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Passion of the ChristMel Gibson's film is is a vivid depiction of the last 12 hours of Christ's life John Meacham Writes About "The Passion" Excerpts from John Meacham's February 16th, 2004 Newsweek article It is night, in a quiet, nearly deserted garden in Jerusalem. A figure is praying; his friends sleep a short distance away. We are in the last hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, in the spring of roughly the year 30, at the time of the Jewish feast of Passover. The country—first-century Judea, the early 21st's Israel—is part of the Roman Empire. The prefect, Pontius Pilate, is Caesar's ranking representative in the province, a place riven with fierce religious disputes. Jesus comes from Galilee, a kind of backwater; as a Jewish healer and teacher, he has attracted great notice in the years, months and days leading up to this hour. His popularity seemed to be surging among at least some of the thousands of pilgrims gathered in the city for Passover. Crowds cheered him, proclaiming him the Messiah, which to first-century Jewish ears meant he was the "king of the Jews" who heralded the coming of the Kingdom of God, a time in which the yoke of Roman rule would be thrown off, ushering in an age of light for Israel. Hungry for liberation and deliverance, some of those in the teeming city were apparently flocking to Jesus, threatening to upset the delicate balance of power in Jerusalem. 
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JODY DEAN'S REACTION
TO "THE PASSION"CBS News anchor Jody Dean talks about her reaction to the Gibson film 
JAMES CAVIEZEL
TALKS ABOUT THE JESUS ROLE"I don't want people to see me. All I want them to see is Jesus Christ."  THE
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