I think we should basically agree to disagree on this.

I had a hard time watching this film, partly because of the bloodshed and torture and partly because continous antisemitic scenes atleast the way I understood them maybe as you say because of having been predisposed to such things more than you.
I'm happy your experience was different and that you witnessed an elevating and rewarding rendering of the Passion.

I just add two more points as my final post in this thread:
Obviously Mel Gibson didn't include all the Biblical details about the Passion in this film.

Just as one example take the remark about "a certain young man" who was following Jesus and his captors, when they laid hold on him so casting off his cloth he ran away naked..." (Mark 14:51-52)

Yet he made sure the "blood" scene and the "bribing" scene etc. remain in the film, although they put fingers on such sensitive and painful issues, issues that have left a long history of discrimination, oppression and even massacer in their wake.

Second, there are an abundance of extra-Biblical material on Passion, yet he chose one of the sickest, most hateful and perverse hallucinations of a (quite disturbed) nun to "fill in the gaps".

To me this all passes well with all that I thought I saw while watching this particular film. That's all.

AIS