All language subtitles for Peter and Paul [1981] DVDRip_cd1

And Jesus said, ''This is my
commandment:

Love one another
as I have Ioved you.

There is no greater Iove than this--

that a man shouId Iay down
his Iife for his friends.

Take home Jesus' Iove.

And keep it by giving it to others.
Amen.

Amen.

Peter...

I came as soon as I couId.

Here, drink this.

James, you Iead us weII.

TweIve men, praying in a grotto.

Deceit and betrayaI are everywhere.

It's true, then,
they've taken Stephen.

They're hoIding him in prison.

He's to appear before the Sanhedrin.

What harm is Stephen to them?

His mission was to provide foodto our poor.

He got into an argument on the TempIe steps.

He quotedthe prophets to prove that Jesus

was the true Messiah.

There were bitterwords.

He was warned by the guards to move on.

Things went against him very fast.

Informants in the crowdreported him to the CounciI.

He's chargedwith bIasphemy.

They have noright to try a man for a capitaI charge.

The Romans forbid it.

Rights? Rights no Ionger matter.

There arereasonabIe men amongthe Sanhedrin.

They can't be aII of one mind.

The ZeaIots are in controI.

ReasonabIe men can no Ionger oppose them.

They see themseIves on the brink of destruction

under Roman ruIe, highways of Jews

being crucified aII over PaIestine.

John, Who was with him when he was taken?

No one.

No one?

None stood up with him?

Where are our voices?

Keep yours down.

What justifies yourwords?

To shame us?

No.

No, no, no.

You fuIfiII your duty.

It seems to be some speciaI providence

that aII we can rejoice in is suffering.

GodwiII one dayrepay us.

I do not beIieve that was my pact with Jesus!

Stephen goes too far!

Andwe desert him?

There is nothing any of us can do.

SauI PauIus of Tarsus, it's in your
charge!

Witnesses identify yourseIves!

SaIIum of AIexandria.

Sabhah, the Cyrenian.

CaIeb of CiIicia.

Who isready?

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!

Do not hoIdthis sin against them!

Rabban GamaIieI.

Thank you.
Thank you.

You Iook worn, SauI.

I have feIt concern for you.

I have never seen a man being stoned before.

It's somethingthat I wiII neverforget.

But, it was necessary and it was aIso a moraI right

if we are to preserve the Law.

It was consideredremarkabIe that you came to us

with such a fund of knowIedge of the Law.

WeII, whatever my own feeIings are in this matter,

I cannot affordto take account of them.

I've wastedtoo much time as it is in thinking and I...

Besides, I have my commission from the High Priest.

I have heard of this commission.

A house-to-house search for otherfoIIowers of Jesus,

is it not?

Yes, Yes I myseIf askedforthe commission

to go to Damascus andto the synagogues there

andto arrest these peopIe and bringthem back to
JerusaIem

andthere by make them eitherrenounce theirfaith

of suffer punishment.

You shouId be of great service.

We are waging a just war!

AndThey're the ones to be bIamed.

Heathen stiII at heart, this Stephen caIIed us.

Heathen stiII at heart, And Deaf to the truth!

That we hadthe Iaw brought to us by angeIs

andthat we are the ones who have not kept it

that was the insuIt,

that was the monstrous insuIt!

andto say that Jesus paidfor our sins?

That this Jesus paidfor our sins

andthat we onIy by accepting Him,

can we be forgiven ours?

Jews and GentiIes aIike?

I must go against them!

But against whom?

We are occupied by Rome,

not by foIIowers of Jesus.

Rome, whose force is overwheIming,

who corrupts our Ieaders, subverts from within,

who throw us into bitter opposition against each other,

untiI we see threats and act against them

more in passion than reason.

And Jews, in the name of saIvation,

turn against Jews.

They wouId destroy the TempIe!

WouIdthey not?

It is against them that I turn.

Not the Jews!

What are they if not Jews?

Rabban GamaIieI.

SauI PauIus.

Be cautious in decidingwhat you do with these men.

Leave them aIone.

If this idea of theirs or its execution is of human origin,

it wiII coIIapse.

But if it comes from God,

you wiII never be abIe to put them down,

and you risk finding yourseIf at warwith God.

TeII me, Lord, who are you!

I can't see!
I'm bIind...

This man has important work
to do here in Damascus.

He was to be brought to me.

His companions brought him.

To Ieave him Iike this? Why?

He wiII take nothing, no food no water.

He wiII say nothing.

Keep me notified of his condition.

Save me, God!

I am sinking in the deepest swamp,

there is no foothoId;

Worn out with caIIing,

my throat is aching, My eyes are strained,

Iookingfor my God.

PIease, PuII me out of this swamp;

Iet me sink no further,

Do not Iet the waves wash over me,

do not Iet the deep swaIIow me

orthe Pit cIose it's mouth on me.

In your great kindness, Father, answer me.

Who's there?

My name is Ananias.

Ananias? Why are you here?

I am directed here, by a vision.

vision?

Ananias, it caIIed out to me...

'Go to the street caIIed Straight

and ask forthe man from Tarsus named SauI.'

Are you SauI?

Yes.

I often heard of you

and aII the harm you have done my peopIe in
JerusaIem.

That you were sent here to Damascus to arrest anyone

who foIIowed Jesus of Nazareth.

Andwas it a true vision that came to me.

I too had a vision.

I saw a Iight shining aII around me

and around my companions.

It was a Iight more briIIiant than the sun itseIf.

We feII to the ground, andthen I heard a voice,

sayingto me, ''SauI, SauI, why do you persecute me!''

I said, ''Lord, Who are you?''

Andthe LordrepIied,

''I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

I have appearedto you for a purpose.

Get up and go into the city

And you wiII be toIdwhat you have to do.''

''Go'', the LordtoId me, andteII this man

that I have chosen him to serve me,

to make my name known to GentiIes and kings

andto the peopIe of IsraeI.

And I myseIf wiII show him

aII he must sufferfor my sake.''

SauI, my brother

may you be fiIIedwith the HoIy Spirit.

And Isaiah repIied,

''Listen, now, descendants of King David.

The LordwiII give you a sign...

a youngwoman who is with chiId,

wiII have a son andwiII name him 'ImmanueI.'

A chiId is born to us! A son is given to us!

He wiII be caIIed 'EternaI Father,'

'Prince of Peace.'

HisroyaI powerwiII continue to grow;

His kingdom wiII aIways be at peace.

He wiII ruIe as King David's successor,

basing His power on right and justice

From now untiI the end of time.''

Andthen Jesus addressedthe peopIe

and his discipIes with these words saying:

'The doctors of the Iaw andthe Pharisees

sit in the chair of Moses;

therefore do what they teII you;

pay cIoseIy to theirwords.

But do not aIways foIIow their practice;

forthey say one thing and yet they do another.

They make heavy packs

and piIe them on other men's shouIders

But wiII notraise a fingerto Iift the IoadthemseIves.

What everthey do is done for show.

Some of these men,

they Iike to go about with Iarge tasseIs on theirrobes;

and have pIaces of honorforfeasts

andthe chief seats in synagogues,

to be addressedrespectfuIIy in the streets,

pay no heath to these men.

They're waitingto kiII you at the gates.

We'II wait untiI nightfaII

andthen we can arrange your escape.

I won'trun. I won't be driven out.

There is suffering in survivaI.

You'II see.

One of my horses needs attention.

Is the hoof spIit.

There's a sweIIingthere in the upper part of the front
Ieg.

Right here? Here?

You don't know much about horses, do you?

I'm a tentmaker.

Not many tents are soId in JerusaIem.

I work where I can find it.

And speak where you wiII.

No one has spoken the words of Jesus

on the TempIe steps since Stephen.

You've done so more than once I heard you.

Who sent you?

I come for myseIf.

what's your name?

Barnabas, a foIIower of Jesus.

This is my young cousin, Mark.

TeII me, You have said,

'Faith becomes supreme of aII human acts',

teII me, how do you know?

Through whose authority

was the Word of the Lord conveyedto you?

Through Jesus.

The Lord spoke directIy to you?

Yes, toId me what I am to do.

What are you to do?

I am to take the Word eIsewhere.

Then why are you here in JerusaIem and not
eIsewhere?

I am here to Iearn.

What? From whom?

From those peopIe who where with him...

with Jesus and Peter.

You wouId see Peter?

Yes, that's why I'm here.

It wiII be difficuIt.

WeII, as I say,

give my horse a good scrubbing, we'II be back.

Come.

We thank you Lordforthe bIessings

you have bestowed upon this house.

Forthis house which has been offeredto us

for prayer andforfeIIowship
by this good gentIe woman, Mary.

For Barnabas who sustains us
with his personaI treasure

for God...

who'srich in mercy even
when we are dead in sin.

Who has quickened us together in Christ

by grace we are saved.
Amen.

Amen.

TeII them cousin Barnabas, teII them.

AII in goodtime.

Jacob of Beth-horan is stiII without work.

How is the famiIy forfood?

Too proudto ask. But the baby cries.

WhiIe we have this and a warm kitchen to sit in?

Mark wiII take them food in the morning.

The man SauI PauIus of Tarsus preaches

on the TempIe steps.

So it is said.

We heard him.

He speaks out openIy in the name of Jesus...

Atrick, to gain ourtrust.

We spoke to him. He works in a stabIe.

He says he has seen the Lord and heard His voice.

Andwe've heard yours.

Take him.

Enough for now, I think.

Bring your supper.

Mother, I'm not finished.

Good bye, Mark.

You went to him!

Yes.

We decided against it.

We agreedto avoid him!

I wouId Iike to hear more from Barnabas.

A knock on the door,

does it aIways mean a friend?

It couId be.

Then you open it, brother of mine.

I say the man is our enemy.

I agree.

I think something different.

It's a trap!

I've met the man.

There's been a change.

That takes my appetite!

He has been beaten for preaching in Damascus.

He bareIy escapedthe city with his Iife.

It was probabIy arranged, I stiII say it's a trap.

Enough, James.

I've heard him speak of things we are meant
to do and do not.

Such things as?

That the Word be taken to aII nations.

We have yet toreach beyond Judea.

Peter,

He asks for a meetingwith you.

Tomorrow...I'II see him tomorrow.
You can teII him where.

I've heard you want to know of Jesus.

So. Sit there.

It was here that we spent
our Iast night with Him.

AII of us, here, together,

before the PassoverfestivaI.

He knew that his hour had come.

At supper, He arose and pouredwater

into a basin andwashed ourfeet.

I objected.

'You Lord, washing my feet?'

He answered,

'So that you wiII do just as I have done for you.'

'One of you,' He said, 'wiII betray me.'

'It is the man to whom I give this piece of bread.'

And he took it and dipped it in a dish

and gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot,

who was sittingwhere you sit now.

'Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted,

who ate of my bread hasraised his heeI against me...'

I know the prophecies as weII as you.

Though I am unaware that Judas, aIso,

was torise from the dead.

Are you Judas?

Come.

You askedto know. Then come.

He came with us here that night to this garden to wait.

Three times we sIept whiIe He prayed.

Andthen, near midnight, we awoke to hear Him say,

'The hour has come!

Let us go forward.

The traitor is upon us.'

Judas appearedwith a great crowd.

'HaiI, Rabbi!' he cried out to Jesus

and kissed Him, which was a signaI.

They came forward and heId Jesus fast.

I took up a sword and struck off the ear

of a TempIe servant.

'Put up your sword,' Jesus criedto me.

'AII who Iive by the sword, die by the sword!

What is it you want?

To do what He has toId me to do.

Why shouId His teachings be entrustedto you?

You have condemned Him, denied Him,

executed one of His foIIowers,

persecuted others!

Yes, didn't any of you doubt his word

when you first heard him?

Didn't you aII experience your own conversion?

I wouId no more deny Him than you, Peter.

They Ied Him away as we fIed, aII of us deserting him.

He was brought before the High Priest

andthe Sanhedrin.

I was sitting outside.

A serving maid stopped and said,

'You were with Jesus the GaIiIean.'

I denied it.

'I do not know what you mean,' I said.

'This feIIow was with Jesus of Nazareth,'

Someone eIse said.

And again I denied it.

'I do not know the man!, I said.

'SureIy, you must be one of them,

the way you speak gives you away,' said someone
eIse.

And again, I said, 'I do not know the man!'

Andwhen He died?

None of us was there to be with Him.

Save one. Andthat one was John.

We are not Jesus. We are onIy men.

But, beIieve in Him andwe are forgiven.

Isn't that the great gift?

In GaIiIee once, I asked Him,

'Lord, how many times am I to forgive my brother

if he goes on wronging me?

As much as seven times seven?'

JesusrepIied,

'I do not say seven times; I say seventy times seven.'

Show me GaIiIee.

I toId Jesus once,

'Master, we've fished aII night andtaken nothing.'

'Put out into deep water,' He said,

'And Iet down your nets for a catch!

Sit, sit, I have no other boat.

We made so great a hauI that night,

our nets began to spIit,

andwe Ioaded our boats untiI they aImost sank.

'Henceforth, you shaII catch men,' He said.

That was his mission to you?

I send you out Iike sheep amongwoIves,' He toId us.

To heaI the sick,

bringto Iife the dead of spirit,

cIeanse the Iepers,
cast out the deviIs.'

'Be wary as serpents,
yet innocent as doves.'

That is my mission, also.

After His death,
He came to us once again

By the Sea of Tiberias.

Quite aIone to me, He said,

'Peter, I teII you this in very truth:

When you were young, you fastened your beIt around
you

andwaIkedwhere you chose;

but when you are oId,

you wiII stretch out your arms

and a strangerwiII bind you fast

andtake you where you have no wish to go.'

Can you go there with me?

I'II wait for you there.

James... you honor my house.

There are assassins waitingfor you in JerusaIem.

Where did you hear of this?

There was a messenger, from the TempIe.

There's an uproar over your preaching against the Law.

Then he'II stay here.

They'II find him here.

We'II hide him.

To what end?

To the endthat there wiII be no end

if we don't stand up against them.

You are thinkingwith your pride, not your head!

The man steps forward as onIy one of us has done,

as Stephen did!

Andwhat was thatresuIt.

Ahh, is there's something eIse.

It is cIearthat Peter has accepted you.

As Barnabas has.

Others are not so certain.

I accuse them of jeaIousy!

I accuse John of not beingforcefuI!

You, of beingtimid...!

I am for one thing onIy--

the survivaI of the Church.

You didn't buiIdthe Church!

Norwere you in JerusaIem with Jesus!

That's true. I wasn't.

But you commissioned me to Iead,

you andthe others.

I didn't ask for it.

I was askedto assume it when none of you wouId do
so.

His sacrifice has been greaterthan any one of us!

His sacrifice is nothing if the TempIe

is goadedto vioIence andthe Romans cIose in!

They'II send chosen troops

Andwe'II be crushed in the middIe!

He cannotremain here.

You must Ieave Judea!

Home to Tarsus.

I shouIdfeeI happy, but, I feeI nothing.

We'II sendfor you. Findwork for you.

You'II receive Ietters and instructions.

Messengers wiII come.

I wont' be idIe.

I'II cast my net into deeperwaters.

He spoke to me,

and I with him.

We spoke of many things.

What did you taIk about?

We taIked about you.

Ah, you never did.

Forfifteen days that he was here I feIt...renewed.

Do you know what I mean?

TeII me.

As though a ceiIingwere Iifted andthere was fresh air.

He'sreaIIy affected you.

AffIicted me.

With aII that's gone before

andwe committedto do and do not.

Words.

I am affIictedwith words.

Words are what the Master gave you.

To act upon. I do not act.

'You are myrock,' He saidto me.

James Ieads.

James...I honor James, he does not Iead!

He prays...

Behind cIosed doors and shutteredwindows.

OnIy one, this one, this SauI, stands fast in the open,

andwe send him away!

I fear... it couId end in words.

Just words... behind cIosed doors.

'I send you out innocent as sheep
amongwoIves,' He said.

'For men wiII fIog you for my sake...

aII wiII hate you for your aIIegiance to me;

but the man who hoIds on to the endwiII be saved...'

A better pIace fortents than JerusaIem.

SauI, it's me.

AIongwhiIe, hey?

Yes, eight years.

As Iong as that.

WeII, they were eight difficuIt years I can teII you.

Not once have I heardfrom JerusaIem--

by Ietter, by messenger or by word of mouth, not once.

I've been abandoned.

Yes, I've been abandoned, Barnabas.

You wiII understand, therefore,

if I am not overjoyed by your visit.

But, I am.

Besides, I don't come from JerusaIem.

Why are you here?

Forthe fish.

So, you continue to preach decIaring your new views?

Yes.

In synagogues?

Yes, untiI I was driven out.

Andthen...

I spoke where I couId, in the streets.

This is your birth pIace, isn't it?

What of yourfather?

He mourns me as if I were dead.

TeII me, who are they

who Iisten to you in the streets?

Greeks. It's a Greek city, Tarsus.

Greeks? But, they are GentiIes, heathens.

Yes, with a concept ofreIigion.

Based on ignorance and superstition.

Jesus said, 'Make my name known to GentiIes and
Kings...'

You're testing me, Barnabas.

Of course I am as I test myseIf aII the time, beIieve me.

Now Iisten...

I'd heardwhat you've been doing.

That's why I'm here.

Now, In Antioch, you see, some Greek-speaking Jews,

such as myseIf,

have startedto preach directIy to the Greeks, Iike you.

Andwe need heIp. I thought of you.

WiII you come?

Where, to Antioch?

Yes, we couId Ieave in a few days.

We couId Ieave tonight if you'd Iike.

Oh, good.

What's happening in JerusaIem, where's Peter?

You haven't heard?

No.

I thought you knew.

What?

JerusaIem is starving.

The first order of business in Antioch

wiII be toraise some money for our peopIe there.

Yes, JerusaIem is starving.

Your esteem...

Save yourreverence.

I was aImost set upon coming out of the TempIe.

the situation is desperate...

You understand it wonderfuIIy weII.

Starvation is upon the city...

Starvation is upon worId!

You answerfor JerusaIem.

You ruIe Judea.

I am King, not High Priest.

You ruIe the house of God, not I.

Is this not a GodIy choice?

I am for myseIf andthese good men,

certainIy not the object of God's wrath.

We uphoId and protect the Law.

Our Iives are given overto the Law.

We are creatures of Rome, you and I.

WeruIe so Iong as Rome is satisfied.

My King, we are Jews...!

Yes, we are Jews!

But not as they are Jews.

There is something in
their characterwhich awes me.

They are for IsraeI

with a passion for independence,

even as they break apart from each other--

Sadducees, Essenes, Pharisees.

In time enough, they'II unite against the Caesars...

but not in my time.

The Law... meanwhiIe.

The Law controIs them,

as Iong as there is controI.

We are hoIy men, My King.

We can do nothing but conform to the Law...

Then give them someone otherthan ourseIves

to cry out against.

Listen to them!

Might not the fauIt Iie with this Jesus sect...

Yes, theyrebeI andreject

andthereby bring God's wrath on aII of us!

Is it not written in the PsaIms:

'See how the eye of God is on those whoreIy on His
Iove...'

'...Torescue their souIs from death

and keep them aIive in famine.'

'As forthe wicked...

they shaII perish, these enemies of God.'

So it is written.

James!

This one's fortomorrow.

Keep him upright.
These peopIe Iike to kneeI.

Put it with therest,
We'II store it Iater.

How'd you get it past the guards?

They are starving, too.

That's the Iast of it.

Ask who it is.

Who is there?

Peter.

It's Peter.

The girI's mad, he's in prison.

Of course, Iets hide the food.

Peter, Peter... how did you escape?

The Lord deIivered me... it's true.

But Iisten, you must Ieave quickIy.

I'II give you water.

No, there's no time.

A house-to-house search is certain.

Where wiII you go?

To GaIiIee. There wiII berefugees.

I'II join you.

I'II go, too!

No Mark!

I won't be Ieft behind!

He'II come with me, to Antioch.

TeII them aII I'm safe.

Yes, there was a time when you were dead.

There was a time when you were dead

to your sins andto yourwickedness,

when you foIIowedthe eviI ways.

Now, I say to you,

Rememberthat former condition -- you, GentiIes,

You, 'the uncircumcised,'

so caIIed by those who are caIIed 'the circumcised'

remember yourformer condition.

Barnabas, it's goodto see you.

Barnabas has justreturnedfrom JerusaIem.

Yes, remember yourformer condition.

Because at that time you were separate from God.

YourworIdwas a worIdwithout hope.

But now in bIessed union with Christ Jesus...

both GentiIe and Jews, he has made the two one.

The God of peace be with you aII. Thank you.

The God of peace be with you aII.

Barnabas...

it's goodto see you back. WeIcome back.

It's goodto see you.

Who is this?

Mark.

Mark? not the IittIe Mark I met eight years ago...

...eight years.

It's goodto see you...Mark.

Yes, you'reright.

These Greeks they do think andthey do stimuIate
argument

andthey provoke debate... thinking.

It's goodto see you. He grew up.

Ah, yes, we have a new word

by which to describe ourseIves- Christians-

meaning partisans of Christ.

It's a wordthe Romans use in jest.

So be it. Christians.

What's wrong?

We do nothing in JerusaIem!

We hide andthen run!

There was no choice Ieft to us.

It was aII we couId do.

Then my teachers are not what they've educated me to
be!

When do you stand up to someone?

When it's too Iate?

You're wrong.

I'm right, you know I'm right.

You're wrong.

He'sright, of course.

and he's been through a terribIe time.

We aII have.

John's brother, James, has been kiIIed.

How?

Executed by Herod Agrippa, beheaded.

Where's Peter!

No, no. He hadfIed JerusaIem for GaIiIee.

They have aII fIedthey hadto.

to avoid persecution.

I can teII you,

our church of Jesus Christ is in disarray.

Cry for JerusaIem.

When you took food and money

to them in JerusaIem, Barnabas,

I gIoated over it.

Yes, I wantedrevenge on those who Ieft me

unsummoned in Tarsus aII those years.

Peter and James and...

yes, I wantedrevenge.

Eight years I waited... eight years.

I know it was wrong

and everyday I ask God's forgiveness.

God has his pIan.

I wouId not be here now, wouId I

if I had done God's bidding, wouId I?

You say that our church in JerusaIem is in disarray?

It is.

It seems to be dying, Barnabas.

It seems to be dying.

He has no wish to see our church perish

I'm sure of that.

Who?

God.

But, it is perishing.

It is perishing in our hands it is perishing.

He said, ''bring my name before the nations andtheir
kings,''

that what he said.

Which nations, what kings?

I mean... our church... where wouId you go with it?

Where wouId I go with it? To the West.

Out of Judea?

Why yes, Antioch is out of Judea, isn't it.

Antioch has been approved by JerusaIem,

coming here to Antioch was a mission cIose to home.

Yes, weII, now the mission must become a movement,
Barnabas.

It must become a movement.

It has to become a Iiving, movement, Barnabas.

Otherwise, beIieve me, it wiII sureIy die.

weII, yes, I suppose we couId go to Cyprus.

Cyprus, yes...

Yes, I know it weII, it is my home.

I startedtrainingthere.

Yes.

We'd Iand at SaIamis on the east coast

andtraveI across the isIands to the synagogues of SoIi.

Yes, Cyprus first.

You'd go further?

WeII, yes, not just stop in Cyprus.

Where?

Where? I don't know...

I don't know...

To PamphyIia, Pisidia, Asia, yes, Asia.

Yes, yes, I see, I see...

A mission to preach to the whoIe heathen worId, is that
it?

Yes, yes!

He said bring my names before the GentiIes

and before their kings.

Do you remember?

Yes...yes... weII,

I'II write to James and ask what he thinks.

If you need James' permission,

you betterwrite James then.

I have my commission. It comes from no man.

I know...and PauI we wiII do it.

We wiII penetrate the Greek cities one afterthe other.

Mark wiII come with us.

Yes, weII, I'm not so sure about Mark.

Oh, oh...
I ask forgiveness for hisrudeness.

It's not hisrudeness that disturbs me.

There'II be hardship

andthey'II be danger, Barnabas,
when we do it.

Yes, I know, he's become a man,
don't forget.And he knows no fear.

Then one of the Iawyers,

who had been Iisteningto these discussions,

came forward and asked Him,

'Which commandment is first of aII?'

'The first is,' Jesus answered...

'Hear, O IsraeI, the Lord is our God...
the Lord is one.

'...Love the Lord your
Godwith aII your heart,

with aII your mind and aII your souI...'

'...with aII your strength...'

Pisidian bandits attacked us,
six hours out...

We fought as we couId. It was useIess.

They kiIIed six of us,

they took the young men to be soId as sIaves.

What's that?!

AnimaI...

I heard nothing...

What kind of animaI?

An animaI.

I know we haven't done weII here, but...

We're not discouraged, are we?

What are we then?

In difficuIty, perhaps.

But not in despair.

We're sick, andtired, and hungry...

But we're never deserted.

You say that sittingthere with fever...

Werejoice in our sufferings...

Rejoice...?

...Knowingthat suffering produces endurance,

and endurance brings proof that we have stoodthe
test,

andthat is groundfor hope.

He'sraving! We faiIed here.

No one Iistens to us...

Mark, we are deputies of Christ.

We are shipwrecked here,

the Word of Christ is shipwrecked

on the coast of PamphyIia.

Then we shaII take his wordto Pisidia.

Through the hiIIs? Into those mountains?

That is no journey for a sick man.

Theroads are thick with bandits.

They kiII the oId men and seII the young ones into
sIavery.

We Ieave tomorrow.

You go, not me!

Mark!

Three men aIone?

Your duty is obedience.

To this madman?

You are needed, have courage,
don't despair.

I want to go home!

Then go home,
we have no pact with each other.

Go home.

Are you weII? I know...

Hey, don't worry my IittIe friend,

we'II soon have you home... in JerusaIem.

There are pIenty. It was a good catch.

Peter...

Two weeks and nothingfrom you. We aImost said
kaddish.

What news from JerusaIem?

Herod Agrippa is dead.

When?

A month ago.

Good news.

Eaten by worms, they say.....

Better news.

Mark was there. He's with me.

He brings news that SauI and Barnabas have Ieft
Antioch.

They've gone into Asia, makingfor Greece.

The Iast I saw

Barnabas and PauI waIking into the hiIIs.

Barnabas and PauI?

He no Ionger caIIs himseIf SauI.

Herefers to himseIf by his Roman name.

What of SauI?

He threw off his Hebrew inheritance?

Let him severwhat ties he wiII!

Who has directed him to go to the GentiIes?

Directed him? He's to come to us?

He owes us nothing!

You wish to see him humbIed?

I wish see him humbIe.

God has a pIan.

PauI is confident of that.

The facts are these he is where we shouId be and are
not!

With the GentiIes?!

You think Jesus meant saIvation forthe Jews aIone?

Jesus meant saIvation for aII men...

In time!

What is the man saying?

That we are cornered by our own success.

Our JerusaIem Church...

Is made of Jews, not GentiIes!

You agreed saIvation is for aII men.

In time, Peter, in time!

The time is now.

PauI's seen to that.

My brothers, you who come of the stock of Abraham,

and others among you whorevere our God,

we are the peopIe to whom the message

of this saIvation has been entrusted.

But, the peopIe of JerusaIem andtheirruIers

did notrecognize Him or did not understand

the words of the prophets which areread Sabbath by
Sabbath.

Indeed, they fuIfiIIedthem byrejecting Him.

Andwhen they carried out aII the Scriptures said about
Him,

they cut Him down from the gibbet and Iaid Him in a
tomb!

But,Godraised Him from the dead,

andthere was a period of many days

when He appearedto them

to those same peopIe who wouId come up with Him

from GaIiIee to JerusaIem.

Those same men who now bearwitness

before our peopIe before our nation...

Andwe, my goodfriend Barnabas and I,

come to bring you the good news

that godwho had made the promise to the fathers

has fuIfiIIedthe promise to the chiIdren

byraising Jesus from the dead.

Andthis stands as written in the second PsaIms.

This man...

This man whorose up from the dead!

I wouId Iike to see this man!

Open your heart and you wiII see Him!

The Messiah?

The Jews have a parabIe about that.

They say if you are pIanting a tree,

and someone comes and says,

'Quick, comerunning, see the Messiah,'

you're suppose
to first finish pIantingthe tree.

There's aIso another saying of the Jews.

A procIamation of their own prophets:

'See this man, you scoffers, and begone;

for I am doing a deed in your days,

a deedwhich you wiII never beIieve

when you are toId of it.'

This man is a forger!

He counterfeits this Jesus!

It is written if a man is put to death for some crime

and his body is hung on a post

he brings God's curse on the Iand!'

It was necessary that the Word of God

shouIdfirst be decIaredto the Jews.

And it was providence that I found you here in Pisidia.

But since you do not accept it...

We turn to the GentiIes.

Forthese are our instructions from the Lord:

'I have appointed you to be a Iight

forthe GentiIes and a means of saIvation

to earth's farthest bounds!

Our men marrying heathen women?

What of your daughters?

Where do they find husbands
when Jewish men marry eIsewhere?

Ourfood is Iow,

we arerun out of one city after another

stones thrown at us...

you seem to Iike those stones, I don't.

We couId get down to the sea

and make passage back to Antioch.

Yes, yes, that is on my mind.

I know Jesus said,

'If you are persecuted in one town, takerefuge in
another.'

But what can it be for us but the same in the next town.

PIease, don't Iets go on to Lystra.

It's time to go home.

Hmm?

Oh weII, Iet's pray tonight the stones are softer in
Lystra.

The scripture says

that everyone who beIieves in him

wiII be savedfrom shame... everyone.

But there is no distinction between Greek and Jew...

there is no distinction.

The same Lord is the Lord of aII.

And he has abundance ofriches

to give to anyone who invokes him.

Forwe are his offspring, we are his chiIdren.

So mark my words.

I, PauI, say to you

that faith becomes supreme of aII human acts!

Faith in Jesus Christ,

whose death has broughtredemption

from sin in aII aspects forthose who beIieve!

Who among you beIieves in him?

Who has faith enough to beIieve?

Anyone who has faith... raise your hand.

Yes you.. you'veraised your hand.

Yes.

Can you stand?

Do you have magicaI powers?

Then why are you not standing, huh?

Can you stand?

No, yourfaith aIone can heaI you.

Stand.

Take onIy my hand.

Now stand.

What do they say?

They say we are Hermes and
Zeus- gods from OIympus!

What are you doing?
What are you doing?

We are onIy men we're not God.

PauI Iisten...
PauI they want us to stay.

They know we're onIy men, not Gods.

But, they want us to stay. They want us to stay.

Say nothing...

say nothing and be stiII...

Let them pass...

They are centurians...

Romans trash...

Cousin Barnabas.

Mark! WeII, You Iook fit.

I am. What about you?

Where did you come from?

From PauI. In Antioch.

Antioch?

How's your mother?

WeII.

Andthe others?

Returnedto JerusaIem with the end of the purges...

But this...

There's great unrest and growingworse.

Rome's done with JewsruIing Jews.

It's goingto end badIy.

WeII... I'II go aIongto your mother's.

See you Iater, I imagine.

I shouId have stayedwith you in Perga,

we shouId have stayedtogether.

I Iet you down, did you great harm.

How stupid of my innocence,

PauI knew what I was...

fiIIedwith seIf-righteousness, andtoo frightenedto go
aIong.

I wantedto escape, I ran away.

Forgive me.
I was wrong.

Thank you, my boy.
Where is James?

I'II take you to him.

We have great news. Success in GaIatia!

I must discuss it with James andthe CounciI at once.
GaIatia is won!

Where's Barnabas?
His ship is anchored, isn't it.

He has arrived.

Yes, I know he has arrived. Where is he?

We're waitingto greet him.

He wiII not come.

What?

WeII, did Jamesreceive you?

Yes. Open-heartedIy.

There were some others I had never seen before

and didn't care fortoo much, but, yes, hereceived me.

What do they say about our accompIishments?

They say we fIood our Church with pagans.

That our GentiIe Christians are uncircumcised,

unparticuIar about the foods they eat,

they do not understandthe Law northe ceremony,

that's what they say.

Andtheyreject your concept of saIvation through faith
aIone.

They caII it a boast.

A boast?...

I don't boast of anything but the cross of Christ!

I did protest, I battIed...

So they grant the Greeks nothing, is that it?

Nothing?

I understand.

So, I'II shaII go to JerusaIem myseIf.

It was theirfinaI word.

It is not finaI nothing is finaI...

I reject theirword!

Barnabas!

Barnabas I'm goingto JerusaIem.

I promise to bereasonabIe,
I shaII be soreasonabIe.

But, I'm goingto JerusaIem.

WeIcome!

I thank you for Ietting me
appear before you.

First, I wouId Iike to make
my companions known to you.

This is Titus.

He is the GaIatian from the western end of the Empire.

Most of you know my goodfriend, Barnabas.

I have come to JerusaIem from Antioch

to Iay before you the GospeI

which I am accustomedto preach to the GentiIes,

andto make sure that therace I haverun,

and am running, shouId not be in vain.

Christian faith stands on its own

and shouId notrequire dependence on the Iaw.

And I have come to this after agonizing experience.

But, our success in winning over Greeks out in the
Roman west

is cIearIy evidenced by the case of Titus,

who has been redeemed by faith in Christ.

There was a time, yes, there was a time...

I grant you, there was a time

when the Iaw was a kind
of tutor in charge of us

untiI Christ shouId come;

but now that the tutor charge
is at an end!

PIease, pIease,
Iet him finish here and speak...

You wouIdrequire no circumcision
of these heathens?

Torequire circumcision
of the Greeks wiII of itseIf

make our movement
just another sect of Judaism!

How can you say that?

Because you want to keep it
for yourseIves!

But, Jesus said,

''extend it freeIy to others- give it away.''

We are the chosen peopIe!

CIearthe haII!
CIearthe haII!

We'II meet with them in private.

We stay!

It is ourright.

I have promisedthis man
that he couId pIead his case.

Let him pIead it.
Weremain!

The two of you?

SiIas as weII.

Agreed.

Continue...

Why is he here?

He is to be circumcised if
he is to mix with those of us

that Iive by the Iaw!

Don't you understand yet that
when onereceives Christ...

They must first become Jews!

We have no moreright
or priviIege in thisreIigion

than Greeks or barbarians!

Do any of you beIieve this man?

'Go and make discipIes of aII nations,'
Christ said.

No nation's peopIe have
advantage or priority in it.

It is for men andwomen.

It is for sIaves andfree men,

Greeks and Jews aIike!

The Law is the fuII expression of God's wiII!

Don't you see that you are tryingto effect

a monopoIy of the grace of God

so that men wiII have to come
to you to obtain it!

And, I say to you,
''who are you?''

or any of us here to sit in judgment?

CouIdwe not find some compromise?

Yes, I say preserve the Iaws

but do not impose them on the GentiIes.

Ourtraditions are binding.

Indeed, andthey make it totaIIy impossibIe

for Jews to mix with GentiIes.

And, further, I suggest that
any person who tries

to impose theserituaIs, Iaws on the GentiIes

is actingfaIseIy and perhaps has no business

being in our church.

We heard enough.

God made no difference
between the GentiIes and us.

It is by the grace of Lord Jesus
aIone that we are saved

And so they are.

Why do you now provoke God

by Iaying on the shouIders
of these converts a yoke

which they shouId not be made to bear?

We have sat with the
Greek in vioIation of our customs.

Let him be circumcised in recognition.

It is a smaII concession.

No!

Then you are no part of this!

I disagree!

He has earned his part in this!

It is my judgment, therefore,

that we impose norestrictions on these GentiIes

who are turningto God.

I...

Thirteen years...

Since we saidfareweII.

I saidthen...

I promised I wouIdn't be idIe.

You return now to Antioch?

Yes.

To your Greeks.

To my Greeks.

What are they Iike, these Greeks?

NobIe andtranquiI.

'The fair and immortaI chiIdren of the mind,'
thus said PIato.

NobIe andtranquiI...

I shouId Iike to meet such peopIe.

WeII, come back with me.

You showed me your Christian heritage.

I'II show you my Greeks.

To Antioch?

Yes.

Why not?

The good Lord knows
I couId use some tranquiIIity.

This food is a thief- it'II steaI
two nights sIeep from me.

Eat.

How can you see such suffering.

Resign yourseIf.

We'II take care of yourwidow.

It's a miracIe.

TheirtabIe is yourtabIe, enjoy!

I embrace you aII my brothers!

Peter, wouId you Iet us use your name?

My name? Why my name?

This summer, if it is possibIe

wiII you return with me to GaIatia?

Why me?

You? You're Peter, you were with Jesus.

Don't you know what you mean to these peopIe?

I am a poorrepIacement.

Now Iook, not onIy the GaIatians

but we couIdwin the whoIe of Asia with your name.

The thought of such a journey...

I have a taste for it.

Why shouIdn't I?

You wiII? Good!

PauI! Brothers have arrivedfrom JerusaIem.

There is a message from James.

'It is the decision of the HoIy Spirit,

and our decision, that our Greek beIievers

must avoidwhat has been sacrificedto idoIs,

avoidtastingthe bIood and meat of animaIs

that have been strangIed, and immoraIity.

If kept free of such vioIations,

they wiII be acceptabIe to the Church.

This is from James?

He's totaIIy contradicted himseIf!

Rethought himseIf.

His pIedge to me was that there shouId be

norequirement of these peopIe, onIy faith.

It is his command...

There are ten commandments

and I don'trecaII one of them being James'!

SiIas, as arespected man, a prophet and a teacher,

teII me, why does James sendthis?

The Ietterwas devised upon much prayer...

Prayer...prayer did not change him, they did!

James, not you,

have been entrustedwith the care of souIs.

You see they bend James to theirwiII!

The name in my heart is with these GentiIes.

Good, then Iet's endthis conversation here and now.

On the other hand,

we cannot throw off aII that's gone before in our Iives

anymore than we can shed our own skin.

What?

We've pIedgedto these Greeks fuII standing in the
Church,

withoutruIes, without Iaws...

What has James askedthat you find so
unreasonabIe...

that they accept some fewrequirements.

Afewrequirements?

Anyrequirement betrays a conviction

that faith is not enough!

You are not the center of the Church,
JerusaIem is!

I wiII not go against James!

Peter,

not Iong ago, you saidthat
no yoke shouId be Iaid upon

the shouIders of these converts...

In your own words!

You're Iike a straw bIowing in the wind!

WouId you end ourfriendship overthis?

Can't there be compromise on some basis?

No, Iisten... Iisten to me.

Before these peopIe came from James,

you ate with the heathen,
you ate what they ate.

Now you're drawing back.

I mean can't you see your
own conduct condemns you.

That you are Iike...

Is that your answer.

Yes, that's my answer!

You're Iike a straw bIowing in the wind...Iike a straw...

You're Iike a straw...

PauI, I...Yes...

I know what you've been through

andwhat you have achieved.

But...

We shouIdreturn to GaIatia as soon as possibIe.

GaIatia?

Yes, as soon as possibIe.

Very weII...

I think I'II ask Mark to join us,
we wiII...

no,
I remember his Iast performance.

We'II give him another chance.

No!

PauI, bereasonabIe.

Barnabas, he's unreIiabIe,
he's not to be trusted!

No! No! No!

Perhaps it's betterthen

that I revisit our churches
in Cyprus with Mark.

Good!

You can go on to GaIatia without me.

ExceIIent pIan. God speed.

I'II shaII miss you.

What do you want?

Consider me for your journey.

You're one of James' messengers.

That mission is accompIished.

If you wiII have me on yours,
I want to come.