I've got mixed feelings about this...

New York Times: Gibson to Delete a Scene in 'Passion'

A scene in the film, in which the Jewish high priest Caiaphas calls down a kind of curse on the Jewish people by declaring of the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children," will not be in the movie's final version, said the Gibson associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The passage had been included in some versions of the film that were shown before select groups, mostly of priests and ministers.

"It didn't work in the focus screenings," the associate said. "Maybe it was thought to be too hurtful, or taken not in the way it was intended. It has been used terribly over the years."

Jewish leaders had warned that the passage from Matthew 27:25 was the historic source for many of the charges of deicide and Jews' collective guilt in the death of Jesus.

I can understand this, but it seems almost like expurgation of the Scripture. It seems like Gibson caved in to pressure a little bit. However, I doubt that this cut will ruin the movie or anything, if it really is as powerful as people are saying it is.

The way I see it, "His blood be on us and on our children" applies to all sinners, which of course is everyone who has ever lived.

(Via Thunderstruck.)