of course it is the beauty of the love story, of god s love for humanity, that he acceptsen jesus. i thought he captured what i thought in my mind, jesus would be like, confident, strong, loving. i mean, he seemed to have all of it put together. we wanted an actor who could portray the lion and the lamb. and i think the compassion and tenderness that he brings to it on the one hand and the strength and charisma, beautiful job. and this went back to the passion of the christ, too, very graphic. the krufrzion scene. obviously, the lashes being given out prior to that, carrying the cross. it is hard to watch. yeah, it does it is we worked hard to get a pg 13 rating. but it still is really hard to
and built on free enterprise. liberals hate when you say this is a judeo-christian country. they don t like to hear that. what about people of other religions? look, i experience this every day. i believe that america was founded on judeo-christian principles. well, for sure, it was. and also traveling for so many months, so many good people who are so vibrant. i felt god is very much alive. jesus is very much alive in this nation. it is almost like we did on the election tour or something, city by city by city, we re going to elect jesus. well, i think certainly if you turn the news on you would think there is nothing but bad news everywhere. there is a lot of it, drugs, poverty, food stamps, people are struggling. i understand, but i still think there needs to be more noise for the good guys. and there are good people doing good things all over this country. all right, when we come back you felt some sort of moniqira s
his heart. father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? but you and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water. jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper. the crucifixion. you go through. you don t tell the whole story but you told snippets and put it altogether. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community on the big screen. and we decided okay. had no idea how we would get it distributed. we started making it. and we knew the responsibility, sean, of that. we had done about 30 versions over a year just trying to get
and yet they re hard to often 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,
the promised king of his people. what is his name? his name is jesus. that was another clip from the movie son of god. and we re going to bring in our studio audience along with mark burnett and roma downey. now this goes through the whole life of jesus, most of the story is about his working life, right? yes. father johnathan morris. sean, i got to see this last week. and two big jesus moments in my life were one, my mother reading the children s bible to me as a little kid. secondly, going to the holy