Jesus is lowered from the cross to his mother Mary, who looks directly at the audience in this Pietà. Satan is then shown screaming in defeat in Hell. After Jesus gives up his spirit and dies, a single drop of rain falls from the sky, triggering an earthquake which destroys the Temple and rips the cloth covering the Holy of Holies in two, to the horror of Caiaphas and the other priests. As he hangs from the cross, Jesus prays forgiveness for those who did this to him, and redeems a criminal crucified next to him. Simon of Cyrene is unwillingly pressed into carrying the cross for Jesus. Pilate is left with no choice but to reluctantly order Jesus' crucifixion.Īs Jesus carries the cross along the Via Dolorosa to Calvary, Veronica wipes Jesus's face with her veil. In an attempt to appease the crowd, Pilate has Jesus brutally scourged and mocked with a crown of thorns, yet the crowd continues to demand that Jesus be crucified. To Pilate's dismay, the crowd demands to have Barabbas freed and Jesus killed. Pilate attempts to have Jesus freed by giving the people an option of freeing Jesus or the violent criminal Barabbas. After Jesus is returned, Pilate offers the crowd that he will chastise Jesus and then will set him free. Tormented by demons, he flees the city and hangs himself with a rope from a dead donkey.Ĭaiaphas brings Jesus before Pontius Pilate to be condemned to death, but after questioning Jesus, Pilate sends him instead to the court of Herod Antipas, as Jesus is from Herod's ruling town of Nazareth. Meanwhile, the remorseful Judas attempts to return the money to have Jesus freed, but is refused by the priests. Three times Peter denies knowing Jesus, but then runs away sobbing.
When questioned by Caiaphas whether he is the son of God, Jesus replies "I AM." Caiaphas is horrified and tears his robes, and Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy. Caiaphas holds a trial of Jesus over the objection of some of the other priests, who are expelled from the court. John tells Mary and Mary Magdalene of the arrest, and Peter follows Jesus at a distance. The temple guards arrest Jesus and the apostles flee. As the guards move in to arrest Jesus, Peter cuts off the ear of Malchus, but Jesus heals the ear. After receiving thirty pieces of silver, one of Jesus' other apostles, Judas Iscariot, approaches with the temple guards and betrays Jesus with a kiss. The film opens in Gethsemane in medias res as Jesus prays and is tempted by Satan, while his apostles, Peter, James, and John sleep.
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