Mel Gibson: The Ethiopian Bible Reveals a Side of Jesus Few People Know

Mel Gibson: The Ethiopian Bible Reveals a Side of Jesus Few People Know Somewhere in the highlands of Ethiopia, monks have spent more than fifteen centuries copying religious texts that most of the Western world has never read, texts that describe Jesus in language so cosmic and so strange that early church councils decided ordinary Christians shouldn't have access to them. Mel Gibson has read those texts. And in 2027, he's putting what they describe on the biggest screens in the world, in a film with a hundred-million-dollar budget that's already wrapped filming at the same Roman studio where he shot The Passion of the Christ twenty-three years ago. To understand why this matters, you have to go back to 2004, because nothing that comes next makes sense without it. My name is Marcus Reed, and this is the story of a version of Jesus most people have never encountered, and the filmmaker who's betting a hundred million dollars that audiences are finally ready to see it.