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Quotes from The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

11 quotes
Martin Landau
Caiaphas: Jesus of Nazareth, your crimes are so many I scarcely know where to begin.

Max von Sydow
James the Younger: What is your name?
Jesus: Jesus
James the Younger: [excitedly] That's a good name!
Jesus: [smiling] Thank you.

José Ferrer
John the Baptist: Are you going to free me?
Herod Antipas: I am going to kill you.
John the Baptist: Then you free me!
Herod Antipas: [walking away] I hope so.
- José Ferrer (as Herod Antipas) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Charlton Heston
John the Baptist: REPENT!
- Charlton Heston (as John the Baptist) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

David Sheiner
Peter: Who's there?
James the Younger: [behind the door] Me.
Peter: [angrily opening the door] What's wrong with you? When I ask "Who's there", why do you answer "Me"?
James the Younger: It WAS me, Peter.
- David Sheiner (as James the Elder) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Dorothy McGuire
The Centurion: Truly, this man was the son of God.
- Dorothy McGuire (as The Virgin Mary) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Dorothy McGuire
The Dark Hermit - Satan: A long climb, wasn't it? A long hard climb... You know, some people think the whole of life should be like that, hm... "An easy life is a sinful life". Not so, my friend... A man's life can be as easy as he wishes to make it. And it can be easy, my friend. If one knows the way to power and glory in this world.
- Dorothy McGuire (as The Virgin Mary) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Ed Wynn
Bar Amand: The Messiah has come! A man was dead but now he lives!
Uriah: I was crippled, and now I walk!
Old Aram: I was blind, and now I see!
Soldier: Who has done this?
Old Aram: The man called Jesus!

Claude Rains
King Herod: The child of imagination is the child I fear.

Charlton Heston
Soldier: I have orders to bring you to Herod, Baptist.
John the Baptist: I have orders to bring you to God... heathen.
- Charlton Heston (as John the Baptist) in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)