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We are doing very badly, Your Excellency.

This year too the Jews they didn't pay taxes.

But not out of rebellion or greed, as is commonly believed.

What time is it?

It's almost time for the sixth hour. It's almost noon.

But as I was saying...

By now they will crucify him.

Precisely.

... I told you they pay for the Jews state taxes are like...

...a blasphemy, an impiety.

Because according to them the man it has no other owner than its god.

And pay tithe to the emperor ...

... it would be like putting Tiberius in place of the Lord.

They started down the road at Calvary at nine.

- How long did it take? -Ah...!

What is it?

It's a Falerna wine aged four years, Eccellenza.

The same one that Taliarco served Horace in the cup of the Sabine women...

...while the poet looked inside the distance contemplating the Soratte...

...covered in white snow, and continued with the Carpe Diem speech.

In other words, from "we pull".

What should I do?

- Greetings everyone! - Greetings! How is it going?

See how they are dressed. They look like Assyrians or Babylonians.

Anything but Romans. View.

Well... we're at the limit of the empire, Your Excellency.

Contact customs of the barbarians.

They became brutal.

But are we going? wait your whole life?

The centurion would like to know what it's time I could come get the lady.

- To go where? - To Cesaria Maritima.

He asked for an armed escort because Jewish rebels infest the area.

And what will my wife do? in Cesaria Maritima?

Then embark for Rome, Excellence.

Boys!

When you are on duty in front of the governor's house, wear your uniform.

I don't tell you more than once.

Yes, centurion.

- Look what I told you. - Closed.

What are you going to do.

Have you seen Valeriano? Claudia Prócula abandons me because...

... I had the prophet crucified.

He says he knew it was it will end like this.

I knew this. He had even dreamed that Socrates interceded for him.

What are you going to do.

Also Calpurnia, on the Ides of March,...

dreamed that a tiger walked the streets...

...and that some soldiers they collided in the clouds,...

and that lightning and thunder and blood fell on the Capitoline Hill.

Cesare, don't go out!

- What are you saying? - I mean... women...

...they have premonitions.

The thing is...

they are like animals.

We tell them they are passionate about witchcraft.

Now Eastern mysteries are in fashion.

What we missed among many Chaldean, Assyrian, Egyptian, Sicilian Jew...

It's crystal clear. They follow the first one with crazy eyes.

Everyone follows someone.

- Yes. And who do you follow? - I you.

I go to my wife's rooms and she is always naked.

And who will watch it? I saw everything, Your Excellency.

But when I'm on duty I don't look.

Here she is, still sleeping.

- My heartfelt compliments. - Why?

No. I mean... beautiful!

That nude it lifts your spirits.

Already a little mature...

...but tasty.

That!

And thank God you weren't looking.

The sea... beyond the Jordan...

we will be... fishers of men.

YES...

Leaves...

Leaves...?

...the ax is the root of the trunk.

- Ahhh! Goodness me: the executioner. - Let's find out who he is.

- Six. The executioner of Jerusalem. - Have we started?

I offered it to the Jewish people an alternative. I said:

Christ or Barabbas.

If they chose Barabbas, is it my fault?

And for four criminals sent from the priests...

...do you have to punish an entire city?

Anyway, they killed the prophet.

But who is responsible for Jerusalem?

Rome.

But Roma has the utmost respect for the subject peoples...

...that's why he leaves the place laws inherited from his parents in force.

Here is the Mosaic Law, the Torah, as it is called.

And based on it Jesus Christ he was tried and convicted.

Pilate, don't cheat.

You are the one who condemned him. According to Roman law.

Let's see how long will this dispute last.

He will become one of the greats riddles of history.

Then answer me: Who crucified him?

It's just the execution of a phrase, a formality.

- Where's the towel? - Now I understand.

- Rome only executes sentences - No: only Rome carries out the sentences.

But I would also like to know why are you so angry.

With all the Jews we crucified!

We have planted more crosses in Palestine than the trees on the seven hills.

Thieves, murderers, rebels, fanatics dedicated to terrorism, magicians...

One more or one less...! What was so special about this charlatan?

- He was innocent. - Optimal.

But if there was a mistake, miscarriage of justice,...

...the flaw is there,...

...in the device of the sentence.

And it always falls, no matter what, about who condemned him.

Exactly, Pilate. Be careful!

But wasn't it midday?

It's noon.

Pilate, you are a witness A marvel.

Actually that man he was a just man!

It doesn't concern me. I'm still Jewish.

THE passage of Scripture that says:

"The gods who did not Heaven and Earth will perish."

- But weren't you going to Rome? - After these wonders?

Not anymore. Now I'm staying here. I want to see what will happen.

"Why? What else will happen?" - Jesus made a promise.

He said, “Now I die but I'll be back in three days"

- And I want to stay here. - Wait for him to return.

Yes and what?

- And you believe it? - I didn't say I believed it.

- I just said I want to see it. - It's the same one. A serious person...

...he doesn't even say it as a joke and he doesn't want to see anything.

How can you believe in a Jesus Christ born of a virgin mother...

...who dies three days later comes out of the grave? Alright!

Where has something similar been seen? It must have been in a colony,...

...on the edge of these lost deserts.

Come on, if you count it in Rome...

- ...they laugh in your face. - And all this cataclysm that...

...it happened right at the same time, How do you explain it, Excellency?

A wish will need to be consulted.

An omen?

We are Romans. Don't forget. And to decipher...

... we always have mysterious facts interpreted the flight of birds...

...or the entrails of a dead animal.

But people are no longer satisfied for those answers.

Tell him too, Valeriano.

What beautiful eyes you have, lady.

Come on, tell him too.

I say you won in Rome the heart of poets and praetors.

Exaggerations.

If anything, your head it's more beautiful than...

...a funerary monument from the republican era.

- Hey... Valeriano... - Hey, Pilate. Here's the water...

... Where you symbolically washed your hands.

Oh no! It was a mistake.

The Jupiter storm has collapsed,...

...even Mars collapsed.

But this toilet it remained as it was.

- How do you explain it? - How do you explain it?

- Ah... I don't know. Ask a wish.

In the meantime I'm going home.

If you allow me, beautiful lady, I'll accompany you.

Thank you, Valeriano.

They say the sarcophagi they were discovered in the necropolis.

The mummies of the prophets and patriarchs came out.

The worms have been shaken out of the shroud AND ...

How do I explain this to myself?

What are you doing? Do you give up? weapons to him as when a sovereign passes by?

It wasn't us. The banners have been lowered, Your Excellency.

It was him. He's a magician. He cast a spell.

Get out!. Enter again. Let's see if the spell repeats itself.

Watch out guys, huh?

Because if the eagles bow I'll call the executioner...

...and I'll have everyone's throats slit.

Forward the prisoner!

And laughs!

See how he laughs?

Come here.

Six maybe the king of the Jews?

You're the one who says it or have others told you?

The Jewish nation and the priests here are Annas and Caiaphas...

... they brought you before me who represents Rome unworthily.

So answer me and be careful what you say.

An affirmative answer...

...and you incur a crime of treason...

...which is punishable by death.

So it's in the name of Rome...

...I ask you the question:

Are you king or not?

- Is he deaf? - Nerd.

- Then why don't you answer? - He's proud, like a king.

He says he's king, but that his kingdom is not of this world.

Then he's out jurisdiction of Rome!

The fact does not constitute a crime.

Look: he's already annoyed... this is a disaster.

Ask him what he came to do.

What did you come to do?

- Ask him. - But if you don't answer...

Insist.

- What did you come to do? - I came so that...

...all those who are in favor of the truth hears what I say.

- And what do you say? - I tell the truth.

It doesn't seem like it a serious crime for me.

- It gets worse. - For example?

That of not respecting the law of our parents.

Our law says you must...

...I rest on Saturday. He doesn't. He doesn't rest.

But everyone rests when he feels like it.

When you like it. The Romans, for example,...

...we rest after eating.

My eyes are closing. If I don't sleep for a while, I fall.

Yes indeed.

Aiss. I can't stand it.

- Excellency: Esterina has come. - Wait.

Be patient.

- What do you want? I am working! - I have a message from your wife.

- Give it to me. - No: it's out loud.

- And what does he say? - He says: "Pilate,...

... do no harm to that right man...

... because today in a dream I suffered a lot because of him."

- Optimal. - Howl like a wolf, Your Excellency.

- I don't know already? - Please tell the magician...

...so as not to send you more terrible dreams. Then it gets weird...

- ...and she's nervous all day. - Optimal.

- Excellency, I am Roman. - And that?

For me this Jesus...

- ...I like it very little. - And why do you get involved?

He cannot be compared to Moses.

High priests: you must accuse him about something more serious.

- Heal the sick! - And is it a crime?

He healed a leper and the servant of the centurion of Capernaum.

He healed a paralytic and a lady who was twelve years old...

...with his things every day. - Aesculapius also did this.

But Aesculapius recovered thanks to virtue of healthcare art. He didn't.

- And how does it heal? - With magic.

Taken.

On purpose.

If it is with magic that you enter my wife's dreams...

...I say...if you can help it, I would be grateful.

And with magic...

...he resurrected a dead man. -Ah.

He returned his sight to the blind man of Jericho,...

...has multiplied the loaves and fishes,...

... he turned water into wine and walked on...

In wine?

- Thank you. - I ask permission to speak.

I am José de Arimathea, Excellence.

Magistrate and priest, member of the Sanhedrin.

- Speaks. - I say this:

It is evident that this man performs miracles and wonders...

...that no one had ever done.

And then, if you perform miracles they come from God, they remain.

If they come from men or they are witchcraft, they will not remain.

- You speak very well. - José speaks like this because...

...has secretly become his disciple.

This man blasphemed!

- When? He didn't open his mouth!

He said he can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days...

...when it is known that Solomon...

...it took forty-six years build.

He was speaking figuratively. He was referring to the temple of his body.

And it's not even blasphemous. He is boastful.

But it's a blasphemy like him he says he can do it because he is king.

- Yes, but from a kingdom that doesn't exist. - From the kingdom of heaven, he says.

What kingdom is that?

A kingdom you enter only ...

if one becomes small, and the smallest it will be the greatest of all.

- And the last will be first, and vice versa.

He says it.

Anarchy!

- Look how it burns. - I think.

- Excuse me. - Obviously.

This is not the Messiah expected by the people of Israel.

- And who is he? - An impostor.

NO! Who is the Messiah?

It's not necessarily a person.

- It could also be a moment. - Once upon a time?

- Once upon a time. - Once upon a time?

When the swords become plowshares.

And the people of Israel are reunited in this land...

...that the Lord promised.

Boys! Caught you there, huh? All of Palestine is a Roman province.

And your Lord cannot promise it to anyone.

But what do they want? Get it back?

Of course, because the Messiah he is their liberator.

He will deliver the people of Israel from Roman rule.

But he will also punish collaborative priests.

That's why they want him dead.

Because they are afraid who is truly the Messiah.

It is not true.

This man deserves death because proclaiming himself a son of God...

... asserts something false. - Agree. But with this sun...

...it takes very little go crazy and say one thing for another.

Ay

And also the desert...

- Do you wash your hands? - Huh?

You dipped your hands in the water.

Oh no. Look: I have a pulse that beats like a drum.

With all due respect: this weather is killing me.

But it could be interpreted...

Interpret! But what are you telling me?

And now he speaks. Say it in the name of the living God:

Tell us who you are.

Tell us if you are the Christ, the son of the god of Israel.

You said it.

But I tell you: starting today you will see the son of man...

... sitting on his father's right.

He cursed! You've all heard the blasphemy!

He is not the Messiah.

And it will come with the clouds of the sky.

- Baruch Aba Adonai! - That?

I said: blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

¡Baruj Aba!

Sorry if I bother you, Excellence...

...but I met your wife and told me you were here.

What do you want?

Permission to remove the body of Jesus from the cross...

...and bury him.

Tomorrow is Easter day and it is customary for corpses...

...there are no executed people left exposed in the days of the Lord.

Do you know what the law says?

Well no.

The sun must not set on someone who was executed.

Optimal. If he's dead there's no problem.

Thank you very much, Excellency. I am speechless.

- Shalom and take care. -Shalom.

Joseph!

Just out of curiosity.

But just in case...

Now on whom does this blood fall?

Of the Jewish people?

Are you kidding? In the worst case scenario it might just have a relapse...

regarding the High Priest who exposed himself in person.

What did people do?

Not here in Jerusalem even 1% of...

...all Jews scattered around the world...

...who have never heard of Jesus.

And then do you know what he said? before dying on the cross?

No I don't know. I wasn't there.

He said: Father, forgive them...

...because they don't know what they are doing.

- Oh well... - So don't worry:

- ... he forgave you. - Ah!

- Me too? - He forgave everyone.

- Then me too. - Calm down.

But I'm calm!

He forgave me, the Governor of Rome!

But who does he think he is?

- What's happening? - They are the priests Annas and Caiaphas.

After eating? This is a chase!

- What are you doing? - I'll leave you alone.

Among the murderers you will feel better.

- Sorry for the inconvenience. - Please...! What do I have to...?

It's about the carpenter again.

- Because you gave his body to José?

- Shouldn't I? - We would have preferred him to have stayed...

... on the cross until the birds had eaten it.

WELL! The worms will eat him up!

- Yes, but it's not the same thing, is it? - NO.

Because the cheater he promised that he would rise again...

...three days after his death.

You say it like you believe it as well.

We don't. But now his the disciples will steal his body...

...and they will say to the people: look, he is risen.

Well, let's just say it. Please!

It does not matter!

It does not matter? The consequences it would be incalculable.

Try to think... A man dies...

...and after three days it comes back to life. What is it?

As? Something incredible.

Exactly. Surprising. But let's assume you believe it.

That you think I'm a man he was crucified, he died...

...and buried and on the third day risen from the dead.

What he said or preached it's not that important anymore.

Only that event matters. Because for the first time...

... in the story, a dead man he came back to life.

Yes, of course, ghosts: the shadows of the dead return.

And who believes it? Only the Etruscans.

You don't understand, Excellency.

He said he'll be back in the flesh...

- ...and it will be the first. - The first and the last.

The first born from the dead. And it will come with the promise that...

... after him, everyone will be resurrected.

- In the flesh. - Are you starting to understand?

And then think about it all those who will participate...

...to that miracle they will be able to say: "I believe".

There was a more complete one revolution in the world compared to this?

It was a crazy night, with the shepherds coming down from the mountain...

... when it was nine o'clock. And the angels came down from heaven...

...and they caused a ruckus around the stable sings Gloria in Excelsis.

And thieves, murderers, the intriguers arrived,

...tax collectors, horse thieves...

- ...and whores. - Whores?

YES. Because him he did not come for the righteous.

He came for sinners.

He said it. I was a simple legionnaire then.

And I was fulfilling my obligation from Thebes to Memphis, on the other side...

...from Sinai to the Persian Gulf. Then to Damascus...

...the land of two rivers. I saw a lot of people.

But...the child... it stuck with me.

Some nights I dream about it. And once it appeared to me...

...be awake. He looked at me softly and said:

"I am the word"

And what does it mean?

I do not know.

But do you think he is? is he really the Messiah?

These are the lands of the Lord. I have been fertile for thirty years...

...Half moon. But never in my whole life I have seen someone...

...resurrect. Therefore if I rise again, I will believe.

- Ah... Valeriano. - Hey, Valeriano.

Alas, here it is.

Get ready, we have to go.

If I rise again, I will believe.

High!

Put it down.

Everything is in order, Your Excellency.

- Who confirmed the death? - Hey, sir.

- What is your name? - Longinus, Excellency.

I even stuck my spear in his side. But he didn't move at all

clear sign of death. Unlike the two thieves.

They were alive. Alive and well.

Heh And then we broke up their shins with hammer blows.

Come on...!

It's the crucible, Your Excellency. What is done to the crucifix...

...to help them die quickly.

According to the regulation.

I've seen a few that were on the cross for weeks...

...and to kill them they beat their heads and not their lumps.

Yes, but with him it wasn't necessary.

He died in a very short time.

AND what the Scriptures say was fulfilled:

"And not a single bone in his body he will be broken"

Ah, so the writing says...

So he died in a very short time.

Yes, but look at his constitution: him it's graceful.

In my opinion it was a brutality to kill him.

So he would die alone.

But Valerian! Haven't you ever seen a dead man?

I was thinking I saw him born.

And those who cry, Who are they?

They are the Marías, Excellency.

What does it mean?

Nothing, the three are called Mary: Mary of Magdala, Mary of Cleophas,

and the other is the Virgin Mary, the mother.

Jose: When will you bury him?

- And when will we bury him? - YES.

Now, with your permission.

Good very good. But hurry, eh?

You, supervise the operation and keep watch here.

- Then we'll see if he'll be resurrected. - Take it easy, Your Excellency.

As long as we are on duty no one is resurrected here.

Obviously. With you on guard I would be afraid of such an event.

And where will they go now? bury you, José...

... from you you gave your burial to Jesus.

Why? Do I have to die?

If tomorrow wasn't a party , you would already be dead.

For now you remain in prison. Sunday morning...

...you will be tried for high treason.

You can't do this to me. I am a member of the Sanhedrin!

You can't...

And now that José is locked in there, that's it it is highly unlikely that...

...Jesus can be resurrected.

O stars of the sky, Apollo and Diana, lady of the woods!

Listen to the song that the Sibyl command the gods!

To whom the seven sacred hills were very dear!

¡Noble sun!

In the shiny car always the same and always different...

...you were born to carry the day!

That as long as the light lasts...

...you can't see anything bigger than Rome!

- Precious, precious. - What are you saying?

That was Horace: Carmen Secular.

Anyone!

- He disappeared. - He's gone.

Because you are looking for those who are alive among the dead?

Where are you going?

But what happened?

What did we do? What did we do?

We killed the Lord.

People are coming.

They are the Marias who return. Poor girls.

No. Poor us , now what do we say to Pilate?

What does he do, where does he go? Are you crazy?

Longinus! But where are you going? Come back, Longinus!

He's not here anymore. He is risen. Tell it to the apostles.

Tell Peter to go ahead of them in Galilee.

Well! Bravo! Nice soldiers we have!

Happy to hear it! We are in good hands.

Longinos has defected. The dead man has disappeared.

This will please my wife.

"Claudia! The dead man yes escaped from the grave!"

Are you happy? Then you will stop dreaming about it.

So is it true? He is risen!

The priests were right.

José de Arimathea he made fun of me.

But if I get it I'll send it to prison for twenty years:

grave desecration and concealment of a corpse.

- Which corpse? - The corpse of the dead man, who...

...has disappeared! - Nobody made him disappear.

- We were all there. - He really must have been resurrected.

- That? - That's what the angel said.

Remove!

- Which angel? - There was an angel sitting on the tomb.

An angel from heaven?

With curls, my lady.

And he said to the Marys: tell my disciples that...

... I precede them to Galilee. - Ah!

Romans: Long ago we had a reputation be a down to earth person.

But now you see the angels and lives on dreams.

- If they aren't dreams... - Please don't spread the word.

Don't scare people with this nonsense.

Angels do not exist and the dead do not go to Galilee.

They won't go anywhere.

Who did you tell? until now?

To no one. Only you know.

He is risen! Hosanna!

He kept his promise!

- And how do you know? - I heard it at the market.

- A greengrocer was commenting on it. - Good thing only I knew!

- And how did the fruit basket know? - And what do we know?

Ah, what do we know...

Do you think we talk to fruit growers?

- Then it was you! - Me? Let me go blind now.

I degrade them! I'll send them back!

- I'm sending you to Rome! - Confidently!

Let's hope, bastards?

- You dreamed the truth, my lady. - And you too.

Do you remember the child who told you that? "I am the word"?

- Do you think now? - YES! Because coming this way...

... I met a very gray old man...

...with a triangle on his head...

...who told me: "I am the word."

- Even the old one? - Yes, but it was always him...

...the child. And he explained it to me: "When you didn't believe it, you saw me...

...like a child and now that you think about it I'm old and do you know why?

- Why? Why? - Because you have become wise.

No: because you've gone crazy.

I'm going out. Don't wait for me for dinner.

Order all patrols to do so look for José de Arimathea.

Do penance, Pilate. The kingdom of heaven is near.

- Have you heard the news yet? - Exactly what we feared happened.

It was José de Arimathea.

But I sent out patrols everywhere, they will find it.

- Nerd. - What do you mean "no"?

They won't find it because it's locked in there.

As a precaution we kidnapped him last night...

...so it couldn't have been. - So who was he?

Not even the disciples. Judas committed suicide.

And nothing is known about the other eleven.

José is here.

Friend.

- Yes, yes. But if it wasn't him, Then ...

... who was he?

He's disappeared!

There are no windows or passages.

Anyone.

The seal was intact.

The door was locked from the outside and I have always held the key.

- OH... - What's wrong?

No, nothing: a puncture.

In short, the situation is as follows:

Joseph of Arimathea has fled through the walls...

... while the dead risen from the grave...

...and I was going for a walk on his own.

Up to here everything is normal.

It seems perfect to me.

And indeed we found it.

Who did you find? To the wall driller?

No, the dead one. Or the dead-living. And as you say I was going for a walk.

- Like one of us. - Step by step.

And he kept walking the road to Emmaus.

But the funny thing it's just that he didn't look like him.

- He looked like someone else. - That other one?

Mystery...

Then two disciples approached him and one of them said to him:

"Stay with us, Lord, because it's getting dark."

And he stayed. And only then did it become known.

- Don't tell me who he was. - It was himself, in person.

In the flesh.

You already said it!

Oh, my head...

And why did the disciples ask him? stay ...

...if they hadn't recognized him?

This is another mystery.

Yes, of course. A mystery inside a mystery.

And why did they tell him to stay? why was it getting dark?

Would they be plotting something in the dark? A conspiracy to carry on...

... sheltered by the shadows? Or is this another mystery too?

- The mystery of mysteries. - No: this is easy.

Oh, thank God. This is easy.

Of course: because when night falls the man is afraid.

About what?

Do you see the sun setting far away? in the desert?

- And that? - Well... it's time when man...

...is lost. In power of the unknown.

In fact, me too I often wonder...

But who am I?

- Me too. - It is true. Who are we?

Oh, I don't know. Who can we ask?

We can ask Publio Virgilio Marón:

"You are the masters of the world, the dressed people, the Romans!"

- But I don't recognize you. - Yes, but think about it for a moment, sir.

If a living person escapes through the walls...

... At that time it is also possible that a dead...

...get out of the grave and move forward a walk on your own?

Well no. No why when I saw it...

...the dead man was really dead.

He was really dead.

Except that, despite appearances...

...- I am not Aesculapius -...

... these Bedouins, excluded present here, it is understood...

...to be witches.

A magic filter, some powders...

It doesn't take much, right?

- We have to find the dead man. - NO! We have to find the living...

...because he is the living person he was guard the dead.

And he is the end of the line.

We have to find José de Arimathea.

We have turned Jerusalem upside down. We have the gates guarded and nothing.

From José de Arimathea onwards path.

Why are you laughing?

Because you like what it was he looked for the donkey and rode it.

- Mr. José! - I know you're looking for me.

And you were on the donkey. That's how it was in my house.

We had dinner here.

Your mistress insisted so much... But I have to go now. Excuse me.

How did you escape from the cell? Who opened it to you?

- If I told you, you wouldn't believe it. - Try it anyway.

Although I'm sure of it I don't understand it well either.

And what do you do as a civilian? Did you get your license?

I have been in service for thirty years. It's about time

No: I was just accompanying Mr. Jose.

where are you going? I asked you a question:

How did you manage to escape? from the cell?

Suddenly...

...the cell was full of light.

And I saw four angels raising the roof.

And the sky seemed clear to me, as if it were day.

Then...

...Jesus held out his hand to him and took me home.

In other words, I left the cell despite the doors...

... blocked. But I can't understand how all this...

- ... it could have happened. - And me less.

- Well, I do. - I imagine.

And before you leave me, Jesus told me:

... I'm going to meet my brothers.

- Don't tell me where. - In Galilee.

I could have sworn it. But if you have I decided to take myself to the mental hospital...

... you are very wrong!

And don't scream my head is exploding.

But if you're the one screaming.

Consider yourself firm.

And what did I do?

I originally thought about accusing you concealment of a corpse.

- Now I've changed my mind. - But...

I formally accuse you: simulation of death and concealment.

Because when you are found by all on their way to Galilee...

...four days by camel ride from here he's not dead, he's alive!

- But no one said otherwise! - Ahhhh!

- Jesus is alive! - You admit it!

YES! But before he was alive he was dead!

I understand.

Guards ✔!

No, you don't understand, Excellency.

Dead and buried and on the third day he he rose from the dead...

...because that's what he promised and this is what he delivered!

And I said it which I already understood.

Guards ✔!

You too? You too, Valerian?

Go away. There are horses outside. He mounts and goes quickly to Galilee.

- WELL! We also have the deserter. - We have to hurry...

... because the Lord said so Mary of Magdala who still...

...he didn't go to his father.

Then it is very clear that you have to hurry.

Go away, I'll take care of him.

YES. Go away. Go away.

Daos prisa.

They're already gone.

And now you're better kill me now.

Because as you put the gun down...

... I'll call the executioner and order him to crucify you.

Confidently.

As always, you didn't understand anything.

So help me understand.

Maybe it's better if you don't understand.

Would it be useless?

Maybe I love you for this very reason.

Oh. Goodness.

Guards ✔!

- Look! - There is.

That's the angel!

Now you've seen it too.

Do you remember what Jesus said? When was he imprisoned?

If I were to ask my father for help, he would send me twelve legions of angels.

If we take the soldiers of a legion and multiply by twelve...

... we get a total of eighty thousand nine hundred and twelve Marcoantonians...

...like that one, of which eight thousand seven hundred and twelve ride horses.

- What are you saying? - I'm just looking at that.

- But looking at who? - Don't you see it?

- To whom? - To the angel.

To the angel?

Do you see an angel?

Well... let's see one. Why? Not?

I still went blind.

Well, what do we do now? Shall we continue?

No. They are too far ahead of us.

Who knows where they will be.

Let's go home.

And let's go. It'll get better.

What a couple of beasts...!

¡Claudia!

Agla! Everyone here has disappeared.

¡Claudia!

Where are you?

- There's no point in screaming. -Ah. External!

- He's gone. - And where did he go?

What does he say?

He says that Valeriano he also ran away.

- He says they ran away together. - Where?

In Galilee.

But what will everyone do? in Galilee?

- They follow that Jesus. - Did he leave too?

Well, that's understood.

Apparently he preached and he performed miracles in Galilee.

The people there love him very much. Instead here in Judea...

... the priests chained him.

This is a cursed land, Excellence.

They say that in Galilee he he will found his kingdom.

What will he do?

YES. But don't worry.

Rest assured: he is not the prophet.

- The prophet is Moses. - I know, you already told me.

Let's return to Rome, Excellency. This story will end badly.

I have a black feeling.

Wow, man. It had to happen right to me.

I feel so sorry for Brutus who is in Philippi he met Caesar's ghost.

What should I do? I have to compete with someone...

...who isn't even a ghost.

It is not known who he is.

What is clear is that he is very intelligent.

"My kingdom is not of this world" and meanwhile furtively...

...intrigue, corrodes, divides...

But what will divide? what if he died?

WELL. Let's see where Now I can find a towel.

¡Claudia!

- So, what can we do now? - You don't know. I'm leaving.

- And where are you going? - In Galilee.

- You too? - Me too, yes.

Why? Is it because I can't go?

On the contrary: I'm the only one who should do it.

Herod Antipas invited me many times but I never accepted.

He may be a puppet of Roma but he is still governs a third of Palestine.

He is a tetrarch, a colleague. I'll go pay him an official visit...

...and so I distract myself a bit. They say he has a very cheerful court,...

a woman who is a whore and a granddaughter, Salomé, ...

... who does a dance called the seven veils.

- And what is it? - This is what, ...

...while you dance...

...drops one veil after another and stay naked.

- Ah, the crown. - And you see a naked woman...

... are you going to Galilee?

They say it's very good.

- Yes, because I make you laugh. - But that's not the point.

It's something else... it's another world.

Don't you understand?

I don't understand, huh?

But what do you have to do with it? You always have to meddle.

Find me a bag to put all these clothes. How do I wear them?

What do I care?

Oh, my stomach does in my mouth.

- Are you feeling ill, Excellency? - No. It's the camel pass.

I'm getting dizzy. I think I'm going to throw up.

- Go walking. - Worse yet, I would fall for it.

No, it's really the desert this kills me.

Why did I come to die here? What harm have I done?

It's as if a one-eyed man had looked at me.

Why don't I go home?

At least in Rome we have fun.

Nothing, they don't even answer you. Nothing happens here.

Everything is like the desert. Identical, the same, monotonous.

And everywhere you look there's nothing, there is no one.

Furthermore, this silence it drives me crazy.

Anyone. You can't hear anything. No problem.

They say that Herod Antipas, just the word has spread...

...that the crucifix was going to Galilee, he locked himself in the house...

...and it no longer opens to anyone.

And if he doesn't open it to anyone , what will we do there?

- It got into his head. - Hey, but instead of going to Galilee...

... because we don't do it go ahead and go to Rome?

HEY! But do you want to silence them? With so much cotorreo...

...you're driving me crazy.

You are a lot of charlatans.

Blablabla, blablabla, blablabla.

- What happens to the tetrarch? - The Nazarene was seen...

...in the area of ​​Lake Tiberias.

Herod Antipas lives in terror.

A caravan is approaching.

Oh. Right now that I he was passing through the fourth veil.

Salome: Yes he showed us a thousand times.

Shut up!

Make yourself known.

Who are you?

We escorted Pontius Pilate, the governor of Palestine.

Let me in before dying.

Open to the Eagles of Rome.

Let's welcome him as he should. Music!

But I can't start from the fourth veil.

If you don't dance often, it doesn't work. It has no effect.

- Well, let's start from the beginning. - Still?

To be interrupted by the first idiot who arrives.

Thanks for the compliment.

In other times, with a similar welcome...

... the Romans would have done it sacked the city...

... set on fire, dear Tetrarch...

Be patient. Salomé is capricious.

She really didn't want to: she's a girl.

Then it's the voice of innocence.

- Because I'm really an asshole. - How?

My wife ran away with a centurion.

- Claudia Procula?! - The same.

- I refuse to believe it. - Me too, but that's how it is.

- Besides, they're dead. - Eh And you tell me?

As a young man I fell in love with Cleopatra.

YES. With Mark Antony this was understood. He pushed him against Rome, against Octavian.

You have no idea what a whore is capable of.

But you have a faithful wife.

Who? Herodias?

NO! She is my concubine!

Yes, she is my brother's wife Herod Philip.

She is also an adulteress.

- Another whore. - It's just that they are women...

...you said it. Please...

But you, why are you looking your wife in my kingdom?

Why did you come here. But I start tomorrow...

... I'm going to search the whole country far and wide...

...and I will not return to Judea until I find them.

Right now everyone is coming to Galilee.

- Who are they all? - Well, that other one too...

- What is his name? - Who?

- What I sent you and what you sent me Still. Don't you remember?

It seems so to me.

Who says he is resurrected - Yes yes yes YES ...

I have the name the tip of my tongue.

- Me too, yes, yes. Hey... What is his name...?

- Esau. - Esau.

No. It's not Esau. But it's a similar name.

- Jesus. - Jesus! That's all! Well done!: Jesus.

Yes, Jesus.

But why? Did he also come to Galilee?

Obviously not! And to everyone you meet he says: see you in Galilee.

- He says... - Sorry, but in your opinion...

- ...someone who died..." you say?" - Precisely ...

- This all makes me laugh. - Well, come to me.

Laugh laugh. But while you die of fear.

I didn't ask for it through Juan's head: it was my mother.

She wanted to see him dead because she rebuked him for his adultery.

- It's not true: it was him. - And what happens?

I am the Tetrarch of Galilee and I order him to cut off his head...

...who I think is it clear?

The Baptist was asked: "Who are you?" And he replied:

"I am not the Christ." "Are you Elijah?" He said no.

“So are you the prophet?” He replied, “I am not the prophet.”

"But then Who the hell are you?"

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the desert"

And I said, “this is not the response of a sane person"

These people are dangerous and I get them out of the way.

I'm always wary too people I don't understand.

Because we are ancient. We have very clear ideas.

Do we have them?

Now he's locked himself in the house for fear of revenge from...

...he who comes after the Baptist. But this precedes it because...

...existed before him.

I'm sorry but I didn't get the point.

This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Shut up, asshole.

You won't believe I'm scared of a sorcerer.

Son of an old man and a young girl. Very criticized people...

... who to escape opinions of the people fled to Egypt.

They fled to Egypt to escape your father's persecution.

Once again with the story of Massacre of the Innocents?!

The truth is that when I came to pick up office in Palestine...

- ...we were still talking about it. - Yes Very good. But we could...

...resize. Because if not Here people hear...

...the massacre of the innocents and what do you imagine?

- A butcher's shop. And no! - Oh no?

- But do you know how many inhabitants? Bethlehem had among the men,...

...women, elderly people and children? - How many?

No more than a thousand. And inside proportion to that number...

...how many children would there be, one hundred? We eliminate those over two years old.

Because from that age there was no reason to kill them.

About twenty remain.

Take away the girls because the supposed king was a boy.

Shall we say half and half? Only ten remain.

Let's subtract some of them who managed to escape.

Because the truth is this Jesus himself was saved.

So how many did mine did dad cut his throat?

Five? Six? Is it a massacre?

Maybe he's a rogue. Maybe a crime.

But a massacre is an exaggeration.

Well, of course... seen like this... I had never thought about it.

The murders are yet to come.

My father's thing was nothing. Then you will find out.

They'll find out.

You have the goodness...

My father's thing will be nothing.

Come on: let's start over.

Ah, fantastic.

Do you want me to do it? a little dance for you?

Yes, but quickly, me I have to get up early tomorrow.

AND.

Beware of the Nazarene. It could arrive at any moment.

- Careful. - If he comes...

... we will receive it as it deserves.

Bravo!

He fell asleep!

Right now I was missing just one veil!

I can never finish!

Ah, cruel fate...

But where are we?

This is the plain of Esdraelon.

We are ten kilometers from Nazareth and seven or eight days of walking from...

...Cesaria Maritima. - Let's go to the mountains.

- Why? - What do I know?

At least there's something there. There's nothing here.

OH! The camel!

How pleasant it's the camel pass!

Oh, look how they burn me.

HEY? No thanks: I have colitis. Go figure!

But look at these idiots...

Take it, son, take it.

Ay.

There's no point in pretending you're hunting me.

- I know who you're really looking for. - To whom?

Valerian and I they also followed him.

And you know it.

Don't be fooled, Pilate.

Here we all are looking for Jesus.

Excellence! Come and see!

Friend!

Look: there are people at the feet of the mountain.

There must be a hidden meeting. They have a clandestine rendezvous.

Let's go,! Hurry.

- Excellency, hurry! - Calm down.

- Rejoice! Don't burden me. If you're in a hurry, get out.

Let's go! Fast!

Fast!

Let's go! Let's go!

- Come on, cheer up! - HEY! I'm already old enough! HEY?

That was necessary let all that is written be fulfilled...

...in the law of Moses, in the prophets and in the psalms.

Thus it is written that Christ he would suffer and rise again...

...from the dead on the third day and that his name...

... penance and remission some sins had to be announced...

...to all people. And you are...

... the witnesses of these things. And I'm sending you...

- But... it's him. - And what did we tell you?

- ...go into the world and preach... - Relax, don't lose your mind.

- Calm down, don't lose heart. "And your wife? Have you seen her?"

- Where? - You will speak new languages...

...you will catch snakes with your hand, and if you lost...

Here they are all: Valeriano, Longinos, José de Arimathea...

Ready to intervene. We'll catch them red-handed.

In the act of what?

Be still in the name of Rome!

- You are all detained. - He followed us.

Proceeded.

"Claudia! Where are you going?" - We will announce the kingdom of God.

But...

Hey:...

... look who went there.

Poor Pilate, how much darkness.

He's blind.

"What's wrong? Is everyone gone?" - Why didn't you go with them?

But did you get me? for a tramp?

A bastard? I am a serious person.

Let's go for luck you stayed!

If not, to see how it came back.

No, I'm the Governor Then ...

Pending! For!

Come here! Come here, little animal! Come! YES...

No, I'm the Governor and I have to go back to Jerusalem...

because when I'm absent, say sure, they come in...

in every mess that I don't... I...

What are you laughing at?

I laugh because if you mention it to me it means you see me.

Ah! Why? You too I thought I was blind.

So you saw me the other time too?

If you say so, I've seen worse houses.

Just now I saw your boss fly.

What things, huh? Ours fly too.

Look at Mercury. Have you seen? But they are tricks to impress people.

I've seen it all before.

And did you believe it? in what you saw?

- What insistence! - The Lord said to Thomas who doubted:

"You saw and believed. Blessed are you those who did not see and believe"

Well, I saw it and I didn't believe it. You see: you can't believe everything.

I already have mine, you know? of course you will say:

If you are a polytheist, what do you do? does it matter one more god or one less god...

Nerd. You can't add the Lord of the pagan gods.

- What does the writing say? - What does he say?

There is no other god next to me.

Oh. That says huh?. Well look, I'll have to read...

- ...that writing one day. - You can't believe everyone.

- But I don't believe anyone! I come from a refined philosophical school:

I'm a Platonist. You can exist or not exist. I am not interested.

Are you good at something? Not at all to me.

But Angel: you who have faith in him, tell your Lord Jesus...

...the one in Galilee he will not create his kingdom...

...because the Eagles of Rome fly higher...

... of his angels and above of any heavenly father.

Come on, handsome! I want to get there before dark.

What, are you lazy? Well, you gotta cheer up, buddy...

Do you understand, Angelo? It will not succeed in dividing the people...

that Rome has united and will take war nowhere...

because Roman peace reigns here.

Hey, I came down because I understand what weight.

But from there to drag you or talk.

I have a lot to do and they are waiting for me. And there is very little left of it.

Come on, make an effort! Be good, be good!

Good good. Well, here you are. There's no point wasting time with donkeys.

Let's go, it's almost time!

¡Eh!

¡Eh!¡Eh!

Romans!

¡Eh!

What happened?

Orders of Tiberius, emperor of the Romans.

All the Jews living there Jerusalem and its surroundings...

...will be dispersed,...

enslaved by other peoples, expelled from Judea...

...and sent around the world, without peace.

But why? Did they?

They forced Pontius Pilates crucify a god called Jesus.

- Esterina! - Luckily you're back.

- What did they do to you? - I was stabbed by the Romans.

It's not possible. You were wrong.

They punished me because I'm Jewish.

Romans kill Romans...

They say I did it killed the Lord Jesus.

How is this possible?

Can you imagine it? I I can't even kill a fly.

And there are many of them here.

YES. I ate some that was in the soup.

He wasn't doing it on purpose. They fell in the pot alone.

The poor flies are suicidal, You know.

But I've never killed anyone. Never. I swear.

Are you the so-called Pontius Pilate, former governor of Phoenicia and Palestine?

Like "ex"? I'm the acting governor.

No sir, not anymore. Tiberius fired you.

Now the public prosecutor is Ventídio Cumano, in whose name I declare you arrested.

- Do you recognize me? - Walk!

Are you death?

Am I that bad?

Well, we're not.

I am Barabbas.

But hadn't he freed you?

YES. But I'm a zealot.

So for participation in an armed gang and subversive association...

...as soon as I left them he took me back immediately.

Excuse me. I didn't know anything.

There are too many things you never knew.

Palestine will burn and you will not even realize it.

You know, at least, why the the emperor has removed you...

...and ordered retaliation?

If you know, don't hold me back in the darkness.

Tiberius suffers from ulcers, yes fevers and nine types of leprosy.

And am I to blame?

Nerd. But they tell him that in these places...

... there is a doctor who heals lepers only with the word.

Then he rushes to Jerusalem.

But as soon as he arrives they tell him the doctor was crucified for you...

...under Jewish pressure. - WELL...

- Not exactly like that, huh? - But that's what they told you.

And therefore, in the name of that...

...who preached the religion...

...of love and forgiveness,...

... from today the time of revenge will begin,...

...and an entire population he will be persecuted...

...forever.

- Nice paradox. - But I...

I did my duty.

That won't stop Tiberius from capturing you follow the same path as the Nazarene.

Yes, laugh.

No, you can't understand it. You are native.

Indigenous.

But when you first arrive in a colony ...

...and comes from the center of the world, from culture...

...I'm from Sutri, exactly, ...

... says: this will be a short time and I'll go home straight away.

And then time passes, you find yourself involved...

... in a sort of lethargy, and you are stretched out.

- I find you cute. - Thank you.

¡Ahhhh!

- If it weren't for you, I he would be on Golgotha ​​right now...

...in place of Jesus.

Well, it's not you you're better off here, huh?

But if I'm here I repeat, it's not your fault.

So I want to help you.

You can offer Tiberius the healer...

...in exchange for your life.

- And who will heal him? - Veronica.

Who?

Never heard of it? of Veronica?

The woman who wiped the face of Jesus his path to Calvary...

... and the imprint remained of his face on the fabric?

YES. Except that this lady Veronica...

...doesn't exist. It's a misunderstanding. Verónica means "true icon": ...

...true image.

Here it is.

The face of Jesus. I cleaned it for him!

You enter it before the face of Tiberius...

...and heals him.

And do you believe it?

Obviously! Because that's an image it can do anything: it's miraculous.

But hey, let's see:

- Do you believe in miracles? - If I didn't believe in miracles...

...how revolutionary would that be?

Go ahead!

He had managed to find the right doctor, the great miracle worker...

...and he goes and crucifies him! - It's true, but they too...

We didn't kill him.

Because we by law he can't kill anyone.

Everyone collaborated in the execution of that messenger of truth...

despite the fact that his prophets, as well as our sibyls...

...warned them not to do so.

And you didn't recognize him as king of the Jews.

Herod Antipas already was chosen by Rome.

We didn't recognize him, it's true. But for us he was not the Messiah.

Let the prisoner pass!

But what do you do?

You tilt them like the disappearance of sovereigns?

But if we didn't. They bowed.

It's true, Cesare. We weren't.

And who was he?

Curious! It happens exactly like with the magician.

And these wicked priests said: "He cast a spell!"

Be careful, Caesar: these are hypocrites.

Yes, but who was he then?

Shall we repeat the entry? So let's see if it happens again.

Just say: "Forward the prisoner!"

Boys: Eagles aloft!

Forward the prisoner!

Have you seen? Weapons and banners...

... bow only to the rhythm of kings.

I've been through here before, and they get up.

And since I'm not going pass this way... up!

And who do they greet? To you?

You never know. It's always the same:

he whom the priests present I didn't want to acknowledge here.

To Jesus Nazarene, whose face I portrayed.

Here is the cloth with who wiped his face...

and Veronica left us.

This is it?

Just looking at it can do a the miracle happens.

- How? - Allow me.

Leprosy will disappear from your face and you will become white and red...

...like an apple. Taken.

Well, I don't know about an apple... A plum!

But you'll be better than now, huh?

I promised half my empire and the city of Rome...

...to the one who knows how to free me from this disease.

- I renew my promise. - I'm happy with less.

So, I save your life or I give it to you anything else you ask me.

- What do you want? - Whatever you want.

- Fiancé? - Word of Caesar.

- Start? - When you want.

Jesus!

Did you understand who was this Jesus?

I honestly hadn't he realized it. But I didn't understand...

I'm Roman. I have another concept. We only believe what we see.

Well, if we take a serious look at it. we don't believe in anything.

My wife, August César, she understood.

Because women have premonitions.

Ah, Valeriano: here. Please be patient and take care of this.

But they don't. They didn't notice.

They who are the doctors and the priests and know the law...

...and all that the prophets they announced, they didn't realize.

On the contrary. You were so sure what you said:

may his blood be on us...

...and on our children.

And this is what happened.

No: he just fell about your children.

I saw them on the street beheaded by the Romans.

And here you are, talking. Nothing fell on you.

As almost always, blood it fell only on the people.

Enough of Pilate. All's well that ends well.

And what ended well?

I keep my promise I made you in return.

- I'll save your life. - And who asked you?

Why? What did you ask me?

The deal was life or something otherwise I asked you to choose.

And what else can you ask me? but life?

There is something more precious than life for a man?

Everyone else's life.

The life of a city, for example.

The life of the Jewish people.

Are you asking me this in exchange for yours?

No, not that one!

NO! NO!

Call off the pursuit, Cesare.

Otherwise you will leave behind an ugly one precedent on history.

Don't create a rift between people. Between the Jews and everyone else.

After all, who was Jesus Christ? the Lord our God.

But who was he really?

It was a man.

- And the rest of the data? - I do not know.

Who was he?

See, you've already forgotten.

He was Jewish.

And who are the apostles?

They are other Jews walking around the world to preach the law that...

...Jesus Christ completed but it hasn't changed. It's the same.

Remember this detail and let's push the question to its proper limits.

In the fifteenth year of your kingdom, divine Tiberius,...

...in the fourth year of twelfth Olympics,...

...on the eighth day of April calendars, ...

here in Jerusalem, in the place called Mount Calvary,...

... what happened happens in the world every day,...

...and it will continue to happen forever:

an innocent man he was murdered.

Here is the culprit of the crime.

Do justice, Caesar, and settle accounts.

You freed me from the snare of death.

And you promised.

It could grant both: the life of Pilate,...

...and stop the chase.

- Can it be done? - WELL...

No, Caesar. Since the world is world, blood wants blood.

The guilty must be punished.

This is true, unfortunately.

But Tiberius knows how to be indulgent.

No. If the bill is not paid...

...the first criminal to pass history will believe that he has the right to...

... persecute the Jews. Stop future criminals, Augustus Caesar...

...and proclaim to the world the following:

The so-called Pontius Pilate he is the murderer of Jesus Christ,...

...he who, apparently,...

...is the firstborn from the dead,...

...the prince of the kings of the Earth.

And consequently...

he is sentenced to death.

Pilate...

You proclaimed our Lord.

You finally understood. So... you believe.

- Do you have a coin? - Huh?

An ovolo, a drachma, a sestercio...

- So that? - Die the old fashioned way.

I have to pay for the trip of Charon's boat...

... Cross the Styx lagoon.

But then you don't believe it!

That's not the point.

Let me die like a Roman. I'm not ready for anything else.

It would take a hundred years.

Settle the bill, Caesar!

Settle the bill.

NO!

Come on! Before I regret it.

All generations I'll tell you blessed...

... because under your mandate things have been accomplished...

...announced by the prophets.

And you yourself, as his witness,...

you will appear when I return to judge all those...

...which they didn't recognize his name.