Joaquin Phoenix credited as playing...
Jesus
- Jesus: What is it you long for?
- Mary Magdalene: I'm not sure. To know God.
- Jesus: And yet you've felt God's presence.
- Mary Magdalene: Sometimes, in the stillness, I think I feel it.
- Jesus: It's always been there. All it needs is your faith.
- Jesus: God's kingdom is taking root. So we must prepare. You must wash away the stains of your corruption and be born anew. Like children. I have been hidden for too long. And now you hide. Each one of you.
- Jesus: Listen. In the silence. Is there something calling? Do you have the courage to follow what you hear?
- Jesus: Open your eyes to the light. It has begun. Don't stop it now. Don't let them stop it.
- Mary Magdalene: I'll be with you. I won't leave.
- Jesus: Mary. You are my witness.
- Jesus: You do not lose heart... even now. Didn't you ask what will it be like? The kingdom?
- Mary Magdalene: [internal monologue] It is like a seed. A single grain of mustard seed... which a woman took and sowed in her garden. And it grew... and it grew... and the birds of the air made nests in it's branches.
- James: Mary. He's waiting. Look.
- Jesus: [to mary] What shall I teach?
- Mary Magdalene: Are we so different from men you must teach us different things?
- Susannah: We are women. Our lives are not our own.
- Jesus: Your spirit's your own. And you alone answer for that. And your spirit is precious to God. As precious as that of your husband... or your father.
- Susannah: Then who should we obey? If God commands one thing, but our husbands, our fathers tell us another?
- Jesus: You must follow God.
- Mary Magdalene: So are we to defy them and leave our lives behind?
- Jesus: Yes. Though they judge you... persecute you... you must forgive them.
- Susannah: Forgive them? A year ago a woman from Cana... many of us knew her here. She was young. Her husband found her with another man... and he and his brothers... they dragged her to the river and they raped her. And after they were done... they drowned her. In the court before they were sentenced one of them repented, "God, forgive me." But I'm not God, father.
- Jesus: How does it feel to carry that hate in your heart? Does it lessen as the months go by? It seeps into your days... your nights... until it consumes everything you once were. Those men, they too, were filled with hate. You are strong sister, but you must forgive. There is no other way to enter the kingdom of God. Will you join us? Will you be born anew?
- Jesus: Give thanks to the Lord, for herein lies good. A love that endures forever. Let Israel declare.
- Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, Mary Magdalene: His steadfast love is eternal.
- Jesus: Let the house of Aaron declare.
- Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, Mary Magdalene: His steadfast love is eternal.
- Jesus: Let those who fear the Lord declare.
- Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, Mary Magdalene: His steadfast love is eternal.
- Jesus: Lord, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Give us today the bread of tomorrow. And forgive us our debts. For we forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us to the test.
- Mary Magdalene: May peace be upon you.
- Jesus: Amen.
- Jesus: What shall I teach?
- Mary Magdalene: Are we so different from men you must teach us different things? We are women. Our lives are not our own.