Need an research paper on the movie passion of christ. Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism. The movie scene in the Passion of Christ only begins in Chapter 18 of the gospel of John. In the gospel, Judas was only mentioned in two verses in Chapter 18, namely verses 2 and 3. It just made mentioned that he betrayed Jesus and that he arrived on the garden along with the troops to identify Jesus. In the movie, this was explicitly shown as he kissed Jesus on the cheek. Moreover, the movie focused on the guilt of Judas drove him to his suicide. Images of children who became demons as well as a donkey being eaten by worms tormented him and exacerbated his guilt. Thus, Judas then hanged himself using a rope that was not written in the gospel of John at all. It was only in Acts 1: 18 that Judas ( implied ) by Peter, died by falling into a field and getting disemboweled in the process. The rotting donkey image symbolized the “rotten feeling felt by a person ridden with guilt. The children becoming demons is effective in emphasizing that the demon was behind the decision of Judas. In the movie, images of the demon are constantly showed to establish the struggle between good and evil.

Another interesting visual that was portrayed in the film (which is a deviation from the biblical text) was the serpent crawling towards Jesus as he was praying in the garden. The image symbolized temptation similar to that of Eve being tempted by the serpent in a different garden. The demon in the movie was constantly watching Jesus pray, monitoring his reaction to foreboding death. Perhaps, it was one way of showing that human beings are surrounded by supernatural forces whenever they make crucial decisions in life. After all, Gibson’s insertion of images such as demons is an expression of his belief in the supernatural. moreover, he has an artistic license as the co-director and producer of the film. However, the gospel of John does not contain any of these scenes at all.

In the movie, Pontius Pilate saw Jesus for the first time as very bloodied due to the scourging. This was in direct contrast to&nbsp.the gospel since the only physical punishment&nbsp.&nbsp. Jesus suffered from was a slap in the face by one of the officers after he answered the high Priest ( 3:22 ). The gospel narrates that after his interrogation with the Pharisees, he was sent to Praetorium to meet with Pontius Pilate for the first time ( v. 29). It was only after this meeting that Pilate ordered the scourging of Jesus.&nbsp. In fact, the scourging was only mentioned once in the opening of Chapter 19. On the opposite, the film focused lengthily on the scourging of Jesus. &nbsp.