Jesus quickly becomes a phenomenon, inciting curiosity and interest wherever He goes. He works miracles-healing, casting out demons, even raising the dead. He speaks with authority and vigor, investing old truths with fresh, new insight. This endears Him to the common people who flock to Him in great numbers. Unconventional from the outset, Jesus challenges both the practices and the prejudices of a religious establishment He openly confronts. Jesus’ popularity accelerates and begins to eclipse that of John, who dutifully steps aside, giving Jesus the spotlight. The statements of the angel Gabriel, Jesus’ mother Mary, Zacharias the priest, the heavenly host at His birth, Simeon and Anna in the temple, and the magi all center around one message: Jesus is the very Son of God, the promised Messiah of Israel, and the Savior of the world.Īfter John the Baptist begins preaching in the wilderness, Jesus quietly initiates His ministry, yet His time of obscurity is short. Yet there is a persistent testimony in those early days that He is no ordinary child. He is born, as the prophet foretold, 3 in Bethlehem, in a manger, among lowly people of modest circumstance. Though conceived by a miracle, Jesus has humble beginnings.

2 From the beginning, as predicted in the ancient scrolls, a divine plan had been unfolding. 1 In fact, it was the reason He was born. This transaction entails a crucial fact obscured by the controversy surrounding the film: Jesus was not a victim.

While three hours of darkness cloak the cross a transaction takes place that has been planned since the dawn of time. What viewers do not see cannot be filmed. Yet the most important detail of Jesus’ final hours is not in the film. “The Passion of the Christ” is an historically precise, visually stunning, and viscerally moving portrayal of the crucifixion of Jesus.

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