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Experience Christ's triumphal Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem, the cleansing of the Temple, the sinister scheming and betrayal of Christ by Caiaphas and Judas, the Last Supper, and the trial of Jesus.
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00:00THE END
00:44The city of Jerusalem, crowded at all times, filled to overflowing during the annual feasts of the Passover.
00:53Travelers from all the lands of Israel thronged to the great temple.
00:56The mighty courts resounded to the blaring ram's horn trumpets.
01:00The smoke of burning offerings ascended from the altars.
01:06It was to this same temple that three decades before, Joseph and Mary had brought the infant Jesus for the
01:13sacred rite of dedication.
01:18It was within these vast courtyards that in his boyhood, he had impressed the scribes and the sages with his
01:25wisdom and understanding.
01:30Here, he had returned in the early days of his earthly mission as an unheralded teacher, unknown except in his
01:37homeland of distant Galilee.
01:45It was through the streets leading to the temple that the people had hailed him in a sudden, spontaneous accolade,
01:52shouting,
01:53Hosanna, Hosanna to he who comes in the name of the Lord.
01:56Hail to Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
02:04And it was here that he had looked upon the outer courtyard, upon the vendors of sacrificial animals, the sellers
02:11of oils and incense, the changers of currency, and had turned away with tears in his eyes.
02:23On the following day, Jesus and the twelve came from Bethany and entered the temple.
02:39Have them copy this, Shufka, with the changes I authorized.
02:43Yes, excellency.
02:47Excellency, my lord Cephas, the Nazarene has returned.
02:51How many are with him?
02:52Only his closest disciples, eleven or twelve.
02:56Where is he now?
02:57In the inner temple, praying.
03:05Excellency, what shall we do?
03:08Do?
03:09Let him pray.
03:12Yesterday, he had half of Judea at his back.
03:14And he turned away.
03:15And the people saw that he feared us.
03:18Now let them see that we ignore him.
03:22Yes, excellency.
03:27Eight is all that it is worth.
03:29Eight are no more.
03:31Do you think you know the value of Gentile coins better than I do?
03:34There, eight pieces.
03:35Take them or I'll call the gods.
03:58The people are curious, thoughtless, fickle.
04:03But remind them of the authority of the temple.
04:06Keep it ever before them.
04:17The Nazarene.
04:19You shall not make my father's house into a marketplace.
04:23Is it not written?
04:26My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations.
04:34But you have made it a den of robbers.
04:55The Nazarenes and Bethany dining with his disciples, surrounded by a horde of followers.
05:02Messias mingled with them, pretended to be one of them.
05:05He reports that they're saying that Jesus is a prophet.
05:08The son of David.
05:10The Messiah of Scripture.
05:16They're saying that a wealthy woman thrust into where he was seated at table and anointed
05:22his hair with rare oil, as though he were already a king.
05:28Do you think he'll lead a revolt against us?
05:31I think he has.
05:34Yesterday he entered the city to a thunder of cheers.
05:38Today he stormed the court of all nations.
05:41Defied my authority.
05:43Openly.
05:44Brazely.
05:46And tomorrow.
05:48Tomorrow.
05:52I don't know.
05:55I don't know.
06:03Well, they've changed things around that I was last here.
06:06Changed?
06:06Used to look like a stockyard.
06:10Bullocks and goats, sheep and pigeons for sacrifices.
06:13Money changes tables over there.
06:15They were there until three days ago.
06:17New young teacher, a man from the north, drove them out single-handed.
06:21One man?
06:22One man.
06:23To be exact.
06:25That man.
06:27Jesus Bar-Joseph from Nazareth and Galilee.
06:30You know he's a man of courage.
06:32Well, I wouldn't call the money changes a valiant sort of enemy.
06:35Well, I don't mean just for baiting them, but for having the nerve to come back here.
06:39He must realize that the high priest can stand no such opposition.
06:47Oh, that's wrong.
06:49There go two Achaia for his closest aides.
06:52Let's stroll over and see what's happening.
06:55This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
07:00We know that you are true, and do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the words of
07:06God.
07:08Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
07:12A very choice trap.
07:14If he says pay, the entire crowd turns against him.
07:18Don't pay, and I arrest him for treason.
07:21Well, come, teacher, answer.
07:22Should we pay them or should we not?
07:26Why put me to the test?
07:28Because of your great authority and wisdom?
07:31Show me a coin.
07:43Whose likeness and inscription is on it?
07:46Why, Caesar's.
07:48Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
07:52and unto God the things that are God's.
08:10Disgusting, contemptible.
08:11He should be cast out of the temple.
08:13Banned from it forever.
08:14And make a bad situation worse.
08:16If we let him go on, everyone will believe in him.
08:18And the Romans will destroy both our holy place and our nation.
08:22I fear Pilate's troops less than I fear the people.
08:25They love us little enough as it is.
08:27Unless every day that they hear the Galilean.
08:29But acting against him would only inflame them.
08:32We can never justify such an act to them.
08:34That I know.
08:35You know nothing.
08:37Excellency.
08:38You do not understand it is expedient that one man,
08:43one man should die for the people.
08:46Not that a whole nation shall perish.
08:50I agree completely, Excellency.
08:52Completely.
08:52If it were not that he had so deluded me.
08:54I certainly have no love for him.
08:56Excellency.
08:59Excellency.
09:01I'm kidding.
09:10How is he called?
09:12Judas, Excellency.
09:14Judas Iscariot.
09:22And the upper room of an inn had been prepared for the feast of the unleavened bread.
09:40My children.
09:43I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
09:49Or I tell you I shall never eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
10:02Truly I say to you, one of you will betray me.
10:08One who is eating with me.
10:10Is it I, Master?
10:11Surely none of us.
10:13Betray you, Master.
10:14Who could it be, Master?
10:16Oh, no, Rabbi, it couldn't be.
10:18No, Master, no.
10:19It is one of the twelve who is dipping bread with me.
10:24For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him.
10:29But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
10:35It would be better for that man if he had not been born.
10:45What you are going to do, do quickly.
10:49What you are going to do, do quickly.
11:09Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, King of the world, who dost bring forth bread from the earth.
11:29Take.
11:32Eat.
11:34This is my body, which is broken for you.
11:40Do this in remembrance of me.
12:09Or is it possible?
12:10Lord, let's go.
12:13Done.
12:18Hold on.
12:21Hold on.
12:23Hold on.
12:25Go.
12:25Hold on.
12:27Hold on.
12:31And I'll be both.
12:34Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, King of the world, who has created the fruit of the vine.
12:48This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
12:56Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
13:06Truly I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when
13:13I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
13:35Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me. So now I say to you,
13:46where I am going you cannot come.
13:51A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you
13:59also love one another.
14:03Lord, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.
14:09Will you lay down your life for me?
14:13Yes, Master. Yes. Even if they all fall away, I will not.
14:21Truly I say to you, this very night before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.
14:31No, Master, no. If I must die with you, I won't deny you.
14:36We will not fail you, teacher.
14:38You know that I love you.
14:39Depend on me, Master.
14:41None of us could betray you.
14:42No, no.
14:48And he went out, as was his custom, to a garden named Gethsemane.
14:53Wait here while I pray.
14:57Come with me.
15:09My soul is very sorrowful, even unto death.
15:14Remain here and watch.
15:27No, no, Moses.
15:40No, no scenes at first I will never die.
16:07Father, all things are possible to Thee.
16:12If Thou art willing, remove this cup from me.
16:18Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done.
16:28Thee.
17:08Simon, are you asleep?
17:11Master.
17:13Could you not watch with me one hour?
17:17Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.
17:23The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
17:42The master.
17:51Behold, the hour has come.
17:53The son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
18:06Master.
18:11Judas, would you betray the son of man with a kiss?
18:16That's the man.
18:24It was not to the temple that Jesus was taken, but to the home of Annas, where a small portion
18:29of the Sanhedrin prepared to hear him and judge him.
18:36Since high time he was taught a lesson, flaunting all authority, starting a near riot on temple
18:41grounds.
18:42Riot?
18:43What riot?
18:44Hmm?
18:44It could have been bloodshed.
18:46The day he led that howling mob to the very gates.
18:48He attacked the merchants, the money changers, the sellers of doves and lambs.
18:53Oh.
18:54Oh, yes.
18:56Sacrilege.
18:57There's no question about it.
18:58I'm ready to find him guilty now.
19:00There's little doubt that he is deserving of punishment.
19:02Let us, however, wait and see what the hearing develops.
19:06There have been rumors that he has set himself up as a king, an act of treason against Caesar.
19:12Our concern, of course, is not with that, rather with his blasphemies, the false prophecies,
19:17his attempts to mislead the people.
19:20If, however, we should learn that he is guilty of treason against Rome, then it would be our
19:28duty to turn him over to the procurator.
19:44Stand there.
19:47Now, what have you to say of this man?
19:49Most noble excellency, I was in the court of the Gentiles, and with my own ears I heard him say
19:56he could tear down the whole temple, all of it, in three days' time.
19:59That is not quite right, Your Excellencies.
20:02What he did say was that if the temple were destroyed, he could build another like it in three days,
20:08with his bare hands.
20:10Oh, he said he could tear it down, not rebuild it.
20:13I was as close to him as you were. I heard what he said.
20:15Enough!
20:17You may go.
20:22You'll waste time. These fools don't even have sense enough to agree.
20:25Czar and I told them.
20:26Ah.
20:30Jesus of Nazareth, step forward.
20:38You have heard the statements of the witnesses.
20:42Have you no answer to make?
20:47What is it that these men testify against you?
20:53I adjure you by the living God.
20:57Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of the Blessed.
21:02You have said so.
21:06But I tell you hereafter you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of power, and
21:12coming with the clouds of heaven.
21:15Blasphemy!
21:17Why do we still need witnesses? You've heard it's blasphemy.
21:20What is your decision?
21:22Guilty.
21:23Guilty.
21:24Guilty on all charges.
21:25He is blasphemed.
21:26Guilty.
21:27Guilty.
21:28Guilty.
21:29Guilty.
21:31Guilty.
21:32Guilty.
21:33Guilty.
21:34As the day dawned, Jesus was taken to the palace where the procurator was staying.
21:39Those who escorted him, having already purified themselves for the observance of Passover rites, declined to enter the abode of
21:47a Gentile.
21:52Pilate, awakened before his accustomed hour, was in a surly mood.
22:08Good morning, Your Excellency.
22:11If a matter were enough, such urgency.
22:13Aye.
22:13We regret urgently having interfered.
22:16But it will only take a moment.
22:17This man you've brought to me, of what is he accused?
22:20He incited the people to riot in the very courtyard of the temple.
22:23He even claims to be the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God.
22:26He encourages his followers to hail him as the king of all the Jews.
22:30These affairs are yours, not Rome's.
22:32Take him.
22:33Judge him according to your laws.
22:34We have, Excellency, and found him deserving of death.
22:37All we ask is your endorsement of our findings.
22:39If he were not guilty, we wouldn't have brought him here.
22:43Wait here.
22:51And Pilate questioned Jesus, seeking to find if there was truth to the charge that he had plotted to proclaim
22:57himself a king.
22:58Are you a king then?
23:01You say I am the king.
23:05To this end was I born, and for this cause I came into the world.
23:10That I should bear witness for the truth.
23:14Everyone that is of the truth hears my voice.
23:18Truth?
23:18Truth.
23:19What is truth?
23:29I find no fault in the man.
23:32But he has stirred up the people.
23:33Yes, he has spoken again to the king himself.
23:35All over Judea, from here to Galilee.
23:38From Galilee?
23:40Is he a Galilean?
23:41Yes.
23:42He comes from Nazareth.
23:44Then he comes under Herod's jurisdiction, not mine.
23:48Centurion.
23:49Yes, Your Excellency.
23:50Have the prisoner taken to the tetrarch.
23:52But, Excellency!
23:53Give us a moment!
23:57And Jesus was brought before Herod.
24:00And Herod demanded that some sign or miracle be done by him.
24:04But Jesus answered him not.
24:07And the priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.
24:11And Herod and those with him treated him with contempt and mocked him.
24:16And arraying him in a tattered robe, jeering him as a pretender who called himself a king,
24:22they sent him back to Pilate.
24:30And so Jesus was once more brought before the procurator.
24:49You brought the man to me as one who incites the people.
24:52I questioned him.
24:54I found no fault in him.
24:55No guilt in the things of which he was accused.
24:58No, nor did Herod.
25:01The prisoner's done nothing to merit death.
25:04I will have him chastised and then released.
25:07No! No!
25:08Whipper, he's not enough!
25:09Yes!
25:09Do away with him!
25:10Do away with him!
25:22As he was flogged, brambles were taken and woven together.
25:51And steering at the prisoner whom the crowds had hailed as king,
25:55the guards placed a crown on his head.
25:58A crown of thorns.
25:59Yes!
26:10You have heard how many things they have witnessed against you.
26:13They say you call yourself the son of God.
26:16Who are you? From where do you come?
26:20Why don't you answer?
26:22Don't you realize I have the power to release you or crucify you?
26:31You could have no power at all against me,
26:35except it were given you from above.
26:39Therefore, he that delivered me to you has the greater sin.
26:58If you release that man, you are no friend of Caesar's.
27:05You get mad.
27:14David, David.
27:17David, David, David, David, David.
27:27I bring him before you so you may know I find no more than to hear.
27:31fault in him. Behold! It's a man.
27:44My custom, as at each Passover, I will free a prisoner to you. You have me
27:50release for you the King of the Jews. What then shall I do with Jesus called
28:03Christ's?
28:34I am innocent of this man's blood.
28:42See to it yourselves. Release Barabbas.
28:53And upon insistence that he be crucified, Pilate delivered him to their will.
29:03The End
29:03The End