Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

James Faulkner: Paul

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• Mauritius Gallas : If it were the only truth everyone would believe it.

  Luke : Not so. Christ, who is truth, rose from the dead, many do not believe.

  Mauritius Gallas : Lies, fabrications...

  Paul : If Christ had not risen from the dead, then our preaching is useless, and so is our faith.

  Mauritius Gallas : Oh, you have no doubts at all?

  Paul : Men do not die for things they doubt.

• Paul : Imagine yourself looking out at the vast sea before you. You reach down and put a hand into the water and you scoop it up towards you. Immediately the water starts leaking through your fingers until the hand is empty. That water is a man's life. From birth to death it is always slipping through our hands until it is gone, along with all that you hold dear in this world. And yet the Kingdom I speak of - that I live for - is like the rest of the water out in the sea. Man lives for that cup of water that slips through his fingers. Those that follow Jesus Christ live for that endless expanse of sea.

  Mauritius Gallas : What if, after all this, I still do not believe in your Christ?

  Paul : I wasn't trying to convince you.

  [laughs] 

  Paul : Listen to me. There is only a moment. It is not me. It is Christ himself that looks upon you and shatters your defenses and in that moment you will understand that you are completely known by God... and you are completely loved. I will pray that moment comes for you.

• Paul : [a written letter, narrated as a voiceover as Paul is taken to the gallows and is beheaded]  To Timothy, my dear son. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the Gospel. By the power of God, he has saved us and called us to a holy life. Not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. This is my Gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God's word is not chained. For I am already being poured out like a drink offering. The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

• Paul : I heard his final words even amongst the roar of the crowd. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Lord, do not hold this sin against them." Even in death, a final blasphemy on his lips. In that moment, I vowed to destroy all those that spoke of this Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah.

• Paul : We cannot repay evil for evil. Evil can only be overcome with good.

• Luke : This world doesn't know a thing about love.

  Paul : And so you would give up on the world when Christ did not give up on us?

  Luke : Why not?

  Paul : No!

  Luke : Why not?

  Paul : Love is the only way. Love that suffers long. Love that is kind, that does not envy, that is not proud. Love that does not dishonor, that does not seek for itself. Love that is not easily angered. Love that rejoices in truth. Love that never delights in evil. Love that protects, trusts, hopes, endures all things. That kind of love.

• Mauritius Gallas : You claim you serve a god who is above all other gods, and yet all I see before me is an old man in chains. Your life, a summary of beatings and filthy prison cells.

  Paul : I deserve worse, but... There is grace enough for everyone.

  Mauritius Gallas : To be rich, not poor. To be powerful, not weak. To have slaves and servants, not be one.

  Paul : It does not take an intelligent man to look around and know that the world is missing something.

  Mauritius Gallas : Do not question the greatness of Rome.

  Luke : And what of the love for a sick daughter? What does Rome offer her?

  Mauritius Gallas : [hits his foot on Luke's lower leg who falls, points his naked sword above Luke's face]  Another word and I send you to whatever god you want. You're right, my daughter is dying. The gods do not answer me.

• Paul : There is another way.

  Mauritius Gallas : No. There is not. Your Christ solves nothing. Mindless sentimentality for the weakest and poorest to make their pathetic state livable until they are buried in the ground and forgotten. Tomorrow there are games at the circus. Take the Greek

  [Luke] 

  Mauritius Gallas : there, so he can die for the glory of my gods!