Visual Bible 3-Episode Set

The Gospel of John is beautifully portrayed using some of the finest actors in film history. The actor portraying Jesus is profoundly believable and Biblically accurate. Great pains were taken for accuracy in costuming and set design. The set includes a separate disc with a shortened version, accompanied by behind the scenes documentary on the production of the film. This is most interesting and informative.Acts is portrayed in a Biblically correct way and is inspirational, telling the story from Luke's perspective, oftentimes at sea.The Gospel of Matthew shows a different perspective of Jesus. This portrayal of 'the laughing Jesus' catches one off guard. There is no Biblical basis for showing 'the Man of Sorrows' wrestling and laughing, cutting up and affectionately kissing men on their heads. When he wasn't doing these things, there were too many cut away shots of the elderly Matthew dictating his gospel to two sober looking scribes, with assorted guests coming and going. Many of the actors in the cast seem to be observers rather than participants in the story.My main complaint is that disc one of Matthew has eight places in which the disc stops or skips over a defective spot. A replacement disc was sent by the seller, but has the identical problems. We were told that it had been re-mastered recently, and this must be a 'compatibility issue', i.e. our machine's fault. We had no problems with the other DVDs. Apparently this happens frequently with other customers as well with this DVD. The seller has offered a refund upon return of the Matthew DVD.If there are enough customers having this problem, they should remove it from the marketplace until the problem is resolved.

I loved the ''Gospel of John''; there was a sense of the holy about it. The film has stayed with me for days and changed my life, and seeing that this is possible for a film has ruined me for anything less.Henry Ian Cusick, in his portrayal of Jesus, gave a very intense performance, as well as the other actors. I came away pursuing studies to find out what became of the disciples afterwards.I had so hoped to find the same crew in "Acts" and "Matthew", but alas, in "Matthew", we see such foolishness as Jesus throwing a bucket of water on a man while he is preaching the Sermon on the Mount!?! The whole presentation of the Gospel of Matthew was on this level. Perhaps the director and the actor who played Jesus had sat under this kind of preacher - one who deems the Gospel to be so uncompelling a subject that he feels he has to resort to such nonsense to keep the people awake. It would be better to sleep through it.I did like the old man who played the narrator, but the performances were either wooden or so full of attempts to be entertaining that I could not watch them more than 45 minutes - so I sent them back, and went on to order several copies of The Gospel of John.

We have owned this set for years and absolutely love it. The movies are very well done - including acting and follow Scripture (NIV I believe) to the word. There is no embellishment or alterations or anything. It makes the word come alive for those who either have trouble reading - like my 93 year old grandmother, whom we bought this set for - or for those who are more visual learners.I would never recommend watching alone over reading alone, but this is a tremendous supplement. I will be buying more for gifts in the future. Note that the person who plays Jesus in the John videos is not the same as the one who plays Him in the other two sets (Acts and Matthew). This is not a problem unless you are going back and forth between them. I would recommend you watching one of them all the way through (and this will take some time - they are long...........wonderfully long) before moving onto a different one.We really wish they would make more books of the Bible this way. There are other Bible videos out there, but they are not as realistic and they don't follow Scripture word for word as these do. If I had a way to guarantee you'd like these myself, I'd back it up! These are also very appropriate for children as there is nothing about them that would cause a parent to cringe or grab the pillow to cover little eyes :)

This deserves five stars simply because the Gospel of John DVD is an absolute masterpiece...too bad the other two were not produced in the same fashion.Using the Bible as the script is a wonderful idea - I hope more books will be made into movies this way in the futureThe Book of Acts was good but corny at timesI felt the Book of Matthew made a mockery of the Sermon on the Mount and the entire DVD is riddled with inappropriate humor, Jesus playing practical jokes, and over dramatic hugging/touchingWith that said I DO think the set is worth the purchase because the first two DVDs I critiqued make it worth the price

Well performed by skilled actors. The casting was well done also. The dialogue (and story line) for each film come straight from the respective Bible books designated by the DVD titles. IE, when the apostle John speaks, it's what the NIV version of Bible quotes him as saying at that point in the Gospel of John. Each DVD starts at the beginning of the book and goes through it. The Bible verse is indicated on the screen to allow cross-checking and further study. The artistic liberty of the writers, directors and producers is applied in the selection of locations/scenery, non-speaking actors (extras) but is done well and kept in the spirit of the Bible.We found them both entertaining and enlightening. They also are a good tool to help kids understand these books and as a lead-in for discussion.

EL DISCO DE HECHOS NO TIENE SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL Y LA NOTA DICE QUE SI POR ESO LE DI 4 ESTRELLAS.LO DEMAS ESTA MARAVILLOSO MUY BIEN HECHO LOS LUGARES LOS PERSONAJES. Y SOBRE TODO, TAL CUAL LO CITA LA BIBLIA