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1977 British-Italian television drama

Jesus of Nazareth
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Genre	Biblical
Based on	The Gospels
Written by	Anthony Burgess Suso Cecchi d'Amico Franco Zeffirelli
Directed by	Franco Zeffirelli
Starring	Robert Powell
Theme music composer	Maurice Jarre
Land of origin	Italy Great britain
Original language	English
Product
Producers	Lew Grade Vincenzo Labella
Cinematography	Armando Nannuzzi David Watkin
Editor	Reginald Mills
Running time	Original: 382 minutes Edited version: 270 minutes DVD edition: 374 minutes
Product companies	ITC Entertainment RAI
Release
Original network	Rai 1 (Italy) ITV (Great britain) NBC (Us)
Original release	27 March (1977-03-27) – 24 April 1977 (1977-04-24)

Jesus of Nazareth (Italian: Gesù di Nazareth) is a 1977 British-Italian epic film and goggle box drama serial directed past Franco Zeffirelli and co-written past Zeffirelli, Anthony Burgess, and Suso Cecchi d'Amico which dramatizes the nascence, life, ministry building, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It stars Robert Powell as Jesus, and features an all-star bandage of actors, including eight who had won or would proceed to win Academy Awards: Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, James Earl Jones, and Peter Ustinov.

Some scenes were added in the writing of the screenplay, with some characters (such as Zerah) added to the film for brevity or dramatic effect. Jesus of Nazareth depicts Judas Iscariot as a well-intentioned human being initially, but later as a dupe of Zerah'due south who betrays Jesus largely as a issue of Zerah'due south faux platitudes and pretexts. However, in accordance with the Gospels, the picture show depicts Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea equally sympathetic members of the Sanhedrin. Many of the miracles of Jesus, such as the irresolute of water into wine at the nuptials at Cana, the transfiguration, and the calming of the storm, are not depicted, although Jesus'due south healing of Jairus'due south daughter, the blind human being and the bedridden woman on the Sabbath, the feeding of the multitude, and the raising of Lazarus from the dead are presented here.

Jesus of Nazareth premiered on 27 March 1977, on the Italian channel Rai i, and was commencement aired in the United Kingdom, on three April 1977, on the ITV Network. Information technology became a ratings success and received highly positive reviews. Item praise is often given for Robert Powell's portrayal of Jesus.

Plot summary [edit]

The storyline of Jesus of Nazareth is a cinematic Gospel harmony, blending the narratives of all four New Testament accounts. It presents Jesus as both God and homo. During the baptism of Jesus in the River Hashemite kingdom of jordan, John speaks God's words "this is my dear son." The familiar Christian episodes are presented chronologically: the betrothal, and later wedlock, of Mary and Joseph; the Annunciation; the Visitation; the circumcision of John the Baptist; the Nativity of Jesus; the visit of the Magi; the circumcision of Jesus; the Census of Quirinius; the flight into Egypt and Massacre of the Innocents; the Finding in the Temple; the Baptism of Jesus.

Gospel accounts included in the movie likewise include the woman caught in infidelity; the healing of Jairus' daughter; Jesus helping Peter take hold of the fish; the Parable of the Prodigal Son; a dialogue between Jesus and Barabbas (non-Biblical); Matthew'due south dinner party; the Sermon on the Mountain; debating with Joseph of Arimathea; the curing of the blind man at the pool; the Raising of Lazarus (John 11:43); the Feeding of the Five Thousand; the entry into Jerusalem; Jesus and the money changers; the Parable of the Two Sons; healing the centurion'southward servant; dialogue with Nicodemus; the Last Supper; the betrayal of Jesus past Judas.

At the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, Jesus is accused of blasphemy for calling himself the son of the God of Israel. Caiaphas announces "the LORD our God, the LORD is 1", denying the God of Israel has a son. The ensuing scenes include Peter's denying Christ and repenting of information technology; the judgment of Jesus by Pilate ("Ecce Human being"); the Johannine Passion Narrative (John 18–19; including the Desperation in the Garden); the Carrying of the Cantankerous; the Crucifixion of Christ (Laurence Olivier's Nicodemus recites the "Suffering Servant" passage (Isaiah 53:3-5) as he looks helplessly on the crucified Messiah); the discovery of the empty tomb; and an appearance of the Risen Christ to his Disciples. The film's storyline concludes with the not-Biblical character Zerah and his colleagues gazing despairingly into the empty tomb. Zerah laments, "Now it begins. Information technology all begins".

Bandage [edit]

Starring

• Robert Powell as Jesus

Guest Stars

• Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene
• Ernest Borgnine as the Roman Centurion
• Claudia Cardinale as the Adulteress
• Valentina Cortese as Herodias
• James Farentino as Peter
• James Earl Jones as Balthazar
• Stacy Keach as Barabbas
• Tony Lo Bianco as Quintillius
• James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea
• Ian McShane every bit Judas Iscariot
• Laurence Olivier every bit Nicodemus
• Donald Pleasence equally Melchior
• Christopher Plummer equally Herod Antipas
• Anthony Quinn as Caiaphas
• Fernando Rey equally Gaspar
• Ralph Richardson equally Simeon
• Rod Steiger equally Pontius Pilate
• Peter Ustinov equally Herod the Keen
• Michael York equally John the Baptist

And

• Olivia Hussey as Mary

Too Starring

• Cyril Cusack as Yehuda
• Ian Holm as Zerah
• Yorgo Voyagis as Joseph

With

• Ian Bannen as Amos
• Marina Berti as Elizabeth
• Regina Bianchi equally Anne
• Maria Carta every bit Martha
• Lee Montague every bit Habbukuk
• Renato Rascel as The Blind Human being
• Oliver Tobias as Joel

Co-Starring

• Norman Bowler equally Saturninus
• Robert Beatty as Proculus
• John Phillips as Naso
• Ken Jones equally Jotham
• Nancy Nevinson every bit Abigail
• Renato Terra as Abel
• Roy Holder as Enoch
• Jonathan Adams as Adam
• Lorenzo Monet equally Jesus aged 12 years
• Robert Davey as Daniel
• Oliver Smith as Saul
• George Camiller as Hosias
• Murray Salem as Simon the Zealot
• Tony Vogel as Andrew
• Michael Cronin equally Eliphaz
• Steve Gardner equally Philip
• Derek Godfrey every bit Elihu
• Renato Montalbano equally Jairus
• John Duttine equally John
• Michael Haughey as Nahum
• Keith Skinner as Possessed Boy
• Cyril Shaps as Possessed Boy'south Father
• Jonathan Muller as James, son of Zebedee
• John Tordoff as Malachi
• Isabel Mestres equally Salome
• Bruce Lidington as Thomas
• Keith Washington as Matthew
• Mimmo Crao every bit Jude Thaddeus
• John Eastham equally Bartholomew
• Sergio Nicolai as James, son of Alphaeus
• Francis de Wolff equally Simon the Pharisee
• Antonello Campodifiori as Ircanus
• Paul Curran equally Samuel
• Tim Pearce as Rufus
• Marking Eden as Quartus
• Bruno Barnabe as Ezra
• Simon MacCorkindale as Lucius
• Forbes Collins as Jonas
• Lionel Guyett as Haggai
• Martin Benson every bit Pharisee
• Peter Harlowe as Valerius
• Carl Forgione as Plotinus
• Donald Sumpter equally Aram
• Pine Colizzi as Jobab
• Robert Brownish as Pharisee
• Harold Bennett as Elderberry
• Robert Mallard every bit Quazra
• Abdelmajid Lakhal every bit the Farisaeum
• Christopher Reich every bit Circumcision Priest and every bit Metellus

Previous collaborations with Zeffirelli [edit]

Several cast members had already featured in previous Zeffirelli productions. British actors Olivia Hussey, Michael York, Roy Holder, Dyson Lovell and Keith Skinner had featured in Romeo and Juliet as Juliet, Tybalt, Peter, Sampson and Balthasar respectively. Additionally, Pino Colizzi who appeared as Jobab, had previously dubbed Michael York'south Tybalt in the Italian version of Romeo and Juliet.

Product [edit]

The drama was conceived when Lew Course was received by Pope Paul 6, who congratulated him on the making of Moses the Lawgiver (1974), a goggle box picture starring Burt Lancaster and which was produced by Grade's ITC Entertainment and the Italian television set network RAI. At the stop of the interview, the Pope told him he hoped his side by side project would be virtually the life of Jesus. 2 weeks later, while dining with an RAI executive, Grade told him he intended their companies to ready such a picture show.^[1] The office of manager was offered to Franco Zeffirelli — a religious Roman Catholic who knew the Pontiff from his days as the Archbishop of Milan, when he often visited Zeffirelli'due south school — on the Pope's initiative, who insisted that either he would make Jesus of Nazareth or no 1 else.^[2] The managing director rejected the proposal at start, but Grade finally convinced him to agree;^[3] he accepted the job shortly before Christmas 1973.^[iv]

Scriptwriter Anthony Burgess later recounted the launching of the projection in an essay entitled "Telejesus (or Mediachrist)":

The notion of making a six-hour telly film on the life of Jesus Christ was proposed past an enobled British Jew, with the gilded approval of an American automobile corporation. The project struck some as cursing, others as ecumenical. Lord Grade, who was and then Sir Lew Grade, presided over a massive printing briefing in the Holy City, (Rome), and said all that was available to be said — namely, that at that place would be this motion-picture show, that Zeffirelli would direct it, and that Burgess would write information technology. Fired by this announcement, the Romans laid on a dandy, every bit it were, First Supper, which the Chief Rabbi of Rome attended, also as various cricket-playing British ecclesiastics. Sir Lew Form was made a Cavaliere of the Republic. The Pope was noticeably absent.^[5]

Both Class and Zeffirelli insisted their adaptation of Jesus's life should be 'ecumenical', coherent, even to not-believers, and 'acceptable to all denominations'.^[vi] To ensure the movie's accuracy, the producers consulted experts from the Vatican, the Leo Baeck Rabbinical College of London, and the Koranic School at Meknes, Kingdom of morocco.^[7] Even so, when Zeffirelli asked Rabbi Albert Friedlander to help him create Jesus's Bar Mitzvah scene, the latter replied that such ceremonies were practiced only from the 15th century. The director, however, insisted on including it, and Friedlander tried to teach kid actor Lorenzo Monet to read a curt portion of the Pentateuch in Hebrew. Monet, yet, mumbled it and the director was not satisfied (in the motion picture, male child Jesus reads generally in English).^[8]

Primary photography was carried out in Morocco and Tunisia from September 1975 to May 1976. The synagogue scenes were shot with extras from the Jewish community in the island of Djerba.^[4] The city of Monastir served as 1st century Jerusalem.^[9] Ernest Borgnine, who portrayed Cornelius the Centurion, recalled that since regulations required hiring local extras—well-nigh with poor English—for many of the smaller roles, they had to exist dubbed. Zeffirelli decided to avert recording sound altogether in many parts, and merely send the principal actors to dub their own characters in the studio later.^[10] The standing sets of the flick were later on used by the British comedy troupe Monty Python for their religious satire Life of Brian (1979).^[11]

At that place are various reports regarding the size of the drama's budget: Presbyterian Survey stated it was $12 one thousand thousand,^[12] The Listener cited the figure of £9 million^[13] (roughly $16 million),^[14] while Third Manner stated information technology price £xi.5 meg^[15] (roughly $20 million). Other sources give the sum of $18 million.^{[iv] [16]} In his autobiography, Lew Grade wrote that "in the final bookkeeping, Jesus of Nazareth took $45 million."^{[17] [18]}

Powell's portrayal of Jesus [edit]

The producers at first considered choosing a well-known star, who would draw a large audience, for the role of Christ. The beginning player thought of was Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino was also a candidate. Still, the filmmakers feared that their looks would non match the popular perception of Jesus held by the American public. Eventually, the character'southward Due north European appearance in the serial was influenced by Warner Sallman'south portrait painting Caput of Christ: Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum wrote the bear witness 'put Sallman'due south imagination in motility'.^[xix] The Virgin Mary, as well, was depicted "without regard to historical or ethnographic accuracy" by the "definitely Caucasian Olivia Hussey".^[twenty]

The idea to bandage Robert Powell originated with Lew Grade's wife, Kathie Moody, who told her husband the actor had 'wonderful blue eyes' after watching him perform in a BBC television accommodation of Jude the Obscure. Powell came nether severe criticism from religious groups for 'living in sin' with his companion, dancer Barbara Lord of Pan's People, while intending to portray Jesus. The couple married shortly earlier production began.^[1]

Powell rarely blinks throughout the entire film, mimicking, in this respect, H.B. Warner in 1927'south The Rex of Kings and Max von Sydow in 1965'southward The Greatest Story Ever Told. This effect was a deliberate conclusion past Franco Zeffirelli. James Houlden commented that the result was 'a penetrating, unrelenting middle contact with Jesus's.^[21] A dark blueish eyeliner was applied on set to accentuate Powell'south blueish eyes.^[19] Powell's portrayal has since become an often-used epitome in popular devotional art, and 'defined the visual image of Christ in the minds of the audition... Maybe more than than any other Jesus picture show.'^[21]

For the crucifixion scene, Powell starved himself on a nutrition of but cheese for 12 days prior to shooting "in order to look worn".^[22]

Original broadcasts and reception [edit]

Jesus of Nazareth premiered on the Italian channel Rai 1 on 27 March 1977. It was broadcast in five episodes, i shown every week until 25 April.^[23] On Palm Lord's day, 3 April 1977 – the date of the ambulation of the 2nd episode – the Pope endorsed the programme in his public accost for the vacation and recommended the faithful to view information technology.^[4] The series enjoyed high ratings: the German Dominican friar and film critic Ambros Eichenberger reported that according to local surveys, 84% of the television set owners in the larger cities watched the serial.^[24] For example, the number of viewers for the third episode, aired on ten April, was estimated to take been 28.iii one thousand thousand.^[25]

In the United Kingdom and in the United States, it was broadcast in two parts, albeit in different lengths, past the ITV network in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and by NBC in the US. In both countries, the get-go part was aired on 3 April and the second on Easter, 10 April 1977.^{[26] [27] [28]} During its original showing in the Britain, Jesus of Nazareth had an estimated audition of 21 million viewers.^[29]

When the start episode was broadcast in the United states of america, it was a major success. The New York Times reported it "swamped all competing programs on Sunday night", with overnight Nielsen ratings of 53% in Los Angeles and 46% in New York City.^[30] The miniseries as a whole received a Nielsen rating of 30.8 points,^[31] with each point representing approximately 712,000 television-owning homes,^[32] and an audience share of 50% nationwide,^[28] on both nights.^[33] The company calculated that Jesus attracted about ninety million viewers.^{[16] [28] [29] [34]}

In West Germany, it was circulate past ZDF in four episodes on the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 24 March 1978;^[35] forty% of the audition accept viewed it.^[24]

Jesus of Nazareth turned into a massive commercial success and is one of the most widely marketed, nearly critically acclaimed and best-known productions almost Christ's life.^{[iv] [16] [21]} Lew Form stated that it made "a cyberspace profit of $xxx 1000000."^[17] Robert Powell'south performance as Jesus in particular has been praised by critics.^{[36] [37] [38] [39] [40]}

Controversy [edit]

Before its initial broadcast, Jesus of Nazareth came under ideological burn down from some American Protestant fundamentalists, led by Bob Jones Three, president of Bob Jones University in Due south Carolina, and Dr. Bill Bright, because they felt the Boob tube picture show had to have the resurrection of Jesus Christ to be true to the Gospel business relationship. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen that the film would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man – gentle, fragile, uncomplicated". Jones interpreted this as meaning that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Having never seen the flick, Jones denounced information technology every bit "blasphemy." Others picked upwardly the cry and 18,000 messages were sent to Full general Motors, which had provided $iii million of the moving-picture show's cost. Sacrificing its investment, GM backed out of its sponsorship.^[seven] Procter and Gamble eventually took it over, ownership the U.S. rights for a relatively low price of some $one million. Their fiscal support allowed the mini-series to be screened after a simulated resurrection was added at the suggestion of Dr. Ted Baehr, a theologian and media pundit, who was friends with the producer, Vincenzo Labella, and acquainted with the protesters. The scenes showed the empty tomb, and then cuts to Jesus discussing his decease and resurrection with his disciples.^[41]

Narrative deviations from the Gospels [edit]

Although the moving picture has been received as mostly faithful to the Gospel sources, and more comprehensive than previous moving-picture show versions, Zeffirelli and his screenwriters found it necessary to have some liberties with the scriptures for purposes of brevity and narrative continuity. Some of these deviations have a basis in time-honoured, extra-Biblical traditions (e.g., that the baby Jesus was visited past three "kings"; the Bible calls them "magi" or "astrologers", yet does not state how many there were). Other deviations were invented for the script:

• Mayhap the greatest liberties taken in the screenplay are interpretations of the motivation of Judas Iscariot in betraying Jesus to the authorities prior to his abort and execution. In contrast to the Gospels – which vilify Judas as a thief who stole from the Disciples' money bag (John 12:6) and betrayed his Master merely for money (Luke 22:5) – the film portrays Judas as a much-misunderstood political person who, in several scenes, conspires with the Zealots for the sake of Jewish liberation in a style that could be interpreted as honourable, albeit misguided.
• The picture show introduces a number of entirely original characters. Of these, Ian Holm's Zerah, who is essentially the series "main villain", has the well-nigh screen time. Zerah is used primarily to supply Judas Iscariot with a motive for his treachery: he persuades him that an appearance earlier the Sanhedrin will offer Jesus an opportunity to prove himself. He is too used to create a main lead villain when Jesus personally confronts the temple priesthood, in particular during the cleansing of the Temple and the Gethsemane abort scene. Other invented characters include Quintillius, Yehuda and Amos.
• In the Bible, the only mention of Jesus in childhood is his trip to the temple in Jerusalem as a 12-year-old. In the film, the boy Jesus is too portrayed at his bar mitzvah, which is interrupted by a raid of Roman soldiers plundering supplies. The portrayal of a Bar Mitzvah is anachronistic as the ceremony near likely did non exist at that time. It was deliberately included past Zeffirelli because a modern non-Jewish audience might not be aware of that obscure fact and would wait to run across information technology, and he did not want to defy audience expectation. The boy Jesus is too portrayed every bit climbing a ladder and looking out over the mural of Judea afterward Joseph makes the analogy of a ladder reaching to sky.
• The prostitute and the woman who anoints Jesus's feet with ointment and her hair are combined into one person. The Bible indicates that Mary Magdalene (who is never actually said to exist a prostitute) is the woman from whom seven demons were cast out, while the ointment-bearing woman is Mary of Bethany, a sis of Lazarus (John eleven:2). Nevertheless, the identification of the three women is nowadays in many Christian traditions and is not particular to the film.
• In the film, Nicodemus visits Jesus in the late afternoon, non at nighttime as in John 3:3.
• The Campaigner Andrew introduces Simon to Jesus as "My blood brother, Simon Peter." Only "Peter" is the name that Jesus later gave to Simon (John 1:42, Matthew 16:18) later on he was well acquainted with him, not his original given name. Afterwards in the drama, Jesus does give Simon the name of "Peter".
• The Apostle Thomas, prior to his calling, is depicted as a servant of Jairus, the synagogue leader whose 12-twelvemonth-old daughter Jesus raises from the dead. Nowhere in the three gospel accounts of this resurrection is Thomas described equally Jairus's servant. This was done in the pic to conveniently introduce Thomas as the doubter when Jesus said Jairus's dead daughter is "only sleeping."
• Barabbas is portrayed in the flick every bit a Zealot (political extremist and agitator). The meeting and dialogue between Jesus and Barabbas are made upward.
• The Parable of the Dissipated Son (Luke xv:11–32) is used equally a plot device which simultaneously redeems the disciple Matthew and reconciles him to his bitter enemy, Simon Peter. Although not in the Bible, this has been praised every bit one of the moving-picture show's especially felicitous innovations. (The Gospels practise not tape either a disharmonize or a item friendship betwixt Matthew and Simon Peter.)
• In the film, Pontius Pilate, having convicted Jesus of treason, sentences him to be crucified. The Gospels tape that Pilate acquitted Jesus but sentenced Him under force per unit area from the oversupply. The motion-picture show implies such pressure to convict was applied prior to the trial, by the Sanhedrin, but does not explicitly state it. The film likewise shifts Pilate washing his hands to the scene in which he is introduced, rather than during the trial itself.
• The movie does non describe Pilate remanding Jesus's case to Herod Antipas and Antipas sending Jesus dorsum to Pilate (Luke 23:6–12).
• The Gospels and the motion-picture show both chronicle an account of a Roman centurion who petitions Jesus to heal his ill servant. The pic, but non the Gospels, presents the aforementioned officer (portrayed past Ernest Borgnine) every bit 1 of the soldiers standing at the pes of the Cross, where he sympathetically allows Mary to approach her son.
• In the Bible Judas is paid 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus. Full of remorse, he later on gives the silver back to the priests (Matthew 27:3–5). In the film, Judas is given silverish coins as an reconsideration by Zerah; he does non return them and they are shown lying on the ground under the tree from which he hangs himself.
• The motion picture depicts a scene that shows Joseph dying. The Gospels never mention anything about Joseph later on the story of Jesus, as a male child, in the Temple.
• The moving picture depicts the Crown of Thorns beingness removed from Jesus'south head during the crucifixion process. This removal is never mentioned in the Gospels, and goes against the usual depiction of Jesus standing to wear it whilst on the cross.
• The healing of the bullheaded beggar scene, where Jesus spat on dirt and rubbed the mud in the blind man's eyes, was set in the Temple; the whole of John nine places this episode afterwards Jesus had left the Temple and was "walking forth."

Awards and nominations [edit]

Jesus of Nazareth received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Drama. Additionally, James Farentino, who portrayed the campaigner Peter, received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Special.^[42]

The drama was nominated for vi British Academy Television Awards: Best Actor, Best Cameraman, Best Unmarried Television Play, Best Editor, Best Costume Blueprint and Best Sound. It won none.^[43]

Jesus of Nazareth won awards for Best Cinematography to Armando Nannuzzi, Best Costume Design to Lucia Mirisola and Best Production Design, to Mirisola again, from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.^[44]

Subsequent broadcasts and dwelling house media [edit]

NBC rebroadcast the serial in 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

Information technology was originally released as a 3-tape VHS edition in the early 1980s under the Magnetic Video label. It was released later under the mainstream video label of CBS/FOX in 1986.^{[ citation needed ]} Some other iii-record VHS edition was released past LIVE Dwelling house Video in 1992 and again on 22 February 1995. Artisan Entertainment released the DVD version on two discs in February 2000. In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the original 1986 Polygram VHS (four tapes) was fully uncut and featured the total 386-minute version. The 2000 Carlton video (two tapes) featured a heavily abridged impress running for 270 minutes. The Granada DVD is credited every bit the unedited print and runs for 374 minutes, but this is due to the PAL speed upwardly and is the full version. The two additional scenes — a private coming together between Judas Iscariot and Zerah, and the opening betrayal sequence during the Concluding Supper — were really added in the repeat UK screening 2 years afterward and therefore is not included equally the DVD is the original 1977 cut.

The serial is broadcast every Easter and Christmas in many countries, including Greece on ANT1, and in the United States on History Aqueduct and TBN.

In Chile, the full serial has been circulate every Good Fri since 1982 past the public service television broadcaster Televisión Nacional de Chile.^[45]

The Region 1 DVD is the original 1977 broadcast. The Region ii Carlton DVD released in the U.k. is substantially cut and runs to 270 minutes. The Dutch DVD release (also Carlton Region 2) has a running time of 365 minutes (the 399-infinitesimal running time stated on the cover is a misprint).

The drama has been released on digital download (or streaming) for both Google Play and the Apple Shop. The version released is the completed original 4-function 1977 broadcast, though simply in its original Standard Definition. Similar to other Christian content the moving picture's copyright has only been loosely enforced in more contempo years resulting in it as well freely appearing on YouTube in its entirety.

For Easter 2016, and again in 2018, the U.k.'s Sky Arts channel showed i part a day over the iv days of Easter. The version they used was the extended four-function edition, totaling eight hours with advert.

The serial ran on NBC equally "The Big Event" in 2 three-60 minutes installments with limited commercials on Palm Lord's day and Easter Sunday. Additional footage was added for a 1979 re-run and broadcast in iv two-hr installments. In the 1980s and 1990, the film was re-broadcast on NBC in three installments of two- and iii-hour episodes, released on VHS and DVD as one consummate presentation with one fix of credits.

In 2022, the full serial was fabricated available on BritBox in the UK in time for Easter.^[46]

See as well [edit]

• A.D.

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Further reading [edit]

• Barclay, William. Jesus of Nazareth (1977, Collins). ISBN 978-0002506533.
• Burgess, Anthony. Human being of Nazareth (1979, McGraw-Loma). ISBN 978-0553133189.
• Zeffirelli, Franco. Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus: A Spiritual Diary (1984, Harper & Row). ISBN 978-0060697808.

External links [edit]

• Jesus of Nazareth at IMDb
• Jesus of Nazareth at AllMovie
• Jesus of Nazareth at the TCM Movie Database
• webpages defended to the picture called "Jesus of Nazareth" by Franco Zeffirelli
• Jesus of Nazareth at the Arts & Organized religion Top100 Spiritually Pregnant Films list

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth_(TV_series)

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