[♪ musical swirl ♪]
[rocks clattering]
[♪ soft ethereal music ♪]
♪ ♪
[♪ music gets louder ♪]
[gasping]
[breathing heavily]
[men wailing in distance]
[door squeaks open]
[hammer pounding]
ROMAN GUARD: Quiet!!
[men wailing]
[whimpers]
GUARDS: Be quiet!
[men crying out in pain]
PONTIUS: You'll catch your death out there.
- Pontius, four more...
and so early in the morning?
- What time of day is an ideal time to die?
I'm a governor, not a philosopher.
- It's excessive!
The people already resent you and...
Tiberius will be loathe
to hear of another insurrection.
PONTIUS: Four convicted revolutionaries.
Jewish Zealots, darling.
Leave the governing to me, hmm?
Go back to bed.
- I haven't been sleeping well.
- Hmm, then go pick some flowers.
- And where are you going?
PONTIUS: I have a date.
- Oh?
- An old friend.
- Hmm.
You don't have friends.
- I do so.
- You have valuable contacts.
People whom you find useful.
Strategic acquaintances.
- Maybe you should be governor.
[light kiss]
♪ ♪
[♪ woman vocalizing ♪]
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, child, come on in. ♪
♪ Jump in the water. ♪
♪ Got no trouble with the mess you been. ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪
♪ Oh, child... ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪
♪ Got no trouble. ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Walk on the water. ♪♪
[scraping sounds]
[bird call]
[scraping continues]
- What are you doing?
- You know, John and Thomas healed a blind person once?
- I'd love to do it again.
- I can see that you are sharpening weapons,
but why?
- Some of us are worried, Matthew.
Things are becoming serious.
More people have heard.
You were there when He healed the bleeding woman.
- Of course, I wrote it all down,
but I did not see what happened in the house.
- I said I'll give you the details later.
- I don't want you to forget.
- I told you I won't forget.
BIG JAMES: Crowds were pushing in,
a hobbling woman was able to grab at Him.
- Only the fringe of His garment, James.
- But the power went out of Him without His consent.
- It looked like He was gut-punched.
- He didn't say that it hurt.
- No, it just looked like it.
- If we had had blades, we could have hurt her.
ZEE: Might have had to.
BIG JAMES: Well, I know someone who did have a blade,
he just neglected to use it.
JOHN: I was distracted.
You know I don't do well in crowds.
- So what if he did?
We can't stab people who get close to Him.
- And the irony is iron sharpens iron--
JOHN: Don't you dare finish that sentence.
- Nathanael has a point.
If we had kept the crowd at bay,
that poor woman would never have been healed.
ZEE: I assessed that He was in no real danger.
LITTLE JAMES: He just wanted to know who did it.
- Yes, He praised her faith.
He called her "daughter."
- Philip, is that one of Eden's knives?
- Yeah.
THADDEUS: I don't think all of this paranoia
about protecting Jesus is necessary.
- You just asked her for it?
- Yeah, she mentioned it hadn't been sharpened
in a long time.
[John laughing]
- I understand, Simon.
What, with all the time you're spending with your Roman.
- Gaius puts his sandals on one foot at a time
just like you and me.
- Gaius?
SIMON: Yes, Matthew.
We're fixing the cistern,
unless these ingrates like trekking to the old well.
- Gaius is not an evil man.
- Oh, wonderful.
Now we have two devoted fans of a terrorist.
- Yes, he has been ruthless,
but he is not like other Roman soldiers I've met--
BIG JAMES: Associating with him could hurt our reputation
with the pilgrims in the tent city.
- Do we have a reputation?
PHILIP: Reputation has never really seemed like
a priority of His.
- If you're all sharpening weapons,
should I be too?
SIMON: Matthew, you have the sharpest weapon of all.
- His wit?
[laughing]
- His mind.
And your pen;
you can poke somebody in the eye with it in a pinch.
- I could not do that.
- I'll show you.
[scraping]
- If you need anything sharpened,
just leave it there.
- Tell me about the one you are sharpening.
- It's a dagger.
- Why don't you sharpen a kitchen knife?
Or a utility knife?
Or an axe?
- A dagger is a weapon, Nathanael.
- You could turn my kippah into a weapon, Zee.
Why did you pick up a dagger?
- I'm not sure I can trust you with information.
- Fine.
Little James?
SIMON: When you're writing,
you change your position to this.
Okay, so you go from here to here,
but you keep the book like that,
because if you're writing,
you pretend like nothing's happening,
you stabilize yourself,
and then a sharp move forward.
Just change the thing and then surprise them.
Don't be afraid;
I'm going to show you how, okay?
[knife clicks]
LITTLE JAMES: Hey, Zee?
What's going on?
[sighs]
- Members of the Order have tracked me to Capernaum.
- Dangerous men?
- Lethal.
- So, tell Jesus.
- These men train a lifetime for one thing... to kill.
Jesus cannot be involved.
- You don't solve problems with a dagger anymore, Zee.
- I will not put Jesus in danger.
- Let Him decide that.
SIMON: He's doing what?
JOHN: He's buying an olive grove.
Probably right about now, actually.
Yeah, Judas and the women, they're there with him.
- What does he want with an olive grove?
- He's done with fishing.
He wants to press olive oil.
- Zebedee's done fishing?
- Why do you care?
- [clears throat] Dominus.
- Do you have brothers, Gaius?
- Yes, sir, one.
- Germanic origins and you only have one?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
Older or younger?
- What?
- Your brother!
I could have you drawn and quartered
for not answering me the first time.
[glass thunks]
- Younger.
- Ah.
And did he ever tell on you if you broke a dish,
stole a fruit, did something with a girl?
- I do not often reminisce, but yes.
- Atticus is meeting with Pilate in Jerusalem,
and he's telling on me like a meddling little brother.
He's there right now,
slandering our oversight of Capernaum.
I need Pilate's endorsement
if I ever hope to get a promotion.
- Your record speaks for itself, dominus.
- You have utterly failed me in the tent city.
- I will do better.
- You're not enforcing the ordinances I suggested
and worst of all, they have no money... zero.
No one works.
They're waiting around for a spectacle from the Preacher,
who I might add, I thought we were done with.
And jailing them costs money, so.
- How can I make it right?
- You could kill Jesus of Nazareth.
Make a very public display of it
so they have no reason to stay.
But then they will revolt, and it gets bloody,
and I hate the wailing.
Oh, I do hate the death wailing.
I don't know how Pilate does it.
Anyway, we're not savages.
Let's get rid of the tent city.
- What?
How can I do that?
Gaius!
Use your imagination.
If you see a damaged home... [zzzt]
tell them it's not up to code and tear it down.
If you see somebody who's sick,
arrest them for spreading pestilence.
Somebody selling wares...
[zzzt] tell them they don't have permission
and shut them down.
Put out the fires, Gaius,
until it's too cold, dark, and miserable to stay!
Primi?
- I know what I must do, dominus.
- Hmm.
[crickets chirping]
[latch clicks]
[door opens]
[door squeaks open]
[thuds onto floor]
ANDREW: Who's that?
Who's there?
PHILIP: What? What?
- Andrew, Philip, it's me, Leander.
- Who?
- Okay, take it easy.
- It's Leander, from Naveh!
JUDAS: Ugh!
Drop your knife!
- Oh, no, no, I forgot I had this.
[knife thunks]
There you go; sorry.
- Who are you?!
- What is happening?
- You guys remember me, right?
I was the one who showed you out
when the Council said you had to go.
- Leander?
- Yes!
- Leander.
- Why didn't you just knock?!
- I did, but I didn't want to shout.
- Why?
- Because no one can know I'm here.
[breathing heavy]
- What's happened?
- The Decapolis is up in arms because of you.
- What are you talking about?
We didn't go to any cities in the Decapolis.
- People from there overheard you in Naveh,
like me,
and not everyone took it as well as I did.
- Took what?
- Your preaching!
The consequences of your mission were disastrous!
- Consequences?
- The Decapolis is mostly Hellenist,
but it's also a melting pot.
Jews, Romans, Seleucids, Arabians--
- Sounds messy.
LEANDER: It is.
ANDREW: Shh!
LEANDER: It's already barely holding it together,
your preaching made it pffoo!!
The town is on fire.
Well, not really on fire-- well, some places.
- I'm sorry, I don't understand.
We only preached to Jews.
LEANDER: It doesn't matter who you were there for,
a few Greeks overheard,
some Jews kept sharing what you said.
Before you know it,
some Greeks quit worshipping Olympian gods
or stopped reading the auspices.
That made people angry,
and so they turned on the Jews.
The Jews closed ranks
and sent the Hellenists and sympathizers
out of their communities.
- Oh, man...
you guys really turned the place upside down!
Sorry.
You said your teachings
were interrupted, incomplete.
- Well, not by choice; we were sent away.
- But what you did say
spread to the ten cities of the Decapolis.
The tensions we have in Naveh boiled up everywhere.
The whole area.
- It's the new wineskins bursting the old.
- People want to know more.
They're hungry for the words of your Rabbi, Jesus.
- It--it was an isolated mission.
We were sent out two by two, for a specific time,
to strengthen and unify our people.
- Your mission can't be over.
It's brother against brother out there!
Is that what you meant for us?
- Of course not!
- Then come back and finish what you started.
- Next time, knock louder!
[door squeaks open]
- Mary.
- Hey.
[market sounds, sheep bleating]
- Ugh!! [coughs] We've been swindled!
- Hmm?
- The olives... they're disgusting.
- We already knew that;
we're working on it.
[chomping]
- It doesn't make sense.
If the soil is bad,
then why are the grapes so good?
MAGDALENE: We bought an olive grove,
not a vineyard.
- We need to speak with grape growers,
the best in the upper Galilee.
- Why?
- Because they know what they're doing.
They know the soil.
MAGDALENE: Ask Ramah, okay?
She must have curated grapes from this region for her wines.
- What are you doing that's so important?
- I'm writing Ramah.
- I thought you were bookkeeping.
- Judas keeps the books.
[background market noise]
- Are we okay?
- I thought you were rude to Zebedee.
- At the oil tasting?
- Yes.
- I didn't mean to be...
but I believed he was asking our opinion.
- Well, you gave it.
I don't think I've ever heard a woman
speak to an elder like that.
- What else?
- What do you mean?
Tamar, please.
- It's fine.
I don't need to know what it is about me,
but I do have a right to be concerned
when it comes to our work.
This business is our contribution to the ministry.
- We have more to contribute
than just supporting financially.
- You're right.
You always know what to say.
You even correct the boys when they fight.
- Why are you bringing the boys into this?
- Is it because I can't write or read?
- No.
- Then what?
- I... what do you--
Do you really--?
[sighs]
You pushed your way to the front of the crowd,
you tore the roof off a house
and then you proclaimed for all to hear,
"I know You can do this."
And the first words out of His mouth to you were,
"Your faith is beautiful."
Do you know where Jesus found me?
In a bar drunk, possessed.
I pray every day
I will never be anywhere without Him again,
but you just... like it here.
That must be nice.
- You resent how Jesus met us?
MAGDALENE: Of course not, no, it's just that--
I am sorry to say this,
I think we should be more humble.
I'm doing everything I can, day after day,
and I--I'm afraid I'm still broken.
I worry I will never be enough.
- Mary... you are amazing!
Can't you see it?
- I don't think we're supposed to see it.
I can't imagine doing what you do.
I struggle to understand your entitlement.
Where is your curiosity?
You don't even know the pain of our people,
or our ways.
You just show up and you do everything loudly
and boldly and... right!
You do everything right!
- Well... I am sorry.
- Please don't apologize--
TAMAR: No, I mean,
I am sorry for the shame and regret that you feel.
Truly, it must be very painful.
But Jesus forgave you,
and you choose to hold onto it.
And just because I'm not Jewish
doesn't mean I don't know pain.
You don't know what it cost me to get here.
- What are you doing?
[Tamar sniffs]
- What do you see?
- I don't understand.
- There... between the beads.
What do you see?
- A stain.
Is that dried--
- Blood.
I come from a war-torn country.
My brother and I were on a trip
to unearth minerals for the family business.
And when we returned...
our village had been wiped out by a rival clan...
including my father and my mother.
- This necklace...
that has been passed down through generations,
that I didn't want to sell for just oats,
it still has my mother's blood on it.
[♪ soft music ♪]
[softly crying]
- [sighs]
May I?
Here, please.
[crying]
[♪ woman vocalizing ♪]
I--I lost my father suddenly too.
And the thing he gave me to remember him by,
I-I tore up and I threw away.
- I should have told you sooner.
- I judged your strength against my weakness;
pitied myself.
[♪ woman vocalizing ♪]
[sniffs] Forgive me?
I'd do well to have some of what you have.
[sighs]
My head is spinning.
I don't know the right thing to say.
- Finally.
[both laughing]
- I appreciate how hard you've worked on the olive grove.
And you're right,
we don't need to ask Ramah
who the best grape growers are in this region.
- What about the soil?
- You know my past.
You think I don't know the best vineyard in town?
[laughing]
It's just outside of town... a nice walk.
- [sighs]
We could use some fresh air.
Are you okay with going?
- Okay, let's do it.
- Mary...
[sniffs]
I could use some of what you have, too;
maybe not the shame...
but the gratitude.
- Fair enough.
[horse hooves clip-clop]
♪ ♪
[sighs]
[horse breathing hard]
[paper rustles]
- Should I do it?
- Do what?
Announce your position to any opportunist that happens by?
- Yes!
I wondered how can I annoy a red-bottomed old man.
All it took was six men and this stupid tent.
- Old man?
What can I say?
[pats horse]
Well done?
- You know how easy I am to amuse.
- No, you are definitely not easily amused.
I'm surprised there's no wine and women.
- I don't drink wine for the effect,
and I'm married, so there.
But I admit I was reading Miles Gloriosus by Plautus.
Do you know it?
It's hilarious.
- About the vainglorious, swaggering, braggart soldier.
- Yes!
- What are you saying?
I had you.
- You did not.
- I did.
- Yes, you did.
Why are you charming?
Haven't you been undercover for a year?
It's been a year since I've seen you!
- I've, uh, had a foil the last few months.
- Some prostitute in Decapolis?
- Far less charming, I'm afraid.
The Praetor of upper Galilee.
He slips occasionally
and claims the whole of Israel.
- Hmm, I'll kill him.
Wait, Galilee does well.
- Yeah, don't kill him.
- [sighs] Let me think.
His name is Quintus.
Revenues are strong.
He was reprimanded for use of force
after putting down an uprising last year.
- That's him,
and he'd be all too honored by your recital.
He's the kind of man that wants to be remembered.
- Mm.
We are very different then.
See, my problem with his reprimand
is that I have been reprimanded for my use of force.
So, if word spreads that everyone in Israel
is heavy-handed,
then I have to be even less forceful.
How was the repartee?
- I tormented him... for you, Governor.
- Just for me, hmm?
I don't believe you, but thank you.
What I really want to know
is what landed you in Capernaum?
From the top.
Please, I've got all afternoon for this.
- Really?
- No, about ten more minutes.
[Pontius laughs]
- I'll be fast.
[water trickling]
TAMAR: I'm thinking that--
I'm going to ruin my dress.
We should've gotten aprons.
I think we're going to need a lot more wood ash.
- I know.
- Ah.
- We have been waiting for you.
There's so much to do.
- To do?
MAGDALENE: We solved the olive problem.
- I thought it was just the way the oil was made
that upset you.
There was a problem with the olives themselves,
other than being too dark?
- It was terrible.
It tasted like sour milk and wet hay.
MAGDALENE: We knew it had to be something to do with the soil.
- So, Mary introduced us to some grape vendors
from the region,
that she used to know back at The Hammer.
- Uh, are these good men, Mary?
- Not really, but they know the ground.
- And they showed us ways to improve the quality of the soil
of the grove that we purchased.
First we add wood ash to the topsoil near the roots.
- So we need you to go
to each of the disciple's houses
and have them to bring whatever ash they have here,
then send them out into town
offering to clean out people's wood-burning stoves.
- All of the disciples?
- Yes.
- [chuckling] I'm not sure I have the authority.
What if Jesus needs them?
- No one has seen Him since the healing.
We're just trying to be productive
with the time we have while we wait.
- But He did give us His blessing
on purchasing the grove
so we could support Him out of our own means.
- What is that?
- That is water, vinegar, and pine needles.
The grape people said it would "make the trees sing."
- They said it's like magic, but not sinful.
- That's an important detail.
TAMAR: Oh, and--
one more thing, sulphur.
They said to add it to the wood ash.
- So we need you to go to the market
and buy as much as they have available.
And if that's a lot,
maybe have one of the boys to help you carry it back.
Probably Big James.
- I'm not sure I have the cash
to buy up all the sulphur the vendors have available.
TAMAR: Well, Joanna sent more money.
Judas put it in the safe upstairs.
- I'll get it for you, Zebedee.
Be right back.
- Hmm.
If James and John had been as enthusiastic
and hard-working as you two...
I'd be retired and living in a mansion.
- Hmm.
- [chuckles]
You know, because I'd be rich--
- Hmm.
--from catching so much fish, hmm?
[chuckles]
It's a joke.
- Hmm.
- [laughs] Hmm.
[key jiggles lock open]
[♪ soft music ♪]
♪ ♪
[closes box]
ATTICUS: The population of the camp
outside Capernaum's walls grows by the day.
- In hopes of seeing the peaceful Preacher?
- Peaceful and magnetic.
I think Quintus is out of his depth.
[sighs]
- They say this is a backwater, you know?
A bad assignment...
A punishment even.
- I guess we're sharing the same cell then.
- I'm content.
I don't want to rule over a warring nation
in important times.
I-I like the sea.
I like the people.
They're poetic and complicated.
Except Caiaphas.
Horrible, horrible man.
- For a moment there,
you almost sounded like a holy man yourself.
- [scoffs] I wish.
I can't see ten cubits in front of my face most days.
I just want peace.
I want the people to get what they want,
for Rome to be sated.
- Sometimes peace takes a war.
[whistles and snaps fingers]
I do thank you for the intelligence, Atticus,
and I trust you.
If the peaceful Preacher or His movement
ever become something I need to know about,
I will need your counsel.
And I will listen.
Unlike Quintus, I understand your interest.
Until then, learn all you can.
Take care of yourself, Atticus.
- I will see you soon, Governor Pilate.
- Mmm... mm.
Wow.
This soup's really good.
- Thank you.
- What's in it?
- Carrots, vegetable stock, olive oil.
You've had it before, Simon.
- No, but today it's a beautiful thing.
Fit for kings, this soup.
And the bread, mmm!
What--what's this on top?
- You know what it is, Simon.
SIMON: I can tell it's thyme and sesame seeds,
but I've never seen this red spice before.
- Sumac, Salome gave it to me.
- It has almost like a--
like a... a tart, you know?
A lemon, lemon sweetness, huh?
But not sweeter than you.
BIG JAMES: Simon! Simon, are you home?
[knocking on door]
- What if I just don't respond?
- I mean... the light is coming through the windows.
[knocking louder]
BIG JAMES: Simon, it's urgent!
- I'm coming, I'm coming!
Stop your pounding.
[door squeaks open]
Yeah, I'd love it if you guys could make this quick.
- There's two men from Judea demanding to see Jesus.
- Welcome to Capernaum,
where everyone demands to see Jesus.
Tell them we don't know where He is,
because that's the truth.
Good night.
- They claim to be disciples of John the Baptizer,
that they bear an important message from John.
- A message?
Why wouldn't he have given it to Andrew
when that woman from Herod's court--
what was her name?
- Jonna, Junia, something with a J.
- Joanna.
- When Joanna snuck Andrew into prison?
JOHN: That was over a month ago.
They said they cannot wait.
- But they could be spies
from any of the Four Philosophies,
or even from Rome--
- So send Philip or Andrew to verify their identities,
you know, their old comrades.
- What universe have you been living in?
- What?
- Andrew and Philip are gone.
- You didn't know that?
- I'm not my brother's keeper.
- Oh, except when you want to be,
then it's The Code of Hammurabi.
- Take the log out your eye, John.
Don't think I haven't noticed the thing
between you two lately.
- Well, we're here now,
working together to find a solution.
- Where did Andrew and Philip go?
- To the Decapolis for some reason.
Judas has the details.
But right now we need you to come and see if these guys
can actually prove that they know Andrew.
- I'm in the middle of having dinner with my wife.
It can wait until morning.
BIG JAMES: What if the message from John's disciples
is about impending threat from Herod?
He may have heard something.
JOHN: It cannot wait until morning.
- Oh, but John, it can.
[door clicks shut]
See, dear?
I can say no to work too.
Eden?
[crickets chirping]
[background market noise]
JOHN: Their names are Avner and Nadab.
- Oh.
Where are they?
- Just over there.
- Simon, son of Jonah,
these brothers were right to question our identity.
- There are strict edicts coming out of Jerusalem
about false prophecy.
Your suspicion is warranted.
- True or false, Andrew is a fine dancer.
[laughing]
- False.
- Absolutely the worst.
- True or false when Andrew relieves himself,
he wretches and gags because he hates the smell.
- We wouldn't know.
He always goes so far away
in the wilderness to do it
because he's shy about that sort of--
- Uh-huh.
BIG JAMES: Nice, trick question.
SIMON: The Baptizer's being held
in a maximum security prison
that does not permit visitors or mail,
if he sent you with a message, how could you get it?
AVNER: A woman from Herod's court, Joanna--
- All right, I believe you...
what's the message?
[hammer pounding]
[pounding continues]
[♪ soft music ♪]
[pounding]
[♪ foreboding music ♪]
♪ ♪
[♪ music swells ♪]
[indistinct conversations]
[man coughing]
[sheep bleating]
[coughing again]
[♪ soft music ♪]
- Good morning. - Good morning.
It's all right.
ELDERLY PILGRIM: Thank you.
All is well.
[♪ intense music ♪]
- I recognize you from the Order.
- Mine will be the last face you see.
- I suppose you could kill me,
but my Rabbi's will be the face
that awaits me in heaven.
- Is that why you turned traitor?
- I joined the Order to fight for the Messiah's coming.
And He is here, brothers.
GAIUS: It was chilly last night.
It looks like your tent is damaged.
PILGRIM FATHER: Right, yes.
- Need a hand?
- I'm certain that is a Roman Soldier.
Taxes are still collected.
- Yes.
And the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
- This is no kingdom... that I've ever been promised.
[spits]
- He is not what we thought, brothers.
I have bet my life on it.
I have given up the sica and our way of life
to follow the Christ
after I witnessed the healing of my brother.
- That's it?
That's what you want me to ask Him?
- Yes.
- We'll tell Him when we see Him.
- I'm sorry, how soon can we expect a response?
- You want to know how soon you can expect a response.
Let me tell you something about that word "soon."
[running footsteps]
[excited voices]
- What's going on?
- You want your answer?
He's back.
[♪ uptempo music ♪]
[overlapping running footsteps]
♪ ♪
[laughing]
[cheers and applause]
WOMAN: Please, the doctors say the only remedy is to amputate.
- Amputate?
Well, now...
that does not look good at all.
♪ ♪
[joyful laughing]
[cheers and applause]
NATHANAEL: Next, next, step right up, right here.
- What's going on?
How long has He been here?
- Not long.
As soon as He showed up, He was surrounded.
He's safe, He'll be--
MOTHER: Blessed be Adonai!
The Teacher has healed my son's blindness!
[cheers and applause]
NATHANAEL: Next, come.
It's okay.
- Let's get you closer.
"Soon" might be now.
Let's get John's question answered.
- I know.
I know.
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JESUS: Nathanael, let me see your knife.
[knife thuds on ground]
[former mute gasps]
[trying to speak]
[crowd gasps]
- I've...
never said anything with my own words.
[crying]
JESUS: Where would you like to start?
[former mute crying]
- Blessed are You, Lord Our God,
King of the Universe!
- Let's save those big titles for a little later.
[crying]
PETER: Master.
- Ah, yes, who do we have here?
- These are two of your cousin's disciples,
Avner and Nadab.
- Jesus of Nazareth.
- That name I respond to readily,
though I'll not be returning to Nazareth in this lifetime.
SIMON: The Baptizer has an urgent question for you.
- I recognize you from the day John introduced me to Andrew.
- Behold the Lamb of God
Who comes to take away the sin of the world.
- Yes, good memory.
[chuckles]
My cousin can get excited.
So... [clap] what does John want to know?
- Eh?
- Simon brought us in haste.
This isn't appropriate here;
we can talk later.
- Simon?
- I actually think now is the perfect time.
- Who here has experienced John the Baptizer in some way?
[crowd responds]
I know some of you rejected John...
but some of you believed his message.
He has had a profound impact on so many in this region,
and these are two of his disciples,
so, let's welcome them, hmm?
[applause]
Some of you may also know
that John is currently imprisoned
by Herod in Machaerus.
I think it would be instructive
for us to hear what's on his mind
in the midst of such challenge.
- It's a difficult question.
It might be better privately.
- It's fine.
This is healthy.
- [clears throat]
He sent us to ask You
if You are really the One who is to come...
or should we look for someone else?
- Say that last part again?
- Should we look for someone else?
- Hmm.
[louder] For those of you who could not hear,
John the Baptizer, my cousin,
who has prepared the way for Me,
is now questioning if I'm the Messiah
or if maybe we should keep waiting.
[chuckles]
John is getting impatient, yes?
It's one of his quirks.
- He has been in prison a long time.
- Word reached our ears about what happened in Nazareth,
that You said,
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon You
to proclaim liberty to the captives."
AVNER: If you say You are here to free prisoners,
then why does he remain?
He rightfully wonders why You would allow
his entire ministry to be halted by an imposter king.
- Proclaiming liberty to the captives
can mean more than just freeing inmates.
There are many kinds of captivity
that keep people.
- Is that what we're supposed to tell him?
- No, that's just for you.
AVNER: We heard our former comrades,
Andrew and Philip, have gone to the Decapolis.
Is that where you're planning to launch the revolution
to overthrow Rome?
JESUS: I have something in mind for the Decapolis,
and it will be revolutionary,
but... probably not in the way you're thinking.
NADAB: What are we supposed to report back?
- Careful.
Careful.
- Go and tell John what you hear and see.
The blind receive their sight,
the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed,
the mute speak,
and the poor have the good news preached to them.
And blessed is the one who is not offended by Me.
- I will always be offended by blasphemy.
As should all of you!
SIMON: You saw what happened to his daughter!
You know this isn't blasphemy!
RABBI AKIVA: I did not see what happened.
Your supposed Rabbi disrespected me as a holy man,
another sign of His evil spirit.
And I also don't know any of the details that happened.
He is hiding something,
and I cannot stand here and allow you all to be deceived
by His sorcery...
even if I'm the only one willing to protect you.
- Go, relay to my cousin
what you have seen and heard here today,
and add to that, the dead are raised as well.
And tell John I love him.
Did My response to the Baptizer's disciples
sound to any of you like a rebuke?
- Yes.
- I can always count on you, Nathanael.
Many of you were baptized by John.
I Myself was baptized by him.
You heard how strong he was,
how passionately he believed,
and yet now... even he has questions.
When you went to the wilderness to see him,
did you expect to see a reed, shaken by the wind?
Someone in fine clothing like those in kings' courts?
Or did you go to see a prophet?
MAN IN CROWD: A prophet!
- A prophet, yes.
And I tell you,
John is who Isaiah and Malachi spoke of.
What did they say, Big James?
- "Behold, I send my messenger before you,
who will prepare the way before you."
- Yes, and this should tell you something.
Among those born of women, none is greater than John,
and even he has questions.
RABBI AKIVA: Another demon-possessed blasphemer,
and You call him great.
He called Your religious leaders,
Your men of God, vipers!
Are You going to say something?!
SIMON: I think His silence is His response.
- And here's what's so wonderful, though,
none are greater than John here on earth.
In the kingdom of God,
the one who is the least is even greater than he.
And John himself would say the same.
So, please... listen carefully.
Do not waste the time right now
to hear the truth that I have for you.
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,
yet so many in this generation are missing it.
Do not miss it.
Those of you who have rejected John's message of repentance,
and those who are now rejecting Mine...
you remind Me of the children in the marketplace
that play games while the adults are busy.
And you know how they pretend to be adults in a wedding,
or even a funeral.
You are like the children who refuse to play.
Whether it's a happy game or a sad game,
it doesn't matter what it is.
And like Aesop's fables, the others say,
"We played the flute for you, and you did not sing.
We sang a dirge, and you did not weep."
You and those in your order say John has a demon
because he lived in the wilderness,
preaching repentance while refusing bread and drink.
And now the Son of Man comes preaching salvation
while eating and drinking and dancing...
and I'm called a glutton and a drunkard,
a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
It doesn't matter what is put in front of you,
you will reject it!
[♪ soft music ♪]
Beware of this...
wisdom means nothing if it's not acted on.
Wisdom is justified by all her works.
As you see what is happening to those around you,
as you see the lives being changed
by repentance and salvation,
do not ignore the evidence of the kingdom of God.
Woe to you if you do you not receive it.
JAIRUS: Pardon!
I would like to remind everyone
um, that Quintus has imposed a limit of 25 people
for all outdoor gatherings
in the latter part of the day.
By my estimate, uh,
we will very soon be at risk of detainment.
GAIUS: That man is right!
All of you
return to your homes and shelters immediately.
I said immediately!
RABBI YUSSIF: Let's return to our homes.
It's all right.
RABBI AKIVA: I will report all of this!
You are deceiving!
- I said, "Go home."
[crowd conversations]
- Do you understand now?
- I understand very little of what I--
what I heard...
even less of what I saw.
- The Messiah does not need our daggers.
- Maybe you've forgotten what the Order stands for,
but we haven't--
- Enough!
Are you blind?
This is not a traitor.
- You could join me.
- I'll find my own path...
but I will return to the Order with the truth.
Simon the Sicarius is dead.
[♪ soft music ♪]
[deep sigh]
- I can never decide what is more fun,
watching You do miracles or watching the reactions.
- The miracles are so much better
when the Pharisees are around.
- All right,
we need to get You to a new place.
Is there a camp we should take You to,
or do You want to stay at Simon's again?
Probably will be best to get You to a new place,
maybe with Andrew?
I think it would be... best--
- Who is it? Why did we stop?
- It's Him.
- Barnaby, we don't need to bother Him.
JESUS: It's fine, Shula.
I'm grateful you brought Barnaby here
for the healing of his leg.
- No, I brought her.
She's-- she's the one who--
- I know, Barnaby. [laughing]
- [laughing] Of course.
Please... she won't ask.
- Shula...
are you afraid to ask for healing?
- Yes.
- Do you have faith that I can heal you?
- Of course.
- Then why haven't you asked?
- You have so much to do, Rabbi,
so many people who need You more.
I'm-- I'm used to this.
- Shula, look at Me.
- Look at You?
I can't see You anyway.
- I want to see your face.
You and Barnaby have been so kind and lovely
from the first time I met you,
and your faith has been so strong,
even though you haven't seen a miracle.
- You redeemed my friend.
Mary's miracle was so clear to me,
I didn't need sight.
JESUS: I know.
You see better than most in this region.
But... since your friend Barnaby here won't leave me alone.
[laughing]
[♪ soft music ♪]
[shuddered breaths]
[Jesus exhales, Shula gasps]
[Shula cries]
- Well?
Did it work?
- It's been so long... I'm afraid to look.
- It's time, Shula.
[gasps]
[shuddered breaths]
- Well, did it?
- Yes, it worked!
[laughing]
I can see you're not as handsome as you said.
[laughing]
- [crying] Thank you!
- I don't remember everything being so bright.
JOHN: How long has it been?
- Over 10 years.
Oh, thank You.
Thank You.
Thank you, friend.
What about him?
BARNABY: No... I'm fine.
This is about you.
This is about her; some other time, maybe.
- We'll see.
You're a true friend.
Well, now, friends, we must all get home, hmm?
Barnaby, she will still need you to walk her home.
It's getting late.
Shalom, shalom.
TOGETHER: Shalom, shalom.
- Thank you.
- I'll take this from you.
I don't think you need it anymore.
- [laughing] No.
[laughing]
- Wait a minute!
- There it is.
- My leg!
[cane clunks onto ground]
[stomping and laughing]
Did You?!
- Of course He did, Barnaby, who else?
[loud, joyous laughter]
- Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
- You're welcome, Barnaby.
Now, get Shula to her home.
You can do it faster than normal tonight, huh?
[laughing]
- Shula!
[laughter]
- No Pharisees around for this one.
- Still... just as fun.
[sniffs]
- Agreed.
[crickets chirping]
[water trickling]
[door squeaks open]
SIMON: Eden?
Where are you?
Come here for a second.
Do you remember Shula?
Never mind, anyway,
so the guys ended up being Andrew's old friends.
So, I used questions that only someone
who truly knows Andrew would know,
and it worked.
Suddenly, Jesus was in the square
healing all those people,
and He recognized John's disciples from somewhere,
and they wanted to know if He was the real thing,
which was crazy,
given everything they'd just seen.
- I lost the baby.
- What?
- You didn't know.
- Say that again?
- Our baby.
- You were with child?
- You were gone when I found out.
- No, no, no, no this--
- And you were gone when I miscarried.
- Were you working too hard?
- No, and that's not what causes these things.
- Why didn't you tell me?
EDEN: Because I didn't want to distract you.
I didn't want to make you regret your choice.
Because what could be more important than--
I thought that I could just keep it to myself,
but I didn't know the hurt would go on so long.
SIMON: Eden, this happened weeks ago?
- See, I was right.
Look how you're handling this.
- Well, I have a right to grieve my own child!
EDEN: I know.
There's no right answer.
SIMON: No, the right answer
would have been to tell your husband.
- Are you mad that it happened
or that I didn't handle it the way you wanted?
- I'm not mad.
- You're furious; I can see it.
- I'm furious?!
You were acting like I did something wrong!
I had no idea what was going on!
I was taking advice from a Roman!
What did I do wrong?
- You didn't do anything!
- What?
- You did nothing!
You asked nothing!
You came home from being gone,
and you didn't even ask how I was.
You didn't offer to help with anything,
you just took a nap.
- You told me to!
EDEN: Yes, because I was being considerate of you.
Because I was showing love to you while I was in pain,
but I didn't know you would rush to bed
and then have the boys over the next day.
- You told me to take a nap.
Am I supposed to read your mind?
- Well, you were happy to read my body.
It might be nice for you to try to read my mind.
SIMON: That's not fair, and you know that.
EDEN: I know that's not fair.
I know I wasn't always right.
I know, I know, I know.
I was a little distracted from losing my own--
[crying]
- You're upset I was on a mission.
- You're putting words in my mouth.
- But were they in your head?
- Don't ask me that.
You can't ask me that.
- I'm sorry!
I'm sorry for everything!
He should never have called me!
- Oh, see, this is-- this is what I was afraid of.
- Stupid mission to Caesarea with Judas.
- Leave Jesus out of this.
This is between us.
It is not His problem.
- Well... He's the Messiah.
If it's not His problem, whose is it?
[deep sighs]
[♪ tender music ♪]
You're the one comforting me?
- I've had a lot more time with it.
SIMON: Why did it happen?
I don't understand.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
- You're asking the wrong person.
[crying]
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