This Film About Jesus Is a Near-Perfect Adaptation of Scripture — and Allegedly the Most-Watched Movie Ever

There are plenty of movies out there that have been made about Jesus Christ. The New Testament story has been brought to life countless times over the years, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the source material. While no adaptation will ever be able to fully capture the brilliance of the original Gospel narratives, there is one feature film that is best known for being considered the most-watched of them all — and that distinction may extend to being the most-watched movie, ever. Ben-Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Passion of the Christare all standard picks to revisit around Easter, but it turns out that only the 1979 picture simply titled Jesus beats out all the rest in terms of frequency of views.