Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

Olivier Martinez: Mauritius Gallas

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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.

• Mauritius Gallas : [to Luke]  Usually people try to escape this place, not break into it.

• 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!