After watching Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion of Christ (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19915), depicting the last 12 hours of Prophet Jesus (pbuh)'s life, a question came to my mind:

According to the the Christian version:

@~ How come in the most crucial moment of Jesus (pbuh)'s life, when he was condemned, taken by the Jews, tortured and about to be crucified...ALL his disciples (except one) abondoned him and where nowhere near him till the final moment he got 'killed'?

Good question.

I thought it was one of the prophecies that had to be fulfilled ... although I don't really get how people play out the prophecies ... were they directed by God to act in a certain way in order to fulfill the script He had written? Or was it their human nature to be afraid and hide, and He knew it would happen and wrote that into the script?

If God wanted the scene to play out in a certain way (after all, even Judas role as Betrayer was necessary for the "Sacrifice" to take place), then why do we condemn the players for doing so?

Anyway, I was taught in Sunday School that the disciples were overtaken with fear for their own lives - whether this was human weakness or set on them by God to fulfill Jesus' prophecy was never explained.

I guess that's one reason I interpret it as a legend or morality play, rather than historical fact.

Was there perhaps a Last Breakfast ?