The Young Messiah (2016)

Adam Greaves-Neal: Jesus

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• [last lines] 

  Jesus : I've learned so much since leaving Egypt. I know everything I can for today. I even know I'm going to die. I used to wonder if angels would come to me, if they would sing to me, if they would fill my dreams. There is still so much that I don't know, but I do know this. I don't think I'm here to see angels or to hear them sing. And I don't think I'm here to make it rainy or sunny or anything like that. I think I'm here just to be alive. To see it, hear it, feel it, all of it. Even when it hurts. Someday you will tell me why else I'm here. I don't know when, but you will. I know that. Because, Father, I am your child.

• The Demon : You are no child. Who are you? Why don't you dwell in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem? Answer me!

  Jesus : [laying sick in bed]  You don't know the answers. You don't know what's going to happen, do you? You don't know how it's going to end.

  The Demon : Who are you? I demand you tell me!

  [moving in closer] 

  Jesus : [sternly]  Don't touch me! Never, ever lay your hands on me.

  The Demon : Or what, angel child? I'll drop dead?

• Old Rabbi (Nazareth) : [probing with trick questions]  Why did the Lord break his covenant with King David?

  Jesus : The Lord does not break his covenants. The throne is there.

  Old Rabbi (Nazareth) : Where is the King?

  Jesus : He will come. And his house will last forever.

  [soft chuckling among on-lookers] 

  Old Rabbi (Nazareth) : Will a carpenter build it?

  Jesus : Yes. There's always a carpenter. Even the Lord himself is a carpenter sometimes. How is the Lord a carpenter?

  Old Rabbi (Nazareth) : Tell me.

  Jesus : Didn't the Lord himself tell Noah how to build the ark? What kind of wood to use, and how it should be pitched? And wasn't it the Lord who granted the vision of the new Temple to Prophet Ezekiel with the dimensions of the galleries, the gates, the altar?

  Old Rabbi (Nazareth) : Yes, it was.

  Jesus : And when the Lord made the world, wasn't wisdom there like a master craftsman? If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom? And when Cyrus the Persian decreed that we could return to our Holy Land, the carpenters came home to build the Temple as the Lord said it should be built.

• Jesus : Tell me about the angel.

  Mary : Of course. I knew you'd ask that. But listen well, because I'm only going to tell this story once. I was a good girl, strictly raised and betrothed to Joseph. When one morning my room filled with light. It was white light like the sun, but with no heat or pain. It was pure like the air itself was glowing. I saw a figure, larger than a man, but like a man inside the light. And it spoke to me. It said, "Hail, Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee." I had found favor with the Lord, and I was blessed among women. It said that from my womb would come a son. You. Named Jesus.

• Joseph : I know you have many questions. But you need to let them sleep in your heart for now. Why? Because your questions are the questions of a child. But the answers are the answers for a man. That is one bridge I cannot build. I don't know how. But God can, and we must trust him.

  Jesus : I do. I trust him for everything.