[Ciexyz]

Jesus said on the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Doesn't that say it all? Jesus himself did not condemn the Jews, and therefore, neither should any other misguided person who doesn't understand the Gospels.

That said, it annoys me when Jewish leaders stand up and accuse Christian film makers of anti-Semitism. What are they afraid of, that seeing this movie will turn Christians into a rampaging mob from Czarist Russia that will start a progrom?

[djf]

Absolutely!

(24) And Pilate, when he saw that it availed nothing, but rather that tumult was produced, took water, and washed his hands before the eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from the blood of this just man: see ye to it.
(25) And all of the people answered and said: His blood be on us, and on our children.
Syriac Peshito version, trans. James Murdock, 1851

It is interesting to note that neither Christ or the apostles ever condemned the ordinary man, at that time, his invectives were against the priests and scribes and lawgivers.

The condemnation in verse 25 came from the words of the people themselves.