The Friends of Jesus - Judas (Gli amici di Gesù - Giuda)

Judas

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Hosanna! The King of Jews. Jesus!

Hosanna!... Hosanna!... He is the Messiah!...

Hosanna!

Come children! Let's go! Quickly!

Lucius!... Thay way with your men! The rest of you with me!

Sarah

The Romqans! The Romans are coming!

Stay calm!

We don't need to be afraid! What do we do, Judas?

Get out of the way! Go back to your homes! All of you!

There he is!... It's him!...

Wait!... We don't need to fear the Romans!...

The Mesiah is with us!...

The Mesiah is here! Hear me!

Yes! He's our king! The King of Jews!

He's our Lord!

Make way! It's him we want!... No harm will come to you!

Go away! Take my life!

you won't take the Messiah!

Back off!

Hosanna! Hosanna!

Jesus!

Hosanna! Jesus!

Jesus!

- It was an error, Veturius.... - a stupid mistake!...

In the future I will tolerate no more of your personal initiatives!

Is that clear!?

Pilate, we can't tolerate their proclaiming him king!

Rome decides who is king of this land!

This Jesus of their is a danger to Ceasar.

His followers are claiming he is Messiah,,,,

the leader who will free.... Israel!

I know what a messiah is!

I've seen four of them since I've been here!

But I've heard that none of them ever drew such a big Crowd...

Hold your tongue!...

You haven't been here long enough to question my judgement!

In no way... did I intended to offend the Procurator

We must be patient....

We'll catch him when he's less Popular.

Keep your eyes and ears open.

At your orders!

Open the door!

- open the door! - Go see who it is!

What do you want!? What do you want from me!?

Where is your son!

I... I don't know where my son Judas is!

I haven't heard from him since he took off with that fool from

Nazareth three years ago!

I even distinherited him! My only son!

My son is dead as far as I'm concerned!

Look at what he's done to this family!?

My wife is a very sick woman!

He's not here, I tell you!

We know that. This house has been watched for days.

Then why have you come ?

Oh!

It comes from Tyrth.... I believe....

Oh, yes, eh... Let me offer it to you, if you like.

We came here for you to deliver a message to

every merchant in Jerusalem.

None of you is to help the Nazarene and his group.

No help whatsoever!

- You will deliver the message? - Of course!

come out!

Quickly! Quickly! Close the door!

Peter! ... John!

It's as we thought!

The Romans are searching for us everywhere!

They've even been to Judas' family's house!... We watched them!

I'm sorry to hear that, Judas.

It was to be expected.

Let's wake the Master!

No... let him rest. This house is safe for us tonight.

Let's get out of Jerusalem, while there's still time!

John, Jesus is going to free Israel...

How many times has he promised us that? But the Romans!

The people are with us. you can see it for yourself!

One more effort on our part... and we will have reward at last!

Judas is right... All we need is courage!

If the Messiah is with us... no one in the world is safer than we are!

The Kingdom is coming...

Now get some rest.

Try to have more faith, John.

It's been so long... Three years...

Just let me look at you Three years...

and it's been so hard... It's been so hard

- I feared!... I feared I'd never see you again. - Why? Why? Why?... Why?

I want to marry you, Sarah.

Don't worry... it's for me... it's for me.

Greetings, Judas.

- Jesta.. - I was posted outside to make sure you were'nt followed.

Is that the only reason you're here?

- No... of course not. - What then?

Your master.. has shown that he can bewitch the Masses

The reception he received here was... was truly impressive...

If you were to join us, we could defeat the Romans.

You know that we reject violence.

Every man will do his part!... We with arms... you without them!

That cannot be! And why is that?

You're afraid? No.

God is with Jesus

with all his might...

All Jesus has to do is raise his hand.

and the lord will show himself.

...Jesus

he is the Son of God!

I've seen him perform miracles,...

walk on water...

raise the dead...

Is that so?

Lazarus of Bethany was in his tomb for three days and Jesus raised him

Oh!

You must have heard about it.

Of course I did!

I must say.. you put on quite a show!

My compliments! It paved your way to Jerusalem!

Stop it! Stop it!

Jesta... I have to ask you to go!

Do you think my master is a liar too?

No... and whateve I think

it has never stopped me from loving you.

What is it?

Did you hear about my brother?

Disma? Tell me.

They caught him... they cindemned him... He will be crudified.

No.

Disma?

He has always loved you. Maybe there's a way to free him.

- How? What can I do for him? - You know the custom at Passover.

The Roman Proculator spares the life of one of the prisoners to be killed.

..He chooses from a list he is given

There's an officer... one of Pilate's trusted men

For money... he could I give him Disma's name.

But we don't have money now...

We need thirty pieces of silver.

Thirty?

I know it's a lot.

and I have no idea how to find it.

Who keeps the money for your group?

I do.

Don't look at me like that, Sarah...

I'd do it for you if I could... believe me.

The Master trusts me.

...No, Sarah... No, I can't.

I can't betray Jesus.

Forgive me.

hosanna! Hosanna!

The Romans seem to have vanished.

They're afraid... that's all

Don't underestimate them... Remember they've conquered the world.

So, you would be the Messiah...

Why don't you show us a sign from heaven?

Why don't you perform a little miracle for us?

Be careful, Master... He's a snake.

He's one of the more powerful members of Sanhedrin.

He's a pawn in the hands of the Romans.

- Jesus!... We pay our taxes to Rome. - Are you suggesting we stop paying them?

If Jesus say no, he'll turn the crowd against him.

If Jesus say yes, it will give Romans another reason to eliminate him.

Show me the money you pay the tax with.

Who's portrait is this?

Ceasar's portrait!

Then I say, pay Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar.

and to God... what belongs to God.

Jesus!... The people love you! It's time to act!

We could march on the Roman fortress!

No Judas... it is not a time to rejoice... but to pray.

The Nazarene has a plan

He's getting more and more dangerous every day!

Dangerous? He doesn't seem dangerous to me!

He preaches openly before us all!

And what harm is there in that if he speaks wisely?...

Or do you speak out of envy, perhaps, Otoniel?

They tell me... that he claims to be the Son of God!

That is blasphemy!

If he is doing harm, we must prove it... If he is doing Good, we have nothing to fear from him.

If one of you wants to be the first... he must be the last, the servant of the rest,

If yopu become as pure as this child, you will enter the kingdom of Heaven.

If you become as small as he, you will be greater.

- I will join you later.- - Where are you going?

I have to see my father... It's very important for us...

- Don't you recognize me? - Yes , you are Judas, my master's son!

- I have to talk with my father. - He's right over there.

- Father! - Judas! What are you doing here?

What do you want? I thought I told you I never wanted to see you again!

But I'm very happy to be here with you!

The Romans visited us!... They terrorized us on account of you!

I know. they are on the alert now. they are afraid of my master..

Jerusalem hailed him as their king.

I tell you, father. if you could bring the merchants over to our side,

I would put you in a very good position! When Jesus becomes king.

Why shoud the Romans want to appoint a new king now? They've refused to name one for years!

Rome knows... that a king who brings peace is to their advantage...

Jesus will bring that peace.

I see.