When Jesus (James Caviezel) first appears before Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov) in The Passion of the Christ, they engage in a bit of conversation concerning the nature of truth. Jesus has already been slapped, punched, and chained by the High Priest Caiphas (Mattia Sbragia) and his minions, as well as jeered by a throng of Jewish citizens. But now the Roman procurator, who famously sent thousands of Jews to crucifixion, is looking for a reason to end the abuse, to let the Galilean go.
And so, he questions the prisoner, out of the mob's earshot, as to why his "own people have delivered" him up to be killed. "Are you a king?" asks Pontius. Answering in a roundabout way, as Jesus tends to do, eventually admitting that he has been born to "give testimony to the truth" (the dialogue is spoken in Latin and Aramaic, subtitled in English, so some additional interpretive filter is in place). Pilate, here represented so that he is reflective as well as brutal and cruel, wonders aloud, "What is truth?" Jesus provides him no solid answer, and the film cuts outside. Pilate returns to the balcony with his charge, announcing to the increasingly agitated assembly that he finds "no cause" in the man for punishment.
The crowd wants blood, the Pharisees want dominion, and Pilate, it appears, just wants to keep his job. Feeling stuck between non-options (an uprising by the Jews or an uprising by Jesus' followers, despite the fact that he commands the local Roman military that might quash either), he sits with his back literally against a wall. His wife Claudia Procula (Claudia Gerini) approaches, and he asks what she thinks about truth: can she recognize it when she hears it? Not unlike the Son of Man, she answers her fretful husband in allusive circles:
"If you will not hear the truth, no one can tell you."
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If you will not hear the truth, no one can tell you!
This phrase has stuck with me since the movie and would make a good slogan for us here so I added it to index page.
So it now says....
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But if you will not hear the Truth, no one can tell you the truth!