The Passion of Christ from New Jerusalem

PROLOGUE

(Moses and Elijah appear transfigured)

MOSES: In the beginning was the word, and the word was God. And the word was with God. He
In the beginning, there was God.

ELIAS: All things were made by him, and nothing that was made was made without him.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it

ELIAS: It was the true light, which enlightens every man that comes into this world. It was in the
world, and the world was made by him and the world did not know him. He came to what was his and the
they did not receive him

MOSES: But to all who received him, and to all who believe in his name, he gave the
power to become the Sons of God, who were not born of blood, nor of the desire of
meat, not of man's will, but by the grace of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelled among us.

MOSES: And we saw his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
true.

(This prologue is a reference to the beginning of the Gospel of John)

SCENE 1: TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT

(Jesus is in the desert being tempted by the devil)

DEMON: Jesus? Jesus of Nazareth?

DEMON: He has been praying for forty days.

DEMON: He has been fasting for forty days.

DEMON: Should he be hungry? Should we feed him?

DEMON: If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

JESUS: It is written. Man shall not live by bread alone.

man, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
DEMON: If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written: He commanded the
His angels will take care of you and they will hold you in their hands so that you do not stumble with your foot.
on the stone.

JESUS: It has also been said: you shall not test the Lord your God.

DEMON: Behold the world there, resplendent with gold and marble is Rome, from there Tiberius
dominates the earth, over the ashes of the conquered nations the Caesars built this
immense empire. It was hatred that gave this to Rome, for it is only through hatred that one conquers and
build.

DEMON: It brings together the hatred of those who hate because they were born blind, lopsided and
distant.

DEMON: It gathers the hatred of those who hate because they were born full of diseases and
covered in misery.

DEMON: Joins the hatred of those who hate because they suffer from hunger and thirst.

DEMON: Combines the hatred rising in the eyes of the rebellious enslaved and those who
they suffer injustices and inequities.

DEMON: It also takes your body and your soul and fills them with hatred to the brink of
madness.

DEMON: Then take this sea of hatred and sweep the face of the earth with it.

DEMON: Ask me for this hatred and I will give it to you.

DEMON: With him you will have power, with power you will have the world.

DEMON: I will give you many things if you worship me, everything will be yours.

JESUS: Get away from me, Satan, for it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and only Him.
he will serve.

DEMON: So you are expelling me?

Demon: Listen Jesus! You glorify yourself with the name of Jews, judging to be the light of those who...
they wander in darkness, but there you and your people are, waiting for a messiah for 500 years.

DEMON: Here is whom you expel, who has the power to make you greater than
Moses who seeks the throne of David with a group of slaves from a nation.

DEMON: Here is the one you expel, who has the power to give you a throne greater than
O Tiberius.
Demon: Woe to you, Jesus of Nazareth.

Demon: Woe to you who will have your body shattered like a clay vase.

Demon: Woe to you, Jesus, Carpenter of Nazareth.

DEMON: Woe to you who will be despised as the last of men, a man of sorrows,
man wounded by God and Humiliated.

Demon: Woe to you Jesus, Carpenter of Nazareth.

Demon: Woe to you who will have your soul sad until death.

SCENE 2: Sermon on the Mount

JESUS: The Spirit of the Lord rests upon me, he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the
the poor. He sent me to preach freedom to the enslaved, to give sight to the blind
and to bring redemption to the oppressed to attribute the denial of the Lord's grace.

Pedro, André, Tiago, João. You are the chosen ones.

PEDRO: I am no more than a poor man burdened with sins.

JESUS: I will make you fishers of men. Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James
son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas.

CEGOS: Jesus, son of David, give us your light.

JESUS: Blessed are you who are poor, yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger, you shall be satisfied.
Blessed are you who now weep, for you will be comforted.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for you will be justified.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are the merciful because
they will attain mercy.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

You are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world. But woe to you who are rich, already
woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who
now you ride, you must walk in mourning and cry. They taught you what was said: you shall love your
next and you will have hate for your enemy. But I say to you, bless those who curse you and
pray for those who slander you.

BEGGAR: What good is forgiveness if everyone condemns me?

JESUS: It is I who tell you! Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
then your reward will be great and you will be a son of the Most High. He who causes his to be born
sky over good and evil and that makes it rain on the just and the unjust. Do not judge, and you will not be judged.
Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

BEGGAR: From the ancients, what we heard was: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

JESUS: You know the commandments: you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness
testimony, you shall not commit adultery, honor your father and mother. And I say more, that the rich
sell everything you have and distribute to the poor because it is easier to pass a
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.

BEGGAR: If we have neither field nor harvest, how will you eat?

JESUS: Do not worry about what you will eat, drink, or wear. It is not worth it.
life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the birds of the air,
They do not sow, nor do they reap in barns, your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not much more than they? And why are you anxious about what you should
dress. Look how beautiful the lilies of the field are, they do not work, they do not spin, they do not weave. And in
So I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was ever dressed like one of these.
them. If God clothes the grass that is in the field today and tomorrow will be thrown into the
fire, how much more to you, men without faith? Do not be anxious about tomorrow,
Tomorrow will take care of itself.

PEDRO: Master, when will the kingdom of God come?

JESUS: The kingdom of God is within you.

Son of David, have mercy on us.

CEGOS: Jesus, son of David, heals our ailments.

WOMAN: Let us pass, we want to speak with the master, we want to speak with the master,
we want to speak with the master.

PEDRO: Not now, he is teaching.

WOMAN: Please, it's so my little boy can see you.

JESUS: Let the children come to me. Do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Unless you become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever
to welcome in the name of a child is to welcome me. But woe to those who
to scandalize one of these little ones who believe in me. It would be better for him to be thrown into the
a millstone around his neck and thrown into the depths of the sea.

CEGOS: Son of David heals our ailments.

Have mercy on me, son of David.

JESUS: What do you want me to do for you?

CEGOS: Make our eyes open, Lord!

CEGOS: Lord, give us your light, my eyes are dead.

JESUS: Do you believe that I can do this?

CEGOS: To you, everything is possible!

JESUS: Let it be done according to your faith.

(Jesus heals the blind)

I see you Lord, I see you Lord.

CEGOS: I see you, Master! I see you, Lord.

CEGOS: Blessed be the messiah of Galilee, blessed be!

JESUS: I glorify You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. Because You have hidden these things from
wise and revealed them to the simple. Come to me all you who are weary and
oppressed. Learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest
for your souls, for my doctrine is light and my law is gentle.

PEDRO: Master, we taught how to pray, just as John the Baptist taught his disciples.

JESUS: This is how you should pray:

Our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come to us. Be
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and
forgive us our offenses, as we forgive those who offend us and do not
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all evil.

Informant: Master! Master! Jesus! Master! Master! Jesus! Jesus! Master! Go away and withdraw
from here because Herod wants to kill you.

JESUS: Go and tell Herod that I am casting out demons and healing today and
tomorrow is only the third day I will finish, but today tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I have to
walk. Because they do not prove that the prophet perishes outside of Jerusalem.

INFORMANT: João was arrested.

PEDRO: João arrested? These Roman dogs!

IT WAS NOT ROME, IT WAS HEROD.

PEDRO: Damned. And what does the people say, what does the people do? João needs to be freed.
INFORMANT: When the swords are in the hands of Herod's soldiers, what can
make the people? When the spears are in the hands of the Roman legionaries, what can
make the people? Come here! Cast your eyes to the horizon, do you see any tree? Those
shadows in the distance seem like trees, because the trees are planted in the ground, but
they are crosses. Before thousands of trees, now crosses, one cross for each man who
decided to speak or act.

PEDRO: We must speak until the last tree is turned into a cross. There is more.
men under the yoke of Rome, what trees on the mountains of Galilee.

JESUS: Let's go to Jerusalem!

PEDRO: Let's go too, to die with him!

JESUS: Let's go to Jerusalem!

(Jesus and a crowd are heading towards Jerusalem)

SCENE 3: THE TEMPLE

(When the crowd arrives at the temple, we see that the place is infested with
merchants)

CROWD: Blessed is the king of Israel! Glory in the highest! Blessed is the Father of David
Let him underestimate! Blessed is Israel!

JESUS: Get these things out of here! Is it not written that my house is a house of prayer? You
but you have made it a den of thieves.

CAIAPHAS: With what authority do you act this way?

JESUS: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rebuild it.

CAIFÁS: It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you intend to rebuild it.
in three days?

VENDILHÕES: This is truly the prophet who was meant to come into the world!

ANÁS: We know that you are a friend of the truth. What is your opinion? Is it fair to pay taxes to
Cesar?

CAIAPHAS: Should we pay, or should we not pay the taxes to Caesar?

JESUS: Why do you tempt me? Show me the coin for the tribute.
CAIAPHAS: Here is the denarius.

JESUS: Whose image and inscription is this?

FROM Caesar.

JESUS: Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.

CAIFÁS: After all, who is this?

JESUS: I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.

ANAS: Until when will you keep us in uncertainty? If you are the Christ, why do you not say so?
openly.

JESUS: I have already told you and you did not believe me.

ANAS: You are an impostor, who wears the coarse mantle of the prophets to prophesy the
lie.

CAIAPHAS: Let's stone him!

JESUS: Why do you want to stone me?

CAIAPHAS: Because you are a violator of the Sabbath!

ANÁS: Because you being a man makes you God!

JESUS: I am the son of God.

ANÁS: Keep blaspheming.

PEOPLE: Blaspheme! He's blaspheming! He is blaspheming more and more.

And it's our honor!

PHARISEE: This woman was caught in adultery, for Caesar commanded that she
they would stone these women. And what do you say?

PEOPLE: Let's stone her! Let's stone her! Let's stone her!

AND THE PRINCE: If you say nothing, we will uphold the law. And we have chosen you to throw the first one.
stone.

PHARISEE: What do you decide?

JESUS: Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone! Woman, where are those who...
they accused you, no one condemned you.
ADULTERATE: No one, Sir!

JESUS: Neither will I condemn you. Go and sin no more! Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
Hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful,
but inside they are filled with corpses and all kinds of decay.

You also appear righteous in the eyes of men, but inside you are full of.
thefts and perversions.

CAIAPHAS: With these words, they also offend us, teachers of the law!

JESUS: Woe to you also, teachers of the law. For you burden men with loads
unbearable, when you yourselves do not even touch these burdens with a finger.

CAIFAS: This language is harsh. Who can hear it?

JESUS: This scandalizes you. And when you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was
before. Jerusalem! Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you.
Behold, your house will be left desolate, for I declare to you that you will not see me again until the day...
that all will say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

ANÁS: This man needs to be detained immediately.

Caiaphas: Not now.

PEDRO: Let's get out of here, you have provoked the wrath of the Princes and Priests.

JESUS: Do you think that I came to bring peace to the earth? I tell you, but a sword.
there will be discord between each cycle in which they find themselves in the same house, I came to
to set fire to the earth and how I wish it would burn.

ANAS: Blasphemies, let's gather the council.

JESUS: Oh Jerusalem, if only you knew this day that is offered to you, what you
I could bring you peace, but now, these things are hidden from your eyes. They will come.
days when your enemies will surround you with trenches and will charge against you and attack
from all sides. They will bring you down and your children and throughout your area not
there will be stone upon stone. Because you did not know the time when you were visited.

(Jesus left the temple accompanied by his disciples)

SCENE 4: THE SANHEDRIN

(The Pharisees gather in a council to debate about Jesus)

CAIAPHAS: We have to make a decision. As you saw, Jesus of Nazareth is in
Jerusalem.

He must be arrested and convicted. His speeches influence the popular imagination.

NICODEMUS: Does our law condemn a man before hearing him?

CAIAPHAS: Are you also a Galilean?

NICODEMUS: No. But the man you want to arrest is considered the prophet by the people!

ANAS: Examine the scriptures! You will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHAEA: Great crowds follow him, coming from Idumea, from all Judea,
from Jerusalem and the Jordan Law.

PHARISEE: It's a fraud!

NICODEMOS: Also from the regions of Tyre and Sidon, enormous masses flow since
Have you heard about the miracles he performs.

CAIFÁS: You were also seduced, Nicodemus? And you too, Joseph of Arimathea? There is
Perhaps among the leaders and the Pharisees, there are those who believe in him? Huge crowds! It's just that
plebe that understands nothing of the law.

THE PRINCE: He subverts the law and customs!

PHARISEE: He is a troublemaker and a disruptor of public order!

CAIFÁS: Did you see him entering the city? His insolence and boldness in front of the rabble? Arguing
In the temple! Tearing down tables and stalls, attacking people and dealing blows!

PHARISEE: Attacking our honor and violating consciences!

THE PRINCE: Attacking the Jewish law!

ANAS: Attacking the temple and Caesar!

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA: And is this why you will arrest him and condemn him?

PHARISEE: To arrest him, yes. But not on the day of the feast, so that it does not stir up the people.
people.

CAIFÁS: Let it be on the day of the feast! So that it serves as an example to the people. It is necessary.
let him die! Do you not see how much it is in your interest that only one man dies and
that the nation does not perish?
NICODEMUS: Of course! When Herod saw that the people were gathering around John,
Batista, the landlord feared that he would provoke the murky ones to revolt. A strike of the sword and a
head spinning. The kingdom, the nation, and the consciousness were saved.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHAEA: You do not understand any of this!

ANÁS: What strange prodigy is this... that falls upon the nation causing it to perish
wisdom of their wise ones and to vanish the understanding of their prudent.
Can't you sense what this noise of a bustling city means? You don't enter into
your noses the airs and omens that herald this storm of hatred? Do you not see
fugitive flashes and blades already drawn in the anxious ambush of a throat to warm
the gelid acid?

Now you are understanding why there is fear in your silence! You know which blood will wash...
the stones? Jewish blood!
Your blood shed by Jews and Romans, if the men of Jesus of Nazareth are at
to incite the whole people. Have you forgotten what happened when the Jews rebelled against
Arquelão? For I remind you: Three thousand men died in the halls of that temple! And
then, instead of freedom, came Romans, as before had seen Assyrians, Persians, and others
invaders. You can hold in your hands and shove into your hearts all hatred and
misery of a nation spat on and slapped?

So let Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples go free, that, through their agitation, they may decide.
Our destiny! Go you also after it! Join the ranks of the revolt!

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA: No one can do what he does, if God is not with him!

PHARISEE: If God is with him, who is with us?

CAIAPHAS: Jesus of Nazareth must be destroyed! Enough is enough! Because he is no longer satisfied.
but in enforcing a new law, and if it took on power and infringed the laws and the causes! Not
we will allow Jesus to proceed, he must be eliminated, for the peace of the law and
security of order.

(Judas Iscariot appears.)

How dare you invade the council?

JUDAS: It's about the Nazarene.

CAIFÁS: Who are you?

JUDAS: I am Judas Iscariot, your disciple. I know that you want to arrest him.

CAIFÁS: Yes. And to all who accompany him.

ANAS: Judas Iscariot, disciple of Jesus of Nazareth.

JUDAS: How much will you give me? To betray Jesus.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA: Are you going to betray Jesus of Nazareth?

CAIFÁS: How much do you want?

JUDAS: How much will you give me?

Caiaphas: Thirty pieces of silver.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA: Deliver Jesus? Thirty pieces of silver?

CAIFÁS: Is it little?

JUDAS: Well, if it's fair, give me the reward, otherwise...

CAIAPHAS: You will have your reward!

ANAS: When will we catch him?

JUDAS: Tonight. Tonight, in the garden where everyone goes to sleep.

ANÁS: Take it!

(hands over the coins to Judas)

Thirty coins. The soldiers will be there tonight.

JOSÉ OF ARIMATHAEA: Judas, for the price of a worthless slave, you betray your master.

NICODEMUS: Judas, your feet run towards evil and rush to shed blood.
What?

JUDAS: Because disillusionment has entered my heart.

SCENE 5: LAST SUPPER

Jesus is sitting with his disciples at dinner

JESUS: I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you, because not anymore.
I will eat another before the perfect Easter, the one that will be celebrated in the kingdom of God.

PEDRO: We should have left the city.

JOÃO: Sir, we have left Jerusalem.

PEDRO: Some doors are still open, we can leave without being seen.
JOÃO: This way they won't be able to capture you.

PEDRO: We will all protect you.

(Judas arrives)

JESUS: Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.

(The disciples find it strange)

US?

One of ours?

JOÃO: Here where there is only love for you, there cannot be the bitterness of the traitor.

JESUS: One of you who is eating now with me will betray me. This night all of you
you will scandalize, for it is written:

I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. But after I have risen, I will go ahead.
from you to Galilee.

PEDRO: Even though everyone is scandalized by you, I will not be scandalized.

JESUS: Peter, Simon Peter, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat.
trouble. But I prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.
brothers.

PEDRO: Even if I have to die with you, I will not deny you.

JESUS: Ah Peter, truly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows twice
three times you will have denied me.

PEDRO: But I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

JESUS: The Son of Man goes to death as it was written, but woe to him who...
it would have been better for that man not to have been born.

PETER: Will it be me, Lord?

JOÃO: Who is it?

JESUS: He is the one to whom I will give a piece of soaked bread.

Take, eat, this is my body.

Is it me, by any chance?

JESUS: You said it. You must know what you have to do, do it quickly.

Take all and drink, this is the chalice of my blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be
poured out for you and for all for the forgiveness of sins, do this in remembrance of me.

(Judas said)

I will not be with you for much longer.

JOÃO: Sir, where are you going?

JESUS: I will prepare a place for you, after I have gone and prepared it for you.
place I will live again and I will take you with me. So that where I am, you may also be.
with me. And you know where I am going and you know the way.

PETER: Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?

JESUS: I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
Believe in my word; he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him.
I will also team up and manifest to him.

JOÃO: Why should we express ourselves to ourselves and not to the world?

JESUS: If you were of the world, the world would love what is its own, but you are not of the world.
I chose you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. And if the world...
You know that before the voice, the world hated me. For me to tell you these things.
things the sadness has filled your heart you will have tribulations in the world but take
I have overcome the world. Truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground
The earth and dying will be alone with oneself, but if it falls to the ground and dies, it will produce much.
fruits. Do not let your soul be troubled, I give you a new commandment that you love one another.
to one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than the one who lays down his
life for the life of your friend, love one another. Now I leave this world and return
by my father's side.

I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world, these now have known
that all the things you gave me come from you, and they truly knew that I came from
I believed that you sent me. I gave them your word and the world hated them, Father the world does not
You understood me, I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil, I do not pray.

only for them, but for all who will believe in me through their words. It is
the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified, now my soul is
Oh my God, what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but if it is for this very reason that you...
this hour has come, Father glorify your name.

(Everyone at the table poses in reference to the painting: 'The Last Supper' by Da Vinci)

SCENE 6: Garden of Olives

(Jesus gathers his disciples to rest in the Garden of Olives)

JESUS: John Peter, Thiago. Stay here and watch with me. Pray also so that you do not fall into temptation.
the temptation.

My Father, if it is possible, take this cup away from me.

João, Pedro Thiago, you sleep Simão. So you couldn't watch over for an hour with me.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. I have now slept and rested, behold, it is near.
the hour of the Son of Man who will be delivered to sinners.

My Father, if it is possible, take this away from me

cup of bitterness, however if it is indispensable that I drink from this cup, let your will be done
will and not mine.

DEMON: You will not drink if it is not your will. You will only drink if it is yours.
will. Perhaps Elza created the land in confusion and made the harnesses tremble.
You were also wounded by a mere mortal, you went too far as a man.

You provoked strong and powerful, you got too close to God, unhinged the weak and
the enslaved ones who love you are naked as you found them in fields and courts
they continue full of violence.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JUSTICE, FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.

DEMON: Continues to be forgotten and humble, and frustrates the trust of the unfortunate.
starving, they gnaw at herbs in the fields and bark like dogs as they roam the city in search of
to eat howling when they are not full.

JESUS: Blessed are you who hunger, for you shall be satisfied.

DEMON: The orphans are violated, the poor are stripped of their possessions, and the widows are robbed, and the
those who are not killed during the day are caught at night.

JESUS: Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

DEMON: Have you lifted from the dust of their life and taken a beggar out of misery like
You made man know whether he is worthy of love or worthy of hate.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

DEMON: You did not have the strength to overthrow those on the thrones nor the power to deliver.
those who are in the scratches. The sons of man now as before are full of
work, pain, and bitterness.

JESUS: Blessed are you who now weep, for you shall be comforted.
DEMON: Jesus of Nazareth, you became a prophet when they cried out for a liberator.

JESUS: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

DEMON: Jesus of Nazareth, you will not drink as long as you give to men what they need.
they want. To give hatred instead of love, to give war instead of peace, to give land instead of
sky.

JESUS: Father, take this cup away from me! Not that I want what you want.

DEMON: As a man, you will die and fall like any prince, woe to you Jesus, woe
of you, man wounded by God and humiliated.

JESUS: Your will be done.

DEMON: Your will be done.

(The demon disappears. Meanwhile, Judas Iscariot appears with a troop of

soldiers

JESUS: Rise up, let's go!

DISCIPLES: Let's go! Let's go!

JUDAS: God save you, master!

JESUS: Friend? What did you come for?

(Judas kisses the face of Jesus)

Judas, with a kiss, betrays the son of man.

Whom are you looking for?

Soldier: To Jesus of Nazareth.

JESUS: It's me.

(The soldiers are startled)

Whom do you seek?

Soldier: To Jesus of Nazareth.

JESUS: I already told you that it is I; if you are looking for me, let these go.

PEDRO: No one will touch the Master!

(Pedro, with a sword, cuts off a soldier's ear)

SOLDIER: AHH!

JESUS: Peter, put away your sword, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

(Jesus is arrested and taken to Herod where he will be questioned)

SCENE 7: The Palace of Herod

SUBJECT: Let's say that as good disciples of Horace: It is time to drink and of
dances and the pleasure of enjoyment.

HEROD: Let's say that as good sons of Satan: let's eat and drink, for
Tomorrow we will die.

(The party continues. Meanwhile, the Pharisees and Jesus arrive at the Palace)

CAIAPHAS: Herod, Pilate sends you Jesus of Nazareth.

HEROD: I see! It looks like by your company you intend to interrupt me

moments of pleasure with my friends.

ANAS: It is to Pilate that you owe the interruption of your "chores".

HEROD: Why me? Why are you here with this dirty Galilean? Have you forgotten that you have
the highest court of the Jews?

(For Jesus)
Jesus of Nazareth... So it is you...

CAIAPHAS: Pilate was informed that this man is Galilean. Send him so that you may judge him,
for this is your domain. It was there that you began to preach your doctrines

HEROD: And what does he preach? Can you inform your beloved king?

HE'S a troublemaker!

HEROD: I asked what he preaches.

SUBJECT: Let men love one another.

HEROD: What? Please repeat.

Subject: That men love one another.

(Everyone laughs and mocks Jesus)

HEROD: If only they were: 'Let men love other men's women.'

(Herod and everyone in the Palace laugh)

What else? What does he preach?

SUBJECT: That the rich should sell what they have, distribute it to the poor, and seek the
path to heaven.

Herod reigns

HEROD: But he has a fertile imagination and a delightful doctrine!

Look at my sky, and god knows how much this costs me!

CAIFÁS: So you find delightful the doctrine that has already dragged thousands of men to the call of
subversion? The cunning and skilled King Herod is enchanted with the young Galileo, to the point of
forget your own crown! Why did you behead John the Baptist? Because you love him? Answer
Herod!

Herod: Shut up!

The rest will hear from me, Herod. You beheaded John the Baptist because you feared the violence that his...
the tongue was already plotting and shaking your throne. That’s why you killed him!

HEROD: Shut up, you damned one, or I will kill you too.

ANAS: Kill me, and leave that one who is more powerful than John and will make your throne
fall and roll among the people your crowned head.

CAIAPHAS: Release him, Herod. Release him and you will see his miracles. Release him and you will taste of your own.

power! Power that will transform your subjects into rebels, who will replace the currency of
tribute, for the dagger of revenge.

ANAS: He not only mocks your power but also despises you!

HEROD: Who are you, after all? God or the devil?

(Jesus does not respond)

CAIFAS: Let him go, Herod. And you will see!

HEROD: Which of the two is within you?

AND THE PRINCE: Let him go, Herod, and you will see the demon in his magic!
HEROD: Magic? Is it true that you raised a dead person… You are more powerful than your
king?

If I tell this soldier, 'Kill that man!', he will kill, but nothing will happen if I
tell this column: 'get out of my way'. Can you do all these things?

Ordering a subject: Give me water.

They told me that at a feast like this you performed a beautiful miracle. Repeat it now for your
King. Transform this water into wine.

(Jesus remains still)

Let's go! I am proposing a deal among the powerful. Pilate sent you to me so that I could...
judge. Just one gesture and you will go to prison. Or another gesture, the one that makes you rise.
sword and fall a head.

But I can also say: 'This man is innocent.' order that you be released and allow
let him leave this harsh Judea, bare rocks, sky on fire and hearts in hatred.
Take you with me to Galilee. You know that the Jordan is lined with tamarinds. And
golden are the fields of barley and wheat.

The brother now reflects his snow in the blue mirror of the Sea of Galilee, whose edge is
baptized of loving couples. Do you remember how vivid the wind of the Securos is.

Come on... It's little what I ask of you. Turn water into wine.

(Jesus remains quiet)

Do you not attend to your king? Do you refuse my request? Do you mock me?

No… No! It's just that your power has abandoned you!

Just like your men abandoned you when they let you be captured! You are nothing more!
Not Magic!

Is this your troublemaker prophet? A poor devil to whom even the tongue refuses to obey.
in his own defense?

Here you entered terrified before the power that would return the princes to nothing, to become nothing.
the kings and their princesses in arms. And behold those whom I return to you:

(Herod puts a tunic on Jesus)

Look now, with the "Tunic of the taxes in debate"! Tremble men, this is the one
he will overthrow the tents and make thorns grow in the palaces.
Tremble, Annas and Caiaphas, for the one who will crush your heads goes to the field!
I trembled with him, all of you! And from the dire, fear has already spread its weakness to you.

Go away from here. Everyone, to Pilate. The shadow whose power shelters the cowards of the world.

Out of here! Soldiers, get out! Out!

(Herod expels the Pharisees and Jesus from his Palace)

SCENE 8: PILATE'S FORUM

Caiaphas: Pilate, Herod returns Jesus of Nazareth to you!

ANAS: He said that you judge him, that is your mission.

PILATE: You brought this man to me under the accusation of inciting rebellion. How a
stirrer and disruptor of public order. I interrogated in your presence and found nothing.
no fault in the crimes of which you accuse them.

ANÁS: This is absurd!

PILATE: Neither Herod, nor do you see anything against him that would make him deserving of this.
death.

CAIAPHAS: But this is an irresponsibility!

PILATE: Therefore I will give you freedom!

ANAS: You are going to release a criminal, whom we bring here for you to condemn.

CAIAPHAS: A man submitted to our council is considered guilty of death.

ANÁS: This man is sentenced to death!

(Asking Jesus)
PILATE: Is it true that you are the king of the Jews?

JESUS: You said, yes I am King. For this I was born and came into the world, to bear witness.
Of the truth. Every man who loves the truth listens to my voice.

PILATE: And what is truth? Whose truth is it? Yours? You who claim to be king, what do you say?
to have the kingdom and servants, and that prevents your men from fighting and defending you. That you allow
like a king they hold you captive and even your hands. The truth of those who bring you here as
Is a bandit a false king for whom they seek death?
Oh, my truth that everything here is a uniform! You told me to be king of a kingdom which the
men do not fight and live on the
empire of truth. men only accept the fight when they lack hatred. You are
sure that he is not a madman?

ANÁS: You publicly zombify us, Pilate.

PILATE: If he is not mad, then where does all the madness come from that made you invade everything?
The courtyard and that with you already climbs these stairs, does the madness inside you come to mind?

CAIAPHAS: Besides the ridiculous, now you also insult us!

ANÁS: This man is sentenced to death!

PILATE: According to tradition, during Passover I always release a prisoner.

In our prisons is Barabbas imprisoned. Whom do you want me to release, Jesus?

from Nazareth or the murderer Barabbas?

ANÁS: Barabbas?

PILATE: Or do you want blood only.

ANAS: We have nothing to do with Barabbas, it's about this one.

PILATE: I could give you better blood of a troublemaker than this.

(The people ask for Barabbas)

PRINCE: Release Barabbas!

PILATE: Barabbas?

Anás: Death to Jesus!

Release Barabbas!

ANÁS: Barrabás!

PILATE: What shall I do with this one whom you call King of the Jews?

ANÁS: The death!

Death to the Nazarene!

PILATE: I will punish him and set him free, scourge Jesus of Nazareth!

(Jesus is whipped and placed a crown of thorns on his head)

Behold, I present to you Jesus of Nazareth, behold the man!

ANAS: Crucify him!

CAIAPHAS: Death!

PILATE: Take him and crucify him yourselves!

ANAS: Pilate knows that the right to 40 years after the death has been taken from us.

CAIFÁS: We have a law, and according to the law, he must die!

ANAS: He must die because he made himself the Son of God.

CAIAPHAS: Says he is Christ, the Messiah.

PILATE: Does he say that? Where are you from? Who are you? Serious accusations are raised against...
You, ask for your life and you condemn me and say nothing? Then you do not know that I have power.
For I have the power to crucify you and to give you freedom?

JESUS: You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above; therefore, greater.
the sin belongs to the one who delivered me to you.

PILATE: Bring Barrabas. Behold, I fulfill my word, according to your desire.

Barrabás is free.

People: Long live Barrabás!

PILATE: Now that he has been punished, I will also release Jesus of Nazareth.

CAIAPHAS: If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar.

ANAS: Every man who becomes a king is against Caesar.

And you intend to release him instead of condemning him?

CAIAPHAS: Do you want to be accused of treason as well?

PILATES: Enough! I just had the feeling that you seem to have forgotten about the
type of authority to which you are addressing. Inexplicably slipped from your memory
that this authority represents Rome. I am the one who decides to whom, when, and how it should be.
to kill. Only Rome can kill. You say well, only I can sentence to death.

Have you noticed this, this problem of power, even the irrational can give life, but the
pain, injustice, death, evil in all its dimensions, can only be imposed by
powerful. In summary, without power there is no evil. Impunity is the cloak under which the
bad blooms. By the way, what do you say?
AND THE PRINCE: You said that you represent Rome.

PILATE: And you, Caiaphas, what do you say?

CAIAPHAS: That only you can kill.

PILATE: Are you Anas?

ANAS: I intended to say. You Pilate are the one who seems to have forgotten the type of authorities to
which are you subordinate to.

Did you escape your memory that this authority is called Tiberius? And you know well the pride.
and the violence of Tiberius.

PILATE: And you threaten me with that?

ANÁS: It is you who exposes yourself to her.

AND THE PRINCE: Tiberius needs a governor in Judea and that is now you. Few
they can force Tiberius that this governor must essentially remain.

ANAS: Pilate, however, many can insist that Tiberius remove him.

PILATES: And you for example.

ANAS: Herod for sure.

PILATE: And Annas for sure and Caiaphas for sure, and all of you can of course, do with
that Tiberius remove Pilate from the Governorship of Judea, but what you cannot avoid is that the
Judea has a Governor Tiberius, what you cannot avoid at this moment is that this
Governor, be Pilate.

Pilate representing the conquering power, the unpunished power, the power of death, over you
Annas, you Caiaphas, and you other Princes and Priests who are here representing and only one
subjugated people. Behold your king!

CAIAPHAS: Crucify him!

ANAS: Crucify him!

PILATE: Shall I crucify your king?

ANAS: We have no king but Caesar!

PILATE: Do you want to crucify your God?

ANAS: We have no other God but the God of Moses.

(Pilate washes his hands)

PILATE: I am innocent of the blood of this man; it is up to you.

responsibility. May your blood not fall upon me!

Caiaphas: May your blood be upon us and our children!

ANÁS: Fall upon us!

PILATE: Let him be crucified!

(Jesus is condemned and carries the cross to Mount Calvary)

DINNER 9: SACRED WAY

ADVERTISERS: THE JUSTICE OF PILATE CONDEMNED JESUS, THE NAZARENE

IF YOU WANT TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE, HURRY UP

THERE IS NO MORE TIME

(This passage is repeated several times until the crucifixion)

MARIA: Will all this suffering be necessary, João?

JOÃO: The word of the prophet must be fulfilled, it cannot be changed!

MARIA: Except for God, except for God! Only he can change it, for no one
you can exert pressure on your hand or satisfy your mercy.

He who saves the innocent and the sheep from the mouth of the lion. He who protects the lamb from the claws.
sharp of the eagle. He who creates and alters the orders of the seasons and the path of the world. Not
He will be able to send an angel to stop the sword that threatens the fulfillment of the sacrifice. He
will determine the fate of my son, bringing him to sit at your right as was foretold by the
words of King David, my son will ascend to the heavens like Elijah in a chariot of fire!

JOÃO: Unlike Elias, according to the prophecy, He will have an infamous death, He will die like
any man disregarded and humiliated!

MARIA: No! Nothing is impossible for God, He who can change the course of the universe.
Would it be possible to erase the sins of the world without shedding my son's blood?

MADALENA: Look, here comes Jesus!

(Jesus appears carrying the cross amidst spits, whips, and mockery from the crowd)
MARIA: Heavenly Father! Have mercy on me, spare me no suffering! But
don't separate me from my son!

At this moment, the Stations of the Cross take place, where the events that precede the
Calvary)

(Jesus falls)
My son!!

WOMAN: Sir, who will pray for us?

JESUS: Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, weep for yourselves and for your children,
for days will come when it will be said blessed are the hysteria, blessed are the guts that do not
They will be able to conceive and the breasts that cannot breastfeed will then be the men will say to the...
mountains fall upon us and the hills. If they do this to the green middle what will happen to
semi-dry.

(During this scene, Jesus falls for the second time, Veronica wipes his face.)
bloodied Jesus and Simon of Cyrene is ordered to help Jesus carry the
cross the rest of the way)

THE LAST SUPPER 11: THE SUICIDE OF JUDAS

Judas: You who pass by, stop! You who stopped them, look at me!

Here is the man. I, Judas. Even I, when I remember, my shadow trembles.

all my flesh. Where are you going in such a hurry? To see a God die?, Ha!Ha!Ha! This is
your destiny, this is your revenge, our revenge, to witness the death of the Gods,
Ha!Ha!Ha!

I betrayed him, he left them. Here is what your father, God of hosts, told me:
“Traitor Judas, you are the symbol of evil!” So be it! Evil symbol, symbol of
disgrace, symbol of betrayal and shame, of hatred, of contempt and perversion.

Remember that Judas, that all this is your son and your work, father of the traitor. Because
Did you hurt me? Why couldn't you make me good? Why do you make death rise through the
our windows, entering our homes to exterminate our children in the streets and the
Our youth in the square? And is it for this that you have given us these eyes? To cry for the death of the dead and

lips to kiss the lips of the dead, and hands to bury the body of the dead!

Spirit to remember the memory of the dead, just enough to live from death, enough to live
of the dead! Why is life given to the bitter of spirit?

CONSCIOUSNESS: Ask me?

JUDAS: Who are you?

CONSCIENCE: Your brother of bitterness!

JUDAS: So you have nothing to say.

CONSCIENCE: Why did you betray him?

JUDAS: Your consolation is also the misery of man, for it will not comfort you from
my infamy. The immensity of your love overwhelms me, and in the infinity of your mercy, I
caused nausea.

He had a secret, he wanted to kill our old God, believing that it would be possible to live.
without our old God, without the wrath of His voice and the relentless vengeance of His hand, without
eternal fury of his presence. Ha, He also had a terrible and crazy mission wanted
cleanse us of our sins, carry our sins upon him. What would become of us
of our life without sin, what would become of us without our God over us and without His
hatred towards our enemies?

Tell me, could you live like this? Without hate, without revenge, without sin and without remorse,
without anything that justified life!

CONSCIOUSNESS: We are not talking about me!

JUDAS: Not from me! Suddenly everything became empty! I no longer know where the beginning is,
neither the end, nor the why of things. Just an immense fatigue that flows from me like
water through the body!

CONSCIENCE: Will you come with me? You will have absolute rest!

JUDAS: It's useless, the soul too, a sea of bitterness entered me through the mouth and drowns me.
heart!

CONSCIOUSNESS: Come! For absolute rest!

JUDAS: And what is your absolute rest?

CONSCIOUSNESS: What death gives!

JUDAS: Not death, death, not death!

CONSCIENCE: Then live with your memories, and your regrets, your sin, and your
despair!

JUDAS: Death, always death, only death!

CONSCIENCE: Or did you judge before calling to the heavens?

JUDAS: If I speak to myself, it will not ease my pain!

CONSCIOUSNESS: Then you are silent!

JUDAS: If I stay silent, it won't distance itself from me!

CONSCIENCE: Then you cry out that you help yourself to vent, you can laugh, cry!

JUDAS: No, there are no more laughs on these lips, nor songs in these ears, nor more
tears in my eyes. Only disillusionment in my heart!

CONSCIOUSNESS: Come, my brother of despair? Come with me to the night of man, where
everything fades, where you will see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing! Neither hatred, nor love, nor
sin, neither forgiveness, nothing, just nothing!

JUDAS: My faith is gone and it is banned from my mouth!

CONSCIOUSNESS: God is no longer with you!

JUDAS:I have no more questions! Judas goes to death God of hosts, against
my desire threw you into the world, against your will I left it. Avoid if you can
May Judas die, you avoid it so that Judas does not destroy the evil work you have done!

(Judas ties the rope around his neck)

Satan, I surrender my body into your hands!

(Judas dies)

SCENE 12: CRUCIFIXION

We are on Calvary, where the last events of the Passion take place.

Jesus is crucified, in the midst of two thieves and a plaque is placed above the cross.
showing that he was the king of the Jews.

The Pharisees and others around mock Jesus

Anás: You who would destroy the temple and in three days rebuild it, save yourself.
same.

SOLDIER: If you are the king of Israel, come down from this cross and we will believe in you.

CAIAPHAS: You who saved others, save yourself, save yourself.

true Christ, the chosen one of God. You did not surrender into the hands of God, for he
come to save yourself if he truly loves you.
THE PRINCE: If you are the king of the Judeans, save yourself.

JESUS: Father forgive them because they do not know what they are doing.

THIEF 2: You are not the Christ, save yourself and save us too.

THIEF 1: Do you not fear God when you suffer the same punishment? We suffer the punishments.
of our crimes, but he did nothing wrong.

THIEF 1: Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

JESUS: Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.

My son!

JESUS: Woman, behold your son; John, behold your mother.

My God, my God, why

Did you abandon me?

I am thirsty, I am thirsty, I am thirsty.

It is finished.

Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.

Jesus dies

SCENE 13: SORROWFUL MOTHER

SOLDIER: Break the legs of the condemned.

CONDEMNED: Oh! Oh!

SOLDIER: No, this one is dead, I will treat him like a king in battle.

MARIA: No!

(The soldier pierces Jesus with the spear and water and blood come out of his body)

JOSÉ OF ARIMATHAEA: I bring authorization from Pilate for you to hand over the body of
Jesus.

(Jesus is taken down from the cross)

MARIA: Poor child, how much blood, how many wounds in this torn flesh, how much pain in
your tortured body, how much misery on that scorned face, how much horror poor child
in your faded corpse.

(Jesus is buried)

SOLDIER: Stay here on guard. It's an order from Pontius Pilate in response to the request of the
Jews. They fear that the disciples of the Nazarene might steal the body.

(But then, the stone that was the door of the tomb opens by itself and Jesus comes out from there)
Risen Christ

SCENE 14: THE RESURRECTION

(Mary Magdalene went to visit the tomb but found it open and empty,
then starts to cry)

ANGEL: Why do you weep, woman?

MADALENA:They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have laid him!

ANGEL: Who do you seek?

MADALENA: Oh Jesus! If it was you who took him away, tell me where you put him and I will take him.
with me!

ANGEL: Why do you seek the living among the dead?

Christ has risen as he said, go to your brothers and tell them that Jesus
He will ascend glorious to His Father and your Father, to My God and your God, and that in 40
days have fulfilled all these truths, inform everyone to go to Galilee, there they will meet him.
summer!

Jesus lives! Jesus lives! Jesus lives!

(Everyone celebrates the Victory of Jesus against death and the show ends with
Jesus being lifted to heaven