Youth News: Loliana Sorrells on The Passion of the Christ

Published: April 22, 2004

The movie was very powerful! I cried at so many parts. I could not believe all of the torture that Jesus went through. No ordinary man could have survived all the pain and suffering that Jesus was put through.

As I watched, my stomach was in a knot, and my heart was heavy. Jesus allowed people to ridicule him, torture him, kick him, spit on him, hit him and crucify him for our sins. I kept asking for forgiveness throughout the movie.

Although, we know that “Jesus loved us so much that he died for our sins,” I don’t know that we ever think about the torture that he went through.

As I thought about the movie later, I realized that it was the last 12 hours of his life and it was squeezed into two hours. I can’t even imagine what the other 10 hours were like.

“And yet God loved us so that He gave His only-begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

Loliana Sorrells, Senior