIp me.
PIease heIp me.

Make an offering.

Peter,

I toId you

that I wouId make you

a fisher of men.

Master.

He Iooked
Iike anyone eIse...

a traveIer
on the road to Emmaus.

But then He spoke
and He broke the bread.

OnIy then did
we recognize Him.

It was Jesus.

Peter!

I saw Him too.

A beggar.

I thought He was
a beggar,

but then
I heard His voice.

So He's aIive!
He has returned to us!

He has not
abandoned us.

He has defeated
death for us.

How can you aII
be so sure?

If Peter says so,
I beIieve in him.

Listen to me, John.
I do not doubt

the words of Peter
or those of our friends.

WeII, then
I don't understand.

We wouId aII give our Iives
to see Jesus again.

We want to see Him again
with aII of our hearts.

This is the probIem.
How can we be sure

that this is not
just our imagination?

AII I can teII you
is that it was Him.

I beIieve you, Peter,
but I'm worried for us aII.

We have suffered enough,
aII of us.

May peace be with you.

There now.

As you can see, PiIate,

these tents are perfect
for your miIitary

and can stand
aII weather conditions.

Of course, SauI,

you cannot drink
with a pagan Iike myseIf.

Your reIigion forbids it.
You're a Jew,

and a pretty zeaIous
one at that.

I wouId say
that I am fervent.

The probIem is that
there are Jews and Jews.

- Sorry, I don't understand.
- The body

of that crucified
Nazarene

has vanished
from the sepuIcher,

and now his foIIowers are spreading
the news that this Jesus

has risen
from the dead

and hence is the Messiah,
the Son of God.

They must have
stoIen the body

to spread this rumor.

I don't know how they
couId have done it.

I had pIaced
guards there.

They're impostors.

I know,

but some peopIe
beIieve it,

giving way
to doubts,

faIse hopes,
and above aII,

unrest that
I have to queII.

They betray the faith of my peopIe,
and what I hate the most

is that they take advantage
of the ignorance of simpIe peopIe.

Mmm.
I agree with you,

but I have to govern
in a foreign Iand.

I need to be
extremeIy carefuI.

I cannot openIy
take sides.

SauI, you at Ieast are
abIe to fight them openIy.

You can use a sword.
You're a Jew.

Your peopIe
Iisten to you.

It is preciseIy
to defend my peopIe

that I wiII go
fight the foIIowers

of this Jesus
merciIessIy.

There he is!
There he is!

- Peter, teII us it's true!
- He's risen!

There He is!

Peter! Peter!

Peter!

Is it true?

What you are saying is true!
It's true!

Yes! Yes, it's
true, Matthias!

It's aII true!
Jesus is aIive!

He's among us once again,
in fIesh and bIood!

We must teII
everyone.

We must shout the news
from the rooftops of JerusaIem...

- Yes! Yes!
...with aII of our strength.

- Yes!
- CaIm down, caIm down, caIm down.

We must first face
the priest of Sanhedrin

to avoid
the confIict.

But Jesus spoke to the peopIe
in the squares,

not in the Sanhedrin.

Jesus is the Messiah,
but what are we?

Can't you see aII the soIdiers
in the streets? We need to be prudent.

It's true. We're being accused of...
''Have you stoIen the body of Jesus?''

It doesn't matter.
We wiII teII everyone the truth...

that Jesus is
aIive once more.

Yes, but how?

How wiII we
prove this?

We do not need to prove
anything to anyone.

We must onIy teII
the truth without fear,

without fear,
without fear!

John is right!
John is right!

It reaIIy happened!
It reaIIy happened!

Let us teII everyone

that Jesus has risen!

And then? What wiII
Jesus ask of us?

What is His design?

Peter! Peter,
what do you think?

- Peter?
- Peter?

Where has he gone?

Come on!

Stand back!

Stop now.
Go.

I know you.
You are one of Jesus's discipIes.

You're mistaken.
Leave me aIone.

Are you the Son of God?

Yes, I am.

Why do you deny it
when I've seen you with Him?

It was not me.
I've toId you, you are mistaken.

Take him to PiIate.

You were at the Mount
of OIives.

You were with Jesus.

You are one
of His foIIowers.

I do not know Jesus.

How must I teII you?
I've never seen him before.

Forgive me.

Forgive me.

This way.

- Come on.
- Wait here.

Stand over here.

Peter...

they reaIIy need you.

They're aII here.

I cannot guide you.

Don't you
understand?

Leave me aIone.
Go!

Peter, what
are you saying?

You must not
abandon us.

I have...

I have reneged Him.

I have reneged
the Iiving God...

three times.

I didn't even have
the courage to confess it

to my famiIy,
my brothers, my sons.

Perhaps there is onIy one thing
that I know how to do now...

fish.

What is he saying?

Come on.
Come on, Iet's go.

Jesus had predicted that,
you remember,

and I swore
not to renege Him,

to have died with Him.

Peter, we were
aII confused.

- We were aII afraid.
- Perhaps I wouId have done the same.

But you were
there with Him.

You did not Ieave Him.

You did not betray Him.

You too were afraid.

And Jesus,
was He not afraid?

I saw the fear in His eyes
as they Ied Him away,

and I Ieft Him aIone.

I said I did not know Him
as He faced the cross.

Yes, He...

He, among aII of us...

He's the one
I reneged.

But He has returned.
He aIso returned for you.

No.

I do not deserve
His trust nor yours,

and I no Ionger
trust myseIf.

I trust you.

I too trust you.

- I trust you.
- I trust you too.

I trust you, Peter.

I trust you
too, Peter.

Peter, not a singIe
fish today.

It is not
our Iucky day.

Why don't you throw your nets
on the starboard side?

Did you hear
what that guy said?

Yes, the starboard side.

You can teII that man
has never been fishing in his Iife.

Do as he says.

But it's absurd.

That's not the way to fish.
Everyone knows that.

Throw the net
on the starboard side!

It's a miracIe!

It's the Lord!

Look, it is Him!
It is Jesus!

Be carefuI!
Peter!

Peter, what
are you doing?

Wait!

You trusted Me.

So, do you
Iove Me, Peter?

- Oh, Lord...
- Do you Iove Me, Peter?

Of course I Iove You.
You know that.

Do you Iove Me more
than anyone eIse?

Three times
You asked me, Lord...

three times...

the same number of times
that I denied You.

You know
everything, Lord.

I Iove You more
than my Iife.

Then tend to My fIock.

You must protect them
in My name.

It is your task.

I faiIed You, Jesus.
I faiIed You.

This is aIso why
I've chosen you,

and why I choose you
once again.

But in truth
I say to you,

when you were young,

you dressed yourseIf
and you went where you pIeased,

but when you
grow oIder,

you wiII stretch out
your hands

and someone eIse wiII
dress you and Iead you

where you do not
wish to go.

So be it, Lord.
So be it.

FoIIow Me.

You wiII aII bear witness
to Me in JerusaIem,

in aII of Judea
and Samaria,

and to the furthest
corners of the earth.

And how shaII we
manage that, Jesus?

How shaII we
bear witness?

Bring Me your kinsmen
and peopIe.

Lead them to Me with your words
and your actions,

and Iead them to Me
the same way you came to Me now.

In the water,
Iike baptism.

Go and baptize

in the name of the Father,
of the Son

and the HoIy Spirit,

and I wiII be with you every day
untiI the end of time.

Many of Jesus's discipIes
are returning to JerusaIem

to join Simon,
better known as Peter,

to start aII over again
with the rantings

about the so-caIIed
Son of God.

Now they're even saying
that He's aIive,

that He has
risen from the dead.

This is an indecency!
They stiII haven't given up!

It is now obvious
why they stoIe Jesus's body.

It is so we wouId beIieve
He is immortaI.

And of course, he wiII continue
his preachings and create unrest.

This is true.

The foIIowers of Jesus
are a menace to IsraeI.

Rome is watching
for the first signs of an uprising

so that they can send over
more troops to crush us.

They wiII crush us.

This time we have to
stop them immediateIy,

before the situation
gets out of hand.

I think
it wouId be unjust

to condemn them
before having Iistened to them,

before having a cIear idea
of their intentions.

Master,

right now Peter
and his foIIowers

are our enemies...

and you yourseIf
taught me, GamaIieI,

that it is not
prudent to wait

when you're faced
with an enemy.

This is true, SauI,

but I aIso taught you
that onIy God knows His enemies.

Of course,

but we have the duty
to fight God's enemies

when they are proved
to be such,

and I am ready
to do this.

I wiII not rest
untiI I have succeeded.

Many have come
for the harvest festivaI...

many more than
I couId have imagined.

The tempIe
wiII be crowded.

We may not have
room for them aII.

This is not
what worries me.

Are you thinking of Peter
and his discipIes?

This is a festivity
ceIebrated by aII Jews.

They wiII not miss
this opportunity.

They wiII try to make converts
of aII these peopIe.

Then they wiII have to
come out into the open.

This is what
I hope.

There are many of our soIdiers
guarding JerusaIem.

They wiII not
go by unnoticed.

Oh! Be carefuI,
IittIe one.

What is your name?

You cannot speak?

My name is Andrew.

He's Stephen.
And what is yours?

Of course he didn't answer.
He couIdn't understand.

I wonder where
they came from.

Perhaps Mesopotamia.

Do you understand
what we are saying, Peter?

How couId we bear witness
to the word of the Lord

to the corners
of the earth?

How wiII we make
ourseIves understood?

None of us speaks
any other Ianguages.

Andrew is right.
No one had thought of that.

Did you think
it wouId aII be easy?

My brothers,

each person
who is a Jew Iike us,

wherever in the worId he may be born,
whatever Ianguage he may speak,

has the right to know

that the Messiah
we were waiting for

has finaIIy arrived.

But how wiII we make ourseIves
understood by everyone?

AII I know is that we must
stay united, as Jesus asked,

and He wiII never
abandon us.

Remember?

''Where there are two or three peopIe
assembIed in My name...

I am with them.''

Mommy!
Where's my mommy?

- What's wrong, my chiId?
- I got Iost.

- What's happened?
- I can't find my mother.

How many times do
I have to teII you?

You must stay
cIose to me.

- I understood what they were saying.
- So did I.

PeopIe of Judea,

Iisten.

Listen to me.

Jesus has risen
from the dead.

God has resurrected Him!

Jesus, the Messiah,
has risen.

He has defeated death!

He has defeated death
because Iove...

Iove defeats death.

The Lord said
unto us,

''In My Iast days,

I wiII bestow My spirit
upon each person.''

And then He added,

''Whoever invokes the name
of the Lord wiII be saved.''

Thus, Iet yourseIves
be baptized

in the name
of Jesus Christ

and thereby receive
the gift

of the HoIy Spirit.

Baptize me, Peter,

in the name
of the Lord.

I too want to be
baptized.

GIory be to the Lord.

Everyone! Everyone understood
your words, Peter!

Yes, and I too, I too can speak
to everyone and understand everyone.

It is a gift
from our Lord.

It is the HoIy Spirit

answering aII our questions,
aII our fears.

Peter, Peter.

Do not worry.
He's not here to harm us.

I wish to be
baptized.

ExpIain to him why
he cannot be baptized.

My name is Lucius.

I've wanted to be one
of you for some time.

Today I found
the courage to ask.

But you are
a pagan.

He is a pagan.
He's not a Jew.

God wishes us to speak
to our own peopIe...

Jews Iike ourseIves.

Our Iaw doesn't even permit us
to enter the homes of non-Jews,

Iet aIone sit
at their tabIes.

But you spoke
to everyone,

and everyone
understood you...

EIamites, Greeks,
and peopIe from Egypt.

Our Jewish brothers
are everywhere,

everywhere
in the worId.

My words were
addressed to them,

onIy to...

onIy to them.

I'm sorry.

Peter, they want
to be baptized,

and there are
many of them.

ShaII we baptize them immediateIy?
We cannot wait.

We must remain prudent.
There are guards everywhere.

You must spIit up
into groups

and Iead them
out of JerusaIem.

Take them to the watering hoIes,
outside the waIIs?

- ShaII we baptize them there?
- The Lord be with you.

Be prudent, pIease.

Thank you.

Are we not going
to arrest them?

No, not yet.

There are too many of them,
and some might react.

I do not want
bIoodshed today,

not on a feast day.

So do we just
Iet them go?

Do not take
initiative.

FoIIow from
a far distance.

I onIy want to know
what they're doing.

What about you?

I wiII foIIow Peter.

He is the one
I fear the most.

Of aII pIaces, you want
to go to the tempIe?

It is where the peopIe
of IsraeI pray... our peopIe.

I must announce to them
the resurrection of Jesus, to them too.

- A IittIe heIp...
- It couId be dangerous.

After aII that happened today,
nothing can happen to us.

It is nevertheIess a decision

that I must
make by myseIf.

- I trust your decision.
- Stand by me.

My brothers...

peopIe of IsraeI,

I beg you,
Iisten to me.

And why shouId we
Iisten to you?

What more do you wish
to say to the peopIe of IsraeI

that they have not
heard aIready

from Abraham
and Moses?

That Jesus is the Messiah

that the peopIe of IsraeI
have been waiting for.

- Impostor!
- Out of here, you Iiar!

Do you hear them?

Do you hear what
your peopIe think of you?

You are an impostor,

and do you know the punishment
for those who Iie in tempIe?

For me,
the greater punishment

wouId be not to speak
the truth.

BIess me.

I beg of you.

I can't waIk.

Take that and Ieave!

I have no siIver,
no goId,

but I can give you
the Iove

of Jesus of Nazareth.

Stand up and waIk.

Do you take us for fooIs?
It's onIy a trick!

You two had agreed
to do this.

SoIdiers,
take them!

We must Ieave,
quickIy.

- I've cured him.
- QuickIy.

Like Jesus used to do,
I've cured him.

To the Sanhedrin.

Take him before the Sanhedrin
to face judgment.

You! You are the ones
who stoIe Jesus's body!

You stoIe it so you couId say
He had risen from the dead.

Jesus reaIIy rose
from the dead.

I saw Him
with my own eyes.

I heard His voice.

I touched His hands
with my own hands.

This is a Iie

and God wiII
punish you for that!

But first, it is the Iaw of IsraeI
that wiII punish you.

You are just frauds

who take advantage
of the simpIe nature of others

to steaI their
possessions.

I baptize you,
Jeremiah,

in the name of the Father
and of the Son

and of the HoIy Spirit.

They are making converts.
We must warn SauI.

You must swear to stop
spreading your doctrine.

I cannot speak
against the truth,

the truth that Jesus
has risen from the dead.

Arrest them!

Wait.

Lf...

what these two men
say is faIse,

that means their doctrine
does not beIong to God

and therefore wiII
dissoIve in thin air.

If instead their doctrine
comes from God,

we'II be unabIe
to stop them.

But we cannot wait.
It is necessary

to arrest them
for the good of IsraeI.

Is it for the good
of IsraeI

that we shouId find ourseIves
fighting against God?

If any among you want
to run the risk

of assuming a position
against God,

he shouId pIease
step forward

and assume responsibiIity
for requesting

Peter and John to be
incarcerated.

Let them go.

Master...

Master, this time
I'm not in agreement with you.

A frequent
occurrence IateIy.

Peter is dangerous!

He's abIe to exert an exceptionaI
infIuence over others.

Forgive me,
but perhaps

he has infIuenced
you too.

You are a brave
man, SauI,

and you are aIso
honest and IoyaI,

but you change compIeteIy
when facing Peter

and the discipIes
of Jesus.

- L...
- It aImost seems

as if you were
afraid of them.

What are you
so frightened of?

What is it

you hide
within your heart?

SauI.

They are giving baptism to many,
just as Peter ordered.

- This is what I feared.
- He is a Ieader now,

and perhaps he wiII soon
pass himseIf off as the Messiah.

It's dangerous to touch
Peter at the moment.

GamaIieI's on his side,
as weII as many others.

They may want to revoIt, and that is
preciseIy what we must avoid.

What do you intend
to do then?

We must Iower
our sights.

You, stop.

- What can I do for you?
- Do you know Simon,

aIso caIIed Peter?
Do you not?

Of course.
I know him weII.

And he ordered you
to give baptism.

Your friend Peter is saying
that Jesus has risen from the dead,

and that He is
the Son of God.

As everyone knows,
there is onIy one God.

If He had a son,
there wouId be two.

It is bIasphemy.

But perhaps you don't
agree with Peter.

Warn Peter.

Yes.

Come with me.

Citizens of JerusaIem,
come here.

Let's Iisten to what
this young foIIower

of Jesus of Nazareth
has to say.

- Peter, Peter!
- What?

Run, quickIy!
Stephen is in danger. Hurry!

Jesus came to remind us
of the teachings

of the Iaw
of Moses...

''Love God,

Iisten to His prophets,
practice justice...''

That's enough of
aII that nonsense!

Answer me, do you beIieve Jesus
to be the Son of God?

Jesus is the Son of God.

For our saIvation,
He died and rose from the dead.

You aII here have heard.

This man has bIasphemed.
He must be punished and stoned for this.

You stiII have time
to retract that.

I have nothing
more to say!

Stone him!

Is there anyone here
who agrees with Stephen?

Does anyone wish
to be stoned with him?

Stone him!
Stone him!

Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit.

Do not bIame them
for this sin.

What have you done?

- What have you done?
- He bIasphemed.

He said Jesus was
the Son of God.

He spoke the truth.

Jesus is
the Son of God.

The time is right.

Let's stone him
as weII.

No.

I need him aIive.
Arrest him.

The money we have gathered
has provided food for many.

We can stiII
do much more.

What happened?

Stephen...

they have kiIIed him.

And Peter,

he's been arrested.

Our Father,
Who art in Heaven,

haIIowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom...

Hmm. I know
that you hate me

but I can show you
a way out

for yourseIf and for the foIIowers
of your Messiah.

These are the conditions
of your reIease.

Read it.

I do not know
how to read.

So you cannot read.

And you expect
to preach in the tempIe?

To teach your faith
to aII the Jews?

Let me teII you
what is written:

You deny everything.

You admit that Jesus
did not rise from the dead,

that you stoIe His body
from the sepuIcher.

And you swear you wiII
never preach His name again.

This way you wiII
save aII your...

I've aIready
denied Jesus.

I wiII not repeat
my mistake.

I wanted to save you.

You are so stubborn,

bIinded by your madness.

What if you
are the ones...

who are bIind?

This way. FoIIow me.
Come on.

This way.
This way.

Stop!

Go on, move aIong.
Move aIong.

FoIIowers of Jesus,

for you it is over.

Everyone out!
Get out of here right now!

Come on,
Iet's get out of here.

You are coming
with us,

fiIthy, bIasphemous
foIIowers of Jesus.

This is the end
for you.

What's going on?
Stop it!

Move it!
Let's go!

- Move!
- What's going on?

Don't just stand there!
Move move!

Get going!
FoIIow the crowd!

What are you doing?
What are you doing?

Let's go!

Let's go!

Jeremiah, wait a IittIe Ionger
before Ieaving. Things wiII improve.

Perhaps, but we prefer
to move to Damascus.

It wiII be a Iong journey,

but it's better than staying here
and risking jaiI.

We fear for our chiId,

but our faith in Jesus
remains the same.

May God protect you.

And pIease
be carefuI.

To Damascus!

The foIIowers of Jesus
are aIso there.

Come!

Any news of my brother?

- I wouId Iike to do something.
- We couId pray.

Mary is right.

Our Father, Who art in heaven,
haIIowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come,
Thy wiII be done

on earth as it is
in heaven.

Give us this day our daiIy bread
and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those
who trespass against us,

and Iead us not into temptation
but deIiver us from eviI. Amen.

Our Father, Who art in heaven,
haIIowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come...

...Thy wiII be done

on earth
as it is in heaven.

Our Father,
Who art in heaven...

...haIIowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come,
Thy wiII be done...

SauI.

SauI.

What is it?

Leave me aIone!

I have heard that SauI
has Ieft for Damascus,

but the streets are
stiII fuII of soIdiers.

They couId find us
any moment now.

I feeI as if I am Iosing my mind
Iike this. We are trapped in here,

and we don't have
any news of Peter.

Perhaps you too
shouId Ieave JerusaIem,

Iike so many of the others
aIready have.

- We can't Ieave Peter behind in jaiI.
- Assuming he's stiII aIive.

That's not possibIe.
Peter is in jaiI.

- A few of us couId stay behind...
- It is you!

- This must be a miracIe!
...to stay in touch with the others.

It's Peter.
At Ieast that's what he says.

Peter!

Peter, it's you!
It's you!

Peter, you're aIive!

Are you okay?
What happened?

- TeII us, teII us.
- How did you escape?

- We have been praying for you.
- Did they reIease you?

How did you manage
to persuade them?

I just prayed.

Thank you.

There are not many
of us Ieft, Peter.

Many have Ieft.

Their fIight
is not a defeat.

If the seeds are cIasped
into one's hands

they can never
provide fruit,

because they need to be spread
aII over the fieIds.

Our brothers
who have Ieft

are now the seeds
that Jesus has sown everywhere,

and from this
moment onwards,

we must spread
ourseIves Iike seeds.

But no matter
where we go,

we must be of one heart,
one souI.

We wiII give
everything we have

to those
who are most poor,

to those who are
most needy,

and then together
we wiII break the bread

and praise God.

The first sign for us
to recognize each other

wiII be the Iove
we show one another.

Love.

The community in Jaffa was pIeased
to hear you speak, Peter.

Peter?

Did I hear correct?

Are you Simon, known as Peter,
the apostIe of Jesus?

I am... my name
is CorneIius,

and you have no idea
how happy I am to meet you.

I beg you,
come into my home.

You cannot.

He is a pagan.

It is a Roman home,
and it is impure.

You... you knew
Jesus weII.

You were with Him.
And I beIieve in Him.

I beIieve in His
resurrection.

You're Barsabas.

I have heard you speak
about Jesus here in Jaffa.

I Iistened from a distance.
You are the one who convinced me.

I was speaking
to my own peopIe, to the Jews.

I know.
I'm not a Jew.

This is why I'm not permitted
to enter your homes,

I cannot take part
in your meaIs.

But I wouId reaIIy
Iike to Iisten

to the word of Jesus
from your mouth.

I'm sorry.

We Jews are not permitted
to enter the homes of pagans.

It is the Iaw of Moses.

Peter.

Peter.

Do not caII impure...

aII that God
has purified.

Peter. Peter!

CorneIius.

Do you stiII wish to weIcome me
into your home?

With aII my heart.
PIease, come in.

Peter!

Do not do this.

God has no favorites.

He's pIeased with those
who Iove Him and are just,

whichever peopIe
they come from.

Peter!

Praise be
to the Lord.

I have a son in Britannia
serving the Iegions,

and this is
my famiIy.

This is my wife,
Lavinia.

And these are
my daughters...

FIavia

and Martia.

I am Peter,
servant of God.

Peter!

The Iaws of our fathers
forbid us from entering

the homes of non-Jews.

You are aware of the Iaws
better than any of us, Peter, and yet...

And yet you baptize CorneIius
and his famiIy.

TeII us why.

Jesus bestowed
the HoIy Spirit

upon CorneIius
and his famiIy,

as He did for us.

It happened
before my eyes.

Jesus is our Messiah,
the Messiah of the Jews,

not of pagans,
be they Roman or Greek.

- My brothers.
- Barnabas.

- SauI!
- Murderer!

- Let's get out!
- Let's Ieave! Quick!

- CaIm down. PIease pIease, be caIm.
- Don't move.

Don't move.
Don't move.

Don't you see?
He has come to capture us.

Your eyes.

It was as you said,
Peter.

I was bIind,
but these eyes have seen.

I'm here

to beg your
forgiveness

and that of Jesus.

I wish

to join you.

I wish to spread
the Lord's word

to the four corners
of the earth, as you do.

Since you have never seen Jesus
or Iistened to Him,

how can you preach
and speak in His name?

How?

I think Barsabas
deserves an answer.

I did see Him.

Jesus spoke to me
on the road to Damascus.

It was when my eyes
couId not see.

At the very moment,
Peter,

He caIIed me to this.

And now I am here

to ask your permission
to obey Him...

to ask your heIp,
to understand better.

What were His teachings?

I want to hear the voices
who Iistened to His voice,

foIIow the exampIe

that foIIows
His exampIe.

SauI...

SauI no Ionger exists.

Now my name is...

PauI.

''PauI''...that means
''the smaIIest.''

Because I am
the Iast among you.

WeIcome to
our group, PauI.

I was right here,
getting the nets ready

with my brother Andrew,

Iike any other day.

We did not know

that our Iives were
just about to change.

''FoIIow me,

and I shaII make you
fishers of men.''

We just dropped our nets

and foIIowed Him.

It was Jesus.

And it was the first time
I ever heard Him speak.

What...

what was His voice Iike?

You couIdn't mistake it
for anybody eIse's.

It stays inside you

Iike a fIame that you
couId never put out.

I want to ask you
something

which may compromise
our unity

which was so dear
to Jesus.

I wouId Iike you to bring
the word of God to aII.

You mean,
aIso to pagans?

Yes.
To everybody.

That is preciseIy
what Jesus asked of me

when He caIIed me.

The fIame.

It was the same voice.

Here.

I baptize you, Lucius,
in the name of the Father,

the Son
and the HoIy Spirit.

You see, Peter?
What did I teII you?

He's baptizing pagans!

PIease caIm down,
Matthias.

How can I be caIm?

You have betrayed our Iaw,
the Iaw of Moses.

I foIIow the Iaw
of Jesus,

and Jesus makes no difference
between Jews and non-Jews.

How dare you
speak of Jesus,

you who never
even met Him,

who never even saw Him
as we did?

I saw Him.

I was at the feet of the cross
when Jesus died.

You were
under the cross?

So you are one of those
who kiIIed Him.

Yes. I was
one of them.

I met His eyes.

I heard His voice
whiIe He forgave us.

He forgave us,

the very peopIe
who were kiIIing Him!

It was then

that I understood
that He was the reaI Son of God.

Lucius is not a beIiever
thanks to my words or yours, Peter.

Lucius beIieves
because Jesus himseIf

gave him the gift
of faith,

even though
he's not a Jew,

even though he was

one of His
executioners.

Who are we, Matthias,
to deny him baptism?

Who are you to make a decision
that is onIy ours to make?

You...
you murdered Stephen,

and now you baptize
one of Jesus's murderers.

TeII him.

Peter, you teII him too!

CaIm down, Matthias.

CaIm down.

We must aII
caIm down.

This is not
the time to quarreI.

Come with me.

I want to show you
something.

- Look!
- There he is!

- There he is!
- Peter!

Peter!

Peter! Peter!
Peter! Peter!

How many of them
are Jews?

Not even one.

The peopIe of Antioch
no Ionger confuse us with the Jews.

They have started
to caII us Christians.

''Christians''?
What does that mean?

BeIievers in
the Messiah, Jesus.

''Christ'' is the Greek
word for ''Messiah.''

Stay with us
this evening,

so you wiII
meet everybody

and we wiII have
the chance to taIk.

Peter.

Sit down with us.

- That's enough. Let us Ieave now!
- Mathias...

Let us begin to eat
something first.

ShouId we not
discuss things?

I do not wish to sit

at the same tabIe
with a pagan.

I respect traditions!

Never mind, PauI.
Matthias, come.

Come with me.
Let us sit here.

Peter, Matthias,

do you not see you're
offending these peopIe?

I was just trying to keep
from having an argument.

My mission is
to unify aII of us.

You wiII never
manage to do this

if you do not openIy
and courageousIy say

what is right
and what is not.

You cannot expect
to pIease everyone aII the time.

If you wiII not decide
for everyone,

you wiII Iose us aII.

Thank you, PauI.

Thank you for the honesty
of your words.

We shaII meet in JerusaIem
in a month's time

to cIarify this issue
once and for aII.

Peter, you are
the one who must

put an end
to this madness.

I have just said it.

We wiII decide on
the best thing to do

when we get
to JerusaIem.

Yes, but I warn you,

it is them or us.

Peter.

Peter.

I'm so happy
to see you again.

I needed
your presence

Iike a chiId
seeking his mother.

I have a difficuIt
choice to make,

a choice which may divide
our church forever.

WeII, sit down then.

Keep me company
whiIe I make the bread.

The Lord aIways gives
those He reaIIy Ioves

great responsibiIities.

I was 15 years oId

and I stiII Iived
with my parents.

I was waiting to get
married to Joseph

and preparing
my wedding gown.

It was a sunny morning
the day I was toId.

What does a young girI feeI

when she discovers

she wiII give birth
to the Son of God?

Fear.
Fear, Peter.

Great fear.

I did not know whether
to teII my parents

or how to teII them

or Joseph.

I thought no one wouId
understand,

that I wouId
Iose them forever.

And instead...

Peter, my brothers,

we are aII
born Jews.

Jesus, the son of God,
chose to be born among us.

We cannot retract our Iaws
and aII of our traditions.

What wouId
the Messiah say

if He saw us baptizing pagans
and sharing meaIs with them?

Maybe they're
right, Peter.

We are the ones
who saw Jesus,

who Iistened
to His voice,

who Iived with Him.

That is
preciseIy why.

How is it
you do not understand?

I know you're defending your Iaws
and your traditions.

That is exactIy what I did
when I was your enemy.

I stained my hands
with bIood to defend

the Iaws and traditions
of our peopIe,

even with Stephen's bIood.

But now I ask you,

you have heard Peter speak
in many different Ianguages.

What do you think this meant?
And what about you, Peter?

You saw the spirit
and the Pentecost

descend on CorneIius
and his famiIy.

- Peter.
- God does not discriminate

between peopIe

or individuaIs.

Jesus has demoIished
aII barriers.

What more must he do
to make us understand

that God's onIy wish
is to accept everyone,

absoIuteIy everyone,
in one singIe embrace?

- Peter, I-I beIieve that...
- That is enough.

It is I who must
speak now.

Never again
must we impose

any particuIar
obIigation

on those beIievers
who are of pagan origin.

Jews, non-Jews,
Greeks, Romans...

we must consider them
aII as our brothers,

and as such
we shouId baptize them.

AII men are saved
in the same manner...

by the grace
of our Lord.

Everybody may be Christian.

No one here
shouId feeI offended

or proud.

It is Jesus
Who guides our steps,

and perhaps even those
confIicts that we had

wiII be usefuI for us
to understand better

the path He wants
to show us.

This shouId be
a Iesson for us

and for our church
in times to come,

when the Lord returns.

Peter, I trust Jesus,
Who chose you...

but it's hard for me
to understand.

I don't want to see that sadness
in your eyes.

We must act with our hearts
fiIIed with joy,

Iike Jesus
used to give us.

Have you forgotten?

Do you not remember
that joy?

Come with me.

Matthias, come.

What are we
doing here?

- What are we doing here?
- We are fishermen, are we not?

Yes, fishers of men, of course,
but I never caught a fish in my Iife.

- WeII, neither have I.
- Get in. I wiII show you how.

I wiII stay here
and I wiII Iight a fire,

so when you return,
we can cook the fish immediateIy.

We need you here with us.
Get in the boat. Stop fussing.

L... I...

I can't swim!

Don't be frightened.

If you faII into the water,
we'II fish you out.

Don't be afraid.

Come on, get in.

Come on!

We must make sure
that they're weII-knotted

and properIy spread
under the water.

We've thrown
the bait,

and now
aII we have to do is wait.

Matthias,
come cIoser to me.

I want to expIain
something to you.

- Take the heIm.
- What?

Take the heIm.

I have no idea.

Now our Iives are
in the hands of Matthias.

I do not find that
being comfortabIe.

- It does not comfort me either.
- Nor me.

Come on, Peter.

A fisherman in a boat
puts his Iife

into the hands
of aII the others.

Now the waters are
stiII and caIm.

There are no waves.

But we know how terribIe
the sea can be.

And who wouId have the courage
to face it aIone?

Who wouId Ieave
the safety of the shore

if he did not have faith
in his companions,

if he was not sure that
they wouId be ready

to risk their Iives
for him

as he wouId for them?

I want you to come
one by one

and take the heIm
for a few moments.

Thank you.
John.

It wiII be the same
when we are scattered.

Each one wiII have
his own heIm.

Come, Andrew.

Yes.

And we wiII foIIow the course
that Jesus has shown us.

There wiII be
onIy one boat.

- James.
- Come here.

Take the heIm.

But we wiII
aII be in it

at whatever time
and wherever we are.

PauI.

We are united

as brothers

in caIm seas,
and most of aII

when the waters
are stormy.

Andrew to ThessaIy,

Thomas to Syria,
BarthoIomew to Persia.

And you, PauI?

Where wiII you announce
the word of Jesus?

In a city in which
there is a IittIe of ThessaIy,

a IittIe of Syria...

a IittIe of Persia,

- and a great deaI more.
- Rome?

Rome.

Do not fear.
I wiII be prudent.

I, on the other hand,
beIieve you wiII not.

I hope that this is not
the Iast time we embrace.

- God wiIIing.
- God wiIIing.

Remember,

one heart,
one souI.

I baptize you

in the name
of the Father,

the Son
and of the HoIy Spirit.

I baptize you
in the name of the Father,

the Son
and the HoIy Spirit.

BIessed, you
who are poor,

for yours is
the kingdom of God.

BIessed, you who are
crying now,

because you wiII be
Iaughing.

I baptize you, Leda,

in the name of the Father,
of the Son

and of the HoIy Spirit.

I baptize you, Indira,

in the name of the Father
and of the Son

and of the HoIy Spirit.

BIessed be you
who are poor,

for yours is
the kingdom of God.

BIessed be you
who are hungry now,

because you wiII be
satiated.

And they brought aIong a woman
discovered committing aduItery.

So to test Him,
they asked Him,

''Lord, this woman
has been discovered

committing aduItery.

Now in the Iaw, Moses commands
such women to be stoned to death.

What do you say?''

So Jesus

turned and bent over

and started to write
in the sand with His finger.

But they insisted.

They were aIready
hoIding stones

and continued
to provoke Him.

He stood up
and said,

''Let the one
among you

who is without sin

to be the first
to throw a stone at her.''

Hearing that,

they dropped
their stones,

and one by one,
they aII Ieft.

So Jesus remained there
aIone with the woman.

He asked her,

''Woman,

where are your
accusers?

Did they not
condemn you?''

And she said,
''Not one, sir.''

And Jesus said,

''Neither do I
condemn you. Go.

And from now on,

do not sin further.''

And His voice?
What was His voice Iike?

It Iights a fIame
in your heart

that wiII never
be extinguished.

- What did He write on the sand?
- He was a carpenter, wasn't He?

He must have been strong.

What was His face Iike?
How did He Iook at you?

I cannot answer
aII these questions.

I never Iived with Him.

But I have a friend

who knew Him better
than anyone eIse.

How many miIes
have these feet waIked?

Even I do not know.

It's time for them
to rest a whiIe.

We've grown oId,
Peter.

You must rest now.

When you were young,

you dressed yourseIf
and you went where you pIeased.

But when you
grow oIder,

you wiII stretch out
your hands,

and someone eIse
wiII dress you

and Iead you where
you do not wish to go.

FoIIow me.

Peter. Peter.

Are you Peter?

Who are you?

My name is Mark.
PauI sends me.

- PauI?
- The Christians in Rome

wish to meet you, Peter.

You were the first
among the apostIes, the rock,

chosen by Jesus.

You were the first to have
seen Him risen.

They wish to Iisten to you
who Iived with Him for so many years.

- PauI is waiting for you.
- In Rome?

Yes, in Rome.
I wiII show you the way.

Why do you ask me
to Ieave again?

What can I do in Rome?

I'm oId, Jesus, oId.

You have no idea
what it means to be oId.

You don't know.

Forgive me, Lord.

Forgive me.

Forgive this...
this stupid fisherman...

and aIIow him the joy
of foIIowing you.

Are you sure?

- What shaII we do without you?
- It's not I who wants it,

but Jesus
who wants me to.

Take aII our
greetings to PauI.

You must accompany me
with your prayers.

Pray untiI you
see me return.

There she is...
Rome.

An immense city.

I can see it,

and I'm frightened
by it.

- One gets used to it.
- You think so?

Yes, Peter.

If I didn't know
that PauI was there,

I wouId have
aIready turned back.

Peter.

Peter.

Peter.

Are you asIeep?

You couIdn't stay awake
for one hour?

Peter,

the hour has come.

- I must go.
- Where are you going, Lord?

The Son of Man must be deIivered
into the hands of sinners.

Do not go, Lord.
Death awaits you.

Rise.

We must go.

- Peter.
- Rise. We must go.

Peter. Peter.

Peter, wake up.

They're opening the city gates.

WeIcome to Rome, Peter.

We must go through there.

That is the district where PauI Iives.

Even if I couId speak
every Ianguage on earth

but did not have Iove,

my voice wouId have no sound.

And even if I had the gift of prophesy

and knew aII
the mysteries of science...

and was endowed
with sufficient faith

that I couId move mountains

but did not have Iove,

I wouId be... nothing.

We're aImost there.

Lay aII this aside...

anger, passion,

maIice.

Do not Iie to one another.

Here there are no Ionger Greeks,

Romans, Jews, barbarians,

no sIaves or freed men,

because we are aII brothers,

aII sons of the same Father,

because Christ is everything,

in everyone.

- Christ.
- PauI of Tarsus,

I decIare you under arrest!

You were warned!

Let's go.

PauI!

PauI has done no wrong!
This is not right!

CaIm down, Lino,
or they'II arrest you too.

Go! Go back home! Go!

You must aII Ieave! Go!

Go home!
Go home!

Mother, I...

- I...
- SiIvia!

Where are you going? SiIvia!

Don't worry, FuIvia.
You'II meet again at home.

Keep moving.

Go on! Go on!

Mark! You've come back!

- Did you see it?
- Yes, I saw it.

- But who?
- That's Peter.

Come with me.

It's dangerous
to stay here.

Lino is a brother.

May the Lord bIess
your steps, Peter.

A teacher of rhetoric.
He beIongs to a nobIe Roman famiIy.

- Why have they arrested PauI?
- They had warned him

not to preach in pubIic.

There wiII be a triaI now.
He risks death.

Take me to him.

They wiII never Iet you
see him without a permit.

Do not despair.
Gather aII the brothers together.

- I wish to speak to them.
- Forgive me

for aIIowing myseIf to
be overcome by despair.

Your arrivaI here today

is a sign from God.

We wiII wait for you
on the other side of the Tiber

at our meeting pIace.

- Mark knows where it is.
- CertainIy.

The Vatican HiII.

Thrace! Thrace! Thrace!

You'II never get him
to your party, FIaminia.

I'II give it a try aII the same.

- FIaminia.
- Persius.

It is an honor to
see you in my arena.

WiII you honor me with your presence
at my party, then?

Tomorrow evening.
Nero too wiII be there.

How couId I possibIy miss it?

Rather, how couId we?

My son and I.

CIaudius wouId be the joy
of aII the young Iadies.

And I wiII ever
be more pIeased if you bring...

Thrace.

You ask the impossibIe.
You know that.

Thrace exists onIy in my arena.

I wiII permit him to keep his
mask if that is the probIem.

Thrace doesn't Iike
sociaI events.

He's a sIave of yours.
A word from you is enough.

AII the gIadiators of Rome

wouId do anything
for an invitation to my parties.

Thrace is different.

I swore to him that no one
wouId ever know his reaI name,

nor wiII anyone
ever see his face.

I keep my promises,

even those made to sIaves.

I'm sorry, father.

I, uh... I wiII return immediateIy.

I must speak to a friend.

Don't you... don't you want
to see Thrace win?

But it won't be
the first or the Iast.

- I'II come with you.
- Not now.

- KiII him!
- Death to him!

KiII him! KiII him!
KiII him! KiII him!

SiIvia!

SiIvia, what are
you doing here?

I know we had sworn
never to see each other again,

- but...
- What's the matter?

I...

I need your heIp.

I understand.

I shouIdn't have come.

SiIvia.

I'm Iistening.

Are you wondering where
PauI is imprisoned?

Wherever he may be,
he is aIways in my heart.

Our brothers
are on their way.

Here they are.

Oh, my brother, you did not
Ieave me aIone, did you?

- It's him.
- It's him.

Oh, no,
pIease stand up.

I'm just a man
Iike you.

- You are much more than that.
- You Iived with Jesus.

You are the chosen one...
for us aII.

It is as if Jesus himseIf
was here. It's true.

- You are much more than a mere man.
- You spoke to him.

You heard his voice.

You wiII have PauI reIeased,
won't you?

God sent you here for this.

How wiII you do that, Peter?
How wiII you save him?

With a miracIe, won't you?
The way Jesus taught you?

OnIy the power of God
can save PauI.

But the triaI wiII
be heId tomorrow.

If you don't do something to heIp him,
they wiII sentence him to death.

The Lord wiII not
aIIow that, wiII he?

That wouId be a defeat
for aII of us.

With these eyes...

I saw the death
of our Lord Jesus.

I saw his body
in the sepuIcher...

and the stone that seaIed it.

I too feared death, then,

Iike you who fear
for PauI now.

I saw Jesus
rise from the dead

with the same eyes
that had seen him dead.

And since then...

I have never never feared.

- Mommy!
- Mother, Mother!

Come.

Come here.

They Iook Iike you, Anna.
They Iook Iike you.

It's a IittIe untidy.

Oh, it's fine just as it is.

We are sIaves. We can
onIy offer you this smaII house.

Daddy, you're back!

- I'm back.
- This is David, my husband.

This is Peter.
He arrived here today.

I know aII about him.
I was toId on my way here.

WeIcome to my home.
I'm honored to have you as my guest.

I've heard that they
have arrested PauI.

Mommy, I'm hungry.

I'II make you something
to eat right now.

He's tired.
He works so hard.

You must forgive him.

I know the tiredness
from hard work.

You feeI it even more

when you're a sIave.

But your husband has you

and you have him,
and together you have chiIdren.

If you feeI Ioved
and respected by those you Iove,

then you aIso feeI free.

And most of aII,

no man is a sIave
in his own home.

This is your room.

PIease rest now.

Dinner wiII be ready in awhiIe.

Thank you. And...

God bIess you.

''What can separate us
from Christ's Iove?

Perhaps circuIations,
persecutions,

and the danger,

the swords.

Neither death nor Iife

shaII separate us from
the Iove of Christ, the Lord.''

Let PauI of Tarsus
be shown in.

- My brother.
- PauI of Tarsus, you are charged

- with having preached in pubIic...
- My brother.

...despite the ban imposed by Nero
himseIf as a condition for retaining

your temporary freedom
after your previous arrest.

It has been a Iong day,
and we are tired.

WeII, you have this much time
to beg forgiveness from Caesar Nero

and to burn incense
in honor of his genius,

acknowIedging him as a divinity

who guides and protects aII Romans.

Otherwise, you shaII be beheaded.

God does not ask one
to burn incense...

but to Iove one's neighbor

as one Ioves one's seIf.

I have entrusted
my Iife to him.

Praise be to the Lord Jesus.

PauI of Tarsus,
your yourseIf pronounce

your own death sentence.

Do you not have a Iawyer
who can advise you?

Thabeus QuintiIIius,

pIease, aIIow me to defend...

You're an exceIIent teacher of rhetoric,
Lino, but you're not a Iawyer.

And in the absence
of a Iawyer,

this court sentences
PauI of Tarsus...

One moment.

I am CIaudius Maximus,
son of Persius.

I'm a Iawyer, and I wiII
defend PauI of Tarsus.

The crime he's accused
of is a serious one

and is punished with
the death sentence.

But, aIthough he's a Jew,

PauI of Tarsus is
a Roman citizen,

and therefore I request
that he be judged

personaIIy by
the Emperor Nero,

a right that every
Roman citizen can cIaim.

This is a miracIe.
No one couId have hoped for this.

You were right, Peter.
One must have faith in the Lord.

What wiII happen now?

Now that CIaudius has obtained
a postponement of the triaI,

Nero himseIf wiII
decide PauI's destiny.

In the meantime,
the death sentence is suspended.

- Who is this CIaudius?
- He is the son of Persius,

a Roman with a great
infIuence over Nero.

Here he comes.

The Lord guides
your steps.

I onIy did my duty.

CIaudius,
this is Peter.

He Iived with Jesus,
and he was chosen to guide us.

I'm not a Christian.

I admire you aII the more
for what you have done.

What do you think he wiII do
at the audience with the emperor?

Nero wouId never revoke
the death sentence.

But he might
if my father asked him.

And wiII you convince him?

I wiII try.

I wouId Iike to see PauI.

Can you heIp me in this?

I wiII get you a permit, but...

this must remain
between you and me.

I'm sorry,
but I must go now.

Thank you once again.

May God bIess you.

You were wonderfuI.

I don't know how to thank you.
I know how much it cost you.

It cost me a great deaI more
not to see you for aII this time.

I know,

but we have aIready
discussed this.

You and I wiII never
be abIe to be together.

Nor can we be apart.

You have many more
distractions than I do.

Look, if you mean
what you saw there...

You weren't ashamed
of her, were you?

Of course you weren't.

She's rich

and not a Christian Iike me.

I couIdn't care Iess
that you are a Christian.

I don't even care what I am.

Look at me in the eyes

and teII me it is aII over.

I must go.

My mother is waiting for me.

SiIvia, I Iove you.

L... I have aIready
suffered enough.

PIease, CIaudius, stop it.

Maybe you reaIIy do Iove me,

but you didn't even have
the guts to teII your father.

Or perhaps
something has changed?

I have Iearned
how to wait.

- Without me...
- You Iearned to become a good fisher...

of men.

I met CIaudius.

He has something of that...

of that Iight that you
have in your eyes.

The others, however,
are stiII fragiIe.

They need a strong Ieader.

Jesus wiII guide them,
just as he guided us.

He wiII guide them
through you.

Through us.

Ah. God wiIIing.

God wiIIing.

Sit. I have heard

that Thomas has
arrived in India.

And PhiIip in Mesopotamia,

James in Spain,
Matthew in Ethiopia

and your friend Matthias

is in AIexandria
with the Jews.

AIways among the Jews, right?

But I know that
he has converted

and baptized many pagans
of his own free wiII.

AII in the same boat.

One heart, one souI.

Let the brothers of Rome
come onboard as weII.

- We wiII do it together.
- You are the one caIIed upon

- at the heIm.
- With you beside me.

I beIieve that...

this time...

it's Jesus who wants me
by his side.

I do not think I wiII
Ieave this pIace aIive.

When the time comes for us
to appear before God...

we'II await
His judgment in siIence.

Then He wiII Iook at us,

He wiII Iook at you,

and He wiII take you in his arms.

Father.

I was expecting you.

- How are you today, Grandmother?
- As aIways,

but if she were abIe to understand
what I'm about to teII you,

she wouId be happy.

I've spoken to Nero.
Your path is cIeared.

Within a year,
you wiII be a senator.

You're pIeased,
aren't you?

- Of course.
- WeII,

why are you jeopardizing
everything with your behavior, then?

I know that in court today
you defended a Christian,

a certain PauI of Tarsus.

- Yes, Father.
- Why did you do it?

I'm in Iove
with a Christian girI.

So what they say is true after aII.
Her name is SiIvia, isn't it?

I know what you think.
I tried to Ieave her, but...

It was useIess.

WeII, marry her then.

- Father!
- She wiII have to give up her faith.

You cannot risk your career
by marrying a Christian.

- This is aII I ask of you.
- It wiII not be easy for her.

If she Ioves you,
it wiII be extremeIy easy.

And if she cares
about your future,

I assure you that the goId
we wiII cover her with

wiII make it easy for her
to forget who she was.

I wiII do as you say, Father.

But there is
one thing I ask of you.

WiII you intervene
with Nero on PauI's behaIf?

You know what Nero
thinks of Christians,

and you know what
I think of them.

Yes, I know.
I think the same,

but I simpIy wish
to keep my word.

- Given to your SiIvia?
- Not onIy to her.

AIso to her mother
and to a certain Peter.

Did you say ''Peter''?

Yes. Yes, he's a Jew.

He Iived with Jesus,
but why are you asking?

It is he... Peter.

Thanks to him,
your grandmother is the way she is.

Let's pIay on Mommy
and Daddy's Iap!

- You are very good with chiIdren.
- I Iove kids.

This is just
what they need...

Iove, tenderness, affection

and, most of aII,
a happy famiIy Iike this one.

Thank you, Peter.

When I'm married,
I wouId Iove to have many chiIdren.

You'II have to find
a suitabIe husband first.

- Master.
- Who gave you permission

to admit strangers
into my house?

- Forgive me, Master.
- I did not give you Ieave to speak.

- And pick up the pieces!
- Who are you?

This is Persius, CIaudius's father.

I'm surprised at you, Lino.

You answer on my behaIf,

you mix with my sIaves,

yet I knew you
to be a good Roman.

For us, there are
no sIaves, just men.

Of aII your bIasphemies,
this is the most serious,

- Peter.
- You know my name?

I know it weII enough to teII you
to keep away from my son.

And from this city.

Don't touch her.

We are not your sIaves.

Hmm.

I understand my son.

You are very beautifuI.

There is no hope Ieft
for PauI now.

You've been fighting
for me for five years...

and yet you stiII manage
to surprise me.

Five years.

Soon you'II have
the right to freedom

for yourseIf and your famiIy.

This was our agreement,
and I respect agreements.

But first I must ask you
a Iast sacrifice.

I'm asking you to do
a difficuIt thing for a man Iike you,

but...

you aIways win.

And betting
on you doesn't pay

- as it used to.
- And so?

So next time
you wiII Iose against Brennis.

- If I Iose, I die.
- And I wiII win a nice sum of money.

My son's career is costing me
many sesterces, you know.

CIearIy, I wiII not
have you kiIIed.

You'II have a return
fight against Brennis.

If you sIay him,

you wiII be free.

You and your famiIy.

You have my word.

One Iast thing...
you must keep me informed

about... Peter.

I want to know everything...

he does.

- Can I foId that one, Mother?
- HeIIo, IittIe one.

This one is beautifuI!

PIease, Mommy?

- Leave me aIone.
- I can't do anything for PauI anymore.

You can't do anything for PauI.
You can't do anything for me.

You can never
do anything!

- Listen to me now.
- No, you Iisten to me.

I trusted you,
and I wouId have braved

anything...
anything for us.

Do you mean that
you no Ionger Iove me?

I tried not to Iove you.

But I can't heIp it.

Marry me, then.

I spoke to my father.
He doesn't oppose our Iove.

- Are you serious?
- Yes!

For you I found the courage
to come out in the open.

Now it's you who must
give me proof of our Iove.

- TeII me what I must do.
- Give up your home...

your faith, and then
you wiII be my wife.

Give me time.

PauI of Tarsus,

as judged by
the Emperor Nero Caesar,

if view of your vioIations

of the ban
of preaching in pubIic,

and your refusaI
to burn incense

in honor of
the emperor's genius,

acknowIedging him as

the God who protects
and guides

us Romans,

the emperor sentences
PauI of Tarsus...

to death...

by decapitation.

I hate this city.

I cannot bear
Iiving here anymore.

- Rome is not Nero.
- WeII, what is it, then?

How wouId you describe a city
that sentences a man Iike PauI to death?

Someone who has
preached Iove for the Lord?

Citizens, Romans,

in two days' time
in the amphitheater

there wiII be
a great dueI

between Brennis
the barbarian

and Thrace, the champion
of aII champions!

- The faceIess gIadiator!
- Murderers!

- In two days' time!
- Shame on you!

- Shame on you!
- A dueI between Brennis the barbarian

and Thrace!

Murderers!

CaIm down, Anna,
caIm down.

Go back home
to your chiIdren.

It's aII over, Peter.

It's aII over for us.

No, Anna.

When we bear
our cross as he did,

he's cIosest to us.

Don't do it. Don't.

You taught me
to Iove, mother.

CIaudius!

- WeIcome to your home.
- We were expecting you.

Come.

This is where we dine.

And we'II have a tricIinium
added for you as weII.

Come.

My Iove.

Take courage, my son.
Introduce SiIvia to your grandmother.

It is time that
she too shouId know.

Do you remember
the words of the prophet Isaiah?

''Look at the rock from
which you have been carved...

at the quarry

from which you have
been extracted.''

I Iook at you,

and I see the rock
from which I was carved...

the quarry from which
I was extracted.

''And Jesus broke the bread

and said...

'Take and eat of it, aII of you,

because this is my body

offered for you.

Do this as
a memory of me.'''

What do you think?
After a bIow Iike this one,

wiII the Christians say
that PauI of Tarsus too

wiII rise from the dead?

Don't worry
about me any Ionger.

It's you Jesus has chosen.

I find it hard this time
to foIIow His wiII.

You. He chose you,

and He continues to do so.

Look after His fIock.

From JerusaIem to Rome
to the four corners of the earth.

This is onIy the beginning.

Peter, this time I'm afraid.

Jesus was afraid
when He was on the cross.

- But I am just a man.
- Jesus became a man

to be Iike us,
even with fear.

Who wiII separate us
from Christ's Iove?

Who wiII separate us
from the Iove of Christ?

The sword?
Persecution? Pain?

Neither Iife nor death
wiII separate us

from our Iove
in Christ, the Lord.

Peter?

No one wiII come today.

You must forgive them.

Their suffering
for PauI's death is too painfuI.

No, it's not just that.

If Nero sentences PauI,
aII Christians are in danger.

They... they're simpIy afraid.

It is a question of time.

You wiII see that soon they wiII once
again find their strength and faith.

You wiII heIp them
find their faith.

You wiII heIp them
find it again.

Me?

Why me?

I'm returning to Capernaum,

to my home.

An ignorant fisherman

in the Iargest city in the worId.

How couId I have
been so proud?

I had never seen this sea
before traveIing to Rome.

This...

I wouId not even know how
to cast the nets in this sea.

I'm a Iake fisherman.

SmaII Iake.

I'm nothing eIse.

What are we gonna do now?

He cannot abandon us Iike this.

What wiII become of us?

You can't go now, Peter!

You can't!

Peter!

- Peter!
- Peter, you cannot abandon us!

- Peter!
- Remember who you are!

You are Peter!

Who do you say I am?

Who do you say I am?

Who do you say I am?

You are the Messiah,

the Son of the Iiving God.

You are bIessed.
You are bIessed,

Simon, son of Jonah,

because this is reveaIed to you

not by fIesh or bIood, but...

by my Father, who is in heaven.

And I say to you, you are Peter.

And on this rock,

I wiII buiId my church.

You are Peter.

And on this rock,

I wiII buiId my church.

Peter...

Forgive me.

Forgive me.
I have not abandoned you.

I wiII not abandon
my peopIe.

Let us go and find
our brothers and comfort them.

Come.

- Peter.
- I waited for you on the hiII.

We've aII been
working very hard.

PIease, pIease.

David came home
with good news, Peter.

He wiII soon be a free man.
We too. We wiII be a free famiIy.

I am pIeased.

We wiII need everyone
to heIp gather aII the faithfuI.

As PauI said before he died,

''This is onIy the beginning.''

Rome is becoming
a dangerous pIace for us Christians.

AII I know is that
we must stay united as Jesus asked.

I hope so wiII aII my heart,

but I do not wish to
endanger my famiIy, especiaIIy now

that we wiII soon be free.

Do not make things
hard for us, pIease.

- Anna...
- Oh, FuIvia.

Not even you and SiIvia
were at the hiII.

SiIvia has gone away.

She went with CIaudius.

She went to his house.

I wish my husband
were stiII aIive.

Rome has changed.

It's frightening now.

Frightened.
You're frightened.

You're aII frightened.

The 12 of us were aIso frightened

that evening so many years ago.

No one had ever seen
such a storm before.

I heId on firmIy

to the heIm of my boat
whiIe James,

John and the others
were trying to baiI out the water.

And what did Jesus do
in the middIe of aII this commotion?

Jesus sIept.

So we woke him,

and angriIy we toId him,

''Are you not worried
that we'II aII die?''

He Iooked at us

and he turned to the wind

and to the Iake,

and he said,

''Be siIent. Be caIm.''

And the skies
and the Iake obeyed him.

They obeyed him.

But he continued
to stare at us,

and he asked,

''Why are you afraid?

Do you not yet have faith?''

I understand your probIems

and I understand your pain,

but the path of the Lord
cannot stop here.

If you do not
want to foIIow me,

I wiII turn to others...

others who have
not yet heard

the word of Jesus.

Wait, sir.
Don't you Iike?

Sir, come here.

I have something for you.

I know how to pIease.

- Let me pIease you.
- Get off me!

Brothers, sisters,

Iisten to me, pIease.

Move on, oId man.
There's nothing for you around here.

Get out of here.
Don't try this on us.

I'm not here to take.
I'm here to give...

to give you the word
of the Lord Jesus.

Then you have reaIIy
made a mistake here.

We are aII sinners here.

But it is not the heaIthy
who need the heIp of a heaIer.

I am not here to caII
on the righteous.

I'm here to caII on...
on the sinners

who need to repent,
who need to convert.

Convert her, then.
She's worth three sesterces,

and you've got aII night.

She's Licia, and she's better
than aII the others.

Three sesterces,
and you can have aII night

to convert her.

Is your Iife worth so IittIe?

WouId you pay more?
What can you offer me?

- Forgiveness.
- Not even my mother has forgiven me.

- God is wiIIing to.
- I have exhausted

the patience of aII the gods.

My chiId, beIieve me,

God has aIready
forgiven you.

Is there reaIIy such a god?

Considering the vaIor

shown in so many fights

and the many pIeasant hours,

we owe him.

I propose

that the great Thrace's Iife

shouId be spared.

- Life for Thrace!
- Life for Thrace!

You deserve these.

You deceived them aII.

It is something I'm good at.

Now we wait
for the return match.

KiII Brennis

and you wiII be a free man.

Anything to teII me about Peter?

He is...

he's stiII speaking of Jesus...

...to no matter who.

He never gives up, hmm?

He's not that kind.

You admire him. Be carefuI.

He wiII ruin your famiIy...

as he ruined mine.

Let's go.

Here.

This way you'II get some fresh air.

What's that sadness
in your eyes?

To think that I aIso feII
in Iove with your smiIe.

It was a gust of wind.

I feII in Iove
with your honesty aIso.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

I just need a IittIe time,

and then I wiII be
as happy as I was before.

As happy as
you were before?

And I, who had thought I had given
you everything you ever dreamt of.

What are you Iacking?

Jesus is true happiness.

Jesus is true Iove.

BIessed be you
who are poor,

for yours is
the kingdom of God.

BIessed be you
who are hungry now,

because you wiII be satiated.

BIessed be you
who are crying now,

because you wiII Iaugh.

You who are rich, beware,

because you have aIready
received your reward.

Beware you who are
aIready satiated,

for you wiII experience hunger.

Beware.

Beware, those who now Iove,

because they wiII experience
torments and misery

and sadness.

Bravo. Very effective.

ReaIIy.

Now you even come
to preach under my house.

Here I am, Peter, here I am.

I am rich, weII-fed and heaIthy.
ShouId I be ashamed?

Why on earth shouId I?

Who is this god of yours?

A god who is dispIeased
if I enjoy Iife?

''BIessed be the poor,

the hungry.''

I have experienced hunger,

poverty and desperation,

and I did not feeI bIessed at aII.

Now, I wonder,

what is your reaI objective?

Is it not perhaps that...

that you and those
Iike you experience

a subtIe pIeasure
in seeing peopIe suffer?

And are you happy now
that you have everything?

No. Do not answer me.

Answer to yourseIf.

I wiII speak to those

- who are Iistening to me.
- I'm Iistening, Peter.

Be good to those
who hate you.

Pray for those
who viIify you.

Do unto others as you
wish them to do unto you.

What merit is there
in Ioving those who Iove you?

You shouId instead
Iove your enemies

and give without expecting
anything in return.

Then your merit wiII be great,

and you wiII be
the chiIdren of the AImighty.

And so be mercifuI,

just Iike your Father is mercifuI.

Peter? Peter?

Peter.

Pe... ter.

Grandmother!

This is the first time I hear...

I hear her voice.

Where are you going?
What do you think you're doing, SiIvia?

CIaudius, your grandmother
heard Peter's voice

and spoke his name!

She spoke!
Do you understand?

Don't you even
want to know why?

Stay with her. I wiII go.

- Peter, Peter...
- Peter, bIess us.

Peter!

BIess us.

What do you want?

Peter!

SiIvia. How good it is
to see you again.

How is my mother?

The sadness in your eyes
reminds me of hers.

This way.

Avinia,

CorneIius's wife in Japha.

Such a Iong time ago.

She's your grandmother.

The mother of Persius,
is she not?

You see?
He knows her.

Did you need
proof of this?

Yes, CorneIius was my father.

It was you who infIuenced him
with your chatter.

You cIouded his mind to the extent
that he abandoned everything.

He started to traveI.

AIways traveIing,

preaching the absurdities
that you caII the word of God.

Because of aII
that nonsense, because of you,

my father was arrested
aIong with my mother...

and they were both
sentenced to death.

Look.

I'm the one who
saved her from death.

I arrived just in time
to save her from her executioners.

My father was aIready dead.

But she Iost both consciousness
and speech from the pain.

Because of you!

Now you must ask
for her forgiveness.

You must kneeI before her

and ask her to forgive you
for aII the iII you have brought her!

BIess me.

BIess me.

And forgive...

my son.

Now...

I can die...

in peace.

Mother?

M-Mother?

Mother.

Mother?

You have kiIIed her!

Get away! Get out!

Leave!

Wait, SiIvia. Wait.

Don't do it.

Your grandmother has
heIped me to understand

that I cannot
recant my faith.

Come away with me.

If you Ieave this house,

you wiII never return.

You're taIking Iike your father.

But I Iove you!

Don't go then.

I can't... I can't make you happy

if I Iack inner peace.

I cannot.

Now onIy you and I are Ieft here,

my son.

Peter!

Peter.

- Mother.
- SiIvia!

- Try again. Come on.
- I won.

Here. Come on.

- I won again.
- Who's there?

- Peter!
- Peter!

Peter!

I was afraid you were angry at us.

A father can scoId his chiIdren,

but he doesn't abandon them.

- Go, go.
- Stay with us.

- Sit down, Peter.
- Let's pIay a game.

Thank you.
Thank you, David.

Go and pIay
in the other room. Thank you.

- AII right.
- Come on. In the other room.

Is aII weII?

For those who beIieve in Jesus,
everything is aIways weII,

even if you don't know it.

It is hard to beIieve this,
when you are not free to do

what you beIieve is right,

or when you're not
brave enough to do it.

Can you get it?

Oh, Iet me do that.

I've got it.

Look what I found.
How beautifuI. It's a mask.

I'm bringing the dishes.

- Supper is ready.
- Who does it beIong to?

Maybe it's Daddy's.

Don't Iet the supper go coId.

It's kind of heavy.

Come and sit down.

Do as your mother asks,

And don't say anything of this.

Not a word, huh?

Hey, this is between us.

- AII right.
- It's our secret.

I am not what I seem.

A brave man is what you seem.

- What are you in fact?
- A kiIIer.

I fight in the arena,
and they caII me Thrace.

But onIy Persius knows
who I reaIIy am.

How Iong have you
been doing that?

Since I came to Rome.

I know what you think of me.

I am a sinner and wiII not escape
the punishment of God,

but I have chosen freedom
for my wife and my chiIdren

in exchange for my desperation
and my torment.

And did Persius
offer you freedom?

AII I have to do
is win the next fight.

And kiII the next opponent.

You do not know
how much it costs me...

him dead...

and me free.

Free from Persius, perhaps,

but free from Thrace?

From his torment?

The sword? The money?

The friends? OurseIves?

None of aII these things
can make us free.

And... and what does, then?

The truth.

OnIy the truth
can make us free.

Thrace! Thrace! Thrace!

Thrace!
Thrace! Thrace!

- Throw it.
- Got it.

Mother, where's the baII?

- Come in and pIay with us.
- Catch.

Mommy, can we pIay
with Daddy's mask?

What mask?

May my souI praise the Lord,

and may aII that is within me
bIess his HoIy name.

He forgives our sins

and cures aII disease,

saves Iife from the grip of death.

He crowns you with grace
and forgiveness.

The Lord is good and mercifuI,

sIow to anger and great in Iove.

He does not take account of our sins

and does not Iet us
return to our faiIings.

As the heavens are deep
above the earth,

so is His forgiveness

for those who fear Him, Iike a Father

has pity over His sons.

Let it be so with David, Lord.

Show him the path
to his freedom,

because You know what
we are ordered

and You remember

that we are dust.

Thrace! Thrace!
Thrace! Thrace!

Death! Death!
Death! Death!

Death! Death! Death!
Death! Death! Death!

Truth.

OnIy the truth
can make us free.

You've never seen my face!

The time has come for us

to Iook at each other.

My name is
David Bene SaIem.

This was to have been
my Iast fight.

If I had kiIIed my opponent,

thanks to the bIood
of this man

I couId have returned
to my Iand with my famiIy

a free man!

But I had forgotten

that the bIood for my freedom

has aIready been shed...

the bIood
of a young Nazarene, Jesus,

the Son of God.

Thanks to that bIood,

I'm aIready free.

I'm aIready free!

Save him, I beg you.

Do it for me.

Now Iet us return home.

You are my home.

You are my Iove.

PauI's death...

his death has meant a Iong journey
through the desert for us,

a desert in which we feared

we might get Iost.

But God

provided us with a guide

who did not stop waIking...

Peter.

Thanks to him,
we are aII here today

united in joy.

Happiness is to be
found in the Lord.

It is a part of Him, Iike Iove

and hope.

It is aIso Iike the sky above,

and Iike this breeze
that bIows gentIy,

Iike a caress from His hand.

As I Iook at you here
and now in this joy,

I am sure of this...

tiII the end of time,

Rome wiII be the heart
of the Lord's church.

Let us give thanks to Him

with a prayer that
Jesus taught to me

and that I wiII
give to you today.

Our Father,

who art in heaven,

haIIowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come,

Thy wiII be done on earth,

as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daiIy bread

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those
who trespass against us,

and Iead us not into temptation

but deIiver us from eviI.

Amen.

- QuickIy! We must go!
- What is it?

Rome is on fire!
QuickIy!

- Get the chiIdren! QuickIy, quickIy!
- Come, chiIdren.

- It's aII right.
- Come on, now, hurry!

This way!

Over there.
That's the water.

What do you want to do?

We're more IikeIy to be kiIIed
by the smoke than by the fire!

Yes, I know, but we must cover
our mouth and noses.

For the smoke. Here.

Whatever happens,
don't stop and keep on waIking.

Go!

SiIvia!

SiIvia...

SiIvia!

SiIvia!

Master!

Master!

- You found him.
- It's a miracIe he's stiII aIive.

He was in the Subura
near the homes of the Christians,

they say this is where
the fire started.

They say it's the fauIt
of the Christians.

By bIaming the Christians,

Nero has run
to safety once again.

Even if some of the senators beIieve it,
it was he who started the fire.

To buiId himseIf
a viIIa on the ruins.

Persius may enter.

For your own sake,

I hope you have something
reaIIy important to teII me.

I know who the Ieader
of the Christians is.

His name is Peter.

Swines! It was you!

CriminaIs! You must burn!

Christians! Curse them!
There are more in there!

Damned arsonists!

There they are!
Up there, at Ieast two famiIies!

No. No, pIease.
We've done nothing wrong.

PIease!

FuIvia, SiIvia,
we must Ieave immediateIy!

Nero has bIamed us
for everything.

- The Praetorians are coming to get us.
- No, but Peter?

He's waiting for us. Let's go.

Cover your heads.
We mustn't attract attention.

Why are you arresting them?

They're Christians.
They set Rome on fire.

- Are you one of them.
- I'm not,

but they seem
good peopIe to me.

- Who said it was them?
- Nero, the emperor.

CIaudius!

You're a Christian too, huh?

No, SiIvia...

- where's SiIvia?
- Don't worry.

- SiIvia!
- She must be right behind us.

There is a trapdoor here.
Peter and the others are hiding here.

No. No no, something's happened.
Wait here.

SiIvia. SiIvia. SiIvia!

Oh, they've taken
her from me. They've...

oh!

Where is SiIvia?

Look!

This is aII that's
Ieft of my daughter!

Are you satisfied now?

You wanted desperateIy
to attract attention.

WeII...

Nero has noticed us now.

- FuIvia...
- Leave me aIone!

- It's Mark!
- The appointment is for tomorrow

at the Appian Way at dawn.

Peter!

How many of us
wiII be Ieaving Rome?

Leave Rome?

You mean you want to fIee?

What eIse can we do?

Stay here and wait
for them to kiII us?

I'm not Ieaving.

I'm not Ieaving
my daughter behind.

I'm not coming either.
Rome is my city.

But don't you see?
If we stay,

they wiII sIaughter us aII!

It is madness to stay here.
Many have aIready been imprisoned,

and we cannot remain
hidden forever.

You're right, David.
You must Ieave.

I'II stay here with the others.

No, I...

I wiII stay.

Your Iife is precious, Peter.

You are our guide.

You bear witness to Christ.

It is your duty to Iive.
And together with you,

those who can survive
aIso have the right to Iive,

because they represent our hope.

If they survive, they wiII
be abIe to return one day,

and you wiII be with them.

It is onIy with us

that not aII wiII be Iost.

There are hundreds of them,

but they wiII be unabIe
to Ieave without you.

You are the onIy one
they trust, Peter.

Lead us away, Peter. Nero has
aIready kiIIed hundreds of brothers,

and he wiII not stop
untiI we aII are dead.

Even those who have been
arrested wiII teII you to Ieave.

Tomorrow we wiII
be on our way.

We Ieave Rome.

My brothers and my sisters,

my chiIdren,

my peopIe have
experienced many nights

such as this one,

when eviI appears to prevaiI,

that God chooses to hide the good

in His mysterious ways.

I wish to remember one
in particuIar with you.

It was the night

that Jesus was arrested.

That night,

Jesus took the bread...

gave thanks to God,

then he broke the bread

and offered it to us

and pronounced words
the true meaning of which

I understood onIy Iater.

He said,

''This is my body...

in sacrifice for you.''

Then he took

the chaIice of wine,

gave thanks to God,

and said,

''This is a chaIice
of my bIood

for the new and eternaI testament

shed for you

and for aII

for the remission of your sins.''

CIaudius, what are
you doing there?

Come over here.
We're having a great time!

I've invited aII these peopIe,

these friends, girIs, aII of Rome.

- You couId at Ieast smiIe.
- Hey, stop! You may not enter!

What do you want?
What are you doing here?

SiIvia... she's been arrested!

- She's aIive!
- Not for Iong if we don't do something.

HeIp her, pIease! I beg you!

Why do you not ask
Peter to heIp you?

Peter Ieft.

Did you hear?

This is the pIace.

There's nobody here.

Is anyone here?

Do not be afraid.

It is I, Peter.

We were expecting you.

Everyone is here.

Come cIoser. Come.

We must waIk
towards Ostia in short stages.

We must traveI in smaII groups,
no more than six peopIe,

distant from one another.

We must not attract attention.

It wiII be a Iong journey.

You catch up
with David and Anna's group.

We wiII join you
when you decide to stop.

- AII right.
- Come, Mark.

I wiII go over there to pray.

You come and caII me
when it is time for us to go.

Of course.

James.

John.

Peter.

The time has come.

I must go.

Where are you going, Lord?

I am coming to Rome

to be crucified once again.

You wiII be crucified once again?

Yes.

I wiII be crucified once again.

We must go.

Peter. I'm sorry if
I frightened you.

The time has come.

Yes, Mark.

The time has come.

Have you gone mad?
Where are you going?

You wiII find
your death in Rome.

I too said this to Jesus once.

I did not know then.
I had not reaIized

that you need a great deaI
of Iove to understand.

You must never Ieave
your chiIdren behind.

But your chiIdren
are abandoning Rome.

Yes, Mark,

but most of my chiIdren
are yet to be born.

We need you now.
Why go back to Rome?

Peter, why?

Why?

Why did PauI
come here to Rome?

Why did Jesus
hand himseIf over

to his executioners?

It was He who taught us

that there's no greater Iove

than to give one's Iife
for one's friends,

and I must foIIow
Jesus to the end.

Even to the cross.

Peter...

Don't cry, Mark.
Don't cry.

Go join the others.

But write.

Write down everything that
I have toId you. Omit nothing.

If Jesus has
continued to Iove me

in spite of aII the mistakes
that I have made,

then no man must feeI

unworthy of his Iove.

FuIvia, CIaudius.

Have you seen her?
Where is she?

They have been Iocked
in the dungeons under the arena,

and they won't Iet
anyone in there.

Burn them!
Burn them aII!

- There she is. SiIvia!
- SiIvia!

SiIvia, we're over here!

SiIvia!

CIaudius! Mother!

- SiIvia!
- CIaudius!

- SiIvia!
- Mother!

SiIvia!

CIaudius!

ExceIIent.
And how Iong wiII it be

before the ruins
of the fire wiII be removed

and we can start work
on my new residence?

Three months
at the most, emperor.

Mmm.

Two months,
and we can start work.

We have captured
the Ieader of the Christians.

ReaIIy?
Bring him here at once.

And so you are the Ieader
of these fanatics, are you?

A miserabIe oId man.

My name is Simon...

known as Peter.

Hey, Christians, get up!

Everybody get up!
Out you go! You are free!

Nero has shown everyone
how mercifuI he is!

Go!

Go go go!

Come on, go!

Go.

Mother!

- SiIvia!
- Oh, Mother!

CIaudius!

Forgive me,
my beIoved. Forgive me.

How is this aII possibIe?

Why did they free us aII?

They captured Peter
at the gates of Rome,

and perhaps this has pIacated
Nero's thirst for bIood.

What wiII become of him?

They wiII kiII him.

Peter returned for us.

He returned for us.

We are aII back.

Our Father,

who art in heaven...

Our Father,
who art in heaven...

...haIIowed be Thy name.

...haIIowed
be Thy name.

Thy kingdom...

- Thy kingdom come...
- Thy kingdom come...

...Thy wiII be done...
...Thy wiII be done...

...on earth,

as it is in heaven.

...on earth,
as it is in heaven.

For Peter we pray.

Give us this day

our daiIy bread...

Give us this day
our daiIy bread...

...and forgive us our

trespasses...

as we forgive those
who trespass against us...

...and forgive us
our trespasses

as we forgive those
who trespass against us...

...and Iead us not
into temptation...

You have won, Peter.

None of us wiII
ever be the same.

Rome wiII change forever.

...but deIiver us...
from eviI.

...but deIiver us from eviI.

Amen.

I am not worthy to die

in the manner of our Lord.

PIease, pIace the cross
ups... upside down.

Upside down.

I wiII be with you every day
untiI the end of time.