Cast list

• Joseph Mawle plays Jesus
  A charismatic preacher whose arrival in Jerusalem from Galilee during Passover presents a threat to the Jewish and Roman authorities
  
  
• James Nesbitt plays Pontius Pilate
  The Roman Governor of Judaea
  
  
• Esther Hall plays Claudia
  Pontius Pilate's wife
  
  
• Mark Lewis Jones plays Marcus
  Pilate's military aide
  
  
• Ben Daniels plays Caiaphas
  The High Priest of the Jerusalem Temple, spiritual leader of the Jews
  
  
• Laura Fraser plays Abigail
  Caiaphas's pregnant wife
  
  
• Denis Lawson plays Annas
  A former High Priest and Caiaphas's father-in-law
  
  
• John Lynch plays the Sagan
  Head of the Jerusalem Temple Guard
  
  
• Stephen Graham plays Barabbas
  An insurgent
  
  
• David Oyelowo plays Joseph of Arimathea
  An influential adviser to Caiaphas who has seen Jesus preaching in Galilee
  
  
• Penelope Wilton plays Mary
  Jesus's mother
  
  
• Paloma Baeza plays Mary Magdalene
  A widow who has been travelling through Galilee with Jesus
  
  
• Paul Nicholls plays Judas
  A member of Jesus's entourage also in the pay of the Temple Guard
  
  
• Daniel Evans plays Matthew
  A former tax collector, now one of Jesus's disciples
  
  
• Darren Morfitt plays Peter
  The disciple perhaps closest to Jesus
  
  
• Jamie Sives plays John
  He and his brother James see themselves as Jesus's bodyguards
  
  
• Dean Lennox Kelly plays James
  John's brother, and one of Jesus's inner circle
  
  
• Tom Ellis plays Philip
  Another of Jesus's disciples
  
  
• Eoin Geoghegan plays Andrew
  One of Jesus's younger followers

 

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