![]() ![]() Other added scenes seem to make Caiaphas more villainous and Pontius Pilate more sympathetic. Sensing Jesus' pain, she says, in Hebrew, "Why is this night unlike any other night?" This is a famous part of the Jewish liturgy for Passover, the season during which Jesus was crucified. For example, at one point when Jesus is first being beaten, Mary awakens, as if from a nightmare. Some seem to highlight the Jewishness of Jesus and his family. It's hard to divine a pattern from the portions that were added. And a few scenes, apparently, are inventions-often artistically daring ones. Some came from other religious sources, like the visions of the mystic nuns Sister Anne Emmerich and Mary of Agreda. ![]() Many of Gibson's additions are quite plausible embellishments of brief biblical mentions. "I wanted to be true to the Gospels," Gibson has said of his goals in creating "The Passion of the Christ." In an introduction to a book about his movie, he wrote, "Holy Scripture and accepted visions of the Passion were the only possible texts I could draw from to fashion a dramatic film."īut because scripture is silent on certain details of the Passion, several scenes in the movie aren't found in the Bible. ![]() The complete version of this article is available in Beliefnet's The Passion Papers. ![]()
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