Barabbas

Barabbas, I'm Judas, one of Jesus' disciples.

We need to talk.

Listen to me, Barabbas.

The moment has come.

What are you talking about?

God wants us to take up arms.

The messiah chose to die rather than do that.

You must tell everyone.

You must tell everyone the truth.

What truth?

That God guided my hand, that through me he led Jesus to

his death and he did it because you were the man with the sword.

You, Barabbas.

You are the messiah.

You must tell them.

Shut up.

You must tell them the truth.

Get out of here.

Tell them all.

You must tell him about God, the God of weapons.

Tell him that he has chosen you, that Jesus was needed

just to prove that peace is impossible without violence.

That's why you were there, why you were saved,

to show the world that you are the chosen one,

that he wants your sword, Barabbas.

You're the reason God had me hand Jesus over

to the priests of the temple.

Because you are the chosen one.

You will be the one to lead Israel to victory.

Tell him.

Tell who?

Peter.

Come with me.

Go now. Tell him everything.

Peter?

Huh? Oh.

Have you come to kill me?

Kill you? No.

Three times I was afraid, and I denied him three times.

I was a coward, just as he predicted.

I offered him my sword and he refused it

and then he took my place on the cross.

I am Barabbas.

Barabbas.

His kingdom is not of this world.

A dead king has no kingdom.

Everything has been fulfilled as it was written.

Why did he not save himself?

Why was I spared?

Uh...only faith can answer your question.

Faith? Faith in what?

What faith?

We are still under the thumb of Rome.

You must have faith in him.

He is a dead man, Peter.

He is not dead and he is not a man.

God's will has been done.

Father...

...into your hands I command my spirit.

My son, what have they done to you?

You must go now.

Please let me stay.

Our orders are to keep people away.

But what are they afraid of?

I don't know.

I'm following orders.

What do you want?

Isn't what happened enough for you?

Go away and leave us.

I said go away!

Wait.

What do you want, Barabbas?

Just to talk...to you.

Why did you come to me?

Why did he die in my place?

Because he wanted it this way.

I don't understand that.

Only faith can answer your question.

Faith in what?

In him.

If he wanted me to have faith in him, he would have

taken up the sword against the Romans.

It's not the sword, Barabbas.

He'll forgive you.

Forgive me for what?

It's not my fault that they killed your son.

I'm sorry.

I'm just sorry.

You should have died on the cross.

Not Jesus.

The cross is a symbol of suffering.

Suffering? Yes.

I can't think of anything other than his suffering.

Don't touch me, please.

It's over, Claudia.

Over?

He is dead.

He isn't dead.

I wish that were so.

I wish I could tell you he was alive,

but it's pointless to deny the truth.

He will return.

What are you saying?

Exactly what he said.

He will.

Esther?

Barabbas!

I'm so happy you're alive.

Let's leave this place, you and me, right now.

I can't leave.

Why not?

You really don't understand.

You don't understand why you're still alive?

Nothing will be as it was before, Barabbas.

Your place is with me.

No.

My life is here with them.

They need me.

But I...I need you.

I need you.

I'll be here whenever you wish to see me.

Esther, these people are almost dead.

You staying here makes no sense.

Jesus taught me blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs

is the kingdom of heaven.

What about our child?

You don't care about him either?

I come to visit him every evening to pray with him.

What happened?

The day they arrested you, I fell.

Our son was lost.

Then I understood that the Lord doesn't want me to have

children, that he wants me to help the sick and the dying.

He doesn't exist, Esther.

You exist, I exist.

Even our child existed.

I wish I'd protected him and loved him the way

I can you now, so come away with me, please.

Gheena is my home now and then I want to take care

of those who suffer.

Come away with me.

You're the only man I've ever loved...

but now I owe my life to Jesus.

This is the house of Lazarus?

I don't know who you're talking about.

I met Jesus of Nazareth.

My name is Barabbas.

Wait a moment, Barabbas.

I knew you would come.

Well, thank you for seeing me.

To be honest, I hope you can help me understand.

What do you need to understand?

Jesus was condemned to death for raising me from the dead.

And in dying, he wanted your life to be saved instead of his.

Why were you and I chosen so that he could find death?

In the village where I was born, there was a man,

a doctor, who kept herbs that were capable of inducing sleep

similar to death.

Perhaps there's nothing to understand, Lazarus.

That is why I decided not to meet with any of those

who come here to see me, to ask me questions,

because I can't demonstrate anything.

Yet you believe.

I was dead and he brought me back to life.

If you really were dead, then I beg you, tell me,

what is this death from which you say Jesus saved you?

I don't know.

It was like waking up from a dreamless sleep.

When I opened my eyes, I was alive.

It was as though I'd come back from nothing.

That's it?

Nothing?

I ask myself every day how can I be so sure,

so incredibly sure that it's all true,

that Jesus really came and freed me

from the grip of death.

And have you found your answer?

Nothing can convince someone who doesn't want to believe.

Because there's nothing to believe.

He will return, Barabbas.

I know he will.

He is dead.

He does not exist.

And the fact that you're alive,

the fact that I'm alive, that means nothing

in your opinion?

I am nothing.

I live the life of a thief.

I should have died like a thief.

Why that changed, I have no idea.

But what I do know is that you, like so many others who idolize

him, are either deceived or insane.

I'm sorry.

Jesus was condemned to death

for raising me from the dead.

And in dying, he wanted your life to be saved instead of his.

Why were you and I chosen so that he could find death?

You must tell everyone.

You must tell everyone the truth.

That God guided my hand, that through me he led Jesus to his