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Ben-Hur was transformed from bible scripture to a moviebecause it is the most read scripture in the Bible. Thescripture tells the story of a man, Judah Ben-Hur, whotrades his life as the prince of Jerusalem with the life of aslave. The story tells of his journeys and triumphs as a slave.The story starts with the five wise men as their journey tofind deliverer. When they arrive in Bethlehem they come bearinggifts for the newborn king. After the birth of Jesus the moviechanges to two Roman soldiers who are in a meeting. One of the soldiers, Tribune Musala, is an old booster ofJudah. Judah comes in and meets with Musala and inviteshim to his home for dinner and to see his family. Musala tellsJudah how the Romans will conquer his people and if hewants to save his family he can turn in the Rebels who planto revolt. Judah is enraged that his friend would ask him toturn in his own people, and storms out of the meeting. After the meeting Judah returns home to find an oldfriend/slave of his there wait for him. The slave askspermission that his daughter be allowed to marry. Judahgladly grants his wish and meets the young woman, Esther.The two have a private talk in which Judah grants Esther herfreedom and says that he will wear her slavery ring until hefinds his true love. The Romans enter Jerusalem and the entire city watchedfrom rooftops. As Judah and Esther watched Estheraccidentally knocks a shingle expel and scares a horsecausing it to kick and buck a general from the horse killingthe general. The Romans enter the city and arrest Judah, hissister, and m otherwise. His friend Musala orders Judah to be displace to the galleys. Judah escapes from confines to findMusala and asks him why he would do this to a friend.Musala says, "People will fear me for persecuting my ownfriend." A chain gang of slaves traveling through and through the desert stop sothe Romans can get a drink of water. The guards allow theslaves very little water, but allow their horses to dr ink a racy amount. The guards say "No water for him" referringto Judah. A man gives Judah water and the guard gets angryand yells at the man. The guard and the man look at eachother and the guard cowards. The man is portrayed asJesus.At the end of the desert travels Judah finds himself in thegalleys of a boat as a num... ...ate Musalas legs, however he wantsto wait to see Judah first. Judah arrives and Musala tells himthat his family is not dead and that they are in fact in thevalley of the lepers. Musala then died in front of Judah.When Judah goes to the valley of the lepers he sees Esther,he gets angry with her for lying to him. She explains theirplea to her. Judah then returns to the valley again the nextday, this time to see his mother and sister. When he sees hismother she tells him that his sister, Tirza is dying. They go tosee Tirza and maintain her to Rome. When they arrive they findout that a man is being tried. They find that the man beingtried was actually Jesus being crucified.As Jesus is carrying his cross up the hill he falls down and iswhipped. Judah gave him some water as he did for Judah inthe past. One of the guards kicks the water away fromJesus. The four-spot watch as Jesus is crucified. Later that nightthe three women are sitting in a cave when a bad storm rollsin. At the peak of the storm Jesus died. After the death ofJesus Marium and Tirza are cured of their Leprosy. Theythen see Judah the next day and everyone was happy thatthey were cured.