Steven Spielberg's Son Of God

The producers of Son of God did a pretty good job at keeping faithful to the actual story. They begin the story with a short introduction into his birth. Not a lot is said since it is only about a three minute segment, however there was more than three sheapards that bowed down to the baby Jesus in the movie. There seemed to be about thirty people there while other accounts say there was only three. Regardless, they all followed a star to find the new born King. Then the movie cuts in the scene were Jesus going to Peter and him becoming the first apostle. Jesus asked Peter to allow him on the boat, but Peter refused. Then Jesus just climbs into the boat anyway. He tells Peter, "Give me one hour and I will give you a new life." This is also

They went to where the towns people were paying their taxes and Jesus tells the story about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector prayer. In the Bible, this is where Jesus brings Matthew up as an Apostle, however in the movie, Matthew is almost conveyed as a tax collector. While some believe that Matthew was a tax collector, the Bible does not explicitly say that he was one. Shortly after this, the movie does a great representation of the feeding of a thousand people. In the movie, just as in the Bible, they only had two fish and three pieces of bread. They prayed of the food and they were blessed and able to feed all the people. Another essentially scene that the movie got spot on was the confession of Peter. Jesus asked, "Who do you think I am," and Peter answered, "You are the Son of God." This is a scene that was very essential and the movie represents it

However, in the Bible many scholars say that Jesus knew that John the Baptist had died prior. Shortly after some morning, Jesus started his trip to Jerusalem. In both the movie and the Bible, Jesus rode into town on a donkey, and the towns' people laid palm leaves on the pathway for Jesus. In both, Jesus does flip over the tables as the temple and tell the people that they made it into, "a den of thieves." In the movie, this is when the priest start to get really worried and start coming up with a plan to keep Jesus silent. In the movie, Judas was brought to the high priest and given money if he turned Jesus in. In the Bible, I don't recall there ever being a money exchange. At dinner that night, in both, Jesus predicts that Judas will betray him. As well as, this was the time that got broke the bread to represent his body and the wine as his blood. Regardless, in both, Judas does eventually hang himself. During the town's judgment on what to do with Jesus. Pilot never says, "This man's blood is on your hands." In the movie, it seems that Pilot believes he is innocent, but just wants to please the people. After his sentence, Peter did deny Jesus three times, just as predicted, in both the movie and the