Remember, he treats the movie’s extra-Scriptural depiction of Caiaphas and the other Jewish priests’ witnessing of the scourging as anti-Semitic. A reader writes, “this point falls apart when you consider further that the Jewish leaders left at 30 lashes (I was counting/following the Latin counting). The initial whipping then stops as they are leaving (at 32 lashes). It is only after their departure that the Romans break out the flagellata and the real bloodletting begins. Caiaphas et co. do not witness this at all. I just saw The Passion for a second time yesterday, so I am sure on this.”