sinema tarihinin en aykırı isa yorumudur. oyuncuların performansları dudak uçuklatır cinstedir. elbette çocukluğunu isa'nın hayatını ve hikayelerini dinleyerek geçirenler için çok başka anlamlar taşır bünyesinde. mitlerden çok metaların hakim olduğu günümüz dünyasında, her yönüyle tutarlı bir yaklaşım sergilemiştir tüm zamanların en yaygın inanışına.
filmde isa israil'e geldikten sonra, yahuda ile arasında geçen şu diyalog, hayatın temelini oluşturan olguyu özetler nitelikte; şüphe.
Jesus: Judas, my brother, I have something to tell you. I have a terrible secret from God. You know why I came to Jerusalem?
Judas: Yes. This is where the revolution is going to begin.
Jesus: Last night, Isaiah came to me. He had a prophecy, I saw it written. It said, "He has borne our faults; he was wounded for our transgressions, yet he opened now his mouth. Despised and rejected by all, he went forward without resisting, like a lamb led to the slaughter."
Judas: I don't understand.
Jesus: Judas, I am the lamb. I'm the one who's going to do.
Judas: Die? You mean you're not the Messiah?
Jesus: I Am.
Judas: That can't be. If you're the Messiah, why do you have to die?
Jesus: Listen, at first, I didn't understand myself...
Judas: No, *you* listen. Every day, you have a different plan. First it's love, then the ax, and now you have to die. What good could that do?
Jesus: God only talks to me a little at a time and tells me as much as I need to know.
Judas: We need you alive!
Jesus: Now I finally understand! All my life-all my life, I've been followed by voices, by footsteps, by shadows. And do you know what that shadow is? The cross. I have to die on the cross, and I have to die willingly. We have to go back to the temple.
Judas: And after you die on the cross, what happens then?
Jesus: I come back to judge the living and the dead.
