“The Passion of the Christ”

In the March 4 editorial, I read that in the film “The Passion of the Christ” they have Mary pushing through the crowd to comfort Him while He carries His cross. Jesus says to her, “I make all things new.”

In the first place, these things happened not in Scripture. I was given to understand that this was one film that would not take any liberties with the Scriptures and that it would be enacted just as it is in the Bible. I was skeptical when I read that promise from Hollywood, but their previews touting the film made it clear that suppositions and various interpretations would not come into play.

Mary is only mentioned as standing by the cross of Jesus with other women (John 19:25). Jesus spoke the words, “I make all things new” in Revelation 21:5, not looking into Mary’s eyes but speaking to all in prophecy. Such things come to be written because too much emphasis is given to tradition which cannot be verified. One cannot treat that as the infallible word of God.

So it looks like Mel Gibson could not keep his word, and his informants were not grounded in Scripture as he had hoped.

Betty Sue Bryan
Birmingham, Ala.