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Gibson also curiously avoided many aspects and words related to what Jesus said would happen once the corrupt leaders of the nation murdered him -- in violation of their own laws. "You will die in your sins!" -- Armaggedon, etc. Thus, we are left only with a tale of his sacrifice (and unlawful murder of our Savior), and no mention at all of the context -- defense of the political unity of Israel (and ALL nations for that matter), how entire nations, not just individuals, can be sifted like chaff from the wheat, the role of the Church (to separate the wheat from the chaff), etc., etc. He died, in part, so that their evil way of life would be DESTROYED (if not in our world, then at the end of the world).

It is historical revisionism to portray Jesus as not mentioning anything about the Devil (who appears as a ghostly figure throughout), HELL, fire, the sword, Armaggedon, etc. What was coming to the people who were unlawfully murdering him...It helps to understand the historical context a lot better. The political and religious leaders of that era were rabid and murderous, not only because of what they had become, but because they violently rejected (like Demons) His message and his warnings of a Hellish ending to their entire way of life if they did not reform their ways -- of which He was entirely correct (once Roman armies came in and laid waste to much of the land in 68-70AD).

Finally, it does appear that Gibson was using Mark and John -- the original "source" Gospels, without some of the toned down and modified twists of Matthew and Luke.

But if w review the Biblical record, Gibson actually may have gone easy on the physical damage done to Jesus' face.

No matter how "graphic" Gibson may have made this film, nonetheless it only hints at the violence Christ must truly have suffered that day.

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