Killing Jesus Page #7

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If it's not possible that

this cup be taken away,

your will be done.

So I'm betrayed with a kiss.

- Take me. Let them go.

- You don't give orders to me!

Leave him! Grab the madman!

Bind his hands!

Save yourselves.

For me. You must live!

Go!

Go.

I'm going to Jerusalem.

No, my brother. They'll find you.

They'll kill you.

I'm going.

- It's cold and the hour is late.

- And the matter urgent.

The matter being?

We've been told the temple guards

have arrested Jesus of Nazareth.

An issue of your faith.

An issue of law.

Law beyond my providence.

Both our laws

and yours violated.

He's been taken

to the house of Caiaphas,

not to the temple

and the chamber of hewn stone.

His trial will be unjust.

Sometimes things

are done for expediency.

Cicero, writing

about your Roman law,

claims where there is immorality,

there can be no expediency.

- This is immoral.

- Send troops. Free him.

Roman troops to the home of a high priest?

Are you insane?

Governor,

I ask as a devout Jew,

do not allow this man

to be murdered.

If he is stoned,

it's beyond my purview.

They want him crucified.

A punishment

only I can pronounce.

Will you?

It's late and I am cold.

You are accused

of acts of sorcery,

spreading lies,

corrupting others.

I spoke openly

in synagogues, a temple...

places where Jews came

to hear of God.

They came to hear of God.

The words you gave them

came from Satan.

Why not ask those

who have heard me?

They know what I said.

This is the way you answer

the high priest?

I command you!

Let us through! Let us through!

Please!

Make way!

Open this!

You truly claim you are the

son of the Blessed One?

I am.

You have heard blasphemy

from his lips.

These words and more.

His claim...

he's a prophet.

Blindfold him.

Give us a prophecy,

O prophet Jesus.

Who struck that blow?

Prophets are all-seeing.

Stop!

Stop this disgrace.

You dare to interfere!

Annas, we are shamed

by what we see.

If this... this cabal

is to be called a trial,

then I demand

that we are included.

You are but two.

This blasphemer will be

judged by a majority.

What's happening?

Jesus is a criminal,

posing as the Messiah.

Not a man who walks on the waters,

who feeds the multitudes.

You saw these wonders?

Ask yourselves... would priests

lay hands upon him...

if he were truly the Messiah?

People are fooled by sorcery.

You... I've seen you

with him before.

No, no,

I don't know this Nazarene.

It's too dangerous here.

We should go. No.

Come on, Simon.

She says you are a follower.

She's wrong.

- Deny it under oath.

- I deny him. Now, enough.

The vote is against you.

- Make way!

- Make way!

Move aside!

He is the Messiah!

Punish him! He's a liar!

These goats,

where do you take them?

To the temple.

For sacrifice?

He leads them to death.

He's their betrayer.

Yeah.

I want that rope.

Just the rope.

I'll pay.

Here.

Unless I lead him,

the herd will scatter.

Scatter and be saved.

I need the rope.

Here.

Buy more goats, 10 times these.

Ten times 10.

Or a horse.

Yes. Now you imagine it,

owning a horse.

I know the feeling.

Governor,

you'll not open the gate?

We've brought

a criminal for judgment.

Take him and judge him

under your law.

- Free him!

- Free him! Free him!

- Free him! Free him!

- No! Punish him!

- No! Punish him!

- He will hear the charge! Silence, I say!

He should be executed for speaking

against the rule of Caesar,

claiming he is king of the Jews.

Are you king of the Jews?

My kingdom is not of this world.

I hear no support

for your charges.

His cryptic speech

is but a ploy.

He is a criminal.

We have witnesses.

He began his crimes in Galilee.

Galilee?

Then take him

to the tetrarch of Galilee.

He should judge this man.

Take him to the tetrarch!

There he is again.

He is one of them.

I don't know that man.

You're mistaken.

You're lying.

All is as he said.

Where is God's army of angels?

What do you hear?

Caiaphas is bringing him here.

Hearing Jesus

comes from Galilee,

Pilate wants

his blood on my hands.

He wants my name to curse

the lips of every Jew.

Sillaeus, leave us.

Go!

I will deal no more

with holy men.

I'm a stone wall, Herodias.

I'll not argue.

Jesus threatens priests,

but other than a mob

hailing him king of the Jews,

he is no threat to you.

His death need not be

upon our house.

I cannot simply hide.

Face him.

Let the mob see...

who is truly fit

to be king of the Jews.

We shall release you!

Blessing for the prophet!

Release him!

Release him!

I'm told you work miracles.

Do something.

Anything wondrous.

Make bread fall

from the heavens.

Feed us a morning meal.

My preference

is lentils and barley.

Do something!

A miracle could save you.

It is said that Simon

the Magus could fly.

Hmm?

But can Jesus the Nazarene fly?

Release him.

Let him be borne aloft.

Oh. Oh, look. Look.

There he... There he goes.

No. I'm wrong.

A bird. Not Jesus.

He makes no wonders

but is hailed as king.

Let him be adorned as a king.

- Come. Come.

- Make him a king!

The purple robe of royal office.

No king shall go forth

without a staff!

Bring a staff!

Look at the king with his staff!

Crown! Give him a crown!

- Crown! Crown!

- Bring him a crown!

Patience.

Patience.

Nothing has been forgotten.

Behold the king.

He's the real king!

I give you a royal threat

to Caesar Tiberius.

Bring him back to the Romans

to be judged for sedition.

You cannot dismiss us.

He expects you to deal with this.

Bring him back to Pilate.

I'm done with him.

Why must you cater to these priests,

the tetrarch?

Without them I cannot

easily govern these people.

Kill him, and you'll bear

the wrath of his following.

I must do something.

I cannot simply set him loose.

Guards! Halt!

Scourge him.

What's happening?

Let me through.

Master.

His cry.

My baby boy.

Oh, my baby boy.

No. No.

You mustn't.

Hold her. Hold her.

Make the guard stop! No!

Please!

Scourging is punishment enough.

He may not survive.

Many don't.

End this threat to order.

End it.

Let the death of this one man

prevent the deaths of many.

Crucify him!

Crucify him!

No!

Crucify him!

Crucify him!

Crucify him! Crucify him!

Crucify him!

Crucify him!

Crucify him! Crucify him!

Jesus, king of the Jews!

Jesus, king of the Jews!

Betrayed.

Humiliated.

And soon agony

beyond what you can imagine.

Is this the glory of God

you bragged of?

Glory...

as I expected.

No! The temple

is God's glory.

God's glory is love.

To know love...

is to know God.

Get him up!

Escort!

Then love me, sweet Jesus.

I do love you.

I will hear rage from your lips,

hear it as you hang

nailed to the wood!

You will vomit forth

a... a hatred...

that will put a lie

to your words!

Why are you afraid?

Die, false prophet!

Punish the blasphemer!

Here is a false prophet!

Take him to Golgotha!

A false king!

Mock him for his lies!

Come!

Take joy at his suffering!

O great king!

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