Barabbas Page #4

-I'll believe it when he's before us.

When I can touch him and hear him.

You're always full of doubts

without any cause.

No cause to doubt

that a dead man can come back to life?

No cause.

I can take you now to talk with a man

who was dead.

The Master brought him back to life.

Thomas knows him well.

Come, talk to him.

Let him tell you.

You needn't be afraid.

Lazarus? Will you come to us?

Here's someone wants to question you.

Come in.

I'll leave you with him.

You can ask him whatever you like.

They told me death is not....

Is not death.

They brought me here to see...

...because you could make me believe it.

Because you were dead,

and were raised from the dead by the man.

I mean...

...the Master.

That is true.

I was dead.

And I know that he is Christ...

...the Son of God...

...who has power over life and death.

What's it like there?

You were there.

-Tell me what it's like.

-Like?

-Like?

-Yes, what is it...

...this thing you experienced?

What is it?

I have experienced nothing.

Only death.

And death is nothing.

Nothing?

No.

What should it be?

You want me to tell you

about the realm of the dead?

I cannot.

How would you tell an unborn child

what life is?

It exists.

But it isn't anything.

To those who've been there...

...nothing else is anything either.

No one has asked me this before.

They have listened how life came back

to me and gone away praising.

Only you have asked about death.

And none the wiser.

We're two men who might be dead.

Sharing his body.

Life.

Love one another.

Listen, everybody! That's the word.

Love one another!

We can tell them about loving one another.

-Leave me alone. I want to sit.

-What do you want to do, sit and think?

It's no good thinking.

Come on, let's go and find a new life.

-Where are you going, Barabbas?

-To see what "brought back to life" means.

Love one another!

-Come on.

-My shoe.

Look.

-Hey! Get up! Come on!

-Leave it alone.

Stay alive.

It's all you have to do.

It's not my fault they let him get killed.

You can't hang it around my neck.

I've as much right to be alive

as any of you.

You stinking fish.

You're afraid to look at me

because I'm alive.

You, look at me. Look at me!

It may be today that the new world comes.

Today or tomorrow.

But it will come, you will see.

Every day you have promised us,

it has never come.

-It will never come.

-It will come. I know it.

Please, Rachel,

tell us again what it will be like.

You'd better mind what you say.

Don't you know what can happen to you

if they hear you?

Anybody now caught

spreading such stories...

...the Son of God, the Messiah and such,

is to be judged an enemy of the State...

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