Palm Sunday

Here is a clip from the film The Gospel of John ...

The Gospel of John is a 2003 epic biblical drama film that recounts the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. The film is a word-for-word adaptation of the American Bible Society's Good News Bible and follows the Gospel of John precisely, without additions to the story from the other Gospels or omissions of the Gospel's complex passages. It stars Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus of Nazareth, Stuart Bunce as John and is narrated by Christopher Plummer.

This is one of my favorite Jesus movies, partly because of Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond of Lost) but also because it's a way to "read" the whole gospel of John.

That gospel has some disrurbing parts about Jews (it has been called the most Anti-Semitic of the gospels), but the film does try to mitigate that, including with a warning at the beginning. But it does have many of the stories of Jesus interacting with women, which I like. And it also has the interesting bit at the end of the gospel - the resurrected Jesus hanging out with the disciples, fishing and saying cryptic things about John and a possible Second Coming.