The Passion Of The Christ By Evan Mast

The Passion of the Christ by Amber Mast

Introduction- The Passion of the Christ is a movie about Christ’s death. It mainly centers on the pain and suffering Christ went through before his death. But throughout the movie, it shows flashbacks of the days before his death, and on one occasion, when he was a child. The film shows the trial he went through, and how he was accused of not keeping the Sabbath holy and for lying about being the Son of God. Pilot was supposed to be the one to decide his punishment, but he didn’t want to deal with it so he passed it on to another leader who just claimed Jesus to be crazy. Pilot then just let the people decide. They decided to crucify him, which was the cruelest punishment saved for the worst criminals. He is beaten and forced to carry his own cross and they hang him there until he dies.

Important Historical Points-I thought one of the important historical points made in this film was how they showed Jesus teaching the disciples and other people to love one another, even if that person may hate them. This is a key principle in Christianity today, and I think it affected how Christians today try to live their lives. …show more content…
They used it quite often, almost as a tool to tell their subjects about the punishments of acting up. They had many more types of torture, but crucifixion had a longer lasting effect on the people. It seems that there was no one way to crucify someone, sometimes they were upright, upside down, nailed to the cross, or just tied. When they were upside down, the blood would rush to their head and cause death to come a little faster. When the person could no longer hold himself up, they would die of asphyxiation and to make this process faster, sometimes the guards would break the