After weeks of hearing about how Mel Gibson’s new movie Passion, which depicts Christ’s arrest and trial, might be anti-Semitic, I finally read this passage on CNN’s Entertainment page today: following a screening in Houston, the Anti-Defamation League “complained that the film portrays Jewish authorities and a Jewish mob as the ones responsible for the decision to execute Jesus.”I am hardly a biblical scholar and I have not seen the movie, but the scene described reminds me rather much of this passage from Matthew, Chapter 27, Verses 24-25: “When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood,’ he said. ‘It is your responsibility!’
“All the people answered, ‘Let his blood be on us and on our children!’”
Does this mean the ADL is complaining because Gibson simply stayed true to his source material? Seriously?
