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BALTHASAR:
In the year of our Lord...
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...Judea, for nearly a century,
had lain under the mastery of Rome.
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In the seventh year of the reign
of Augustus Caesar...
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...an imperial decree
ordered every Judean...
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...each to return
to his place of birth...
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...to be counted and taxed.
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The converging ways of many of them led
to their capital city, Jerusalem...
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...the troubled heart of their land.
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The old city was dominated
by the fortress of Antonia...
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...the seat of Roman power...
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...and by the great golden temple...
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...the outward sign of
an inward and imperishable faith.
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Even while they obeyed
the will of Caesar...
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...the people clung proudly
to their ancient heritage...
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...always remembering
the promise of their prophets...
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...that one day there would be
born among them a redeemer...
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...to bring them salvation
and perfect freedom.
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[MURMURING]
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You'll be counted at Hebron.
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- Name?
- Samuel.
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- What city?
- Joppa.
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- What family?
- Michael.
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- Move on. Move on.
- Yes.
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- Name?
- Joseph.
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- What city?
- Nazareth.
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- What family?
- David of Bethlehem.
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- And the woman?
- My wife.
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Move on.
You'll be counted at Bethlehem.
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Come on, come on.
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[OXEN BELLOWING]
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[BABY CRYING]
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[SHEEP BAAING]
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[TRUMPETS]
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What village is this?
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Nazareth.
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We should arrive in Jerusalem
tomorrow night.
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You're not watching
the soldiers, Joseph?
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We've seen Romans before.
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Yes...
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...and we will see them again.
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My table is not finished.
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Where is your son?
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- He's walking in the hills.
- Mm-hm.
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He neglects his work, Joseph.
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No.
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Once, I reproached him with
forgetting his work. He said to me:
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"I must be about my father's business."
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Then why isn't he here, working?
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He's working.
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SEXTUS:
Trumpeters of the legion!
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[TRUMPETING]
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Welcome, Messala.
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The command is yours.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for relieving me.
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Drusus...
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...when I was a boy, I dreamed
of commanding this garrison.
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Now the wheel has turned.
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I am in command.
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OFFICER:
Attention!
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Aisle one, face right!
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Forward!
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I'd forgotten the heat.
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If it were only the heat.
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I lived here until I was 14.
Jerusalem was my home.
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- My father was head of...
- Yes, I know.
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Your father is well-remembered.
Fine governor.
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If there can be such a thing
in this forsaken land.
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If you want to rise, Sextus,
do the difficult.
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I asked to be sent here.
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I think you'll find the people changed
since you were a boy.
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In what way?
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Oh, won't pay their taxes,
an irrational resentment of Rome...
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There's nothing new in all that.
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And then there's religion. I tell
you, they're drunk with religion.
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They smash the statues of our gods,
even those of the emperor.
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Punish them.
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We do.
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When we can find them.
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Find the leaders.
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Oh, you don't know. There's nothing
you can put your finger on.
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I tell you, there are strange forces
at work here.
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For instance,
this "messiah" business...
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I know. There was one
predicted when I was a boy.
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A king of the Jews, who will lead them
into some sort of anti-Roman paradise.
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Makes your head spin.
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There's a wild man
in the desert named John...
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...who drowns people in water.
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And a carpenter's son who does magic
tricks. "Miracles" they call them.
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There's always a rabble-rouser
stirring up trouble.
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No, no, no. This man is different.
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He teaches that God is near,
in every man.
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[MESSALA SCOFFS]
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It's actually quite profound,
some of it.
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You've been too long away from Rome.
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Go back, Sextus.
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Go to Capri.
Bathe, rest, lie by the sea...
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...and forget that
God is in every man.
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- There is divinity in only one man.
- Yes, I know.
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The emperor is displeased.
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He wishes Judea made into a more
obedient and disciplined province.
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He has ordered me to restore order.
I intend to carry out his wishes.
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But how? You can break a man's skull,
arrest him, throw him into a dungeon.
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But how do you control what's up here?
How do you fight an idea?
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Especially a new idea.
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There's a Jew outside.
He wants to see the tribune Messala.
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I assume he has a name.
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- He says he's a prince, Judah Ben-Hur.
- Then treat him like one!
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Tell him I will join him.
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Yes, tribune.
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Centurion!
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This was his country
before it was ours.
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Don't forget that.
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Yes, tribune.
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Very wise. This Ben-Hur is
the richest man in Jerusalem.
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And the head of one
of the greatest families in Judea.
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We were friends as boys.
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We were like brothers.
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Sextus...
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...you ask how to fight an idea.
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Well, I'll tell you how.
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With another idea.
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I said I'd come back.
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I never thought you would.
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I'm so glad.
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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- Look at you.
- Look at you!
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You've come back a tribune.
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When I heard that news,
I drank a toast to you.
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We'll drink another now.
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- Your sister and mother?
- They're fine.
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They've talked of you
ever since we knew you were coming.
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- Is Tirzah married?
- No.
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Suitors come and go, but she dreams.
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She's been in love with you
since she was 5.
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I can't wait to see them.
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Do you still hunt jackals and lions?
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Or have you become too dignified?
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[BOTH CHUCKLE]
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- Down Eros, up Mars!
- Down Eros, up Mars!
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MESSALA:
Where the beams cross?
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BEN-HUR:
Good.
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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After all these years!
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Still close.
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In every way.
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I hope so.
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I know.
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You're a Roman, and I'm a Jew...
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...whose life you once saved.
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The best thing I ever did.
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Judah...
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...it will be very difficult
to govern here.
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I'm going to need help.
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Your help. Your advice.
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- You want my advice?
- Yes, I do.
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Withdraw your legions.
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Give us our freedom.
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Unfortunately, the emperor
is devoted to his empire.
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He's particularly fond of Judea.
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And Judea's not fond of the emperor.
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Is there anything so sad
as unrequited love?
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[MESSALA CHUCKLES]
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My quarters.
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Hmm. A bit grim.
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Not grim.
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Austere. Virtuous.
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Roman.
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I'm going to be second-in-command
to the new governor, Valerius Gratus.
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He's arriving in a few days
with two more legions.
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Then the rumors are true.
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The emperor does not approve
of your countrymen.
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There is rebellion in the wind.
It will be crushed.
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But you and your family
need have no concern.
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I'm next in authority to the governor,
and you're my friend.
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- I'm a Jew.
- Ah, you are like a Roman!
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What have you in common
with the troublemaking rabble?
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Rabble? They're my people.
I'm one of them.
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Be wise, Judah.
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It's a Roman world. If you want to
live in it, you must become part of it.
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You've changed.
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I've grown up. I've seen the world
since I left Jerusalem.
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I've seen Rome. It's no accident
that one small village on the Tiber...
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...was chosen to rule the world.
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Your legions.
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It wasn't just our legions.
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Other countries have armies,
fine armies. I know, I fought them.
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Oh, no.
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No, it was fate that chose us
to civilize the world. And we have.
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Our roads and ships connect
every corner of the earth.
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Roman law, architecture, literature
are the glory of the human race.
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I believe in the future of my people.
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Of course you do.
And you can help them.
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How?
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You're an aristocrat.
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Your family's name is honored.
You're a prince among your people.
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You're rich and powerful.
Your reputation is stainless.
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They'd listen if you
spoke out against rebellion.
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Persuade your people that
their resistance to Rome is stupid.
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It is worse than stupid, futile!
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For it can end in only one way,
extinction for your people!
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I'm against violence.
Everyone knows this.
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I've spoken against it.
I shall do so again.
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Then we're agreed!
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Now, when can I come
to see your family?
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- We had hoped tomorrow.
- Good.
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And now for our toast.
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It's dreadful wine, by the way.
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It's especially fermented
for the Roman army.
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[MESSALA CHUCKLES]
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You're very cruel to your conquerors.
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It's an insane world.
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But in it there is one sanity:
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The loyalty of old friends.
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Judah, we must believe in one another.
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Will you drink to that?
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With all my heart.
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Here it is, the place I've remembered.
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The court where we played
at changing the guard.
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The roof where we'd throw pebbles
at people in the street and then hide.
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- We were rascals, weren't we?
- No, you were good boys.
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I would have that time again.
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And here it is. Nothing has changed.
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Except for the fountain.
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- The old well would go dry, remember?
- Promptly, every summer.
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A new fountain and a new Tirzah.
You've grown up.
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- He hasn't changed, has he, Mother?
- No?
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Of course he has. He was a boy
when he left us, now he's a man.
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With great responsibilities.
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Come.
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The emperor builds and builds,
turning brick to marble.
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Oh, I almost forgot.
I brought you this.
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I've never seen anything
like this before. It's beautiful!
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- Is it Roman?
- It's Libyan. I was there last year.
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A tremendous campaign.
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Our armies met on the coast.
After two days of fighting, they fled.
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We marched on their capital.
Barbaric city, but fascinating.
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Or was, till we destroyed it.
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Now it's nothing but ashes.
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I'm boring you with soldier stories.
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Come with me, there's something
I want to show you.
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Thank you for this.
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I chose the right present for you.
It's a brooch for a woman.
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BEN-HUR:
What do you think of it?
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MESSALA:
Magnificent.
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It's Arabic.
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I think he has the look of the breed.
I've raised him.
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Let me try him sometime.
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Whenever you like. He's yours.
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Do you mean you'll give me this?
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Oh, Judah.
252
00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:13,787
You are good. It's going
to be like old times, I know it.
253
00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:22,796
Judah, tell me, did you...
254
00:31:23,464 --> 00:31:24,965
...think about what I said?
255
00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:27,843
Yes. Talked to a number
of people already.
256
00:31:28,094 --> 00:31:30,804
Spoken against violence,
against incidents.
257
00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:32,848
Most of the men agree with me.
258
00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:35,100
Most? Not all?
259
00:31:35,810 --> 00:31:38,645
- No, not all.
- Who does not agree?
260
00:31:39,939 --> 00:31:42,816
Well, the resentful, the impatient.
261
00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:44,026
Who are they?
262
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:50,282
Yes, Judah. Who are they?
263
00:31:57,332 --> 00:32:00,167
Would I retain your friendship
if I became an informer?
264
00:32:00,376 --> 00:32:02,544
Telling the names of criminals
is not informing.
265
00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,631
They're not criminals, Messala.
They're patriots.
266
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,341
Patriots?!
267
00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:14,556
Judah.
268
00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:19,144
Let me explain something to you.
Something you may not know.
269
00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:24,524
The emperor is watching us.
At this moment, he watches the East.
270
00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:27,694
This is my great opportunity,
and yours too.
271
00:32:27,862 --> 00:32:30,364
If I bring order here,
I can have any post I want.
272
00:32:30,573 --> 00:32:33,867
You'll rise with me, I promise.
And do you know where it can end?
273
00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:37,079
Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side
of Caesar himself.
274
00:32:37,330 --> 00:32:40,040
I mean it. It can happen
and this is the moment.
275
00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:42,000
I swear, this is the time.
276
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:46,046
The emperor is watching us, judging
us. All I need do is serve him.
277
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:49,716
And all you need do
is help me serve him.
278
00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:55,555
- You speak as if he were God.
- He is God. The only God.
279
00:32:55,723 --> 00:32:59,810
He is power,
real power on earth, not...
280
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:02,896
Not that.
281
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:06,733
Help me, Judah.
282
00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:11,905
I would do anything
for you, Messala...
283
00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,409
...except betray my own people.
284
00:33:15,743 --> 00:33:20,247
In the name of all the gods, what do
the lives of a few Jews mean to you?
285
00:33:23,543 --> 00:33:27,921
If I cannot persuade them, that does
not mean I would help you murder them.
286
00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:33,635
Besides, you must
understand this, Messala.
287
00:33:33,886 --> 00:33:36,596
I believe in the past
and future of my people.
288
00:33:36,764 --> 00:33:39,433
Future? You are a conquered people.
289
00:33:41,477 --> 00:33:45,230
You may conquer the land.
You may slaughter the people.
290
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,607
But that is not the end.
We will rise again.
291
00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:52,070
You live on dead dreams.
You live on the myths of the past.
292
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,614
Solomon's glory is gone.
You think it will return?
293
00:33:54,907 --> 00:33:57,784
Joshua will not rise again
to save you nor David.
294
00:33:58,077 --> 00:34:01,955
There is only one reality in
the world today. Look to the West.
295
00:34:02,165 --> 00:34:03,582
Don't be a fool! Look to Rome!
296
00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:05,792
Better a fool
than a traitor or a killer.
297
00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:08,795
- I am a soldier.
- Who kills for Rome and Rome is evil.
298
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:11,965
- I warn you...
- No! I warn you.
299
00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:13,967
Rome is an affront to God.
300
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:17,512
Rome is strangling my people
and my country, the whole earth!
301
00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:19,181
But not forever.
302
00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:23,143
And I tell you, the day Rome falls
there will be a shout of freedom...
303
00:34:23,394 --> 00:34:26,146
...such as the world
has never heard before.
304
00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:33,945
Judah.
305
00:34:35,156 --> 00:34:39,117
Either you help me or you oppose me.
You have no other choice.
306
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:42,454
You're either for me or against me.
307
00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:50,170
If that is the choice...
308
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,507
...then I am against you.
309
00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:22,577
There they are.
310
00:35:24,247 --> 00:35:25,747
Where's Messala?
311
00:35:27,667 --> 00:35:29,376
- Where's?
- He's gone.
312
00:35:30,044 --> 00:35:31,378
Gone?
313
00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:34,381
- But why?
- He couldn't stay.
314
00:35:34,590 --> 00:35:38,051
- What happened?
- A new tribune must have many duties.
315
00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:41,054
Come. Let us have dinner.
316
00:35:55,278 --> 00:35:58,238
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God,
King of the world...
317
00:35:58,489 --> 00:36:00,907
...who bringeth to us
bread from the earth.
318
00:36:07,415 --> 00:36:09,916
We shall never see him again, Tirzah.
319
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:16,631
He wanted to use me
to betray our people.
320
00:36:20,428 --> 00:36:21,761
Judah.
321
00:36:35,693 --> 00:36:37,777
[MURMURING]
322
00:36:37,945 --> 00:36:39,946
[CAMEL BAYING]
323
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:09,601
- Master, the caravan from Antioch.
- Yes, Amrah, I saw.
324
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:12,312
Simonides.
325
00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:16,024
- Welcome.
- Judah.
326
00:37:16,192 --> 00:37:18,777
- Oh, welcome homecoming.
- Master.
327
00:37:18,986 --> 00:37:21,571
Simonides has brought gifts, as usual.
328
00:37:21,781 --> 00:37:24,616
Amber and jade for me.
Silk for Tirzah.
329
00:37:24,825 --> 00:37:26,660
And for the master, Iberian wine.
330
00:37:26,869 --> 00:37:29,829
Not to mention the best gift of all,
your presence.
331
00:37:29,997 --> 00:37:33,833
You do your servant honor.
I also bring good news from Antioch.
332
00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,628
- Caravans from Petra.
- Have all arrived.
333
00:37:36,837 --> 00:37:38,630
- Good.
- Here is the accounting.
334
00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:40,173
And what of Numidia?
335
00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:44,010
The trade route is ours,
guaranteed by treaty with the king.
336
00:37:44,595 --> 00:37:46,846
Once a year,
you bring your accounting.
337
00:37:47,014 --> 00:37:49,849
And once a year,
I find myself wealthier.
338
00:37:50,351 --> 00:37:52,978
Yeah, but my greatest treasure
is my steward.
339
00:37:53,312 --> 00:37:55,814
SIMONIDES:
My life belongs to the House of Hur.
340
00:37:56,023 --> 00:37:59,359
Nothing else exists for me,
except my daughter.
341
00:37:59,694 --> 00:38:03,363
- She must be a young woman by now.
- Yes, and your property.
342
00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:05,532
She was born
the daughter of your slave.
343
00:38:05,741 --> 00:38:09,369
When I inherited you,
I inherited a friend, not a slave.
344
00:38:09,537 --> 00:38:13,248
Still, Esther has come with me from
Antioch for your permission to marry.
345
00:38:13,541 --> 00:38:17,210
It's granted. I wish you
the joy of many grandchildren.
346
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:20,839
SIMONIDES:
If it is the Lord's will, I shall rejoice.
347
00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:58,376
With your permission,
Esther wishes to speak to her master.
348
00:39:16,312 --> 00:39:18,605
You're eager to marry, Esther?
349
00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:22,901
It is my father's wish.
350
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:28,114
Your husband will be fortunate.
351
00:39:29,825 --> 00:39:31,284
What is his name?
352
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:34,287
David, son of Mathias.
353
00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:36,122
BEN-HUR:
Of what house?
354
00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:39,501
- His own, master.
- He is a freeman.
355
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:42,587
Tell me more about him.
356
00:39:44,548 --> 00:39:46,299
I have seen him only once.
357
00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:48,635
He is a merchant,
well-thought-of in Antioch.
358
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,346
He will pay for Esther's freedom.
359
00:39:51,806 --> 00:39:55,475
Her freedom will be
my wedding gift to Esther.
360
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,606
You are generous, master.
361
00:40:07,696 --> 00:40:09,823
Do you love this man?
362
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:16,496
I will learn to love him.
363
00:40:34,765 --> 00:40:36,724
You have my permission to marry.
364
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:39,978
We'll drink to your happiness.
365
00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:43,440
And a safe return to Antioch.
366
00:41:08,424 --> 00:41:10,091
BEN-HUR:
I disturbed you.
367
00:41:10,759 --> 00:41:11,885
No.
368
00:41:12,511 --> 00:41:14,137
What were you thinking?
369
00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:17,474
I was saying goodbye...
370
00:41:18,184 --> 00:41:19,767
...to this city...
371
00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:22,395
...and this house.
372
00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:30,695
You've not often been here.
What do you remember of it?
373
00:41:31,989 --> 00:41:34,532
My father sometimes brought me here...
374
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:36,409
...when I was little.
375
00:41:38,245 --> 00:41:41,581
It was a house
where I was always happy.
376
00:41:44,418 --> 00:41:46,044
Except once.
377
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:50,340
When you and your friend,
the Roman boy...
378
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,634
- Messala.
- Yes.
379
00:41:53,552 --> 00:41:55,553
You had been out hunting...
380
00:41:56,847 --> 00:41:59,474
...and they brought you home injured.
381
00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:03,937
I touched your face
as you lay there...
382
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:12,362
...and prayed to God,
"Don't let this boy die."
383
00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:20,495
I can hear how you said it.
Gently, as you say it now.
384
00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:23,581
Yes, master.
385
00:42:23,832 --> 00:42:27,252
Master?
Why, I've given you your freedom.
386
00:42:29,296 --> 00:42:33,258
It's strange. I hardly felt a slave.
387
00:42:38,806 --> 00:42:40,098
And now...
388
00:42:41,684 --> 00:42:43,476
...I hardly feel free.
389
00:42:45,771 --> 00:42:49,566
You know, in the old, wise days
of Solomon...
390
00:42:49,817 --> 00:42:51,901
...if there was among his slaves...
391
00:42:52,111 --> 00:42:54,904
...some girl who filled his eyes...
392
00:42:55,573 --> 00:42:58,241
...he could choose her out
from the rest...
393
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:00,994
...and take her to him.
394
00:43:01,745 --> 00:43:04,122
Wise days of Solomon.
395
00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:07,292
Different days.
396
00:43:10,337 --> 00:43:11,838
And long ago.
397
00:43:20,848 --> 00:43:23,391
If you were not a bride...
398
00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:26,686
...I should kiss you goodbye.
399
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:31,524
If I were not a bride...
400
00:43:32,109 --> 00:43:34,652
...there would be no goodbyes
to be said.
401
00:43:47,958 --> 00:43:49,792
Your slave ring.
402
00:43:53,297 --> 00:43:55,048
Fair exchange.
403
00:43:56,717 --> 00:43:59,927
Freedom to you. The ring to me.
404
00:44:00,346 --> 00:44:02,055
You will wear it?
405
00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:12,273
Until you meet the woman
you will marry?
406
00:44:19,698 --> 00:44:21,115
Until then.
407
00:45:14,294 --> 00:45:16,379
[DRUMMING]
408
00:45:33,939 --> 00:45:36,023
[TRUMPETING]
409
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,587
The gods favor my lord Gratus.
410
00:45:57,796 --> 00:46:01,048
If it is the governor's pleasure,
the wreath of office.
411
00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:02,967
Thank you, tribune.
412
00:46:05,512 --> 00:46:07,513
I see no delegation from the city.
413
00:46:07,723 --> 00:46:09,891
- There will not be one, sir.
- No?
414
00:46:10,184 --> 00:46:12,477
Jerusalem's welcome will not
be a warm one.
415
00:46:12,686 --> 00:46:15,480
But I pledge, my lord,
it will be a quiet one.
416
00:46:16,190 --> 00:46:17,690
Let us proceed.
417
00:46:55,896 --> 00:46:57,271
[CHILDREN SHOUTING]
418
00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:22,171
There's Messala.
419
00:47:33,517 --> 00:47:35,184
He saw you, Judah.
420
00:48:04,798 --> 00:48:06,299
The new governor.
421
00:48:13,181 --> 00:48:14,599
[GASPS]
422
00:48:15,642 --> 00:48:17,310
[HORSE NEIGHS]
423
00:48:19,187 --> 00:48:20,897
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
424
00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:22,148
[CHATTERING]
425
00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:23,649
OFFICER 1:
Stand back!
426
00:48:25,736 --> 00:48:28,154
- Stand back.
- Up there. You, come!
427
00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:30,323
OFFICER 2:
Had to be the Jews!
428
00:48:36,663 --> 00:48:39,457
OFFICER 3: Open up in the name
of the divine emperor!
429
00:48:50,010 --> 00:48:53,721
Judah! Tirzah! What is it?
What's happened?
430
00:48:53,931 --> 00:48:55,848
OFFICER 4:
Open up in the name of Rome!
431
00:48:56,016 --> 00:48:59,143
- I was watching the Romans...
- A tile fell and struck the governor.
432
00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:01,520
- It wasn't my fault.
- They won't believe her.
433
00:49:01,730 --> 00:49:05,358
She won't have to say anything.
You hear? Tirzah, say nothing.
434
00:49:05,859 --> 00:49:07,652
MAN:
Open the gates!
435
00:49:13,909 --> 00:49:15,368
I'll speak to them.
436
00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:18,496
OFFICER 1: Arrest him!
- Wait. Let me tell you what happened.
437
00:49:18,747 --> 00:49:20,998
OFFICER 2: Hold those women.
BEN-HUR: Not them!
438
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,292
- Judah!
BEN-HUR: It was an accident.
439
00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:28,965
Let me tell you what happened.
It was an accident.
440
00:49:29,216 --> 00:49:32,718
- This is the man, sir. We saw him.
- It was an accident.
441
00:49:33,971 --> 00:49:35,304
- Accident?
- I swear it.
442
00:49:35,514 --> 00:49:38,808
I put my hand on the ledge.
A tile was loose. It gave way.
443
00:49:39,017 --> 00:49:40,893
Take him. Take all of them.
444
00:49:41,061 --> 00:49:44,313
MIRIAM: He's telling the truth!
- It was me! Let them go!
445
00:49:44,481 --> 00:49:45,523
MIRIAM:
Judah!
446
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,692
CENTURION:
Attention!
447
00:49:52,489 --> 00:49:53,823
BEN-HUR:
Messala.
448
00:50:02,416 --> 00:50:05,001
In the name of God,
tell them it's a mistake.
449
00:50:05,210 --> 00:50:08,295
I leaned on the tile,
and it broke loose.
450
00:50:11,925 --> 00:50:14,176
It was an accident.
451
00:50:23,437 --> 00:50:26,689
Let them go!
They had nothing to do with it!
452
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:29,233
MIRIAM: Messala!
TIRZAH: Messala.
453
00:50:32,362 --> 00:50:33,821
Let the servants go.
454
00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,699
Let them go. Return to your ranks.
455
00:51:36,551 --> 00:51:37,927
[HORSE NEIGHS]
456
00:52:06,123 --> 00:52:08,666
- Come.
- Where?
457
00:52:09,543 --> 00:52:10,584
Tirus.
458
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:13,879
Tirus?
459
00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:17,675
I've had no trial.
460
00:52:18,343 --> 00:52:21,220
I'm to die in the galleys
without even a trial?
461
00:52:21,429 --> 00:52:24,140
There's no truth in the charge!
Not a word of truth!
462
00:52:24,391 --> 00:52:27,643
Wait. My mother, my sister.
What happened to them?
463
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:29,353
Tie his hands.
464
00:52:31,898 --> 00:52:35,568
- At least tell me if they're safe.
- I can tell you nothing.
465
00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:38,237
[GRUNTS]
466
00:52:54,462 --> 00:52:56,130
[BEN-HUR GASPS]
467
00:53:06,349 --> 00:53:07,892
OFFICER:
Get along. Keep moving.
468
00:53:11,354 --> 00:53:12,605
[GASPS]
469
00:53:17,152 --> 00:53:19,069
[OFFICERS YELL]
470
00:53:23,116 --> 00:53:24,366
Jailer!
471
00:53:25,827 --> 00:53:28,037
OFFICER:
Guard, in there!
472
00:53:28,538 --> 00:53:30,414
Up the stairs!
473
00:53:30,790 --> 00:53:34,919
Jailer!
474
00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:38,380
To the right.
475
00:54:11,414 --> 00:54:13,082
[PANTING]
476
00:54:27,305 --> 00:54:28,931
[SHOUTING]
477
00:54:32,686 --> 00:54:34,937
MESSALA: Wait!
BEN-HUR: Send them out.
478
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:38,524
Send them out.
479
00:54:39,985 --> 00:54:41,652
You can go.
480
00:54:44,447 --> 00:54:45,572
Go!
481
00:54:50,495 --> 00:54:51,578
The door.
482
00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:02,506
Where are my mother and sister?
483
00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:15,394
Where are they?
484
00:55:18,606 --> 00:55:20,816
Here, within these walls.
485
00:55:22,027 --> 00:55:24,570
The governor is recovering.
They won't die.
486
00:55:26,865 --> 00:55:28,866
Of course, they will be sentenced.
487
00:55:32,495 --> 00:55:36,123
Is it possible, Messala?
488
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:40,461
Is it possible
you could do this to us?
489
00:55:40,670 --> 00:55:43,422
To people you've known?
A family you've loved?
490
00:55:44,549 --> 00:55:46,258
You'll let them go.
491
00:55:46,426 --> 00:55:48,927
You must.
You will gladly let them go!
492
00:55:49,095 --> 00:55:50,846
Messala!
493
00:55:53,558 --> 00:55:56,685
I didn't try to kill the governor.
I'm not mad. I'm not a murderer!
494
00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:58,562
I know you're not.
495
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,815
You know?
496
00:56:05,862 --> 00:56:07,071
You are evil.
497
00:56:07,530 --> 00:56:10,032
No, Judah, I am not evil.
498
00:56:10,784 --> 00:56:12,493
I wanted your help.
499
00:56:13,286 --> 00:56:15,162
Now you've given it to me.
500
00:56:15,997 --> 00:56:19,291
By making this example of you,
I discourage treason.
501
00:56:19,542 --> 00:56:23,504
By condemning without hesitation
an old friend, I shall be feared.
502
00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:28,300
But not my family.
503
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,428
Let them go.
504
00:56:32,013 --> 00:56:33,055
Please.
505
00:56:35,517 --> 00:56:37,976
- Messala, I beg you.
- Beg?!
506
00:56:41,106 --> 00:56:43,232
Didn't I beg you?
507
00:56:48,571 --> 00:56:51,407
You chose this.
There's nothing more to be said.
508
00:56:52,325 --> 00:56:54,535
Kill me, and your mother
and sister will die today...
509
00:56:54,744 --> 00:56:57,079
...nailed to crosses in front of you!
510
00:56:59,082 --> 00:57:00,833
Go on, Judah.
511
00:57:01,918 --> 00:57:03,168
Kill me!
512
00:57:07,340 --> 00:57:08,924
[GRUNTS]
513
00:57:16,099 --> 00:57:18,392
May God grant me vengeance.
514
00:57:18,601 --> 00:57:22,438
I will pray that
you live till I return.
515
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:24,481
Return?
516
00:57:30,029 --> 00:57:31,155
Take him.
517
00:58:07,942 --> 00:58:10,444
OFFICER:
Sentries, salute.
518
00:58:11,321 --> 00:58:13,113
The tribune will see you now.
519
00:58:44,562 --> 00:58:48,190
Tribune, I'm steward
of the House of Hur.
520
00:58:49,567 --> 00:58:50,984
I remember you.
521
00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:55,072
We were on our way to Antioch
when we heard what had happened.
522
00:58:55,323 --> 00:58:59,076
Judah Ben-Hur could not have done
this thing. You knew him, tribune.
523
00:58:59,285 --> 00:59:00,869
Better than you.
524
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,582
Then there must be no doubt in
your mind, the charge is groundless.
525
00:59:05,959 --> 00:59:08,043
The prisoners have been sentenced.
526
00:59:08,461 --> 00:59:10,504
- Sentenced?
- But there's no truth in it.
527
00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:14,216
There was never a threat against
the governor in Judah's mind.
528
00:59:14,467 --> 00:59:17,219
Surely you must know
he would never have done this.
529
00:59:17,470 --> 00:59:19,721
In your heart, you must know it.
530
00:59:25,061 --> 00:59:26,228
Drusus.
531
00:59:31,192 --> 00:59:34,528
This man had better be kept here
until we have time to question him.
532
01:00:30,209 --> 01:00:31,376
DECURION:
Hold!
533
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:10,415
[SAWING]
534
01:01:27,475 --> 01:01:29,226
DECURION:
Water for the soldiers.
535
01:01:29,602 --> 01:01:31,353
Soldiers first!
536
01:01:34,107 --> 01:01:36,858
Get away from that well!
No water for them!
537
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,945
Get them away from that well!
Here, you!
538
01:01:40,196 --> 01:01:43,031
Come on, you! Water for the horses!
539
01:01:47,036 --> 01:01:49,913
MAN: Water. Water.
DECURION: Soldiers first!
540
01:01:58,756 --> 01:01:59,881
Here.
541
01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:23,947
Wait.
542
01:02:24,949 --> 01:02:26,658
No water for him.
543
01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:44,926
[GROANS]
544
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:50,056
God...
545
01:02:50,808 --> 01:02:52,768
...help me.
546
01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:49,533
You! I said no water for him!
547
01:04:23,943 --> 01:04:25,986
All right, on your feet, all of you!
548
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:27,612
Get them on their feet!
549
01:04:28,781 --> 01:04:30,866
Back in line, you dog!
550
01:04:43,921 --> 01:04:45,338
On your feet!
551
01:04:45,715 --> 01:04:47,173
Get them going!
552
01:04:50,303 --> 01:04:53,722
You there, back to your place!
Back to your place!
553
01:04:56,809 --> 01:04:58,810
Forward, you dogs!
554
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,503
In a few minutes, the consul's barge
will be coming alongside.
555
01:06:06,712 --> 01:06:08,588
Be ready to raise oars.
556
01:06:14,804 --> 01:06:17,681
HORTATOR:
Raise oars!
557
01:06:20,142 --> 01:06:22,310
Down oars!
558
01:06:25,398 --> 01:06:27,232
[TRUMPETING]
559
01:06:40,746 --> 01:06:42,497
The new commander, Quintus Arrius.
560
01:07:02,935 --> 01:07:05,770
- How many rowers?
- Two hundred, consul.
561
01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:08,815
- And reliefs?
- Of 30, every hour.
562
01:07:32,715 --> 01:07:34,716
[MAN COUGHING]
563
01:07:43,726 --> 01:07:46,895
This man is ill. Replace him.
564
01:07:47,146 --> 01:07:49,272
- Change him.
- Right, sir.
565
01:07:55,154 --> 01:07:58,865
- This man has been giving you trouble?
- He's insubordinate, consul.
566
01:07:59,158 --> 01:08:01,117
That will stop.
567
01:08:25,267 --> 01:08:27,310
What service have you seen?
568
01:08:29,271 --> 01:08:30,688
Forty-one.
569
01:08:31,524 --> 01:08:34,901
A month's less a day in this ship.
570
01:08:35,569 --> 01:08:39,322
You keep an exact account.
And before?
571
01:08:39,532 --> 01:08:43,034
Three years in other ships.
572
01:08:44,537 --> 01:08:46,412
Three years.
573
01:08:56,715 --> 01:08:58,550
[BEN-HUR YELLS]
574
01:09:07,685 --> 01:09:10,145
You have the spirit to fight back...
575
01:09:10,771 --> 01:09:13,064
...but the good sense to control it.
576
01:09:16,527 --> 01:09:20,321
Your eyes are full of hate, 41.
577
01:09:20,739 --> 01:09:24,909
That's good. Hate keeps a man alive.
578
01:09:25,244 --> 01:09:27,078
It gives him strength.
579
01:09:29,123 --> 01:09:30,832
Now, listen to me, all of you.
580
01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:38,006
You are all condemned men.
We keep you alive to serve this ship.
581
01:09:40,426 --> 01:09:42,427
So row well...
582
01:09:43,262 --> 01:09:44,929
...and live.
583
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,191
- Ship ready, consul.
- Strike oars.
584
01:09:56,442 --> 01:10:00,069
HORTATOR:
Strike oars!
585
01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:22,800
You know that a fleet
of Macedonian galleys...
586
01:10:22,968 --> 01:10:25,803
...has been raiding Roman commerce.
587
01:10:26,388 --> 01:10:29,307
The emperor has honored us
with the task...
588
01:10:29,558 --> 01:10:32,185
...of seeking out and destroying them.
589
01:11:04,009 --> 01:11:05,843
Battle speed, hortator.
590
01:11:08,097 --> 01:11:10,431
Battle speed!
591
01:11:41,005 --> 01:11:42,213
Attack speed.
592
01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:44,507
HORTATOR:
Attack speed!
593
01:12:11,118 --> 01:12:13,077
[MEN COUGHING]
594
01:12:24,882 --> 01:12:26,090
Ramming speed.
595
01:12:27,384 --> 01:12:28,926
Ramming speed!
596
01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:34,015
[COUGHS]
597
01:13:22,147 --> 01:13:23,481
[GROANS]
598
01:13:24,942 --> 01:13:26,067
[GASPS]
599
01:13:28,570 --> 01:13:29,862
[YELLS]
600
01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:33,241
[GASPS]
601
01:13:36,995 --> 01:13:38,162
[GROANS]
602
01:13:43,085 --> 01:13:44,127
Rest.
603
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:46,504
HORTATOR:
Halt!
604
01:13:47,589 --> 01:13:48,923
Rest!
605
01:13:49,133 --> 01:13:50,925
[COUGHING AND PANTING]
606
01:14:25,878 --> 01:14:27,879
[HORTATOR DRUMMING NEARBY]
607
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:53,237
Why are you here?
608
01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:56,949
I was ordered to report to you
during my relief.
609
01:14:59,077 --> 01:15:00,745
Oh, yes.
610
01:15:01,246 --> 01:15:02,914
I'd forgotten.
611
01:15:09,213 --> 01:15:11,380
You could have killed me
as I lay there.
612
01:15:11,590 --> 01:15:13,758
You're a condemned man.
Why didn't you?
613
01:15:14,384 --> 01:15:16,385
I'm not ready to die.
614
01:15:16,762 --> 01:15:18,721
What do you think will save you?
615
01:15:19,181 --> 01:15:21,557
The God of my fathers.
616
01:15:21,850 --> 01:15:25,102
Hmm. Your God has forsaken you.
617
01:15:25,270 --> 01:15:28,523
He has no more power
than the images I pray to.
618
01:15:28,732 --> 01:15:32,568
My gods will not help me.
Your God will not help you.
619
01:15:32,778 --> 01:15:34,237
I might.
620
01:15:34,696 --> 01:15:37,615
Does that interest you, 41?
621
01:15:39,701 --> 01:15:41,786
I can see that it does.
622
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:46,249
I'm a fighting man by profession,
and in my leisure moments...
623
01:15:46,458 --> 01:15:49,252
...it amuses me to train fighting men.
624
01:15:49,461 --> 01:15:52,588
I own some of the best gladiators
and charioteers in Rome.
625
01:15:52,798 --> 01:15:55,007
Would you like to become one of them?
626
01:15:55,425 --> 01:15:57,385
To die as your slave?
627
01:15:57,803 --> 01:16:00,137
Better than to live in chains
below these decks.
628
01:16:00,764 --> 01:16:02,807
I will not be here forever.
629
01:16:04,184 --> 01:16:05,226
No?
630
01:16:09,648 --> 01:16:12,149
What would you do if you escaped?
631
01:16:13,652 --> 01:16:17,446
Two people were condemned with me,
my mother and sister...
632
01:16:17,656 --> 01:16:19,907
...though they were innocent.
I won't rest...
633
01:16:20,117 --> 01:16:21,951
Do not say that you were innocent.
634
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:25,454
- Would it do any good to say it again?
- No.
635
01:16:26,164 --> 01:16:30,793
Consider my offer carefully. You will
never escape while we are victorious.
636
01:16:31,003 --> 01:16:35,172
If we are not, you will sink
with this ship, chained to your oar.
637
01:16:35,549 --> 01:16:38,342
I cannot believe that
God has let me live these three years...
638
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:40,344
...to die chained to an oar.
639
01:16:40,554 --> 01:16:44,181
It's a strange, stubborn faith
you keep...
640
01:16:44,349 --> 01:16:47,268
...to believe that
existence has a purpose.
641
01:16:47,477 --> 01:16:51,689
A sane man would have learned
to lose it long before this.
642
01:16:51,857 --> 01:16:53,357
As you have.
643
01:16:54,192 --> 01:16:56,193
What drove it out of you?
644
01:16:57,696 --> 01:17:00,364
Go back to your oar, 41.
645
01:17:16,882 --> 01:17:18,966
Consul, enemy sighted.
646
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:22,511
Signal the fleet.
Prepare for battle.
647
01:17:29,394 --> 01:17:32,188
OFFICER:
All the watch to battle posts.
648
01:17:36,985 --> 01:17:39,278
OFFICER 1: Stand by to load.
OFFICER 2: Make ready to fire.
649
01:17:39,488 --> 01:17:40,905
Hurry, quick!
650
01:17:43,408 --> 01:17:46,202
Hurry up with that resin.
Get some more ammunition.
651
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:53,918
HORTATOR:
Raise oars!
652
01:17:55,128 --> 01:17:57,505
Down oars!
653
01:17:57,839 --> 01:17:59,674
OFFICER:
Chain rowers!
654
01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:23,072
Guard.
655
01:18:25,742 --> 01:18:27,243
Unlock 41.
656
01:18:27,703 --> 01:18:29,912
No! I don't want to die!
657
01:18:30,122 --> 01:18:31,914
I don't want to die!
658
01:19:02,404 --> 01:19:05,573
41, why did he do that?
659
01:19:06,324 --> 01:19:07,783
I don't know.
660
01:19:10,495 --> 01:19:13,497
Once before, a man helped me.
661
01:19:14,458 --> 01:19:16,500
I didn't know why then.
662
01:19:17,961 --> 01:19:21,255
HORTATOR:
Normal speed!
663
01:19:57,375 --> 01:19:59,627
Number 1, flame.
664
01:20:00,754 --> 01:20:02,838
- Fire.
OFFICER: Fire!
665
01:20:14,476 --> 01:20:15,518
ARRIUS:
Fire!
666
01:20:16,186 --> 01:20:17,228
OFFICER:
Fire!
667
01:20:23,026 --> 01:20:24,902
Hold withdrawal on command.
668
01:20:26,404 --> 01:20:29,198
Lift oars! Raise!
669
01:20:29,574 --> 01:20:31,408
Withdraw!
670
01:20:33,995 --> 01:20:35,079
Steersman, right.
671
01:20:42,879 --> 01:20:44,588
HORTATOR:
Extend oars!
672
01:20:46,299 --> 01:20:48,259
ARRIUS: Fire!
OFFICER: Fire!
673
01:20:54,558 --> 01:20:55,891
OFFICER:
Fire!
674
01:21:09,030 --> 01:21:10,573
OFFICER 1: Watch out!
OFFICER 2: Fire!
675
01:21:10,782 --> 01:21:12,241
ARRIUS:
Fire!
676
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:31,260
Steersman, ram course! Order below!
Ramming speed!
677
01:21:31,469 --> 01:21:32,636
Ramming speed!
678
01:21:44,107 --> 01:21:46,650
OFFICER:
Consul, barge on ramming course.
679
01:21:54,242 --> 01:21:57,870
We're going to be rammed!
We're going to be rammed!
680
01:21:58,079 --> 01:21:59,955
[ROWERS SHOUTING]
681
01:22:11,092 --> 01:22:12,176
[WHIPS CRACKING]
682
01:22:26,274 --> 01:22:27,316
[YELLING]
683
01:22:45,043 --> 01:22:46,669
[SCREAMS]
684
01:24:35,445 --> 01:24:37,154
[YELLS]
685
01:26:52,957 --> 01:26:54,374
Why did you save me?
686
01:26:57,170 --> 01:26:59,713
Why did you have me unchained?
687
01:27:20,401 --> 01:27:22,945
What is your name, 41?
688
01:27:25,198 --> 01:27:26,782
Judah Ben-Hur.
689
01:27:27,784 --> 01:27:29,701
Judah Ben-Hur...
690
01:27:31,329 --> 01:27:32,663
...let me die.
691
01:27:35,917 --> 01:27:39,211
We keep you alive to serve this ship.
692
01:27:39,629 --> 01:27:41,171
Row well and live.
693
01:27:57,146 --> 01:27:58,438
ARRIUS:
Is the sail square?
694
01:28:00,441 --> 01:28:02,359
I can't tell.
695
01:28:03,820 --> 01:28:06,363
Better for us both if it's the enemy.
696
01:28:07,782 --> 01:28:08,865
My death.
697
01:28:09,450 --> 01:28:11,159
Your freedom.
698
01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:17,958
It's a Roman sail.
699
01:28:47,739 --> 01:28:49,197
OFFICER:
Face rear!
700
01:28:49,407 --> 01:28:53,410
Welcome, consul.
We had given up all hope for you.
701
01:28:56,831 --> 01:28:57,998
Water.
702
01:29:02,420 --> 01:29:04,421
The fleet, all lost?
703
01:29:04,672 --> 01:29:06,298
Five galleys.
704
01:29:06,924 --> 01:29:10,260
- And the battle?
- The battle was won.
705
01:29:10,595 --> 01:29:12,012
You have a victory.
706
01:29:13,014 --> 01:29:15,599
ARRIUS: It was a victory?
CAPTAIN: Complete.
707
01:29:34,327 --> 01:29:36,578
In his eagerness to save you...
708
01:29:36,829 --> 01:29:40,457
...your God has also saved
the Roman fleet.
709
01:30:14,951 --> 01:30:17,577
Hail Arrius!
710
01:30:17,787 --> 01:30:19,496
COMPANY:
Hail Arrius!
711
01:30:20,123 --> 01:30:22,249
OFFICER:
Right oars!
712
01:30:23,167 --> 01:30:24,793
[HORTATOR DRUMMING]
713
01:30:46,232 --> 01:30:48,442
[BAND PLAYING TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
714
01:31:04,876 --> 01:31:06,376
[CROWD CHEERING]
715
01:33:07,290 --> 01:33:09,165
[MUSIC AND CHEERING STOPS]
716
01:33:15,673 --> 01:33:20,176
You have cleared the seaways
of a great danger, Quintus Arrius.
717
01:33:21,095 --> 01:33:24,556
This baton of victory
has been nobly won.
718
01:33:26,684 --> 01:33:28,351
[CROWD CHEERS]
719
01:33:32,356 --> 01:33:35,358
This man riding beside you, who is he?
720
01:33:35,818 --> 01:33:38,862
The man who saved me, divine emperor,
to return and serve you.
721
01:33:39,113 --> 01:33:41,156
Is that all you know about him?
722
01:33:43,618 --> 01:33:48,371
No. He was accused of an attack
on the governor of Judea.
723
01:33:48,623 --> 01:33:50,498
But he was innocent.
724
01:33:50,708 --> 01:33:53,501
If not, there's a strange
inconsistency in this man...
725
01:33:53,711 --> 01:33:58,131
...who tries to kill my governor,
yet saves the life of my consul.
726
01:33:59,091 --> 01:34:02,052
Come tomorrow. We'll talk of it.
727
01:34:02,845 --> 01:34:04,220
[CROWD CHEERS]
728
01:34:07,558 --> 01:34:09,392
[BAND PLAYING TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
729
01:34:31,749 --> 01:34:34,668
We have all the information
on this man...
730
01:34:34,877 --> 01:34:37,337
...a man of some influence
in his own country.
731
01:34:37,713 --> 01:34:41,883
His attack upon our governor is one
upon the senate and the people of Rome.
732
01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:44,928
I am convinced that
no such attack was intended.
733
01:34:45,388 --> 01:34:48,765
Consul, allow us to continue.
734
01:34:49,934 --> 01:34:52,394
Allow us to be generous.
735
01:34:53,604 --> 01:34:56,856
As a reward to you
for your great victory...
736
01:34:57,191 --> 01:34:59,776
...we shall not send him
back to the galleys.
737
01:34:59,944 --> 01:35:04,280
We give him to you as your slave
to do with him as you like.
738
01:35:05,449 --> 01:35:07,742
Such is the will of the senate...
739
01:35:08,577 --> 01:35:10,537
...and the people of Rome.
740
01:35:11,789 --> 01:35:13,623
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
741
01:35:14,083 --> 01:35:16,042
[WOMEN YELLING]
742
01:36:10,556 --> 01:36:12,557
[BAND PLAYING SOFT MUSIC]
743
01:36:31,202 --> 01:36:33,453
Not long ago, I returned to Rome...
744
01:36:33,704 --> 01:36:36,456
...with a young man
who had saved my life.
745
01:36:36,707 --> 01:36:39,876
You all know him as
the finest charioteer in Rome.
746
01:36:40,085 --> 01:36:43,046
Five times, he's driven
my horses to victory.
747
01:36:43,214 --> 01:36:45,215
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
748
01:36:49,929 --> 01:36:54,599
I know him as one who stands
in the place of the son I lost.
749
01:36:55,643 --> 01:36:58,353
I have the love and pride
in a son's achievements...
750
01:36:58,771 --> 01:37:00,939
...which I thought
I should never have again.
751
01:37:02,399 --> 01:37:04,400
[MURMURING]
752
01:37:06,403 --> 01:37:08,571
Nothing could make stronger
the bond between us...
753
01:37:08,739 --> 01:37:11,282
...but tonight I wish
to share it with you all.
754
01:37:12,451 --> 01:37:16,412
The formalities of adoption
have been completed.
755
01:37:16,622 --> 01:37:19,791
Young Arrius is now
the legal bearer of my name...
756
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:22,252
...and the heir to my property.
757
01:37:22,419 --> 01:37:24,254
[CROWD MURMURS]
758
01:37:26,882 --> 01:37:29,259
This ring of my ancestors...
759
01:37:29,885 --> 01:37:31,928
...would have gone to my son.
760
01:37:33,264 --> 01:37:35,932
So now it is yours.
761
01:37:56,954 --> 01:38:01,708
It's a strange destiny that
brought me to a new life...
762
01:38:02,501 --> 01:38:04,127
...a new home...
763
01:38:05,045 --> 01:38:06,546
...a new father.
764
01:38:08,048 --> 01:38:10,174
It brought me here.
765
01:38:10,843 --> 01:38:12,844
It may take me away.
766
01:38:13,637 --> 01:38:15,471
But wherever I may be...
767
01:38:15,681 --> 01:38:19,851
...I shall always try to wear this ring
as a son of Arrius should.
768
01:38:20,436 --> 01:38:23,521
With gratitude and affection...
769
01:38:24,815 --> 01:38:26,149
...and with honor.
770
01:38:30,738 --> 01:38:32,614
[CROWD CHEERING]
771
01:38:37,328 --> 01:38:39,329
[SOFT MUSIC RESUMES]
772
01:38:43,500 --> 01:38:44,792
I present my son to you.
773
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:48,254
My old friend Pontius Pilate,
young Arrius.
774
01:38:48,505 --> 01:38:51,674
Before you came to this city,
my horses always won.
775
01:38:51,884 --> 01:38:53,885
Magnificent horses, extremely swift.
776
01:38:54,094 --> 01:38:56,387
Yes, but not swift enough
to defeat you.
777
01:38:56,597 --> 01:38:59,057
- Tell me, you come from Judea?
- Yes, sir.
778
01:38:59,266 --> 01:39:02,060
I hear that the climate
is difficult to live in.
779
01:39:02,269 --> 01:39:04,187
Not for Judeans.
780
01:39:04,355 --> 01:39:06,105
[ALL CHUCKLE]
781
01:39:07,858 --> 01:39:11,194
It's a terrible prospect.
I am to be made governor.
782
01:39:11,403 --> 01:39:13,196
- Of Judea?
- Yes.
783
01:39:13,364 --> 01:39:14,864
I asked for Alexandria.
784
01:39:15,032 --> 01:39:17,909
But it seems the wilderness
needs my particular talents.
785
01:39:18,118 --> 01:39:21,204
The scorpions and holy prophets
can't get on without me.
786
01:39:21,413 --> 01:39:24,874
Lay the dust of Judea,
at least for this evening.
787
01:39:25,125 --> 01:39:26,793
Goats and Jehovah.
788
01:39:26,961 --> 01:39:28,586
[ARRIUS CHUCKLES]
789
01:39:46,063 --> 01:39:47,438
You're leaving.
790
01:39:50,609 --> 01:39:52,110
I must.
791
01:39:53,529 --> 01:39:55,947
It's a journey I can't keep you from.
792
01:39:57,533 --> 01:40:01,953
Your eyes have never left it all
these months. I can recognize pain.
793
01:40:02,162 --> 01:40:05,915
But still, my counsel is to wait.
794
01:40:06,125 --> 01:40:08,584
Gratus is to be replaced.
795
01:40:08,836 --> 01:40:12,046
The governorship goes
to Pontius Pilate.
796
01:40:15,843 --> 01:40:16,968
When?
797
01:40:17,469 --> 01:40:18,928
Very soon.
798
01:40:19,555 --> 01:40:21,806
It's very much to our purpose.
799
01:40:22,975 --> 01:40:27,603
Nothing is to the purpose if, when
I come back to Judea, I come too late.
800
01:40:30,774 --> 01:40:34,986
That is the thought which has punished
me every moment I've spent here.
801
01:40:41,952 --> 01:40:44,287
Will Rome see you again?
802
01:40:51,378 --> 01:40:54,964
Here is a part of my life
which you have made for me.
803
01:40:56,508 --> 01:40:58,342
I shall remember it.
804
01:41:01,597 --> 01:41:05,975
Whoever the gods are, they take
small interest in an old man's hopes.
805
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,311
They have their way.
806
01:42:49,163 --> 01:42:50,663
Forgive me.
807
01:42:51,039 --> 01:42:53,249
You're a stranger here.
808
01:42:54,501 --> 01:42:56,919
Would you be from Nazareth?
809
01:42:59,173 --> 01:43:00,590
Why do you ask?
810
01:43:01,049 --> 01:43:02,091
I thought...
811
01:43:03,719 --> 01:43:06,012
...you might be the one...
812
01:43:08,015 --> 01:43:11,601
The one that I have come back
from my country to find.
813
01:43:15,564 --> 01:43:18,024
He would be about your age.
814
01:43:19,193 --> 01:43:21,110
Who?
815
01:43:23,739 --> 01:43:25,573
When I find him...
816
01:43:26,950 --> 01:43:28,492
...I shall know him.
817
01:43:33,832 --> 01:43:37,210
Oh, but forgive me.
I am Balthasar of Alexandria.
818
01:43:37,461 --> 01:43:39,295
I am the guest of Sheik Ilderim.
819
01:43:39,463 --> 01:43:42,590
SHEIK:
Hyah! Hyah! Sack of flesh without brains!
820
01:43:42,799 --> 01:43:45,551
No! No! Not the whip!
821
01:43:47,137 --> 01:43:48,221
That is my host.
822
01:43:48,430 --> 01:43:49,597
SHEIK:
Gently! Gently!
823
01:43:50,224 --> 01:43:53,726
Fool! Headless toad!
You know nothing of horses!
824
01:43:53,936 --> 01:43:57,313
Whip my children once and
I'll drain every drop of your blood!
825
01:43:57,522 --> 01:44:01,651
Now, gently around the first turn,
and let them run! Go on!
826
01:44:06,865 --> 01:44:10,368
SHEIK: Keep my words in your head!
Let us see some wisdom!
827
01:44:11,203 --> 01:44:12,453
Beautiful horses.
828
01:44:24,132 --> 01:44:26,592
Now! Now! They are ready!
Let them go!
829
01:44:33,350 --> 01:44:35,810
Watch. They'll never hold the turn.
830
01:44:37,980 --> 01:44:40,564
SHEIK:
No! No!
831
01:44:42,401 --> 01:44:44,568
Abadon, stop him!
832
01:44:46,571 --> 01:44:47,947
Stop that whip!
833
01:44:48,156 --> 01:44:50,157
I'll kill him! I'll kill!
834
01:44:55,664 --> 01:44:58,833
SHEIK: Moonhead!
Give me those reins, you fool!
835
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:04,672
You think you can treat
my horses like animals?
836
01:45:06,174 --> 01:45:09,010
Drive cows and goats!
That's all you're fit for!
837
01:45:09,261 --> 01:45:10,845
Get off, idiot!
838
01:45:16,184 --> 01:45:17,768
SHEIK:
Drive goats, not horses!
839
01:45:17,978 --> 01:45:20,146
Now I am doomed.
You saw what happened here?
840
01:45:20,355 --> 01:45:23,607
This traveler told what would happen
before it happened.
841
01:45:23,900 --> 01:45:25,318
Hmm?
842
01:45:25,527 --> 01:45:28,487
Your horses are very fine,
but they're not a team.
843
01:45:28,697 --> 01:45:30,114
Not a team?
844
01:45:30,324 --> 01:45:33,159
But one of them held steady,
the one on the outside.
845
01:45:33,368 --> 01:45:35,661
- Antares.
- The slow one?
846
01:45:35,912 --> 01:45:37,121
SHEIK:
Uh-huh.
847
01:45:37,289 --> 01:45:40,958
I think he should run on the inside where
he can steady the others in the turns.
848
01:45:45,964 --> 01:45:49,383
You have a keen eye.
Where did you acquire it?
849
01:45:49,593 --> 01:45:51,469
In the circus in Rome.
850
01:45:53,513 --> 01:45:56,098
You have driven in the great circus?
851
01:45:57,809 --> 01:46:02,146
Tell me, my friend, could you
make my four run as one?
852
01:46:02,397 --> 01:46:03,939
I'm on my way to Jerusalem.
853
01:46:04,149 --> 01:46:06,233
Would your caravan rest until tomorrow?
854
01:46:06,485 --> 01:46:08,569
We have time enough
to eat, drink and talk.
855
01:46:08,779 --> 01:46:10,946
Come into my tent
and refresh yourself.
856
01:46:11,156 --> 01:46:14,533
And let me hear how you raced in Rome.
857
01:46:16,411 --> 01:46:20,373
If I had a voice to sing,
I would sing you the psalm of horses.
858
01:46:20,582 --> 01:46:23,250
No other animal has
descended so in scale...
859
01:46:23,460 --> 01:46:26,045
...from the first innocent falling
of the world.
860
01:46:26,213 --> 01:46:27,254
[SHEIK CHUCKLES]
861
01:46:27,422 --> 01:46:30,841
And tomorrow, I shall put Antares
on the inside.
862
01:46:31,051 --> 01:46:34,512
When you do, shorten the yoke.
It will help them in the turns.
863
01:46:35,013 --> 01:46:37,014
Judah Ben-Hur.
864
01:46:37,224 --> 01:46:40,059
You're a Jew,
yet you drove in the great circus.
865
01:46:40,268 --> 01:46:41,435
Yes.
866
01:46:43,021 --> 01:46:47,024
By a strange choice
and a stranger fortune.
867
01:46:47,859 --> 01:46:50,486
Your coming here was so fit, so right.
868
01:46:50,695 --> 01:46:53,280
We might have achieved wonders.
869
01:46:53,490 --> 01:46:55,324
You have to go.
870
01:46:59,746 --> 01:47:01,789
I make a journey which will not wait.
871
01:47:01,998 --> 01:47:04,333
Well, then perhaps
you will come back.
872
01:47:04,543 --> 01:47:06,961
And when you do,
bring your friends, your wives.
873
01:47:07,170 --> 01:47:08,879
I have no wives.
874
01:47:09,131 --> 01:47:11,048
No wives at all?
875
01:47:11,383 --> 01:47:13,676
I have six, no, seven.
876
01:47:13,885 --> 01:47:15,553
BALTHASAR:
Ha, ha. I've counted eight.
877
01:47:15,846 --> 01:47:19,056
And that is because he is traveling.
At home, he has more.
878
01:47:19,266 --> 01:47:22,643
Believe me, it is a great advantage
to have many wives.
879
01:47:22,853 --> 01:47:25,271
- Someday, I hope to have one.
- One wife!
880
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:30,151
Ha, ha, one God, that I can understand.
But one wife, that is not civilized.
881
01:47:30,485 --> 01:47:31,861
It is not generous.
882
01:47:32,028 --> 01:47:33,529
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
883
01:47:33,989 --> 01:47:35,239
[BURPS]
884
01:47:37,701 --> 01:47:41,454
- Was the food not to your liking?
- Indeed.
885
01:47:51,673 --> 01:47:52,798
[BURPS]
886
01:47:53,425 --> 01:47:55,342
Thank you. Thank you.
887
01:47:55,552 --> 01:48:00,222
And take my advice, my friend.
Buy yourself some wives.
888
01:48:01,433 --> 01:48:05,019
And now I must say good night
to my beauties.
889
01:48:05,687 --> 01:48:08,481
When they're ready for sleep,
they get impatient and jealous.
890
01:48:08,690 --> 01:48:11,525
They wait to see which one
I will embrace first.
891
01:48:12,068 --> 01:48:14,403
- I'll make my farewells then.
- No, no, no, stay.
892
01:48:14,613 --> 01:48:16,572
Stay and see them.
893
01:48:30,462 --> 01:48:33,380
Come, my children. Come.
894
01:48:39,471 --> 01:48:41,138
Strangers make them shy.
895
01:48:42,307 --> 01:48:43,390
Come.
896
01:48:43,850 --> 01:48:46,685
Come, do not be afraid. Come.
897
01:48:52,484 --> 01:48:54,527
There, my children.
898
01:48:54,861 --> 01:48:57,696
They are descended from
the Arabians of the first Pharaohs...
899
01:48:57,906 --> 01:49:00,241
...and I have named them
for the stars.
900
01:49:01,952 --> 01:49:03,536
Come, Antares.
901
01:49:03,787 --> 01:49:06,413
You are the slowest, and you can
run all day without tiring.
902
01:49:06,581 --> 01:49:07,623
[ANTARES WHINNIES]
903
01:49:07,791 --> 01:49:10,084
What? Yes, yes.
904
01:49:10,293 --> 01:49:14,088
Yes, I love you too.
There's my good Antares.
905
01:49:14,339 --> 01:49:15,548
Come, Rigel.
906
01:49:15,757 --> 01:49:18,634
We've both supped well,
and the world is good.
907
01:49:18,802 --> 01:49:19,843
[CHUCKLES]
908
01:49:20,011 --> 01:49:21,053
There's my good Rigel.
909
01:49:21,263 --> 01:49:23,097
Ah.
910
01:49:23,306 --> 01:49:25,641
Yes, you are ready for sleep.
911
01:49:26,935 --> 01:49:29,270
The day's work done for you, eh?
912
01:49:29,437 --> 01:49:33,107
Ah. Yes, well, you can go
to sleep in a minute.
913
01:49:33,358 --> 01:49:35,776
Good night. Good night, my treasure.
914
01:49:36,903 --> 01:49:41,115
Ah! Steady, Aldebaran.
I haven't forgotten you.
915
01:49:41,366 --> 01:49:45,035
No. You are the swiftest,
but you must be steady.
916
01:49:45,203 --> 01:49:46,745
[CHUCKLES]
917
01:49:47,581 --> 01:49:49,957
Never seen finer horses, even in Rome.
918
01:49:50,166 --> 01:49:52,167
You should see their mother, Mira.
919
01:49:52,377 --> 01:49:55,421
I dare not bring her.
My people couldn't bear her absence.
920
01:49:55,630 --> 01:49:57,590
All right, all right.
921
01:50:02,012 --> 01:50:05,764
You are their friend, and they do
not give their affections readily.
922
01:50:06,516 --> 01:50:10,102
Come, Antares, Rigel, it is late.
923
01:50:10,895 --> 01:50:15,149
Altair, Aldebaran, go to sleep.
924
01:50:15,900 --> 01:50:18,402
You must be strong and swift.
925
01:50:18,612 --> 01:50:21,071
Go, my children. Go.
926
01:50:25,452 --> 01:50:28,537
When they reach Jerusalem,
they'll race the world's finest teams...
927
01:50:28,747 --> 01:50:32,541
...not to mention the champion of the East,
Messala, with his black devils.
928
01:50:32,709 --> 01:50:34,376
He stops at nothing to win.
929
01:50:34,628 --> 01:50:37,463
- Messala? In the circus?
- Yes.
930
01:50:37,672 --> 01:50:39,340
You knew him?
931
01:50:40,425 --> 01:50:41,634
I know him.
932
01:50:42,010 --> 01:50:44,219
Perhaps without much liking.
933
01:50:47,766 --> 01:50:50,267
Judah Ben-Hur,
my people are praying for a man...
934
01:50:50,435 --> 01:50:52,311
...to drive their team
to victory over Messala.
935
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:54,647
You could be that man, the one...
936
01:50:54,856 --> 01:50:56,982
...to stamp his arrogance
into the sand.
937
01:50:57,192 --> 01:51:00,319
My horses need only a driver
who is worthy of them...
938
01:51:00,570 --> 01:51:04,198
...one who will rule them with love.
For him, they'd outrace the wind.
939
01:51:04,407 --> 01:51:06,158
It's not possible.
940
01:51:07,452 --> 01:51:09,078
That is a pity.
941
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:12,122
Think of it. To break his pride...
942
01:51:12,332 --> 01:51:15,834
...to humble this tribune before
the very people he has degraded.
943
01:51:16,044 --> 01:51:20,589
Just think, his defeat and humiliation
at the hands of a Jew!
944
01:51:21,216 --> 01:51:23,384
I know it is not possible.
945
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:26,512
Does it not delight your imagination?
946
01:51:27,972 --> 01:51:30,307
Does it not answer your purpose?
947
01:51:31,351 --> 01:51:33,560
I must deal with Messala
in my own way.
948
01:51:34,229 --> 01:51:36,397
And your way is to kill him.
949
01:51:40,193 --> 01:51:43,070
I see this terrible thing
in your eyes, Judah Ben-Hur.
950
01:51:43,446 --> 01:51:47,658
But no matter what this man has done,
you have no right to take his life.
951
01:51:48,076 --> 01:51:50,452
He will be punished inevitably.
952
01:51:51,538 --> 01:51:53,163
I don't believe in miracles.
953
01:51:54,207 --> 01:51:56,125
But all life is a miracle.
954
01:51:56,334 --> 01:51:58,669
Why will you not
accept God's judgment?
955
01:52:01,548 --> 01:52:03,465
You do not believe in miracles.
956
01:52:04,342 --> 01:52:07,386
Yet God once spoke to me
out of the darkness...
957
01:52:07,595 --> 01:52:10,264
...and a star led me
to a village called Bethlehem...
958
01:52:10,473 --> 01:52:13,559
...where I found a newborn child
in a manger.
959
01:52:13,768 --> 01:52:15,644
And God lived in this child.
960
01:52:16,771 --> 01:52:20,649
By now, he is a grown man
and must be ready to begin his work.
961
01:52:20,900 --> 01:52:22,568
That is why I have returned here...
962
01:52:22,777 --> 01:52:25,571
...so that I may be at hand
when he comes among us.
963
01:52:27,782 --> 01:52:29,366
He is near.
964
01:52:30,368 --> 01:52:33,996
He saw the sun set this evening,
as we did.
965
01:52:34,539 --> 01:52:38,459
Perhaps he's standing in a doorway
somewhere or on a hilltop.
966
01:52:39,127 --> 01:52:41,295
Perhaps he is a shepherd...
967
01:52:41,504 --> 01:52:44,381
...a merchant, a fisherman.
968
01:52:44,883 --> 01:52:46,592
But he lives...
969
01:52:46,801 --> 01:52:51,138
...and all our lives from now on
will carry his mark.
970
01:52:53,308 --> 01:52:56,059
There are many paths to God, my son.
971
01:52:57,187 --> 01:52:59,438
I hope yours will not
be too difficult.
972
01:53:10,283 --> 01:53:12,117
I'm ready for sleep.
973
01:53:26,549 --> 01:53:28,967
Balthasar is a good man...
974
01:53:29,177 --> 01:53:33,430
...but until all men are like him,
we must keep our swords bright.
975
01:53:33,723 --> 01:53:35,808
And our intention true.
976
01:53:36,976 --> 01:53:38,727
So I must leave you.
977
01:53:40,939 --> 01:53:42,815
One last thought.
978
01:53:43,024 --> 01:53:45,734
There is no law in the arena.
979
01:53:46,611 --> 01:53:48,445
Many are killed.
980
01:53:51,950 --> 01:53:53,992
I hope to see you again.
981
01:54:08,508 --> 01:54:10,884
MERCHANT:
Fine Damascus silk.
982
01:54:11,177 --> 01:54:13,512
Fine Damascus silk.
983
01:55:43,394 --> 01:55:44,770
[DOOR CLOSES]
984
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:21,682
Esther?
985
01:56:21,849 --> 01:56:23,392
[ESTHER GASPS]
986
01:56:33,569 --> 01:56:35,320
It's Judah.
987
01:56:38,241 --> 01:56:39,616
[GASPS]
988
01:56:39,784 --> 01:56:41,410
Judah.
989
01:56:43,579 --> 01:56:45,497
- You are alive.
- Esther.
990
01:56:46,541 --> 01:56:48,792
You are alive.
991
01:56:50,545 --> 01:56:53,880
What are you doing here?
What has happened?
992
01:56:54,048 --> 01:56:55,757
[ESTHER SOBBING]
993
01:57:00,471 --> 01:57:02,222
Shh.
994
01:57:03,933 --> 01:57:05,267
I'm here.
995
01:57:07,228 --> 01:57:08,395
I'm with you.
996
01:57:10,148 --> 01:57:11,231
Esther.
997
01:57:14,902 --> 01:57:16,570
Where's your father?
998
01:57:17,113 --> 01:57:18,530
Hmm?
999
01:57:21,576 --> 01:57:25,412
The day they took you away,
they imprisoned him.
1000
01:57:25,872 --> 01:57:27,664
They tortured him.
1001
01:57:28,124 --> 01:57:32,669
When they were sure he was hiding
nothing, they let him go.
1002
01:57:34,130 --> 01:57:38,884
Ever since then, we have been
living here, in hiding.
1003
01:57:39,510 --> 01:57:41,720
You never went back to Antioch?
1004
01:57:42,096 --> 01:57:43,263
No.
1005
01:57:43,514 --> 01:57:47,934
The Romans took everything.
There was nothing left for us there.
1006
01:57:49,604 --> 01:57:54,274
Esther.
1007
01:57:54,484 --> 01:57:56,443
Where are my mother and sister?
1008
01:58:03,451 --> 01:58:04,493
SIMONIDES:
Esther.
1009
01:58:06,079 --> 01:58:08,121
Let me tell him first.
1010
01:58:26,641 --> 01:58:27,849
Father.
1011
01:58:29,102 --> 01:58:31,812
Father, something wonderful
has happened.
1012
01:58:33,147 --> 01:58:35,232
- Judah Ben-Hur is alive.
- Judah.
1013
01:58:36,651 --> 01:58:39,986
He has come home. He is here.
1014
01:58:57,672 --> 01:58:59,005
Judah.
1015
01:59:00,842 --> 01:59:03,176
Judah Ben-Hur.
1016
01:59:05,847 --> 01:59:08,014
My dear old friend.
1017
01:59:10,017 --> 01:59:11,977
Let me look at you.
1018
01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:14,062
Let me see you.
1019
01:59:15,481 --> 01:59:18,441
Yes, yes. It is true.
1020
01:59:19,193 --> 01:59:22,779
Praise God for his mercy.
1021
01:59:44,343 --> 01:59:45,719
Where are they?
1022
01:59:46,929 --> 01:59:50,140
Since that terrible day...
1023
01:59:51,058 --> 01:59:53,602
...there has been no word of them.
1024
02:00:09,452 --> 02:00:11,453
You should have been less loyal.
1025
02:00:11,662 --> 02:00:13,663
Do not pity me, Master Judah.
1026
02:00:13,873 --> 02:00:16,917
In fact, I'm twice the man I was.
1027
02:00:18,461 --> 02:00:22,589
There is Malluch, my other half.
We met in the dungeons of the citadel.
1028
02:00:22,798 --> 02:00:24,883
We were released on the same day.
1029
02:00:25,092 --> 02:00:29,930
Malluch without a tongue,
and I without life in my legs.
1030
02:00:30,139 --> 02:00:32,557
Since then, I have been his tongue...
1031
02:00:32,767 --> 02:00:34,434
...and he has been my legs.
1032
02:00:34,644 --> 02:00:37,854
Together, we make a considerable man.
1033
02:00:39,774 --> 02:00:41,399
Old friend.
1034
02:00:42,860 --> 02:00:45,654
She always said you would return.
1035
02:00:45,863 --> 02:00:48,198
She never gave up hope.
1036
02:00:50,284 --> 02:00:52,869
Though I hoped it,
I didn't believe it.
1037
02:00:54,163 --> 02:00:57,999
I see that your one thought is
to save your mother and sister.
1038
02:00:59,335 --> 02:01:01,628
But suppose that isn't possible.
1039
02:01:01,837 --> 02:01:04,422
If one purpose fails,
it is good to have another.
1040
02:01:05,341 --> 02:01:07,467
Much of your fortune is safe, Judah.
1041
02:01:07,677 --> 02:01:10,595
They could not make me
tell them where it is.
1042
02:01:10,805 --> 02:01:11,930
It is there still...
1043
02:01:12,139 --> 02:01:15,558
...to put power into our hands
and buy death for the Romans.
1044
02:01:18,854 --> 02:01:21,189
That's not why I came back.
1045
02:01:21,440 --> 02:01:24,359
Judah, they are dead.
1046
02:01:24,777 --> 02:01:29,447
Four years. No one could live
so long in the dungeons.
1047
02:01:34,203 --> 02:01:37,122
Who lives more than one year
in the galleys?
1048
02:01:37,832 --> 02:01:40,041
SIMONIDES:
Yes, it is true.
1049
02:01:42,378 --> 02:01:45,213
Judah Ben-Hur.
1050
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:51,636
You have come back to us
like a returning faith.
1051
02:01:51,846 --> 02:01:54,973
Judah, I should like to laugh again.
1052
02:01:55,182 --> 02:01:56,516
- Let us laugh.
- We will.
1053
02:01:56,726 --> 02:01:58,601
There will be joy again
in this house.
1054
02:01:58,811 --> 02:02:01,062
We will celebrate among the dust.
1055
02:02:01,230 --> 02:02:02,564
[SOBBING]
1056
02:02:14,744 --> 02:02:16,202
I will take him.
1057
02:02:47,777 --> 02:02:49,736
We stood here before.
1058
02:02:52,990 --> 02:02:55,033
A long while ago.
1059
02:02:56,160 --> 02:02:57,577
Four years.
1060
02:03:01,457 --> 02:03:03,249
But now it seems as if...
1061
02:03:03,876 --> 02:03:05,794
...only yesterday...
1062
02:03:07,713 --> 02:03:09,214
I was saying:
1063
02:03:11,467 --> 02:03:15,220
"If you were not a bride,
I should kiss you goodbye."
1064
02:03:17,264 --> 02:03:19,391
"If I were not a bride...
1065
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:22,394
...there would be
no goodbyes to be said."
1066
02:03:33,114 --> 02:03:34,948
I am not a bride.
1067
02:04:06,897 --> 02:04:09,149
Why did you never marry?
1068
02:04:11,318 --> 02:04:13,111
My father needed me.
1069
02:04:17,867 --> 02:04:19,242
And also...
1070
02:04:28,169 --> 02:04:30,170
It's still on my finger.
1071
02:04:32,506 --> 02:04:37,260
I said I should wear it
till I met a woman I would marry.
1072
02:04:44,185 --> 02:04:46,853
It's become a part of my hand.
1073
02:04:55,654 --> 02:04:58,698
If Messala once knew you were here...
1074
02:04:59,158 --> 02:05:00,575
As he must.
1075
02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:03,119
He will know where they are.
1076
02:05:11,170 --> 02:05:12,921
And if you should find?
1077
02:05:15,674 --> 02:05:19,385
- If he should tell you they're dead...
- Then Messala will wish they were living.
1078
02:05:24,934 --> 02:05:28,186
I've seen too much
of what hate can do.
1079
02:05:28,771 --> 02:05:30,980
My father is burned up with it.
1080
02:05:33,067 --> 02:05:37,695
But I've heard of a young rabbi who
says that forgiveness is greater...
1081
02:05:37,905 --> 02:05:40,740
...and love more powerful than hatred.
1082
02:05:41,867 --> 02:05:43,368
I believe it.
1083
02:05:43,994 --> 02:05:45,912
- Esther.
- Judah.
1084
02:05:46,455 --> 02:05:48,122
Stay alive.
1085
02:05:48,707 --> 02:05:50,667
Keep away from Messala.
1086
02:05:50,918 --> 02:05:53,753
Only if I can give up
thinking and feeling.
1087
02:05:55,881 --> 02:05:57,882
That time isn't yet come.
1088
02:05:58,092 --> 02:06:02,595
The stone that fell from this roof
so long ago is still falling.
1089
02:06:03,097 --> 02:06:05,807
Only this time you won't be sent
to the galleys.
1090
02:06:06,016 --> 02:06:08,226
This time you will be destroyed.
1091
02:06:08,435 --> 02:06:09,978
You'll die.
1092
02:06:53,814 --> 02:06:57,358
Tribune, compliments of Quintus
Arrius. He awaits your pleasure.
1093
02:06:57,568 --> 02:07:00,236
- Consul here?
- Quintus Arrius, the younger tribune.
1094
02:07:00,446 --> 02:07:02,530
Thank him. Bring him to me.
1095
02:07:03,365 --> 02:07:08,661
- I didn't know the consul had a son.
- He's a champion of the great circus.
1096
02:07:09,371 --> 02:07:11,414
Why is he here presenting me with gifts?
1097
02:07:11,582 --> 02:07:14,959
- Perhaps he'll race against you.
- Look.
1098
02:07:16,879 --> 02:07:18,588
It's magnificent.
1099
02:07:18,797 --> 02:07:20,715
And from a man I've never met.
1100
02:07:20,924 --> 02:07:22,967
You're wrong, Messala.
1101
02:07:36,774 --> 02:07:38,024
Judah.
1102
02:07:47,534 --> 02:07:50,536
By what magic do you bear
the name of a consul of Rome?
1103
02:07:51,872 --> 02:07:54,165
You were the magician, Messala.
1104
02:07:54,375 --> 02:07:56,668
You condemned me to the galleys.
1105
02:07:57,419 --> 02:08:00,213
When my ship was sunk,
I saved the consul's life.
1106
02:08:12,434 --> 02:08:14,060
You know his seal?
1107
02:08:26,073 --> 02:08:27,990
Now I have come back...
1108
02:08:28,283 --> 02:08:30,660
...as I swore I would.
1109
02:08:36,166 --> 02:08:40,378
Your gift is exquisitely
appropriate, young Arrius.
1110
02:08:41,422 --> 02:08:44,132
You suggest I use it on myself?
1111
02:08:45,634 --> 02:08:49,512
What has become of
my mother and my sister?
1112
02:08:53,267 --> 02:08:56,310
It is not my duty
to keep track of prisoners.
1113
02:08:56,979 --> 02:08:58,312
Find them, Messala.
1114
02:08:59,815 --> 02:09:02,358
Restore them to me,
and I'll forget what I vowed...
1115
02:09:02,568 --> 02:09:06,112
...with every stroke of that oar
you chained me to.
1116
02:09:09,700 --> 02:09:12,785
I am not the governor of Judea.
I can do nothing without approval.
1117
02:09:12,995 --> 02:09:14,162
Then get it.
1118
02:09:18,959 --> 02:09:21,169
I will come back tomorrow.
1119
02:09:22,087 --> 02:09:24,881
Don't disappoint me, Messala.
1120
02:09:39,772 --> 02:09:41,439
What became of them?
1121
02:09:41,732 --> 02:09:45,276
It's been almost five years.
Do you suppose they're still alive?
1122
02:09:45,486 --> 02:09:48,112
Go to the citadel, Drusus. Find out.
1123
02:09:48,322 --> 02:09:50,531
- And if they're dead?
- They're dead!
1124
02:10:05,506 --> 02:10:08,591
"Miriam, wife. Tirzah, daughter."
1125
02:10:08,801 --> 02:10:11,344
Yes, they are the ones.
Are they alive?
1126
02:10:11,804 --> 02:10:13,179
East section...
1127
02:10:14,473 --> 02:10:15,973
...lower level.
1128
02:10:17,100 --> 02:10:20,353
Cell two.
Jailer on that level will know.
1129
02:10:38,038 --> 02:10:39,205
PRISONER 1:
Water.
1130
02:10:39,748 --> 02:10:40,873
Water.
1131
02:10:41,500 --> 02:10:42,792
PRISONER 2:
Let me out!
1132
02:10:43,669 --> 02:10:45,336
PRISONER 3:
Hear us! Hear us!
1133
02:10:47,339 --> 02:10:48,714
[POUNDING]
1134
02:11:18,412 --> 02:11:21,289
- How long since you've seen them?
- Never.
1135
02:11:21,540 --> 02:11:25,585
And I've been here three years.
But they're alive all right.
1136
02:11:28,839 --> 02:11:30,548
The food disappears.
1137
02:12:05,000 --> 02:12:06,375
Lepers.
1138
02:12:35,656 --> 02:12:38,532
They must be taken outside the city
and released at once.
1139
02:12:38,784 --> 02:12:40,409
Then we'll burn out the cell.
1140
02:13:14,319 --> 02:13:15,403
[COUGHING]
1141
02:13:27,332 --> 02:13:28,874
ESTHER:
Is someone there?
1142
02:13:33,005 --> 02:13:34,171
[RUSTLING]
1143
02:13:34,506 --> 02:13:36,632
There is someone there.
1144
02:13:49,980 --> 02:13:51,272
Who are you?
1145
02:13:54,359 --> 02:13:56,152
MIRIAM:
Don't come any closer.
1146
02:13:59,448 --> 02:14:00,489
Who are you?
1147
02:14:03,827 --> 02:14:04,869
Esther.
1148
02:14:06,872 --> 02:14:08,205
It's Miriam.
1149
02:14:08,790 --> 02:14:09,874
Miriam.
1150
02:14:12,210 --> 02:14:13,502
Miriam?
1151
02:14:16,173 --> 02:14:18,340
MIRIAM:
Stay where you are.
1152
02:14:20,552 --> 02:14:22,428
You have come home.
1153
02:14:24,181 --> 02:14:26,307
MIRIAM:
Stand back, Esther.
1154
02:14:34,941 --> 02:14:36,400
We are lepers.
1155
02:14:42,199 --> 02:14:43,783
[GASPS]
1156
02:14:49,998 --> 02:14:51,624
Oh, Esther.
1157
02:14:53,543 --> 02:14:54,835
Tirzah.
1158
02:15:03,595 --> 02:15:05,054
Esther...
1159
02:15:06,848 --> 02:15:09,141
...is Judah living?
1160
02:15:09,935 --> 02:15:12,770
Yes, he is alive.
1161
02:15:13,563 --> 02:15:15,272
He is here.
1162
02:15:18,318 --> 02:15:19,819
Where?
1163
02:15:21,071 --> 02:15:24,490
He is searching for you now.
1164
02:15:24,866 --> 02:15:27,743
I must find him and tell him.
1165
02:15:27,953 --> 02:15:29,161
MIRIAM: No!
- Tell my father.
1166
02:15:29,371 --> 02:15:30,538
MIRIAM:
No.
1167
02:15:31,498 --> 02:15:33,207
Tell no one.
1168
02:15:35,919 --> 02:15:39,380
We are going away
to the Valley of the Lepers.
1169
02:15:39,798 --> 02:15:41,382
We won't return.
1170
02:15:42,968 --> 02:15:44,385
But...
1171
02:15:44,553 --> 02:15:46,679
...Judah has to be told.
1172
02:15:47,097 --> 02:15:48,139
MIRIAM:
No.
1173
02:15:51,184 --> 02:15:52,309
Please.
1174
02:16:11,621 --> 02:16:14,081
I couldn't see his face.
1175
02:16:15,917 --> 02:16:17,501
Is it changed?
1176
02:16:20,422 --> 02:16:23,507
No, he is not changed.
1177
02:16:24,467 --> 02:16:25,509
He...
1178
02:16:29,181 --> 02:16:30,973
He's not changed.
1179
02:16:33,310 --> 02:16:35,436
You love him, Esther.
1180
02:16:46,531 --> 02:16:48,240
Promise me...
1181
02:16:48,867 --> 02:16:50,951
...on your love for him...
1182
02:16:52,204 --> 02:16:54,872
...you will never tell him
you've seen us.
1183
02:17:03,965 --> 02:17:05,966
Is he never to know?
1184
02:17:09,971 --> 02:17:12,514
Let him remember us as we were.
1185
02:17:14,100 --> 02:17:15,309
Promise me.
1186
02:17:25,987 --> 02:17:29,281
There's nothing else I can hope for.
1187
02:17:30,325 --> 02:17:31,992
Only this.
1188
02:17:39,125 --> 02:17:40,834
I promise you.
1189
02:17:44,923 --> 02:17:46,674
I am content.
1190
02:18:06,069 --> 02:18:07,278
Wait.
1191
02:18:27,549 --> 02:18:29,133
[CRIES]
1192
02:18:53,366 --> 02:18:55,492
Messala will find out.
I am sure of that.
1193
02:18:55,702 --> 02:18:59,788
I pray to God they're alive
and that Messala will free them.
1194
02:18:59,998 --> 02:19:01,874
He'll free them.
1195
02:19:02,083 --> 02:19:04,209
He wants to survive.
1196
02:19:05,712 --> 02:19:07,504
He cannot free them, Judah.
1197
02:19:11,343 --> 02:19:12,384
What do you mean?
1198
02:19:21,519 --> 02:19:24,646
- I saw them.
- You saw them?
1199
02:19:24,856 --> 02:19:26,023
Where?
1200
02:19:26,232 --> 02:19:27,900
When did you see them?
1201
02:19:33,531 --> 02:19:39,244
They were dead.
1202
02:19:41,331 --> 02:19:42,373
When?
1203
02:19:44,042 --> 02:19:46,418
When? When?
1204
02:19:48,755 --> 02:19:50,172
In the prison.
1205
02:19:52,384 --> 02:19:55,260
When I was waiting
for news of my father.
1206
02:19:59,891 --> 02:20:01,683
Why didn't you tell me?
1207
02:20:07,399 --> 02:20:08,816
I couldn't tell you.
1208
02:20:10,068 --> 02:20:11,819
Nor even you, Father.
1209
02:20:13,488 --> 02:20:15,906
I was afraid that
if you saw Messala...
1210
02:20:16,699 --> 02:20:19,952
Judah, you have come
to the end of your search.
1211
02:20:20,161 --> 02:20:21,537
It's over now.
1212
02:20:22,038 --> 02:20:23,247
Over?
1213
02:20:24,165 --> 02:20:25,749
- Judah.
- Over?
1214
02:20:26,000 --> 02:20:30,254
Judah, forget, forget, forget Messala.
Go back to Rome.
1215
02:20:55,864 --> 02:20:57,865
[SOBBING]
1216
02:25:46,571 --> 02:25:48,613
[MURMURING]
1217
02:25:56,122 --> 02:25:57,956
[MEN CHUCKLING]
1218
02:26:11,137 --> 02:26:13,472
SHEIK:
Gentlemen. Officers.
1219
02:26:15,475 --> 02:26:18,226
Defenders of great Rome's imperium...
1220
02:26:19,061 --> 02:26:20,729
...may I enter?
1221
02:26:21,397 --> 02:26:22,898
Certainly, sheik.
1222
02:26:23,316 --> 02:26:25,317
You do us an unexpected honor.
1223
02:26:26,444 --> 02:26:28,820
The noble tribune is most gracious.
1224
02:26:38,331 --> 02:26:41,416
And now,
the question you're all asking yourselves:
1225
02:26:41,667 --> 02:26:43,293
Why am I here?
1226
02:26:43,753 --> 02:26:45,712
As you know, I am a gambling man.
1227
02:26:45,922 --> 02:26:47,214
The games approach.
1228
02:26:47,423 --> 02:26:51,801
I am racing my whites against the
noble tribune's undefeated blacks.
1229
02:26:51,969 --> 02:26:54,888
But I will back my own poor horses.
1230
02:26:55,097 --> 02:26:56,598
No limits?
1231
02:27:13,699 --> 02:27:15,242
MARIUS: Mark me first!
- And me!
1232
02:27:15,451 --> 02:27:17,035
MATELLUS: What odds?
- A moment, please...
1233
02:27:17,203 --> 02:27:20,205
...my lords, protectors
of the far flung marshes.
1234
02:27:20,456 --> 02:27:21,873
May I first, uh, sit down?
1235
02:27:22,083 --> 02:27:24,125
MARIUS: Sit down. Lie down.
How much will you wager?
1236
02:27:24,293 --> 02:27:26,962
- Yes, let's call his game.
SPINTHO: Give the Arab a seat.
1237
02:27:27,213 --> 02:27:29,089
A bench, quickly.
1238
02:27:30,132 --> 02:27:31,466
Thank you.
1239
02:27:34,845 --> 02:27:36,972
- Now.
- One thousand denarii.
1240
02:27:37,223 --> 02:27:39,724
- Two thousand!
- Mark me!
1241
02:27:39,892 --> 02:27:41,977
Your spirit does you credit,
but do not be impatient.
1242
02:27:42,144 --> 02:27:44,729
There is time and money enough for all.
1243
02:27:45,106 --> 02:27:48,233
First, gentlemen, the odds.
1244
02:27:48,734 --> 02:27:52,237
The tribune has won many times. The
odds should be in the same measure.
1245
02:27:52,405 --> 02:27:55,490
Now, what is your pleasure, gentlemen?
1246
02:27:56,617 --> 02:27:57,909
MARIUS:
Two to one.
1247
02:27:58,077 --> 02:27:59,619
[SHEIK CHUCKLES]
1248
02:27:59,787 --> 02:28:03,873
Noble Romans, men of the Tiber,
masters of the Earth...
1249
02:28:04,083 --> 02:28:07,752
...where is the courage
that made Rome master of the world?
1250
02:28:07,920 --> 02:28:10,630
I can get better odds
on any street market.
1251
02:28:11,465 --> 02:28:12,882
MARIUS:
Three to one.
1252
02:28:13,384 --> 02:28:15,635
Let us not haggle. Let us be fair.
1253
02:28:15,886 --> 02:28:19,264
In four years, the tribune has won
four victories in the circus.
1254
02:28:19,432 --> 02:28:21,683
- In all truth...
- Just a moment.
1255
02:28:22,768 --> 02:28:25,895
We know you have good horses,
but who is your driver?
1256
02:28:26,522 --> 02:28:28,273
Oh.
1257
02:28:28,482 --> 02:28:31,985
Did I not tell you?
How careless of me.
1258
02:28:32,194 --> 02:28:34,195
The Prince of Hur.
1259
02:28:35,906 --> 02:28:38,450
Judah Ben-Hur.
1260
02:28:38,701 --> 02:28:39,951
Prince of Hur?
1261
02:28:40,119 --> 02:28:41,161
[CHUCKLES]
1262
02:28:41,329 --> 02:28:44,289
- He was sent to the galleys years ago.
- He has returned.
1263
02:28:44,498 --> 02:28:46,708
Returned? Impossible.
1264
02:28:46,917 --> 02:28:50,420
The divine Tiberius is merciful
as always.
1265
02:28:53,132 --> 02:28:54,132
Well?
1266
02:28:54,425 --> 02:28:58,720
Will no one back the noble tribune
against a Jew, a galley slave?
1267
02:29:02,224 --> 02:29:04,559
Perhaps I made a mistake
in coming here.
1268
02:29:08,481 --> 02:29:09,981
You, tribune...
1269
02:29:10,316 --> 02:29:12,317
...will you give me four to one?
1270
02:29:16,572 --> 02:29:17,906
Four to one.
1271
02:29:18,157 --> 02:29:19,699
- Good.
- Bravo, Messala.
1272
02:29:19,867 --> 02:29:24,704
Four to one, sheik. The difference
between a Roman and a Jew.
1273
02:29:24,914 --> 02:29:26,498
Or an Arab.
1274
02:29:26,999 --> 02:29:28,667
[ROMANS LAUGH]
1275
02:29:30,586 --> 02:29:32,170
[CHUCKLES]
1276
02:29:32,338 --> 02:29:34,005
Bravely spoken.
1277
02:29:36,092 --> 02:29:40,470
Now we will settle the amount
of our wager. I will venture...
1278
02:29:51,357 --> 02:29:53,274
A thousand talents?
1279
02:29:54,902 --> 02:29:58,988
- A thousand talents?
- Yes, a thousand talents.
1280
02:30:04,787 --> 02:30:06,705
Of course, if it is too much...
1281
02:30:08,207 --> 02:30:10,291
A thousand talents it will be.
1282
02:30:10,710 --> 02:30:11,918
Agreed.
1283
02:30:36,902 --> 02:30:38,570
[MURMURING]
1284
02:30:59,133 --> 02:31:01,718
Treat them well.
They've earned it today.
1285
02:31:13,355 --> 02:31:14,939
You're good fellows.
1286
02:31:15,274 --> 02:31:17,776
If only men were this good.
Hey!
1287
02:31:19,653 --> 02:31:20,945
Remember, Altair...
1288
02:31:21,113 --> 02:31:23,782
...nine times around the circus, huh?
1289
02:31:26,160 --> 02:31:27,452
Aldebaran.
1290
02:31:29,538 --> 02:31:30,955
Hey, ha, ha.
1291
02:31:31,373 --> 02:31:33,500
Rigel, did you hear?
1292
02:31:33,709 --> 02:31:35,627
Nine lives to live.
1293
02:31:37,463 --> 02:31:39,464
My swift fellow.
1294
02:31:40,216 --> 02:31:43,676
You must not win the race
the first time around.
1295
02:31:44,345 --> 02:31:46,721
You win the last time around.
1296
02:31:48,057 --> 02:31:52,227
And you cannot win alone.
You must wait for the others.
1297
02:31:55,356 --> 02:31:57,690
Steady Antares.
1298
02:31:57,983 --> 02:31:59,484
Like a rock.
1299
02:32:00,986 --> 02:32:02,779
You will be our anchor.
1300
02:32:10,329 --> 02:32:13,039
I thought they'd never love
another as they love me.
1301
02:32:13,249 --> 02:32:15,625
They have taken me into their family.
1302
02:32:16,627 --> 02:32:18,503
Rest well, my stars.
1303
02:32:18,754 --> 02:32:20,797
Tomorrow we go up to the city.
1304
02:32:21,674 --> 02:32:25,802
Then if you defeat Messala and
the new governor there to see it...
1305
02:32:26,053 --> 02:32:28,930
...the news will scorch the streets
of the whole Roman world.
1306
02:32:29,181 --> 02:32:30,223
Pontius Pilate here?
1307
02:32:30,432 --> 02:32:32,433
Yes, and ready to grind
his heel into us.
1308
02:32:32,643 --> 02:32:36,020
You will make him see
what men are born in this land.
1309
02:32:36,605 --> 02:32:40,024
I only know that
I race against Messala.
1310
02:32:56,250 --> 02:32:57,709
ATTENDANT:
Look for the yoke.
1311
02:33:00,045 --> 02:33:01,546
Ease that strap.
1312
02:33:42,588 --> 02:33:47,342
BEN-HUR: God forgive me for seeking
vengeance, but my path is set.
1313
02:33:47,593 --> 02:33:52,013
Into your hands I commit my life.
Do with me as you will.
1314
02:34:07,446 --> 02:34:09,238
The Star of David.
1315
02:34:09,448 --> 02:34:12,617
To shine out for your people
and my people together...
1316
02:34:12,785 --> 02:34:14,911
...and blind the eyes of Rome.
1317
02:34:15,079 --> 02:34:17,080
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
1318
02:34:17,831 --> 02:34:19,707
They are ready.
1319
02:34:42,439 --> 02:34:44,691
ATTENDANT:
Ready, off!
1320
02:34:47,236 --> 02:34:49,237
MAN:
Easy, girl, easy.
1321
02:35:28,861 --> 02:35:30,570
STARTER:
Number five.
1322
02:35:31,613 --> 02:35:33,781
Where is number five?
1323
02:35:56,138 --> 02:35:57,472
Whoa.
1324
02:36:04,563 --> 02:36:08,483
This is the day, Judah.
It's between us now.
1325
02:36:08,817 --> 02:36:12,153
Yes, this is the day.
1326
02:36:12,905 --> 02:36:13,946
SHEIK:
Judah!
1327
02:36:15,365 --> 02:36:18,409
Look, he's driving a Greek chariot.
1328
02:36:34,843 --> 02:36:38,429
Judah, be careful.
Don't let him near you.
1329
02:36:39,640 --> 02:36:41,432
[TRUMPETS PLAYING]
1330
02:36:50,067 --> 02:36:53,486
Hail, Jupiter. Give me victory.
1331
02:37:05,290 --> 02:37:07,792
[BRASS BAND PLAYING]
1332
02:37:13,048 --> 02:37:14,298
[CROWD CHEERING]
1333
02:40:33,749 --> 02:40:36,500
ATTENDANT:
Watch your line! Keep your places!
1334
02:41:00,734 --> 02:41:03,402
MAN: The formation is good.
A beautiful line.
1335
02:41:24,966 --> 02:41:26,258
Citizens...
1336
02:41:27,177 --> 02:41:31,889
...I welcome you to these games
in the name of your emperor, Tiberius.
1337
02:41:32,557 --> 02:41:35,142
We dedicate them to his glory...
1338
02:41:35,352 --> 02:41:37,895
...and to the glory of Rome...
1339
02:41:38,105 --> 02:41:40,773
...of which you are all part.
1340
02:41:44,069 --> 02:41:47,279
Let us honor those
who race for us today.
1341
02:41:47,781 --> 02:41:50,324
They come here from Alexandria...
1342
02:41:50,575 --> 02:41:51,742
...Messina...
1343
02:41:51,993 --> 02:41:53,327
...Carthage...
1344
02:41:53,578 --> 02:41:54,787
...Cyprus...
1345
02:41:54,996 --> 02:41:56,163
...Rome...
1346
02:41:56,498 --> 02:41:57,623
...Corinth...
1347
02:41:57,916 --> 02:41:59,250
...Athens...
1348
02:41:59,501 --> 02:42:00,709
...Phrygia...
1349
02:42:00,919 --> 02:42:02,670
...and Judea.
1350
02:42:02,838 --> 02:42:04,171
[CROWD ROARS]
1351
02:42:10,846 --> 02:42:14,098
To the best of these,
a crown of victory.
1352
02:42:14,850 --> 02:42:16,976
The race begins.
1353
02:42:17,602 --> 02:42:19,854
Hail, Caesar!
1354
02:42:20,105 --> 02:42:22,106
CROWD:
Hail, Caesar!
1355
02:43:30,550 --> 02:43:32,384
Oh, you dog!
1356
02:46:23,348 --> 02:46:25,432
Come, my children, come!
1357
02:46:42,450 --> 02:46:44,034
The Roman pig!
1358
02:47:21,781 --> 02:48:23,300
Hyah! Hyah!
1359
02:49:11,266 --> 02:49:13,016
Steady! Now, now!
1360
02:52:31,716 --> 02:52:33,842
[BAND PLAYING TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
1361
02:53:16,469 --> 02:53:17,803
OFFICER:
Salute.
1362
02:53:32,443 --> 02:53:34,194
A great victory.
1363
02:53:34,403 --> 02:53:37,030
You are the people's one true god...
1364
02:53:37,281 --> 02:53:38,865
...for the time being.
1365
02:53:39,450 --> 02:53:41,201
Permit us to worship.
1366
02:53:49,127 --> 02:53:51,628
I crown their god.
1367
02:54:11,566 --> 02:54:15,360
I will send for you.
I have a message from Rome.
1368
02:54:16,070 --> 02:54:20,323
A long life, young Arrius,
and the good sense to live it.
1369
02:54:36,340 --> 02:54:38,800
[HEAVY BREATHING]
1370
02:54:45,433 --> 02:54:47,684
We cannot wait, tribune.
1371
02:54:47,935 --> 02:54:50,228
MESSALA:
He will come. He will...
1372
02:54:50,438 --> 02:54:51,730
[COUGHS AND GASPS]
1373
02:54:58,362 --> 02:55:00,447
We cannot wait any longer, tribune.
1374
02:55:00,656 --> 02:55:02,407
He will come!
1375
02:55:05,953 --> 02:55:07,412
He will come.
1376
02:55:08,164 --> 02:55:11,625
I've sent for him, and he will come.
1377
02:55:12,001 --> 02:55:16,213
If you wish us to keep you alive,
we have to go to work now, tribune.
1378
02:55:16,964 --> 02:55:18,298
Do you understand?
1379
02:55:18,507 --> 02:55:20,634
To hack the legs off me?
1380
02:55:20,885 --> 02:55:24,596
Not yet. Not till I've seen him.
1381
02:55:25,181 --> 02:55:27,641
I don't receive him with half a body.
1382
02:55:39,820 --> 02:55:42,739
No. No!
1383
02:55:43,407 --> 02:55:45,408
[MESSALA GRUNTING]
1384
02:55:50,414 --> 02:55:53,458
I told you, Drusus. I told you.
1385
02:55:53,834 --> 02:55:55,460
Here he is.
1386
02:56:29,120 --> 02:56:33,623
Triumph c...
Triumph complete, Judah.
1387
02:56:34,375 --> 02:56:37,460
The race won. The enemy destroyed.
1388
02:56:42,550 --> 02:56:44,634
I see no enemy.
1389
02:56:46,262 --> 02:56:48,096
What do you think you see?
1390
02:56:48,306 --> 02:56:51,224
The smashed body of a wretched animal?
1391
02:56:53,894 --> 02:56:57,647
There's enough of a man
still left here for you to hate.
1392
02:57:02,862 --> 02:57:04,404
Let me help you.
1393
02:57:04,572 --> 02:57:06,448
[GROANS]
1394
02:57:19,211 --> 02:57:22,505
You think they're dead,
your mother and sister.
1395
02:57:23,382 --> 02:57:26,134
Dead. And the race over.
1396
02:57:28,429 --> 02:57:30,764
It isn't over, Judah.
1397
02:57:31,640 --> 02:57:32,807
They're not dead.
1398
02:57:38,522 --> 02:57:58,750
Where are they?
1399
02:58:02,546 --> 02:58:04,255
Look for them...
1400
02:58:04,548 --> 02:58:08,259
...in the Valley of the Lepers...
1401
02:58:10,262 --> 02:58:12,389
...if you can recognize them.
1402
02:58:12,556 --> 02:58:14,974
[BEN-HUR YELLS]
1403
02:58:28,155 --> 02:58:29,823
It goes on.
1404
02:58:31,242 --> 02:58:33,368
It goes on, Judah.
1405
02:58:35,579 --> 02:58:36,955
The race...
1406
02:58:39,333 --> 02:58:43,753
The race is not over.
1407
03:00:34,907 --> 03:00:36,783
Is there a way down here?
1408
03:00:37,117 --> 03:00:40,245
Are you a madman?
Keep well out of this place.
1409
03:01:29,253 --> 03:01:30,420
Man.
1410
03:01:35,384 --> 03:01:39,262
I'm searching for two women,
a mother and daughter.
1411
03:01:41,807 --> 03:01:44,934
MAN:
There... There are many women.
1412
03:01:46,562 --> 03:01:48,938
Of the family of Hur.
1413
03:01:50,858 --> 03:01:53,151
We have no names here.
1414
03:02:52,586 --> 03:02:53,628
For them?
1415
03:02:58,967 --> 03:03:01,886
- Why did you tell me they were dead?
- It was what they wanted.
1416
03:03:02,096 --> 03:03:06,224
You must not betray this faith.
Would you do this for them?
1417
03:03:06,558 --> 03:03:08,267
Not to see them?
1418
03:03:08,560 --> 03:03:09,686
They are coming.
1419
03:03:09,895 --> 03:03:14,607
Love them in the way they must need
to be loved. Not to look at them.
1420
03:03:14,858 --> 03:03:19,362
Let them be as if you had
never come here. Please! Judah!
1421
03:04:31,935 --> 03:04:33,227
Is Judah well?
1422
03:04:34,563 --> 03:04:36,606
Is he happy?
1423
03:04:37,816 --> 03:04:40,818
ESTHER:
Yes, he is well.
1424
03:04:44,072 --> 03:04:46,741
Your mind can be at rest for him.
1425
03:04:47,367 --> 03:04:49,035
He is well, Miriam.
1426
03:04:59,004 --> 03:05:00,505
MIRIAM:
God be with you.
1427
03:05:36,917 --> 03:05:38,334
They have gone.
1428
03:05:45,259 --> 03:05:46,801
We can go back.
1429
03:05:51,306 --> 03:05:54,016
Go back to what?
1430
03:05:56,436 --> 03:05:58,938
Judah, they have one blessing left.
1431
03:05:59,314 --> 03:06:02,567
To think you remember them
as they were...
1432
03:06:03,902 --> 03:06:05,903
...and live your own life.
1433
03:06:08,615 --> 03:06:10,366
Forget what is here.
1434
03:06:10,576 --> 03:06:11,784
Forget?
1435
03:06:14,746 --> 03:06:16,539
It's as though
they were alive in a grave.
1436
03:06:16,707 --> 03:06:19,417
- But what can you do?
- Undo what you've done.
1437
03:06:19,626 --> 03:06:23,087
How could you have suffered them
to come here? I must see them.
1438
03:06:23,297 --> 03:06:25,840
No, Judah, please! Judah!
1439
03:06:30,178 --> 03:06:34,557
Think, Judah, think. It would
tear them apart if they see you.
1440
03:07:38,705 --> 03:07:39,789
Judah!
1441
03:07:40,958 --> 03:07:42,208
Judah.
1442
03:07:43,043 --> 03:07:46,963
He is here. I have found him.
The child has become a man.
1443
03:07:47,214 --> 03:07:51,467
And the man, I know it now,
is the son of God.
1444
03:07:55,639 --> 03:07:57,431
The promise is true.
1445
03:07:58,684 --> 03:08:02,478
Happy Balthasar.
Life has answered you.
1446
03:08:02,688 --> 03:08:04,772
Life has been answered.
1447
03:08:05,023 --> 03:08:06,899
God has answered it.
1448
03:08:21,957 --> 03:08:23,958
Come. Come with me.
1449
03:08:27,295 --> 03:08:29,755
When the Romans were marching me
to the galleys...
1450
03:08:29,965 --> 03:08:32,049
...thirst had nearly killed me.
1451
03:08:32,259 --> 03:08:35,011
A man gave me water to drink.
1452
03:08:35,262 --> 03:08:36,971
I went on living.
1453
03:08:37,347 --> 03:08:40,725
I should have done better
if I had poured it into the sand.
1454
03:08:41,018 --> 03:08:42,309
No.
1455
03:08:42,769 --> 03:08:44,311
I am thirsty still.
1456
03:08:45,063 --> 03:08:46,897
Come and listen.
1457
03:08:48,900 --> 03:08:50,943
I have business with Rome.
1458
03:08:52,779 --> 03:08:54,822
You insist on death.
1459
03:09:00,037 --> 03:09:01,579
Goodbye, Judah.
1460
03:10:54,818 --> 03:10:55,818
You sent for me?
1461
03:10:56,027 --> 03:10:59,029
I hope I bring you
a good conclusion to your victory.
1462
03:10:59,239 --> 03:11:02,408
I have a message for you
from the consul, your father.
1463
03:11:04,494 --> 03:11:07,580
- I honor him.
- As you may honor yourself.
1464
03:11:07,831 --> 03:11:10,082
You have been made a citizen of Rome.
1465
03:11:13,962 --> 03:11:16,088
Do you say nothing to this?
1466
03:11:18,884 --> 03:11:22,219
I have just come
from the Valley of Stone...
1467
03:11:22,429 --> 03:11:26,348
...where my mother and sister live
what's left of their lives.
1468
03:11:26,516 --> 03:11:31,395
By Rome's will,
lepers, outcasts without hope.
1469
03:11:31,646 --> 03:11:35,983
I have heard this. There was great
blame there, very deeply regretted.
1470
03:11:36,234 --> 03:11:40,905
Their flesh is mine, Lord Pilate.
It already carries Rome's mark.
1471
03:11:41,114 --> 03:11:43,741
Messala is dead.
What he did has had its way with him.
1472
03:11:43,950 --> 03:11:47,411
The deed was not Messala's.
I knew him, well.
1473
03:11:47,621 --> 03:11:50,497
Before the cruelty of Rome
spread in his blood.
1474
03:11:50,707 --> 03:11:55,127
Rome destroyed Messala as surely
as Rome has destroyed my family.
1475
03:11:55,378 --> 03:11:59,590
Where there is greatness,
great government or power...
1476
03:11:59,799 --> 03:12:02,092
...even great feeling or compassion...
1477
03:12:02,385 --> 03:12:04,803
...error also is great.
1478
03:12:05,013 --> 03:12:07,097
We progress and mature by fault.
1479
03:12:07,307 --> 03:12:10,976
Rome has said she is ready to join
your life to hers in a great future.
1480
03:12:11,269 --> 03:12:12,728
There are other voices.
1481
03:12:12,938 --> 03:12:16,440
The voice, for instance, of Arrius
waiting for you in Rome.
1482
03:12:16,650 --> 03:12:19,151
He would tell you,
if I may speak in his place...
1483
03:12:19,653 --> 03:12:22,821
...not to crucify yourself
on a shadow such as old resentment...
1484
03:12:23,031 --> 03:12:25,157
...or impossible loyalties.
1485
03:12:25,408 --> 03:12:27,701
Perfect freedom has no existence.
1486
03:12:27,911 --> 03:12:30,829
A grown man knows the world
he lives in.
1487
03:12:31,039 --> 03:12:34,500
And for the present, the world is Rome.
1488
03:12:35,543 --> 03:12:37,920
Young Arrius, I am sure,
will choose it.
1489
03:12:40,006 --> 03:12:41,924
I am Judah Ben-Hur.
1490
03:12:54,062 --> 03:12:56,647
I cross this floor
in spoken friendship...
1491
03:12:56,856 --> 03:12:59,066
...as I would speak to Arrius.
1492
03:12:59,526 --> 03:13:03,195
But when I go up those stairs,
I become the hand of Caesar...
1493
03:13:03,446 --> 03:13:05,948
...ready to crush all those
who challenge his authority.
1494
03:13:06,741 --> 03:13:08,951
There are too many small men
of envy and ambition...
1495
03:13:09,160 --> 03:13:11,328
...who try to disrupt
the government of Rome.
1496
03:13:11,538 --> 03:13:14,123
You have become the victor
and hero to those people.
1497
03:13:14,708 --> 03:13:18,836
They look to you,
their one true god, as I called you.
1498
03:13:19,296 --> 03:13:23,257
If you stay here, you will find
yourself part of this tragedy.
1499
03:13:24,217 --> 03:13:27,261
I am already part of this tragedy.
1500
03:13:33,685 --> 03:13:35,769
Return this to Arrius.
1501
03:13:37,314 --> 03:13:39,857
I honor him too well
to wear it any longer.
1502
03:13:49,576 --> 03:13:51,785
Even for Arrius' sake,
I cannot protect you...
1503
03:13:51,995 --> 03:13:54,663
...from personal disaster
if you stay here.
1504
03:13:55,498 --> 03:13:57,541
You are too great a danger.
1505
03:14:13,350 --> 03:14:15,184
Leave Judea.
1506
03:14:17,020 --> 03:14:18,896
You have my word.
1507
03:14:39,959 --> 03:14:41,168
Judah!
1508
03:14:50,637 --> 03:14:52,429
Oh, Judah!
1509
03:14:53,139 --> 03:14:55,557
I was afraid
you would never come back...
1510
03:14:55,767 --> 03:14:58,060
...afraid of what would happen to you.
1511
03:14:59,854 --> 03:15:01,855
But I see you again.
1512
03:15:04,317 --> 03:15:06,860
Your father's waiting for me.
1513
03:15:11,199 --> 03:15:12,408
Where is he?
1514
03:15:15,245 --> 03:15:16,578
What do you mean to do?
1515
03:15:25,130 --> 03:15:26,380
Oh, Judah.
1516
03:15:27,799 --> 03:15:30,008
Rest, sleep.
1517
03:15:30,218 --> 03:15:33,512
For a few hours of the night
let your mind be at peace.
1518
03:15:33,721 --> 03:15:35,097
Peace?
1519
03:15:35,265 --> 03:15:37,224
Love and peace.
1520
03:15:37,434 --> 03:15:40,436
Do you think I don't long for them
as much as you do?
1521
03:15:40,770 --> 03:15:41,895
Where do you see them?
1522
03:15:43,440 --> 03:15:45,482
If you had heard this man
from Nazareth.
1523
03:15:45,692 --> 03:15:46,984
Balthasar's word.
1524
03:15:48,862 --> 03:15:51,447
He is more than Balthasar's word.
1525
03:15:51,990 --> 03:15:55,993
His voice traveled
with such a still purpose.
1526
03:15:56,369 --> 03:15:58,454
It was more than a voice.
1527
03:15:59,372 --> 03:16:01,623
A man more than a man.
1528
03:16:05,295 --> 03:16:09,298
He said, "Blessed are the merciful...
1529
03:16:09,507 --> 03:16:11,800
...for they shall obtain mercy.
1530
03:16:12,677 --> 03:16:14,970
Blessed are the peacemakers...
1531
03:16:15,180 --> 03:16:18,307
...for they shall be called
the children of God."
1532
03:16:18,892 --> 03:16:20,142
Children of God?
1533
03:16:21,186 --> 03:16:24,021
In that dead valley
where we left them?
1534
03:16:24,230 --> 03:16:28,025
I tell you every man of Judea is
unclean and will stay unclean...
1535
03:16:28,276 --> 03:16:31,445
...until we have scoured off
our bodies the crust and filth...
1536
03:16:31,654 --> 03:16:33,864
...of being at the mercy of tyranny.
1537
03:16:34,324 --> 03:16:37,910
No other life is possible
except to wash this land clean.
1538
03:16:38,161 --> 03:16:39,870
- In blood?
- Yes, in blood!
1539
03:16:42,081 --> 03:16:43,916
I know there is a law in life.
1540
03:16:44,167 --> 03:16:48,086
That blood begets more blood
as dog begets dog.
1541
03:16:48,338 --> 03:16:50,422
Death generates death...
1542
03:16:50,673 --> 03:16:53,258
...as the vulture breeds the vulture.
1543
03:16:54,010 --> 03:16:56,595
But the voice I heard today
on the hill said:
1544
03:16:56,804 --> 03:16:58,514
"Love your enemy.
1545
03:16:58,848 --> 03:17:02,017
Do good to those who
despitefully use you."
1546
03:17:02,727 --> 03:17:06,230
All who are born in this land
hereafter can suffer as we have done.
1547
03:17:06,439 --> 03:17:08,732
As you make us do now.
1548
03:17:12,403 --> 03:17:14,780
Are we to bear nothing together?
1549
03:17:16,574 --> 03:17:17,908
Even love?
1550
03:17:21,621 --> 03:17:24,206
I can hardly draw breath...
1551
03:17:24,624 --> 03:17:26,875
...without feeling you in my heart.
1552
03:17:28,211 --> 03:17:29,628
But I know...
1553
03:17:31,339 --> 03:17:33,799
...that everything I do
from this moment...
1554
03:17:34,008 --> 03:17:37,219
...will be as great a pain to you
as you have ever suffered.
1555
03:17:38,555 --> 03:17:40,722
It is better not to love me.
1556
03:17:42,308 --> 03:17:46,853
It was Judah Ben-Hur I loved.
What has become of him?
1557
03:17:47,313 --> 03:17:50,274
You seem to be now the very thing
you set out to destroy...
1558
03:17:50,483 --> 03:17:54,945
...giving evil for evil.
Hatred is turning you to stone.
1559
03:17:55,154 --> 03:17:57,072
It's as though
you had become Messala.
1560
03:18:05,790 --> 03:18:07,874
I've lost you, Judah.
1561
03:19:10,480 --> 03:19:12,230
MIRIAM:
No further.
1562
03:19:13,191 --> 03:19:14,524
What are you doing here?
1563
03:19:15,318 --> 03:19:17,819
I was here last evening
waiting for you.
1564
03:19:18,029 --> 03:19:20,489
I have waited all night.
What has happened?
1565
03:19:21,407 --> 03:19:22,866
Where is Tirzah?
1566
03:19:26,079 --> 03:19:27,871
Leave the food.
1567
03:19:28,998 --> 03:19:31,750
I am coming closer. Don't be afraid.
1568
03:19:31,959 --> 03:19:34,336
- What are you doing?
- Don't be afraid.
1569
03:19:34,754 --> 03:19:37,381
I've heard him again,
the man from Nazareth.
1570
03:19:37,590 --> 03:19:41,968
If ever words were from God,
they are in everything he says.
1571
03:19:42,220 --> 03:19:45,347
I cannot bear that
you should have never known...
1572
03:19:45,515 --> 03:19:49,351
...this hand of quiet
reaching towards us.
1573
03:19:49,769 --> 03:19:52,854
He is going to Jerusalem.
We can find him there.
1574
03:19:53,022 --> 03:19:55,440
Bring Tirzah
and we can go together to find him.
1575
03:19:55,733 --> 03:19:57,609
[MIRIAM WHIMPERS]
1576
03:19:58,361 --> 03:20:00,570
Tirzah is dying.
1577
03:20:06,994 --> 03:20:09,538
Leave the food and go.
1578
03:20:11,749 --> 03:20:13,417
It's Judah.
1579
03:20:17,630 --> 03:20:19,756
Why did you tell him?
1580
03:20:20,550 --> 03:20:22,467
Yes, Judah, yes.
1581
03:20:23,094 --> 03:20:26,304
No nearer, please, God, no nearer.
1582
03:20:26,514 --> 03:20:27,556
Mother.
1583
03:20:30,476 --> 03:20:33,437
Wait, Mother, wait.
1584
03:20:33,646 --> 03:20:34,771
Let me talk with you.
1585
03:20:34,981 --> 03:20:36,398
MIRIAM:
Please.
1586
03:20:36,607 --> 03:20:39,192
No, no further. Please.
1587
03:20:39,402 --> 03:20:43,113
No, Judah. Son, no.
1588
03:20:43,906 --> 03:20:46,908
Mother, let me see Tirzah.
1589
03:20:47,076 --> 03:20:48,076
Tirzah is dying.
1590
03:20:58,755 --> 03:21:01,965
Judah, if they would see Jesus
of Nazareth they will know...
1591
03:21:02,175 --> 03:21:04,176
...that life is everlasting...
1592
03:21:04,427 --> 03:21:08,054
...and death is nothing to fear
if you have faith.
1593
03:21:10,683 --> 03:21:12,350
I will take them to him.
1594
03:21:13,269 --> 03:21:14,269
[MIRIAM SHRIEKS]
1595
03:21:14,437 --> 03:21:15,520
No!
1596
03:21:16,439 --> 03:21:17,647
God, no!
1597
03:21:17,815 --> 03:21:19,608
[MIRIAM SOBBING]
1598
03:21:31,704 --> 03:21:34,623
No, no, dear son.
1599
03:21:35,666 --> 03:21:36,875
Mother...
1600
03:21:39,629 --> 03:21:41,171
...where is Tirzah?
1601
03:21:44,383 --> 03:21:48,804
Judah, no.
1602
03:21:57,563 --> 03:22:00,482
You must not go to her, dear son.
1603
03:22:01,859 --> 03:22:03,193
Please.
1604
03:22:03,820 --> 03:22:05,320
Dear son.
1605
03:22:56,622 --> 03:22:58,248
I am afraid.
1606
03:22:59,208 --> 03:23:00,876
ESTHER:
No cause.
1607
03:23:02,336 --> 03:23:04,713
The world is more than we know.
1608
03:23:39,624 --> 03:23:40,749
[TIRZAH WHIMPERING]
1609
03:23:40,917 --> 03:23:44,169
Tirzah, it's Judah.
1610
03:23:44,587 --> 03:23:45,670
No.
1611
03:23:46,714 --> 03:23:48,548
No, Judah.
1612
03:23:50,676 --> 03:23:52,552
No, Judah. No.
1613
03:23:53,346 --> 03:23:55,263
[TIRZAH SOBBING]
1614
03:24:32,218 --> 03:24:34,803
BEGGAR:
Alms for the blind?
1615
03:24:35,846 --> 03:24:38,515
Alms for the blind?
1616
03:24:41,644 --> 03:24:45,939
Alms for the blind?
Alms for the blind?
1617
03:24:46,148 --> 03:24:49,985
BEN-HUR: Why are the streets deserted?
- They have gone to the trial.
1618
03:24:50,152 --> 03:24:53,113
- Alms for the blind?
- Trial? Whose trial?
1619
03:24:53,322 --> 03:24:56,616
The young rabbi from Nazareth.
They are wanting his death.
1620
03:24:56,826 --> 03:24:58,952
- This cannot be true.
- Alms?
1621
03:25:00,371 --> 03:25:01,746
What has he done?
1622
03:25:01,956 --> 03:25:05,667
Nothing I know of.
For the blind, for the blind.
1623
03:25:05,876 --> 03:25:07,836
Help for the blind.
1624
03:25:08,004 --> 03:25:10,171
WOMAN: Look, lepers!
GIRL: Lepers!
1625
03:25:10,798 --> 03:25:14,259
MAN 1: Go away!
MAN 2: Get away! Stay away!
1626
03:25:15,553 --> 03:25:16,845
Go away!
1627
03:26:05,686 --> 03:26:08,229
[MURMURING]
1628
03:27:36,318 --> 03:27:38,444
Lepers! Lepers!
1629
03:28:00,009 --> 03:28:02,177
How can this be?
1630
03:28:11,312 --> 03:28:13,646
I know this man.
1631
03:28:27,745 --> 03:28:29,662
Will someone help him?
1632
03:28:37,171 --> 03:28:38,463
TIRZAH:
Take pity on him.
1633
03:28:44,720 --> 03:28:47,722
WOMAN:
Have mercy. Have mercy.
1634
03:29:09,870 --> 03:29:11,746
MIRIAM:
In his pain...
1635
03:29:12,414 --> 03:29:14,791
...this look of peace.
1636
03:29:16,919 --> 03:29:18,753
Watch over them, Esther.
1637
03:29:56,792 --> 03:29:58,126
We must go back.
1638
03:29:58,294 --> 03:30:00,670
I brought you here to this...
1639
03:30:01,422 --> 03:30:03,131
...when I hoped...
1640
03:30:06,051 --> 03:30:08,428
You haven't failed, Esther.
1641
03:30:26,989 --> 03:30:29,574
MAN:
Hail King of the Jews!
1642
03:33:07,608 --> 03:33:11,152
This is where your search
has brought you, Balthasar.
1643
03:33:17,951 --> 03:33:19,744
He gave me water...
1644
03:33:20,496 --> 03:33:22,497
...and a heart to live.
1645
03:33:25,501 --> 03:33:27,335
What has he done to merit this?
1646
03:33:29,546 --> 03:33:33,341
He has taken the world
of our sins onto himself.
1647
03:33:34,551 --> 03:33:37,470
To this end he said he was born...
1648
03:33:38,680 --> 03:33:40,640
...in that stable...
1649
03:33:41,350 --> 03:33:43,476
...where I first saw him.
1650
03:33:47,064 --> 03:33:50,399
For this cause,
he came into the world.
1651
03:33:57,199 --> 03:33:58,908
For this death?
1652
03:34:01,703 --> 03:34:03,204
This beginning.
1653
03:34:35,737 --> 03:34:37,863
I have lived too long.
1654
03:34:52,421 --> 03:34:54,380
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1655
03:35:08,937 --> 03:35:12,064
As though he were carrying
in that cross...
1656
03:35:12,274 --> 03:35:14,442
...the pain of the world.
1657
03:35:15,944 --> 03:35:20,448
So fearful, and yet why is it...
1658
03:35:20,657 --> 03:35:22,950
...I'm not afraid anymore?
1659
03:35:29,625 --> 03:35:31,959
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
1660
03:35:32,252 --> 03:35:34,587
The shadow of a storm.
1661
03:36:00,155 --> 03:36:02,448
A strange darkness...
1662
03:36:02,658 --> 03:36:04,617
...but still day.
1663
03:36:05,285 --> 03:36:07,495
[RUMBLING INTENSIFIES]
1664
03:36:13,543 --> 03:36:15,795
His life is over.
1665
03:36:22,052 --> 03:36:25,054
[WIND HOWLING]
1666
03:36:33,605 --> 03:36:35,439
[THUNDER CRASHING]
1667
03:36:37,025 --> 03:36:38,359
TIRZAH:
What is it?
1668
03:36:47,452 --> 03:36:49,036
This tearing.
1669
03:36:49,996 --> 03:36:51,872
I am in pain.
1670
03:36:52,833 --> 03:36:54,875
I feel it too.
1671
03:37:25,282 --> 03:37:26,365
Miriam.
1672
03:37:31,413 --> 03:37:33,164
I thought I...
1673
03:37:34,583 --> 03:37:35,583
Miriam.
1674
03:37:39,755 --> 03:37:41,547
Do you see your hand?
1675
03:37:44,926 --> 03:37:46,010
Tirzah.
1676
03:37:49,639 --> 03:37:50,723
Miriam.
1677
03:38:02,819 --> 03:38:03,903
Tirzah.
1678
03:40:19,956 --> 03:40:22,416
Almost at the moment he died...
1679
03:40:23,919 --> 03:40:27,421
...I heard him say,
"Father, forgive them...
1680
03:40:27,672 --> 03:40:29,965
...for they know not what they do."
1681
03:40:32,218 --> 03:40:35,429
- Even then.
- Even then.
1682
03:40:41,102 --> 03:40:45,606
And I felt his voice take
the sword out of my hand.
1683
03:42:16,823 --> 03:42:18,824
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