So i just saw the passion.....?

Question

and i gotta hand it to mel gibson for making such a "moving" picture but honestly the movie wasnt that great unless you are a really devout christian. the part where the barabass guy was let go is utter bs though, even if they wanted jesus dead it makes no sense to let go a known murderer just for someone else to die (they couldve easily killed both) unless it was to add to the power of the story...... anybody else feel the same?

no, it doesnt make sense because the people wouldnt ignore the murderer guy, they would still hate both for what they did, not just jesus.

Answer 1

I agree with everything Paladin said. I didn't care for the movie. Too much of the torture and not enough of the life and good works of Jesus.

Answer 2

No. I didn't care for the movie at all. First of all, by removing almost all of the back story of Jesus' life (the flashbacks were poor) and concentrating solely on his torture and crucifixion, Gibson robbed the audience of any reason to feel the full injustice of what was happening to this poor man. That choice of focus reduced the film, for me, to 120 minutes of someone getting the crap beat out of him. While that alone is enough to make me sick and angry, other films about Jesus have been MUCH more moving. Zeffirelli's six-plus-hour _Jesus of Nazareth_ is my personal favorite.

As for Barabbas's release, it seems perfectly plausible that a provincial governor should release a prisoner as a sign of Roman magnanimity around the time of a Jewish festival and give the crowd the choice of which condemned man should be saved from death. It also makes sense to me for a very religious people to choose to release a murderer over someone guilty of (what is in their tradition) a much worse crime, namely blasphemy. I'm not saying that's the decision I would make, but I am not a religious Jew living in that age.

Answer 3

It was the custom of the Romans to set a prisoner free during the Jewish Passover. Pilate was looking for a way to let Jesus go free. Pilate really didn't want to be involved in the killing of an innocent man. He thought they would obviously choose Jesus over a known Murderer. It didn't work. The primary reason that it didn't work was because it wasn't in God's will for Jesus to live. It was prophesied in the old testament, Jesus knew it. He was God's son (God Incarnate) and it was preordained that he should die as a perfect sacrifice to atone for the sins of all. If you study the old testament you will see that the Jews were required to provide sacrifices at different periods throughout the year. The sacrifices were supposed to be perfect. Since there are no perfect humans God came himself (Jesus) to be the perfect sacrifice for all of our sins, past present and future.

Answer 4

When the choice was offered by Pilate (I think it was Pilate) to let either Jesus or the murderer go, Pilate expected the crowd to make exactly the decision you just made. The reason he gave them the choice was because he knew that Jesus had committed no crime, and wanted Him to be set free.

The whole point is that people chose to kill Him because of his righteousness, rather than someone guilty of murder.

Answer 5

If you were moved by the movie, perhaps you should read Isaiah 53. It might just move you even further. Then read the Crucifixion accounts in the four Gospels afterwards. Hopefully it will move you towards Jesus.

Answer 6

the whole idea that a ruthless Roman governor would concern himself with the demands of the people his troops are forcibly occupying is ridiculous from the get go.

and "The Passion" was, in my opinion, a repellent excuse to splash the movie screen with torture and gore. i can't believe that people actually took their children to see that disgusting faux snuff flick. it had more red dyed corn syrup then any Freddy Kruger movie.

i thought Satan's "mini me" was amusing tho. a "little" comedy relief , i suppose.

Answer 7

The BIBLE says the crowd was given a choice as to who to let loose.. They picked the other man.. JESUS had to go to the cross to die in our places so it all had to work out that HE would not be picked.

Answer 8

Barbaras was let go because the Romans had a custom in place to appease the Jews.

Answer 9

15Now it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. 17So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor.
"Barabbas," they answered.
22"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!"
23"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"
25All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
26Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

Answer 10

Moving? Like the Moses and the 10-Commandments Movie?

I am sorry, BUT, Neither are Biblically Accurate! Moving but PLEASE HEAR WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS......?

(Luke 16:27-to-31) Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

(Lukeeee 16:28) For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

(Luk 16:29) Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

(Luk 16:30) And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

(Luk 16:31) And he said unto him,= IF THEY WILL NOT HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS = neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

NEITHER = WILL THEY BE PERSUADED BY THE MOVIE!

Thanks, RR