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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.