The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Harvey Keitel: Judas

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• Judas : You're a disgrace! Romans can't find anyone to make crosses, except for you! You do it! You're worse than them! You're a Jew killing Jews. You're a coward! How will you ever pay for your sins?

  Jesus : With my life, Judas. With my life. I don't have anything else.

• Jesus : I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I have to die on the cross.

  Judas : I won't let you die.

  Jesus : You don't have a choice. Neither do I. Remember, we're bringing God and man together. They'll never be together unless I die. I'm the sacrifice... Forget everything else, understand that.

• Jesus : I'm struggling.

  Judas : No. No. I struggle, you collaborate.

• Peter, Apostle : Don't you have any respect?

  Judas : For him?

  Jesus : [feebly]  You don't understand...

  Judas : Understand? Rabbi, you broke my heart. Sometimes I curse the day I ever met you! We held the world in our hands. Remember what you told me? You took me in your arms, do you remember? And you begged me, "Betray me, betray me, I have to be crucified..."

• Jesus : Judas, my brother, I have something to tell you. I have a terrible secret from God. You know why I came to Jerusalem?

  Judas : Yes. This is where the revolution is going to begin.

  Jesus : Last night, Isaiah came to me. He had a prophecy, I saw it written. It said, "He has borne our faults; he was wounded for our transgressions, yet he opened now his mouth. Despised and rejected by all, he went forward without resisting, like a lamb led to the slaughter."

  Judas : I don't understand.

  Jesus : Judas, I am the lamb. I'm the one who's going to do.

  Judas : Die? You mean you're not the Messiah?

  Jesus : I Am.

  Judas : That can't be. If you're the Messiah, why do you have to die?

  Jesus : Listen, at first, I didn't understand myself...

  Judas : No, *you* listen. Every day, you have a different plan. First it's love, then the ax, and now you have to die. What good could that do?

  Jesus : God only talks to me a little at a time and tells me as much as I need to know.

  Judas : We need you alive!

  Jesus : Now I finally understand! All my life-all my life, I've been followed by voices, by footsteps, by shadows. And do you know what that shadow is? The cross. I have to die on the cross, and I have to die willingly. We have to go back to the temple.

  Judas : And after you die on the cross, what happens then?

  Jesus : I come back to judge the living and the dead.

  Judas : I don't believe you.

  Jesus : You have to.

• Saul : You had orders to kill him and you haven't done it. Now he acts like a prophet, and you follow him!

  Judas : Did you hear what he said back there?

  Saul : Yes I heard him. We took an oath against Rome. I don't see a thing against Rome around here, all I see are Jews against Jews.

  Judas : Then you're not listening.

• Judas : What's good for man isn't good for God!

• Judas : Rabbi, you broke my heart.

• Judas : What are you doing here? What business do you have here? With women, with children. What's good for men isn't good for God!

• Judas : Are you ready? No, no. No more crosses. We're ready.

• Judas : What are you? What kind of a man are you?

  Jesus : What you want, I want. That's why he brought us together, it's God's plan.

  Judas : I come to kill you and you help me, that's God's plan?

• Judas : You're not afraid of dying?

  Jesus : Why should I be? Death isn't a door that closes, it opens. It opens and you go through it.

• Judas : Is there some secret? Tell me your secret.

  Jesus : Pity.

  Judas : Pity for who? Yourself?

  Jesus : Pity for men.

  Judas : Our enemies are men.

  Jesus : I feel pity for everything. Donkeys, grass, sparrows.

  Judas : What about ants? Do you feel pity for them, too?

  Jesus : Yes. Everything's a part of God. When I see an ant, when I look at his shiny black eye, you know what I see? I see the face of God.

• Jesus : You see these people? They're poor. They're blind. They're crippled. They're going to be our army.

  Judas : We're going to need better men than this.

  Jesus : God will give them to me. We're going to build a new Jerusalem.

• Judas : Your place was on the cross. That's where God put you.