King of Kings (1961)

Siobhan McKenna: Mary

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Quotes 

• [Jesus is mending a chair for the Virgin Mary, but has to leave for Jerusalem] 

  Jesus : The chair will have to wait until I return.

  Virgin Mary : [having a vague premonition of Jesus' arrest, trial and death]  The chair will never be mended. I am going with you.

• Virgin Mary : I am alone now, share my table.

  Mary Magdalene : I am a woman of sin.

  Virgin Mary : You will share my table.

  Mary Magdalene : I have done much evil.

  Virgin Mary : Child, God knows evil exists as well as good. Just as there is light and darkness. Evil exists that we may be the better for it.

• Camel Driver : [Spotting the 12-year-old Jesus, while refreshing himself in a well in Nazareth]  Your son?

  Virgin Mary : Yes.

  Camel Driver : And, does He like being a carpenter?

  Virgin Mary : Yes, He does.

  Camel Driver : There's a big world outside this garden. Do you want Him to see it?

  Virgin Mary : He will see it soon enough.

  Camel Driver : Let me take Him with me. I'll pay you well. I can use a lad like that to help me with my caravan.

  Virgin Mary : No. Someday, He will leave me, but someone else will call Him.

  Camel Driver : And who will that be?

  Virgin Mary : My son will know Him when He comes.

• Lucius : [Arriving at Jesus' home in Nazareth on horseback with another Roman soldier and greeting the Holy Family]  Have no fear. We're simply checking the census against the tax rolls.

  [Reading from a scroll] 

  Lucius : Now, you are... Joseph. And you live here with your wife Mary.

  Joseph : That is so.

  Lucius : [Pointing to Jesus]  Who's this boy?

  Virgin Mary : My son, Jesus.

  Lucius : [Looking at the scroll again]  I have no record of His birth. When was He born?

  Virgin Mary : Twelve years ago.

  Lucius : Where?

  Virgin Mary : In Bethlehem.

  [Jesus walks away] 

  Lucius : [Realizing Jesus must have survived the killing of the young boys in Bethlehem which he commanded on Herod's orders 12 years before, and after a long, tense pause]  Bethlehem?

  [Mary slowly nods "yes"] 

  Lucius : [to the other Roman soldier, who then rides away]  Count those in the next house.

  [to Mary] 

  Lucius : See that the boy is registered before the year is out.

  [Lucius himself rides away, after which Joseph and Mary look at each other with relief] 

• Mary Magdalene : Will you speak to your son for me?

  Virgin Mary : [humbled by the request]  Intercede...