Click2Flicks - Passion of Christ - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST</p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch2.htm">2. THE ROMAN RULE IN ISRAEL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch3.htm">3. CRUCIFIXION AS ROMAN PUNISHMENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch4.htm">4. ARAMAIC LANGUAGE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch5.htm">5. THE PLOT DEVELOPS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch6.htm">6. A TRIUMPHAL ENTRY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch7.htm">7. JESUS PREDICTS HIS DEATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch8.htm">8. THE LAST SUPPER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch9.htm">9. THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch10.htm">10. THE ARREST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch11.htm">11. THE FIRST TRIAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch12.htm">12. THE SECOND TRIAL: BEFORE PILATE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch13.htm">13. JESUS BEFORE HEROD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch14.htm">14. THE DEATH SENTENCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch15.htm">15. THE CROSS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch16.htm">16. THE PLACE OF THE SKULL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch17.htm">17. DEATH BY CRUCIFIXION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch18.htm">18. THE TOMB</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch19.htm">19. AN EMPTY TOMB</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch20.htm">20. JESUS APPEARS TO OTHERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch21.htm">21. THE EASTER STORY DEPICTED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="passion_christ_ch22.htm">22. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><b><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was Passover in Jerusalem. Jesus, a practicing Jew, and his twelve followers (called disciples) would celebrate the annual religious holiday in <a href="images/city.jpg" target="_blank"><b>the city</b></a>.</p> <p><a href="http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/jer/images/jer217/Jer217_b.jpg" target="_blank"><b>At the time</b></a>, Israel (then called Judea) was a Roman <a href="http://www.livius.org/gi-gr/governor/provinces.html" target="_blank"><b>province</b></a>. Although Caesar allowed the Jews to worship God according to their own religious laws, he (and the Romans) believed the Jews were atheists. (How, the thinking went, could anyone believe in only one God? And why were Jewish people forbidden to create images of their God?)</p> <p>To understand the background of <i>The Passion of the Christ</i>, we need to look at life in first-century Israel. How did Rome come to control Judea in the first place?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="passion_christ_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>