Since The Passion of the Christ is in theatres...part 4

[noticed by The Door Magazine]

There are no "winners." No one comes off looking "good" – except Jesus. Even His own mother hesitates.

As depicted, the Jewish leaders of Jesus' day merely do what any of us would have done – and still do. They protected their perceived "place" – their sense of safety and security, and the satisfaction of their own "rightness." But everyone falters. Caiphus judges. Peter denies. Judas betrays. Simon the Cyrene balks. Mark runs away. Pilate equivocates. The crowd mocks. The soldiers laugh. Longinus still stabs with his pilus. The centurion still carries out his orders. And as Jesus fixes them all with a glance, they still turn away. The Jews, the Romans, Jesus' friends – they all fall.

--from The Last Word by Jody Dean in the latest The Door Magazine, emphasis mine