[El Capitano Gatisto]

Originally Posted by YOUR Hero I know it was spoken in Aramaic, I should have pointed out this Hebrew fellow was a scholar of languages. The thing about the language used in this film is that it's a dead strain of the language. Also Arabs aren't Christians, at least not +99% of them. Jesus was a prophet not the son of god like the west implies.

I haven't seen it yet, I'm going by summaries of the film I have heard, and one of them stated that this line would be well understood by people in certain parts of the Middle East.

Without getting too far away from the point, the fact that Gibson lied about not including this particular line, and that he belongs to a Catholic sect that rejects Vatican II (apologies made by the Vatican council to the Jewish people for not recognising the Holocaust and for anti-Semitic beliefs), it would seem as if the anti-Semitism accusation is at least partially valid.

The significance of any omission of the bribery of the Passover crowds is that it means Gibson is placing the blame wholly on the Jewish people, rather than a certain group of people who happened to be plotting against Jesus Christ.

Pontius Pilate was also not without blame in the whole incident, since he shouldn't really have been convicting Christ in the first place. Pilate was actually removed from his position by the Emporer of the time for being too brutal in his rule of the region, which says alot about the nature of the man since kindness has hardly been a virtue of Roman emporers chronicled in history.