Siobhan McKenna credited as playing...
Mary
- [Jesus is mending a chair for the Virgin Mary, but has to leave for Jerusalem]
- Jesus: The chair will have to wait until I return.
- Virgin Mary: [having a vague premonition of Jesus' arrest, trial and death] The chair will never be mended. I am going with you.
- Virgin Mary: I am alone now, share my table.
- Mary Magdalene: I am a woman of sin.
- Virgin Mary: You will share my table.
- Mary Magdalene: I have done much evil.
- Virgin Mary: Child, God knows evil exists as well as good. Just as there is light and darkness. Evil exists that we may be the better for it.
- Mary Magdalene: Will you speak to your son for me?
- Virgin Mary: [humbled by the request] Intercede...
- Camel Driver: [Spotting the 12-year-old Jesus, while refreshing himself in a well in Nazareth] Your son?
- Virgin Mary: Yes.
- Camel Driver: And, does He like being a carpenter?
- Virgin Mary: Yes, He does.
- Camel Driver: There's a big world outside this garden. Do you want Him to see it?
- Virgin Mary: He will see it soon enough.
- Camel Driver: Let me take Him with me. I'll pay you well. I can use a lad like that to help me with my caravan.
- Virgin Mary: No. Someday, He will leave me, but someone else will call Him.
- Camel Driver: And who will that be?
- Virgin Mary: My son will know Him when He comes.
- Lucius: [Arriving at Jesus' home in Nazareth on horseback with another Roman soldier and greeting the Holy Family] Have no fear. We're simply checking the census against the tax rolls.
- [Reading from a scroll]
- Lucius: Now, you are... Joseph. And you live here with your wife Mary.
- Joseph: That is so.
- Lucius: [Pointing to Jesus] Who's this boy?
- Virgin Mary: My son, Jesus.
- Lucius: [Looking at the scroll again] I have no record of His birth. When was He born?
- Virgin Mary: Twelve years ago.
- Lucius: Where?
- Virgin Mary: In Bethlehem.
- [Jesus walks away]
- Lucius: [Realizing Jesus must have survived the killing of the young boys in Bethlehem which he commanded on Herod's orders 12 years before, and after a long, tense pause] Bethlehem?
- [Mary slowly nods "yes"]
- Lucius: [to the other Roman soldier, who then rides away] Count those in the next house.
- [to Mary]
- Lucius: See that the boy is registered before the year is out.
- [Lucius himself rides away, after which Joseph and Mary look at each other with relief]