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Date: 2003-01-18 13:02:14

Comment:

I agree with you 100% . Nazarites are not necessarily people from the city of Nazareth. They could have been from anywhere. I could take a Nazarite vow and have to keep my hair long and all that if I wanted to. Jesus was not a NazarITE. He was a Nazarene though, simply because he was from the city of Nazareth. Anyway, I 'm also very excited about this movie and I hope this one will depict accurately how gruesome the crucifixion scene really was. I 'm sick of seeing people playing Jesus who just have some whip marks, a little blood and some blood from the crown of thorns running down his face and body. People who have studied what all was done to Jesus (and others who were crucified) say you would not even be able to recognize him because he would be so terribly mangled. The fact that people plucked out his beard and no doubt tore hunks of flesh out with it, is never seen on the screen. And when they whipped him, they should show the barbs that were traditionally used back then at the end of the whips and how those would tear chunks of flesh from his back when they yanked them out. I mean, they whipped him 50 times--he would hardly have any flesh on his back at all by the time they were through! I just hope it's realistic for once. It shows how much pain Christ willingly went through because he loved us so much. Way to go Mel and Jim!