, or reopen the bible.illions and millions. maybe a billion. >> a billion new people may open the bible? >> i think to be honest with you, because i'm a very blunt person, i think a billion is a low number. >> even with an angel as one of the executive producers, everything has not been easy. >> we were only about four, six weeks away from beginning principal photography and we had not yet cast the role of jesus. to say that we were anxious of that would be an understatement. i sent out an e-mail, and the headline on e-mail was "looking for jesus." and, you know, prayer works. and we found the most wonderful actor, a portuguese actor who has breathed such beauty and strength. >> jesus was cast, but they were still stumped when it came to who would play his mother. >> i went over to morocco with my producer's hat firmly on my head. at mark's encouragement really, he said i think you're not seeing the obvious. >> downey herself stepped into the role. there are a few real world problems to overcome, too. like

when you were producing the bible.e things in the bible that are obviously allegorical as i just mentioned. did you take that into account? >> we worked from the position that the bible was a true story. we haven't taken a position on that except to bring the story to life. meaningfully. we have filmed the passion of jesus. we have taken it right through resurrection, the conversion of paul, and through to revelation. and that episode will be on easter sunday evening. and the 10 hours were shot entirely on location in morocco. we were over there from february until june of last year. and it has been an extraordinary journey to bring these stories to the screen. >> bill: it really is. mr. burnett you are going to get criticized, you know that by the secular progressives and they are going to say this is a bunch of propaganda and why are you doing this. how are you going to answer that criticism. >> we love the story. it's the most important book in the history of the world. amazing biblical ill literacy. i really believ

i want to thank you for having me read the bible. i read the whole bottle, and i also found that jesus had long hair." and his father said, "but you know that they walked "? it is really nice. you never know. aretha franklin, she came to my show. tavis: the queen. >> she was laughing so hard that that have started spinning. but you never know what is going to happen. you never know what i'm going to give away. i am giving away a car. >> tavis, who are you, oprah's? >> i know you did not say that. i want to be a rich, black lady. i learned from oprah, and i learn from you. tavis: ivers reading and "rolling stone," and they have a list of the top 25 people they suggested that you follow in the world, anywhere in the top 25. can i read your tweets. >> i do not think so. you be careful what you read. you should have come to church yesterday. stevie was there. stevie wonder. you know he is very active in our church now. tavis: that reminds me. hold on. why do blind people wear sunglasses? do deaf people run around wearing earplugs? you tw

they make bibles that work real well for that.st the man who, in a way, started it all. john carlen invented digital, working for the old bell labs, he figured out how to dial a phone with push buttons, and, his invention turned 50 years old this year. john carlin was 94. a strange and strangely beautiful picture from florida this week. a woman was driving and felt an awful thus. she thought she'd killed a bird. it turned out a great-horned owl had been consumed by the grill of her suv and was pulled out alive 150 miles later and is recouping nicely. in other news, perhaps the bakersfield condors would do better than one of the those giant-headed human condor. fans were scared and players tried not to look scared. the ice didn't help, but finally, they wrangled the bird. >> down the road in l.a. at a lakers game that was will ferrell just standing there as a security guard. our first clue that it was him came from the name tag we cannot say out loud. one more animal item on the web this week. a couple in washington has named their

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the 1599 geneva bible. it was the first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> good morning. it is 22 minutes after the hour. here's a look at the headlines. the location of a top secret u.s. drone base has been revealed. the base in saudi arabia has been used to launch strikes in yemen. including the drone strikes that killed anwar al-awlaki. if you own a gun you could be forced to buy insurance for it. democratic leaders proposed an idea as a way to encourage gun owners to kee

teach the bible. you teach the bible. >> stephen: yeah, on this show. [laughter] where do you go after this? the barnes and noble in hell? [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> i pray not. >> stephen: you pray not, so do i. garry wills, everybody. [cheers and applause] the book is "whyriest priest

pastors are thrown to prisons, bibles are confiscated, and bibles are destroyed in uzbekistan, but we see the house churches are growing by every day. so the church is growing tremendously underground. >> wendy: is the increase in religious persecution coming from the russian government? >> you know, there is a constitution that is telling us there is separation between church and government. so based on all of this political development, or religious political developments, the evangelical church is very much in the minority, and very much is kind of an outcast from the main society. >> wendy: so how has this effected the evangelical church in a broader way? >> in a broader way, in this country, the evangelical church cannot freely do their ministry. they are basically squeezed back to behind their walls. so they cannot go into public and do their ministry. and there is so much social need. there is so much need in the society. for example, the evangelical church wants to minister in the local o orphanage, so they have to ask for permission from the orthodox priest or from the mayor,

about 130 in all. >> trust god, read your bible, know what you're talking about.hat are you doing with your life? what do you do every day with your life? is it something god approves of? >> the branch davidians supported themselves in part by buying guns to resell at gun shows. >> it's not against the law to buy a firearm. it's not against the law to buy anything that they sell at a gun show. >> but by 1993 the federal government believed koresh was illegally converting rifles into machine guns. armed with arrest and search warrants, 76 agents piled into two cattle trailers for a surprise raid. it would be the largest armed assault in the history of american law enforcement. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. illegally convert

the bible. the bible that's in the -- >> sadly, the bible is probably the cleanest thing in the -- nobody picks it up to read it. people think it's boring, d people that have never read it -- >> and continue. the pens. the pens that are sitting there on the side of the notepad. >> for those of you that don't steal them. because if you read your bible -- >> and the room service menus. >> ew, they don't -- >> why would you wipe it down? >> that notebook, you open it. >> do you live your life wiping everything down before you -- >> i don't. >> you can't live like that, hoda woman. >> i know. i do agree. i just wash my hands a lot, but not crazy. i don't purell a lot. >> how about we just get over it and stop whining about everything? >> all right. now -- >> tammy. >> can we just look in the back row, these two guys with the puppets? >> wait a minute. they might win. oh, we didn't see you guys. >> it's age inappropriate, and there are not spanx showing, so i know it's not me. >> are those anatomical

the bible says kill the sick, cast out demons, and heal the sick. all about basically it's all about believing that your daughter could be raised from the dead. that's kind of the basis of christianity. jesus was raised from the dead. a lot of people were. it is possible but you have to have faith. >> back at orange county central jail facility, it's been less than 24 hours since brian james brutally attempted to strangle an alleged sex offender in the orange county jail's intake unit. sheriff's deputies have completed their preliminary investigation. >> this is holding cell 7 in the booking loop. as related to inmate brian james, this is where the alleged attempted murder happened early on a sunday morning when he was booked into the orange county jail. he thought that he was put in this position, in this cell, in his belief that he was to act upon this situation. >> i'm thinking it's almost like fate that we end up sitting right next to each other. i'm thinking this [ bleep ] creep is probably going to get out before i will. and go fondle someone'

one was the bible owned by president abraham lincoln. the other the bible owned by dr. martin luther king,jr. as i prepared to take the sacred oath, i thought about these two men. i thought of how in times of joy and pain and uncertainty, they turned their bibles to seek the wisdom of god's word. and thought of how for as long as we have been a nation, so many of our leaders and our presidents and preachers and legislators and jurists have done the same. each one faced their challenges and fining in scripture their own lessons from the lord. as i was looking out on the crowd i thought of dr. king. we often think of him standing tall in front of the crowd and stirring the nation's conscious with a bellowing voice and a mighty drain. i also thought of his doubts and fears. for those moments came as well. the lonely moments when he was left to confront the presence of long-festering injustice and undisguised hate. he imagined the darkness and the doubt that must have surrounded him in that birmingham jail. and the anger that surely rose up in him. the night his house was b

s "the bible exclusive." the emotional moments filming on the cross. >> i started crying. it took 30 minutes before i stopped. >> only we are with the man portraying jesus. >>> joan rivers uncensored. taking aim at the oscar nominees. >> ugh. >> and pregnant kim kardashian. >> i just always thought she was pregnant, but carrying in the back. >> announcer: now, "entertainment tonight," the worldwide leader in entertainment news. >> prince is on "entertainment tonight." that's pretty big. >> oprah, you got that right. you cannot believe the overwhelming response we have gotten to having prince michael on our show. and tonight it's part five. hi, everybody. welcome to "entertainment tonight." i'm nancy o'dell. >> i'm rob marciano alongside rocsi diaz at the home of oscar. the dolby theatre here in hollywood. we're going to give you an inside track to all the last minute preps for sunday's big night. first, rocsi, you tracked down oprah. she had some things to say about prince michael and "e.t." >> you already know. when prince michael joined the "e.t." cast for our special co

. >> the bible says heal the sick, cast out demons, and raise the dead. jesus was raised from the dead. a lot of people were. that is kind of the basis of christianity. >>> and a female inmate keeps a grim secret from her two best friends. >> i just don't want them to stop talking to me, stop caring for me, i don't want them to think i'm that person. i'm not that person. >> you've got to show me where to go. >> oh, you've never been to jail before? >> no, i haven't. >> oh, yeah, i believe that one. >> every week 1,200 men and women are arrested and booked into the orange county jail in southern california. some will be released in hours. others could be here for years, until their charges are resolved. they always begin their time at the intake center located at the central jail facility. >> orange county jail system is considered a mega jail. we have the ability to house over 7,000 inmates at one time. and the challenges we face pretty much reflect, to a certain degree, the challenges the community faces with gang affiliations, with drug abuse, mental pr

they contain a small radio, the bible, and other christian literature.n addition to the balloon operation, peter's group organizes a weekly radio broadcast recorded in seoul and transmitted over short wave frequencies into north korea. >> it brings it like a regular church service with worship and preaching of the world. the northern korean government routinely tries to jam our signal, but we have other methods of getting our message across. >> george: cbn news obtained security photographs and recordings of secret church meetings inside north korea. [whispering] >> george: and when a northern korean accepts jesus christ, he or she will face pe persecution, imprisonment, and possibly death because of their faith. peter gave cbn footage of a show that allegedly shows the execution of north korean christians. [yelling] >> george: trying to get precise figures on the number of christians today in north korea is extremely difficult. >> based on data gathered from north korean defectors and international human rights groups, we estimate there are approximatel

i think a bible series is both.uge event and also dvds. >> if i could go back to your comment of just a few moments ago, because you said, television executives need to adapt to that and come up with ways to solve the solution. like what? how do they do that? how do they continue to monitize their product in the way you just described for us. >> dvd sales are up in a huge way. if stories that are good and if it has a global translation so that it is sold in hundred of countries around the world, and people buy the dvd, it is a great business. hollywood adapts all the time. in the end, american creative product is seen around the world more than any other country's creative product. it is healthier than ever. >> right, right. when let me turn you to the bible. what made you want it take on this particular topic? this is an epic. it will run through holy week and culminating on easter. why did you decide it take this on? >> the bible is of course the greatest story ever told. and it hasn't really ever been done genesi

the bible has not changed. >> i focus on the family. one group that never waded into this before.focus on gay marriage and family and those issues. they said to me that the reason why they are going so vocally about this and speaking to the broadcast, millions of evangelical, the dynamic is different and they feel like they can make a push on this and they want to put their full weight behind it. >> with the idea that then the people in the south or wherever they will put pressure on i'm assuming house republicans and those who are still resistant to any immigration reform or who see it as amnesty whether it's a tactical move or divide. a different warn coming from boehner and kantor. >> i spoke with the pastors up here. they want to have as many calls or more coming into these offices, supportive of immigration reform so that republicans in the south that are on the fence on these issues can say hey, i'm hearing for many of my constituents that are in support of this and not hear from the imagainst immigration. >> a great article. thank you very much for talking to us about it. u

the 1599 geneva bible.first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> it is 44 minutes after the guard. drills include high fire exercises nafl maneuvers and submarine detection grills. this comes amid signs north korea will carry out a third ballistic missile test. a pakistani teen shot in the head by the taliban is now in stable condition after under going two successful surgeries. malala doctors say that she is awake and she is talking to her family. the 15-year-old was attacked

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. >> why hasn't the parallelism between the teachings of the koran and the teachings of the bible brought christians and muslim closer together i ask you dr. mark dever? >> well, it's difficult to be brought together on exactly the teachings because what the emom said here is not the case that jesus is not crucified is at the very heart of the christian understanding of not only what happened to jesus but what jesus intended to do. >> so you can see tolerance but you cannot actually see a reconciliation because the doingmatic differences are so different? >> yeah. >> i know you're not surprised because you're a man of very deep and wide erudition as is evidence of to what you're saying today. do you believe many westerners that the koran teaches that christ was born of a virgin. >> a lot of american churches would be better off if they believed as much as the imam did, the christian churches in america, yeah. >> you mean that there is a rejection@of jesus as being

we are changing man as we have known him and has been presented by the koran and by the bible. do you see that coming? and will it sway people more toward religion or away from religion? >> well, i think medicine for the last hundred years has already undergone a lot of change. we don't even have to guess the years coming up. and certainly, as people who live in modern america, we all profit, religious or not we profit from the medical advances. >> now, the pharmaceuticals that come into existence by reason of biotechnology and genetic -- genetic -- the genetic sciences is one thing. but when you start altering genes, you are right at the heart of the essence of being a man, a person, you understand? >> yes. >> that leap is an enormous leap. it is perhaps the most profound change that we will have ever seen in mankind. way beyond anything like the industrial revolion. >> it's not the kind of thing that we'll be able to discuss carefully in a couple minutes on a tv show. >> no, but my question is to you, and i don't want you to take that dodge, if you don't mind my telling you,

you talked about reading your bible.f you read your bible carefully, the great apostle paul said we should always honor authority. you sat next to the president of the united states and you belittled his programs. doctor, if i were you, i would stick to president. >> i didn't interrupt you. >> bob, w

it's a mysterious anonymous document. >> stephen: isn't it in the bible?>> yes. >> stephen: then god wrote it. [ laughter ] okay. [ laughter ] >> you are right it's from that epivotel of -- epistle of hebrews. since jesus couldn't become a priest in jewish law they said, well, there was a priest of high god and abraham offered him a tithe and so jesus will be in the line of him and he wasn't even a jew. it's a crazy letter. >> stephen: are you a jew? >> no steerntle neither am i so that works for me. [ laughter ] when you die, not soon i hope, when you die are you going to want a priest there to give you last rites? >> no. >> stephen: why? >> because it's an invented sacrament that had no foundation in the early church. the prayer of the body of christ is a prayer of all my fellow christians. i'd like a private or any other christian to be there praying with me. he's a brother in christ but he's not the only conduit of god's grace. >> stephen: priest have dedicated their lives to this? >> well, they say so. >> stephen: would you rather no priests at all. >

and the whole bible is absolutely full of notes. it is remarkable. we usually have it displayed like this. one of the great things about these tilt-top tables is their flexibility. they allow people to have them as a card table a breakfast table, but i think this was always intended as a show piece, don't you? is this something you've bought, or something that is inherited? we've inherited it from an aunt. we think of her when it's on display sometimes. it's not something you can get away from very easily. how do you use it? in a big room, small room? we keep it in a big room. the side of the room. hopefully safe from heat and light and moisture. that's very evident, because it has wonderful colors. it really clearly has been away from the light. it has possibly been re-polished at some stage, because the colors are so bright. i have a feeling that, perhaps once upon a time there would have been more decoration in the middle. do you remember anything? we hear that there was a plant pot put on there as a centerpiece in the middle of the table which ca

. >> reporter: and what bible verse encourages the new pope when he faces difficulties and dispair? he says it is 1 corinthians 13: 8. >> love never ends or fails. everything must be based on love. it is between two friends. my ministry, my serving. the church in every field must be based on love. why? because god is love. >> reporter: he desires prayer for egypt as christians stand on the promises of the book of isaiah, 19. >> this chapter, le bless my people, egypt. >> george: bless my people, egypt. great get, gary. what didn't the pope answer your question about shari'a law in the constitution? >> because he is smart. he is very careful about what he says. traditionally, the popes have not wanted to be political. they strictly dealt with spiritual matters and that is safe. because in egypt, if you say something that offends people, they accuse you of blasphemy and throw you in jail. >> george: do you get a sense from the images that we saw on the anniversary, there is another revolution brewing against mohammed morsi? >> yes. and thousands were outside the presidential palace, t

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>> benedict xvi is a man of the bible. he's a brilliant expositor of the bible. right in the middle of lent, the most serious pen tential season of the church's church's liturgical year. the pope has stayed on message. it's a time to think about what it means for all of us to walk the way of the cross, and i expect he'll stay with that message today. he's not a man who instinctively draws attention to himself. he wants people to focus on the truth of the gospel, the truth the church proclaims, and i think that master teacher attitude of which liz just spoke. the skill that, when he was a professor, would have people lining up outside the lecture hall at 8:00 in the morning to kibbutz his lectures, will be on public display for one last time. >> this is obviously an extraordinary moment in history. it is worth repeating time and again. this is not something we have ever seen in modern history. we have a pope who has made a decision that he is going to step down. he will be pope emeritus. and there is this opportunity for this final good-bye, this final appearance,

i remember one time ripping out bible papers and using them to roll drugs up with. was -- it really didn't matter to me. >> reporter: his life became a downward spiral of drugs and partying, but he says before he reach 20, he realizedhe emptess of it all. someone invited him to attend a christian meeting and study the bible, and he says to his shock, the classic christian teaching about salvation really struck a chord. >> the simple truth that if there is a god he did love me enough to sacrifice himself for me, like no human being would ever come up with the story that says, god reached down to bring me up. and that really -- it rocked me in a way i'd never been rocked. >> reporter: now he ra not only about his religious beliefs, but about being a faithful husband and a responsible father -- not typical themes in hip-hop. >> when you hear -- turn on the radio and you hear all these perspectives and philosophies, misogyny and you know, hedonism, most christians say, "i got to find the christian station to get away from this." how beautiful would it be if christians w

. >>> coming up, part bible study, part trivial pursuit.e'll take you behind the scenes of the hit "the american bible challenge." >>> first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> still to come, beyonce getting very personal. we'll tell you what she's revealing in this new documentary about her family, motherhood, sexual those good things. >>> plus, she's the tough love trainer from "the biggest loser." jillian michaels joins us to answer some of your questions. first, these messages. >> good morning everyone. fren i ever franciotti. here's a look at the morning's top stories. a stabbing and robbery on friday afternoon led to lengthy police pursuit and dramatic moments for west baltimore neighborhood. a man faces armed robbery first and second degree assault charges and other charges related to that pursuit. bennett stabbed a would be in the hand of a parking lot in the mall before taking her purse and driving off. authorities were able to catch up with bennett 14 miles away at the corn of fulton and westerfield avenue in baltimore. that victim is sa