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Kevin’s spent the last couple of hours watching The Passion of the Christ with the boys.

Lucas sat on the sofa the whole time, engrossed. (Yes, it’s violent, but its impact is definitely worth the gore, unlike most of the superhero movies we usually watch around here in boy-central.) Asking question after question of Kevin, Lucas clearly took in the big picture.

Atticus ran around the house with his 3-D “bird-man” glasses on (“This is my red eye, and this is my blue eye”), but spent enough time in the living room to be able to share his commentary with me (“Jesus has blood on his face”…”There’s a hole in Jesus’ hand”).

And Kevin? He ran commentary the whole time, rendering himself a bit hoarse afterward, even.

One sliver of conversation:

Lucas: How did Jesus turn the water into wine?
Kevin: He’s God. He can do anything. He could turn you into wine if He wanted to.
Lucas: Then I would be spilled all over the couch.

I was grading papers and planning the whole time, so I didn’t get to watch and listen to all the conversation like I would have liked. But I started thinking afterward about how I may view it differently if I saw it through their eyes.

Kevin said he was trying to see things the way the kids (mostly Lucas) would, so he could explain what they may not understand. A couple of his observations:

1. When the Jewish priests were spitting on Jesus, Lucas said, “I thought they were holy people.”
2. Lucas wanted to know when the Devil and the demons were coming back all the time. Kevin told him to focus on Jesus instead, but it reminds me of watching The Wizard of Oz and watching for the Wicked Witch the whole time.

By the end of the movie, the kids both agreed that Jesus is the best superhero ever. Not only is he powerful, but he also heals the people who would hurt him (like the guard whose ear Peter cut off when Jesus was first seized).