Ruling out divine intervention, the scourging Jesus receives would not have been survivable. The beating with the roads and whips could be survived. However the whips embedded with sharp pieces of metal were used for executions, usually for soldiers who had deserted. After about 20 strokes so much skin and muscle would be torn off the back that the internal organs would be exposed. In addition, there is an enormous amount of blood left on the ground. That amount of blood loss would have been fatal. Death would follow swiftly. [Which is why, for the purposes of the movie, divine intervention is not ruled out. The scourging didn't kill Jesus because he was meant to die on the cross. It is established, within the context of the movie, that God and Satan exist and that Jesus is the son of God.] Corrected by Phixius

Condemned prisoners were crucified naked by the Romans as a final act of public humiliation. Given that it is an 18 cert movie, why would the director skip past this well known fact? [According the Gospels, Jesus was left with an undergarment. Where known historical fact and Biblical accounts diverge, the Biblical version was favored. Think of it as a movie version of the Gospels rather than a historical documentary.] Corrected by Phixius

Jesus is roped to the cross by his wrists, then nailed to the cross, which is then turned over in order to hammer flat the nails. Baffling and totally pointless: he isn't exactly in a position to try and escape. [How is this a mistake? That's how it was done. The condemned may try to thrash about hoping to get down, potentially pulling a nail out. No, they couldn't get away, but it'd be a hassle for the guards to have to put them back up. They solve that problem by bending the nails.] Corrected by Phixius

A shot of Jesus looking up to the sky before he dies, you can see one eye (the one half-shut and bruised) is blue. Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus, has blue eyes. [How exactly is this a mistake, that they don't change the actor's eye colour in the film?]

Jim Caviezel's (Jesus) eyes were digitally color-changed to brown, and he wore a prosthetic nose piece to make him look more Hebrew. [Caviezels' eyes were not digitally altered - on the official movie website Mel Gibson says one of the reasons he was so drawn to Caviezel playing Jesus was the amazing colour and intensity of his eyes - he thought they looked spiritual.]

After Pilate offers Jesus a drink, he moves to Jesus's right. Then the shot changes, and he is now moving to Jesus's left. [Self correcting entry. The shot changes. Pilate is pacing impatiently, mocking Jesus, showing him he has better things to do than talk to a common criminal like him. He reverses direction as he speaks several times. ]

The Latin used by the Roman characters contains linguistic features that did not yet exist in AD 30 or thereabouts. For example, Pilate's pronunciation of the word VOCEM "voice" as "vochem" is improbable, given that C was pronounced as "k" at the time he lived. The so-called "softening" of C did not begin until much later. [In fact the correct pronunciation of Latin is still a matter of intense debate. The straight answer is, nobody really knows. Some scholars believe the soft 'CH' sound derived from the Germanic languages that precede Latin by hundreds of years, so in this case I think the filmmakers deserve the benefit of the doubt.]

Very few Roman soldiers were in Jerusalem, and rather were local conscripts who would have spoken one of the local dialects, Mishnaic Hebrew or, based on funerary evidence, Greek. Similarly Pilate and the chief priest Caiaphas would have communicated in Greek, not Latin. This is an obvious deliberate error. [It's not an error at all. First, you are wrong about the 'local conscripts'. The Romans never stationed conscripts in their own country - too great a risk of desertion or local alliances. Second, there were thousands of Romans in Jerusalem - it was a critically important trading post, the gateway to Asia. Third, the Romans imposed Latin upon their conquered peoples, whether they liked it or not. They spoke Greek to demonstrate how cultured they were, but in local matters they spoke Latin and nothing else.]

When Jesus is thirsty on the cross, a Roman soldier puts a sponge on the end of a spear and holds it up to him. Notice when he forces the sponge on the spear it goes right through and comes out the other side. However, when it is by Jesus' mouth it is just about held on at the end, and we never saw the soldier change its position. [The sponge was compressed when the spear was driven through it. It decompressed when the pressure was taken off.]

Two thieves are crucified with Jesus. However, thieves were never crucified because theft wasn't a capital offense. Crucifixion was reserved for enemies of the Roman Empire (e.g. rebels, spies, traitors), not for common thieves. [This is based on what the Bible says.]

Jesus is arrested in the garden at night and immediately brought before the Jewish high priests for a trial during the feast of Passover. However, Jewish law prohibited trials from starting at night and prohibited any trials from taking place during the feast of Passover. A trial during the sacred feast of Passover would be equivalent to an American court holding a trial on July 4. That would never happen. [This is how the Bible mentions that it happened. ]

When Jesus is in prison and Mary puts her head to the floor and the camera tracks down to him, you can see that the manacles on his arms are far too big and he could easily slide his hand out. Strange considering they seem to fit for the rest of the film. [Jesus does not necessairly wear the same pair of manacles all the way through the film.]

When the soldiers flip the cross over onto its face with Jesus hanging from it, you can tell his waist is attached to the cross - if it wasn't, he would be hanging down which he obviously is not. [The scene where Jesus' cross is turned over for the soldiers to bang the nails against the wood is actually a miracle. Mary Magdalene notices that the cross is suspended above the ground (so that Jesus does not touch the ground or break any bones when the cross is turned over), so she immediately recognizes the presence of God and covers her head, as if she were in the Temple. So, to be correct, Jesus would appear to be still attached to the cross, and that His body would not hang down like the poster suggests.]

In the scene where they are trying to put the second nail through Christ's palm, a Roman Soldier, in frustration takes over and pulls Christ's arm a significant way along the beam and you hear a crack, as if Christ's shoulder has been dislocated. This would have resulted in a quick death for Christ, not the agonising one portrayed in the Passion (and the Bible). Crucifixion kills through suffocation, not blood loss through the puncture points - whilst hanging on the cross, the victim would fall forward and compress their lungs and suffocate. To stop this happening, the victim would hoist themselves up, causing excruciating pain where the nails went through. Eventually, exhaustion would stop them doing this and they would suffocate - or in the case of the thieves either side of Christ, their legs would be broken so they couldn't hoist themselves up. It is unlikely that Christ, with a dislocated shoulder, could keep himself upright to avoid quick suffocation. [This is where the wedge shaped piece of wood under the feet comes in, this was created by the Romans to prolong the suffering by making the victim able to support himself with his legs. This is why the legs were broken, only when the legs were broken, or too weak to hold him anymore, would the victim be "hanged" from his own arms and die of asphyxiation.]

In the scene leading up to Christ carrying his cross, you can visibly see the breath of some of the Roman soldiers and Jesus in some shots as if it was cold. Clearly, this was unintentional, since it was supposed to be warm, and their breath is not seen throughout the film. [Jesus was led to the cross before 9am, so it would not have been that warm.]

In the beginning of the film, some of the trees in the forest are trees that grow in colder climates than in Jerusalem. The cross Jesus was crucified on was also made from wood that could not be grown in Jerusalem. [There are many varieties of trees that can grow in many different climates. It is impossible to tell the variety of a tree from the movie. One variety may only be grown in warmer climates, whereas a different variety of the same type of tree could grow in cooler climates. Again, it is impossible to tell the type of wood used for the cross by simply watching the movie.]

The chosen method of Christ's death is problematic from a historical viewpoint. If Christ was convicted of blasphemy as shown in the film he would either have been stoned or thrown off a high wall. This was the Jewish punishment for blasphemy and was a fate that Jesus' brother or cousin James was to suffer some years later. Crucifixion was a Roman punishment specifically for treason. It was a highly public and particularly terrible death to demonstrate the fate of enemies of Rome. [The High Priests of the temple got the Romans to crucify Jesus by portraying him as a threat to the Roman rule. They told Pilate that Jesus was viewed as a king above Caesar by many of the people and that he was a threat to the stability of the Empire in the area.]

The scene at the end of the crucifixion where Jesus' body is taken from the cross and handed over to his family is, historically, very improbable. The whole point of crucifixion was that it was a public event to demonstrate the punishment for enemies of Rome. The body was left on the cross until it rotted away or was carried away by animals. Anyone caught removing a crucified body was likely to be crucified themselves. This is the reason that very few crucified bodies from Roman times have been found by archaeologists. [It is recorded in all four gospels that Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate and asked for permission to take Jesus' body down from the cross for burial. Pilate agreed, and Jesus was buried in a tomb that had been prepared for Joseph.]

Throughout the film Roman soldiers are shown with undeveloped flabby arms. This would have been impossible at a time when the Roman military was composed of warriors who trained constantly with double weight weapons and who were worked the rest of the time to maintain discipline. [Most of the soldiers shown, including the ones scourging Jesus, are not Roman soldiers. They are Syrian soldiers stationed in Jerusalem. The Romans would station soldiers from conquered nations in other countries where the soldiers and the people under them had had long and bitter disputes. They did this to avoid the captive soldiers forming alliances with the captive people and overthrowing the Roman government. Whenever Roman soldiers are shown, their arms are not flabby.]

In the scene of Jesus being flayed there is a shot of the group of Pharisees watching. Satan appears and is only visible to Jesus if you look closely as Satan passes through the group one of the extras is watching as Satan passes in front of him [They could be seeing him in human form just as Judas Iscariot saw demons while others saw children.]