Barabbas Page #2

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Then in the air there was an angel.

The whole sky seemed to dismantle.

It was white, it was fire.

It was white fire.

He stretched out his arm.

It seemed as long as a spear.

The point of the spear

went between the stone and the rock...

...and the stone rolled away.

If only you had been here sooner

and seen what I saw.

My eyes are good.

They see nothing but real things.

You have to believe this, Barabbas.

The Master was a man of truth,

and he said this would be so.

Did you see a prophet come

out of the tomb?

My eyes were so dazzled.

I think I must have covered them.

But when I could see again...

...a man and a woman were together

in the garden. Then the woman was alone.

And then she went quickly away.

And the man was the same man

they buried in there?

He was like a shadow.

The morning light was behind him.

But I'm sure it was he.

Shadows, light, that's about the truth of it.

Here's the truth of it:

Why do you think he should lie

about himself...

...when it meant he would be killed?

How do you know what he said?

The priests ought to know more

than you do. And they call it blasphemy.

He said:

"Love one another."

"Love one another"?

And they crucified him for that?

Where are you going?

There are those who can tell you more.

There's a house in the street of the potters

where they meet.

You may find them there.

Go and ask them.

It's a trick they're playing.

They took the body and hid it

to go on with their story.

Or are you afraid?

Are you afraid of knowing

what has happened?

Are you looking for someone?

You like to see it?

The clay making itself?

Some other day.

What's happened? I heard there was news.

The tomb's empty,

the women said they saw him.

Creed can have strange visions.

Only it's true. Where's Peter?

Who could it be?

Don't open it.

We should get out of this city.

Wiser to go down to Galilee.

Can we hide from the future forever?

Let's see what is here.

What if they mean to destroy us all?

Leaving no one to tell the knowledge

of the man.

Can the word turn to silence?

I'm not afraid of that.

Where is he?

-What have you done with him?

-What do you want with us?

-The truth. What happened?

-What right have you to be here?

You know what I mean.

What are you all afraid of?

What are we afraid of?

You want to know what we want to know.

-What is the truth of this morning?

-I know the truth.

You stole the body.

You think we might have hidden it

here among us.

But something else has happened.

If you find him here,

it will only be if he comes himself.

Through that gate, as you did just now.

Don't you believe it. I saw the body.

He was a dead man.

If you were sure of that,

you wouldn't be here.

He's risen.

I trust in him and wait.

You're all mad.

What do you think you're doing,

making that net?

There's no sea to fish in

closer than Galilee.

It's what I'm used to doing,

my hands go to it.

But the streets in the cities

have to be the sea for me now.

He made a joke about it

when he took us away from the boats.

He said that in the future

our fish would be men.

It was a serious joke.

It meant he'd given us the word

to draw men out of the dark sea...

...into the light.

And you call yourself a fisherman?

Do I have to tell you

what happens to the fish?

They struggle about, gasp and die.

We struggle and gasp.

You said something good.

Poor fish.

I, too...

...must struggle and gasp.

And die.

And die in order to live.

That's where men have the advantage

over fish.

They can die to the world,

die to the dark sea...

...and begin to live again in the light.

That's what he promised,

and what he promised has happened.

But what has happened...

...we still don't know.

He's come back to life.

-He'll lead us to the new kingdom.

-I'll believe it when he's before us.

When I can touch him and hear him.

You're always full of doubts

without any cause.

No cause to doubt

that a dead man can come back to life?

No cause.

I can take you now to talk with a man

who was dead.

The Master brought him back to life.

Thomas knows him well.

Come, talk to him.

Let him tell you.

You needn't be afraid.

Lazarus? Will you come to us?

Here's someone wants to question you.

Come in.

I'll leave you with him.

You can ask him whatever you like.

They told me death is not....

Is not death.

They brought me here to see...

...because you could make me believe it.

Because you were dead,

and were raised from the dead by the man.

I mean...

...the Master.

That is true.

I was dead.

And I know that he is Christ...

...the Son of God...

...who has power over life and death.

What's it like there?

You were there.

-Tell me what it's like.

-Like?

-Like?

-Yes, what is it...

...this thing you experienced?

What is it?

I have experienced nothing.

Only death.

And death is nothing.

Nothing?

No.

What should it be?

You want me to tell you

about the realm of the dead?

I cannot.

How would you tell an unborn child

what life is?

It exists.

But it isn't anything.

To those who've been there...

...nothing else is anything either.

No one has asked me this before.

They have listened how life came back

to me and gone away praising.

Only you have asked about death.

And none the wiser.

We're two men who might be dead.

Sharing his body.

Life.

Love one another.

Listen, everybody! That's the word.

Love one another!

We can tell them about loving one another.

-Leave me alone. I want to sit.

-What do you want to do, sit and think?

It's no good thinking.

Come on, let's go and find a new life.

-Where are you going, Barabbas?

-To see what "brought back to life" means.

Love one another!

-Come on.

-My shoe.

Look.

-Hey! Get up! Come on!

-Leave it alone.

Stay alive.

It's all you have to do.

It's not my fault they let him get killed.

You can't hang it around my neck.

I've as much right to be alive

as any of you.

You stinking fish.

You're afraid to look at me

because I'm alive.

You, look at me. Look at me!

It may be today that the new world comes.

Today or tomorrow.

But it will come, you will see.

Every day you have promised us,

it has never come.

-It will never come.

-It will come. I know it.

Please, Rachel,

tell us again what it will be like.

You'd better mind what you say.

Don't you know what can happen to you

if they hear you?

Anybody now caught

spreading such stories...

...the Son of God, the Messiah and such,

is to be judged an enemy of the State...

...and stoned until he's dead.

It will be as though the Earth has become

like a star burned clean.

Everything evil swept away.

We shall look up and there will be angels

coming down from the sky...

...and they will put food in front of us

and perhaps new clothes to wear.

White, like their own.

Or some blue, like the colour of the sky.

Pain and sorrow will sink into the ground,

and everything will be made new...

...because the Son of God has risen

from the dead.

The world has become his kingdom.

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