[Terry Mross]

Did these people want Mel to make a movie where Caiaphas washed his hands and Pilate yelled "Crucify him!"?

Maybe they would have been happy if Mel would have had it take place in the South and it was rednecks who crucified Him.

Or maybe they'd have been very happy if Mel would have shown Jesus as a black man and it was the KKK who crucified Him. OH, wait a minute. That's already been done. It was called MISSISSIPPI BURNING, another work of fiction in that the FBI did little to solve that crime.

[GulliverSwift]

Mel's critics also conveniently ignore the fact that it is his hands which are shown nailing Jesus to the cross.