Mel Gibson Breaks Silence on the Ethiopian Bible’s Controversial Text

Mel Gibson spent 12 years and approximately $30 million of his own money producing The Passion of the Christ, which became the highest-grossing R-rated film in American history at the time of its 2004 release and earned more than $600 million worldwide. The production employed Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew language consultants.It used biblical scholars across multiple denominations.It became, by most working measures, the most historically researched depiction of the crucifixion ever committed to film. In multiple interviews given since 2020, Gibson has been speaking with increasing directness about a body of scripture that almost no one in his Western Christian audience has ever read.