Virgin Mary Quotes in King of Kings (1961)
Virgin Mary Quotes:
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[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 -
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.
-- Virgin Mary -
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.
-- Virgin Mary -
Lucius: [Arriving at Jesus' home in Nazareth on horseback with another Roman soldier and greeting the Holy Family] Do not 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 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]
-- Virgin Mary -
Mary Magdalene: Will you speak to your son for me?
Virgin Mary: [humbled by the request] Intercede...
-- Virgin Mary -
Virgin Mary: It's how you do things, not necessarily the things you do, that make you who you are.
-- Virgin Mary
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