He was struck by lighten during the shooting of the film.
It will be replayed today some time today.
Why is Scorsese OK but Mel Gibson is not? Why was The Gospel of John not greeted with a preemptive campaign of antisemitism charges like they did with The Passion?
The post-modern theologians and faithless, liberal Catholic bishops have two Jesus'. The Jesus of the Bible and the historical Jesus. The Jesus of the Bible is merely a character in text which they ignore at will because they claim it was written a 100 or even hundreds of years after Jesus. (The actual record of manuscripts point to the earliest dates as the true time of authorship of the Gospels, not the later dates. The disclaimer before the movie The Gospel of John takes this approach of erroneously claiming a very late date of authorship.) The historical Jesus is the Jesus of the DaVinci Code or the Jesus portrayed in The Last Temptation. There is no evidence at all for this Jesus but theologians put more stock in this one than in the Jesus of the Bible because it fits with their program of denigrating Jesus.
Either approach is an attempt to destroy Jesus as Messiah.
Yes even the Jesus of the Bible (or more precisely the Jesus of the post-modern Text) is an attempt to blunt the effect of the Gospel message. That is why after the reading the Gospel in a Catholic Mass the reader is prohibited from saying 'the proclaimation of the Gospel.' Instead they must say 'the Gospel of...' The Gospel is not the proclaimation of a text or an edifying story but the record of the Messiah on Earth.
Mel Gibsons' Jesus is not the Jesus of a distant text but Jesus unambiguously shown as Savior. That is why so many people must hate this movie.
What then? Are we Jews monotheistic descendents of Shem any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews monotheistic descenents of Shem and Greeks, are under the power of sin, as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;