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Episode 1
It's Passover in Jerusalem, and the city is bursting with pilgrims. It's a tense time for those charged with keeping order - like Pilate the Roman Prefect and Caiaphas the High Priest. The arrival of a preacher from Galilee called Jesus causes great excitement when he enters through the East Gate on a donkey's colt, fulfilling prophecies of the coming of the Messiah. For Jesus's band of disciples, hardened by several years on the road, this is the moment they've been waiting for, but none of them suspects how momentous this week will be.
Writing:
- Michael Offer
Release Date:
Sun, Mar 16, 2008
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 28
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 28
Penelope Wilton
Mary
James Nesbitt
Pilate
David Oyelowo
Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph Mawle
Jesus
Denis Lawson
Annas
Stephen Graham
Barabbas
Paul Nicholls
Judas
John Lynch
Sagan
Laura Fraser
Abigail
Tom Ellis
Apostle Philip
Ben Daniels
Caiaphas
Ben Caplan
Yehuda
Mark Lewis Jones
Apostle Marcus
Steve Morphew
Apostle Thaddaeus
Peter Sullivan
Temple Lawyer
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Syrian Prefect
Season 1:
It's Passover in Jerusalem, and the city is bursting with pilgrims. It's a tense time for those charged with keeping order - like Pilate the Roman Prefect and Caiaphas the High Priest. The arrival of a preacher from Galilee called Jesus causes great excitement when he enters through the East Gate on a donkey's colt, fulfilling prophecies of the coming of the Messiah. For Jesus's band of disciples, hardened by several years on the road, this is the moment they've been waiting for, but none of them suspects how momentous this week will be.
Caiaphas is growing increasingly anxious that Jesus's preaching will provoke unrest and bring in the Romans, and when Jesus appears to threaten the Temple it's the final straw. As Jesus tries to explain his destiny to the disciples, Caiaphas calls a council and presents it with a stark choice. With Passover approaching, a fateful decision is taken, and Judas finds himself placed in an impossible position.
Jesus shares his Last Supper with the disciples, and teaches them their last and most important lesson. Whilst Judas slips away to fetch the Temple guards, Jesus leads the disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane and tries to prepare himself for what is to come. The next few hours will bring him face to face with Caiaphas, with Pilate and with his own destiny.
As Jesus is taken from the cross and buried, his disciples cower in hiding. Caiaphas, fearful that the body will be stolen, orders the tomb to be guarded. But when Mary Magdalene discovers it empty, a chain of events is about to begin that will transform the lives of the disciples and reverberate throughout the world for the next two thousand years.
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