Here is a quote from Mel Gibson himself about his intended meaning for the baby that Satan was holding: “...it's evil distorting what is good. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old 'baby' with hair on his back. It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much - just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging Him on His chest is shocking and almost too much, which takes place the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place.” Of course, there is no such event described in the Bible. This scene is purely in the mind of the filmmaker.
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