Or, if you don’t have that much time, you can start at about 1:30 in, and watch beginning on Palm Sunday. The entire movie is two hours and forty minutes, which might be a good way to spend the hours of noon to three pm on Good Friday. This is a narration of the complete text of the Gospel of John, over the background of a very impressive visual representation of all of the events of the gospel.

The Bible is also available on Amazon streaming to rent or buy, or as a DVD. It may be too intense for sensitive kids. I plan to show these two episodes to all my kids, even the little ones, over the course of the week.

We see the nail, we see the hammer, but the camera cuts away before the nail is struck. Jesus is bloody and battered as he carries His cross, but the focus is on His strength and perseverance, and the help He receives from Simon of Cyrene and Jesus’ mother Mary. There is dripping blood at the crowing with thorns, but we don’t see the thorns going in. At the scourging at the pillar, we see the red marks, but no ripping of flesh. The focus of the camera is mostly on Jesus’ pained reaction, or the horror of the crowd. The depiction of Jesus’ passion is not as bloody as in The Passion of the Christ. Especially episodes 8 and 9 of The Bible, which begins with Palm Sunday and ends with the crucifixion. I think either would be a good addition to a family’s Holy Week.

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