produce. lauren, you cover religion for the fox news channel. and you covered a lot of those stories. well, absolutely, and the stories coming out now as to how there are more and more hollywood movies taking the bible. free licensing, no copyright, taking the stories, one of the things you hear about jesus is he sort of popped on the scene. you did a scene, very important, john s gospel has the i am statements, i am the bread of life. i am the good shepherd. this is not a conjugation of the word, to be. this is going back to who shall i say israel is sending me? and god says i am sending you. jesus is actually making a direct connection to that moment. and when you bring out in the beginning that he was present in the garden, in the burning bush,
watch. especially because unlike the passion which i dealt with three days in jesus life, so when he is arrested you pretty much have the back story. in this time, by the time he is arrested you have fallen so love with the humanity of jesus. when he is arrested, people who have known the scriptures their whole life are watching the movie saying in one way i wish the story would change. of course, they don t really wish it. it also shows jesus knowing that peter would betray him as peter said he wouldn t, and then he told him or seeing in his own mind the vision of the crucifixion that was upcoming. that was something he obviously knew, father take this cross from me. et cetera. one thing that also struck me, and i want to get my audience s take on this in the next segment is how events today to back then. you have got corruption political leaders.
racially biassed. the historian in me likes the fact they captured it on the screen. the whole idea is that the son of god entered into a time and period in the muck and mire, and the different physical bodies to represent god in the world. i m proud of them. that all of humanity just failed. and that he recognized that. and that that was the purpose of his being, and going through the sacrifice is that every, all sin, you see that today. you see it in the movie as well. we re conscious to show the flaws of everybody in the movie. except for the only perfect character is jesus. all had flaws romans and temple authorities. you can identify. young people saying felt what it s like to be with disciples such a scary time..
you have corruption politicians and ministers and power-hungry people. it seems like it is not very different in spite of maybe the advancement and technology and everything else. a lot of things remain the same. especially in that scene where pilate meets jesus for the first time. there is a whole scene about when pilate asks jesus, what is truth? you know that pilate knew he was innocent. you knew that he knew the truth, but for political expediency, he was basically willing to condemn the man because it suited his political purpose. that still happens today. and you had the scribes, the leaders, they wanted him out of the way because he was a threat to their power. isn t that what is going on today? absolutely, humans haven t changed much today. we added a scene in there to show the ruthlessness of pilate
was like a spiritual cleaning had gone on ahead. and we certainly ahad felt all through the project that there was a spiritual cleaning. because i think the film is very important, particularly for our new generation that they would know and understand jesus. that they would have an opportunity to see what an amazing man he was and how much god loved us that he sent us jesus. let me ask this, the clip that we just showed. and we ll get father morris is in the audience and will probably correct me if i m wrong. i actually went to a seminar years past, and that sequence, where peter says, you re the son of god. the catholic church takes this peter, the rock, the pope, and i always thought there was a more spiritual element to that where he knew that he was the son of god because it was revealed to