- Title: F-A4143
- Summary: THE LIVING BIBLE: THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN: ROMAN EMPIRE BIBLICAL RECREATION. ROMAN TAX ON THE POOR. THE STORY OF ROMAN PUBLICAN MATTHEW LEVI, AN APOSTLE OF JESUS. STARRING NELSON LEIGH AS JESUS
- Description:00:33:42 - ROMANS WALK THROUGH BUSY CITY STREETS CARRYING GOODS AND BASKETS. 00:33:51 - ROMAN SOLDIER STANDS BY AS PUBLICAN MATTHEW LEVI, APOSTLE OF JESUS COLLECTS MONEY FROM THE POOR. CU TAX COLLECTOR ACCEPTING GOLD COINS AS PAYMENT. 00:35:14 - ROMAN MARKET VENDOR FOLDS UP HIS STRAW MAT FROM HARD STONE FLOOR. CLAY POTS AND STONEWARE SURROUND MAN. 00:36:02 - TAX COLLECTOR, APOSTLE MATTHEW LEVI, CALLS A ROMAN SOLDIER TO GUARD HIS TAX BOOTH AS THE COLLECTOR LEAVES HIS STATION. 00:36:17 - GROUP OF ROMAN CIVILIANS KNOCK ON A FRIENDS HEAVY WOODEN DOOR. MAN ANSWERS DOOR AND TAKES MEN TO HIS SICK BROTHER LYING ON HIS DEATHBED UNABLE TO SEE. MEN TALK ABOUT THE HEALING POWERS OF JESUS. MEN LIFT DYING MAN CONFINED TO STRETCHER AND TAKE HIM TO JESUS TO BE HEALED. 00:37:26 - FOUR MEN LIFT A DYING MAN, CONFINED TO A MAKE SHIFT BAMBOO STRETCHER, UP A FLIGHT OF STONE CARVED STAIRS. 00:37:34 - JESUS STANDS IN A ROOM OF FOLLOWERS AND PREACHES. 00:38:00 - COLORFULLY AND RICHLY DRESSED RELIGOUS RULERS AND SCRIBES STAND SILENTLY AS JESUS PREACHES TO A CROWD. MEN LOOK ANGRY AS THEY GLANCE AT EACH OTHER WITH CONCERNED FURROWED BROWS. 00:38:40 - PARISHONERS LOOK UP AT THE CEILING WHERE JESUS IS PREACHING AS CEILING TILES START TO FALL TO THE GROUND. SOMEONE DIGS A HOLE THROUGH THE ROOF TILES AND LOWER A SICK MAN ON A MAKE-SHIFT STRETCHER DOWN TO JESUS FOR A HEALING MIRACLE. PARISHONERS LOOK ON SUSPICIOUSLY AT THE SICK MAN LYING ON THE FLOOR AT THE FEET OF JESUS. 00:39:33 - JESUS OFFERS A PRAYER TO A SICK MAN LYING AT HIS FEET. JESUS PERFORMS A MIRACLE. JESUS HEALS THE SICK. 00:41:54 - ROMAN PUBLICAN-TAX COLLECTOR SITS AT HIS STATION IN THE STREETS OF CAPERNIUM. JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WALK TO THE PUBLICAN MATTHEW LEVI SITTING AT HIS TAX OFFICE. 00:42:47 - RICH ROMAN TAX COLLECTOR SPEAKS TO A GROUP OF HIS RICHLY ROBED FELLOW TAX COLLECTORS. 00:44:34 - JESUS ENTERS A ROOM OF RICH ROMAN TAX COLLECTORS. THE GROUP PREPARES TO DINE TOGETHER. 00:44:55 - GROUP OF PARISHONERS-FOLLOWERS OF JESUS DINE OUTSIDE ON A TORCH LIT STONE TERRACE. 00:45:18 - SMALL GROUP OF RICH ROMAN SCRIBES OVERSEE JESUS DINING WITH SINNERS. THE SCRIBES EAVES DROP AND INTERRUPT THE DINNER. RELIGOUS LEADERS QUESTION THE WAYS AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS. JESUS TALKS IN PARABLES.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-A4143