Gibson claims he interprets this line as directed toward all humanity. The most damning scene is when the Jewish high priest Caiaphas states that 'his blood on us and on our children,' a line from the Gospel of Matthew that blames the Jewish community for Jesus' death.

The National Catholic Reporter argues that Gibson frames 'the Jewish leaders as a soulless mafia, the apostles and Jesus as outside of Jewish religious life, and the Jewish people as unanimously involved in eagerly seeing Jesus tortured and murdered.' Gibson blatantly perpetuates racial stereotypes at one point, Jami Bernard notes in Today, he 'cuts from the hook nose of one bad Jewish character to the hook nose of another in the ensuing scene.' Bernard asserts that Gibson's film 'is the most virulently antisemitic movie since the German propaganda films of World War Two.' The lavishly-dressed Jewish characters are othered as evil, scheming misers hungry for Christ's blood. Antisemitism appears throughout the final film in its cartoonish depiction of Jewish people.

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