However, in his attempt not pass judgment on Jesus he gave option, which the people would want to be set free, a criminal by the name of Barabbas or Jesus, the people insisted to crucify Jesus. Finding no crimes that would deserve death punishment being sought by the Jews, Pilate was supposed to set Jesus Free but the Jews pressured him to hand Jesus over to them. From there, Jesus was brought to assembly of the people, which proceed to bring Jesus before Pilate for Judgment according to their charges. With a kiss from Judas Jesus was arrested and was brought to the house of the chief priest where Peter made his denial that was foretold by Jesus Christ perhaps barely an hour past, that Peter will deny him three tomes before the roaster crows. The movie started at the scene in Gethsemane where Jesus and his disciples had been usually spending time for prayers. Luke 22: 4 goes on to say that Judas himself went to the chief priest and officers of the temple and “discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.” Thus in the film, the movie begins in the scene in Gethsemane where Jesus was met by Judas along with soldiers who arrested him. Discovering that Judas Iscariot was a corrupt man, these religious authorities bribed him, which he may have readily accepted. The Gospel of Luke mentioned that the chief priest and the teachers of the law were “looking for some way to get rid of Jesus” (Luke 22: 2). Perhaps due to their desperate desire to exterminate Jesus and stop him from attacking them, and to prevent his growing popularity to steal the people’s loyalty and respect from them, they secretly research on the background and weaknesses of each of his disciples and offered hefty amount if any one of them could hand Jesus to them. The strictest sects of Judaism, the Pharisee, and Sadducee both sought to kill Jesus because they were often the subject of Jesus strong rebuked either through parable or through direct confrontation. The Biblical account tells us that the religious leaders were greatly offended by Jesus radical criticisms of their hypocrisy and that they feared the growing authority of Jesus as mentioned in the Gospel of John 11: 45-51. The context of the film was based on Judas betrayal of Jesus Christ for a thirty pieces of silver and a kiss. The movie started at the scene in Gethsemane where Jesus was agonizing about his eminent death on the cross, as recorded by all the authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament. The Passion of Christ is a movie based on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ on the cross in the hands of the Romans as provoked by the Jewish religious leaders. An Evaluation of the Movie “The Passion of Christ”
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