Killing Jesus Page #8

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Kill him!

Great prophet!

Mock him!

Go on! Come!

Move!

Come on!

Move!

Honor the king of the Jews!

- Get up, false prophet!

- Get up!

False king!

Liar! Liar!

Take him to Golgotha!

Take him! Take him!

Take him!

Take him!

Take him to Golgotha!

Liar! Liar!

Liar!

Liar!

Forgive them.

They know not what they do.

He spoke.

He cursed you.

No. He asked his God

to forgive us.

Of all his followers,

only you.

Of all of them, only you.

Peter claims he can see

no more of his pain.

The others fear for their lives.

Wh... Wh...

Why have you forsaken me?

If his father has forsaken him,

we are all forsaken.

It is finished.

He said it's finished.

My son.

I am Nicodemus,

and this is Joseph of Arimathea.

We offer a shroud,

and we have a tomb for Jesus.

I thought this

would end as you said it would end.

It is ended.

All I ask is for assurance of that.

- Certainty that...

- What, that he will not reappear?

Of course not.

All I ask...

Enough.

Do not tell me

that priest delays our journey.

We'll be on the road

to Caesarea as planned.

- What brought him here?

- Fear.

The man is dead.

What more could he want?

He wants the tomb

guarded by Roman soldiers.

He, of all people,

worries the Nazarene

will return from the dead?

He claims concern that the followers

of Jesus will take the body...

in order to make it appear

that he has risen.

Which do you believe?

I believe that guarding that tomb is

a waste of Roman soldiers' efforts.

Let's begin our journey.

Yes. I am Simon...

and called by you Peter,

the rock of your faith,

and I will be

your fisher of men.

He has come...

come back to us!

Yes.

According to early Christian tradition,

Simon took the mission

of Jesus to Rome,

where he formalized

the nascent Christian Church.

The Romans

sentenced him to death.

It is claimed he asked

to be crucified upside down...

so that his death would not

be the equal of Jesus.

The Romans granted his wish.

Early writings speak of James...

preaching of Jesus

in the Jerusalem temple.

It said he was stoned to death,

supposedly for challenging

the temple's high priests.

The fates of other disciples are

consigned to legend and apocryphal texts.

Andrew was crucified in Greece.

Thomas was speared to death

in India.

Simon sawed in half in Persia.

Matthew murdered in Ethiopia.

According to tradition,

John was not martyred...

but spent time

in exile on Ptmos...

and lived to 90.

Scholars debate the authorship

of the Gospel of John,

held by some to be an eyewitness

account of the life of Jesus.

Antipas continued pressing Rome

to be named king...

until his efforts offended

the new emperor, Caligula.

Antipas and Herodias

were exiled to Gaul,

where they died in obscurity.

Pontius Pilate

was recalled to Rome,

while Joseph Caiaphas,

without his Roman ally,

lost his position

within the temple.

Whereas the story of Jesus,

a humble carpenter of Nazareth,

gave birth to one of the

world's foremost religions.

Today there are more than two

billion Christians worldwide.

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