BTW, I also thought the whipping scene was over the top. Shards of flesh being torn repeatedly by the whip, as shown in the movie, being the prime example.
Just a question for you?
If that beating was given to Osama Bin Laden, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Huessin a Serial Child Killer do you think it would be over the top?
Jesus took a beating for people like them as well as all of us...
The point I made was the way it was portrayed in the movie itself. I thought it was portrayed with purposeful brutality that was beyond credibility. I was not taking issue to the fact that Christ was brutalized prior to his crucifixion.
On the other hand, I am not taking issue to the portrayal of the cruxifiction scene, which I thought was well done.