The Passion Of The Christ English Version Download

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately added material to the historical accounts of first-century Judea and biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not being primarily concerned with historical accuracy. Biblical scholar Mark Goodacre protested that he could not find one documented example of Gibson explicitly claiming the film to be historically accurate.[84][85] Gibson has been quoted as saying: "I think that my first duty is to be as faithful as possible in telling the story so that it doesn't contradict the Scriptures. Now, so long as it didn't do that, I felt that I had a pretty wide berth for artistic interpretation, and to fill in some of the spaces with logic, with imagination, with various other readings."[86]. Several depictions in the film include a graphic representation of Christ's circumcision, implied by the depiction of Jesus lying on a stone slab.[87] Gibson was criticised for the way he depicted the Last Supper. American historian Andrew Crislip said, In short, Gibson's Jesus is not the Christ of Scripture. He is a Jew who even in his infancy was violent, vengeful, and volatile.[88]

The director has also been accused of using the rise of the death penalty in the Middle Ages to explain the resurrection of Christ. Gibson's explanation was that Jesus was on the cross until one hour before his death, during which time he was offered the chance to save himself, which he rejected. This occurred when King Herod arrived to examine the corpse of an executed criminal, to find that the man had been "resurrected", and in response, Herod decided to kill all the men under three years old in the district, but Jesus was not one of them. Hence, in order to stand up to Herod, the youth had to be reanimated by God.[89] Gibson rejected this explanation, believing that the presence of Jesus and his resurrection on the third day was enough to convince those who saw this to cast their lot with Jesus and associate him with God.[90] Gibson replied: d2c66b5586