The Greatest Story Ever Told Quotes

Jesus What is your name?

James the Younger Little James. They called me "little" because I'm the youngest. What is your name?

Jesus Jesus

James the Younger That's a good name.

Jesus Thank you.

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Peter Who is it?

James the Younger Me.

Peter What's wrong with you? When I ask "Who is it", why do you answer "Me"?

James the Younger It was me, Peter.

Jesus Do not weep for me; weep for yourselves, and for your children. For a time is coming when men will say "blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore a child." And they will say to the mountains "fall on us," and to the hills "cover us," for if these things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?

Jesus Go now, and teach all nations. Make it your first care to love one another and to find the kingdom of God, and all things shall be yours without me asking. Do not fret then for tomorrow; leave tomorrow to fret over its own needs, for today...today's troubles are enough. And lo, I am with you always, even onto the end of the world...

Bar Amand The Messiah has come! A man was dead but now he lives!

Uriah I was crippled, and now I walk!

Old Aram I was blind, and now I see!

Soldier Who has done this?

Old Aram The man called Jesus!

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John the Baptist Are you going to free me?

Herod Antipas I am going to kill you.

John the Baptist Then you free me!

Herod Antipas I hope so.

Soldier Baptist! I have orders to bring you to Herod!

John the Baptist I have orders to bring you to God...heathen.

Soldier Will you come with us pacefully?

John the Baptist I won't come with you at all.

Herod the Great I am an Idumean. Not a Judian. The priests here in Judea mock me in their temple. The temple which I built. They accuse me of impiety. Tell them, Antipas.

Herod Antipas The priests are envious of my father. He knows the prophets better than they and has more faith in them.

Narrator In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. I am He. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, was made nothing that has been made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of man. And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness grasped it not. The greatest story ever told...

King Herod The child of imagination is the child I fear.

John the Baptist Repent!

The Dark Hermit - Satan A long climb, wasn't it? A long hard climb...You know, some people think the whole of life should be like that, hm..."An easy life is a sinful life". Not so, my friend...A man's life can be as easy as he wishes to make it. And it can be easy, my friend. If one knows the way to power and glory in this world.

Caiaphas Jesus of Nazareth, your crimes are so many I scarcely know where to begin.

Pontius Pilate You claim to be the son of God. Which one? Mars? Hercules? Jupiter? Which God are you the son of?

The Centurion Truly, this man was the Son of God.