Watch: Mary meets Joseph, and Herod sings, in two new clips from Journey to Bethlehem
Watch: Mary meets Joseph, and Herod sings, in two new clips from Journey to Bethlehem
The film is now available to rent or purchase digitally.
Four weeks after it started playing in theatres, Journey to Bethlehem is now available to rent or purchase digitally—and to mark the occasion, the studio has released two new clips with about twelve minutes of footage from the movie’s earliest scenes.
The first clip is a nine-minute “extended preview” that features the first scenes with Mary (Fiona Palomo), Joseph (Milo Manheim), Herod (Antonio Banderas), and Antipater (Joel Smallbone). The clip also includes ‘Mary’s Getting Married’, a three-and-a-half-minute song performed by Mary and her sisters Deborah (Moriah) and Rebekah (Stephanie Gil) that was already released as a standalone clip a few weeks ago.
The second clip, which in the film takes place more or less right after the “extended preview”, shows Herod singing ‘Good to Be King’ and getting annoyed by the way his son Antipater keeps trying to take a bit of the spotlight away from him.
Between these clips and the others that have been released over the past two months, we now have about 27 minutes of footage from the 98-minute film. A quick recap, with all the clips listed in movie-chronological order:
‘Come Look at the Star’ — 0:20
‘Extended Preview’ (includes ‘Mary’s Getting Married’) — 9:23
‘Good to Be King’ — 3:14
‘Can We Make This Work’ — 3:02
‘Mother to a Savior and King’ — 3:31
‘The Ultimate Deception’ — 2:48
‘We Become We’ — 2:12
‘In My Blood’ — 2:54
If you add the music video for the end-credits song ‘Brand New Life’, there is about 31 minutes of movie accounted for in all these clips—nearly a third of the film.
Aside from the second end-credits song (a For King & Country cover of ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ that I think pre-dates the film), there are still three songs that have not been released as movie clips: the opening medley, the closing medley, and ‘Three Wise Guys’, a more overtly comedic song that the Magi perform in Herod’s court.
I’ll have more to say about these clips later. Stay tuned.
Previous videos for Journey to Bethlehem:
The teaser trailer (April 28, 2023)
The official trailer (September 14, 2023)
The ‘Heart of Journey to Bethlehem’ featurette (September 20, 2023)
The Mary and Joseph featurette (September 29, 2023)
The Mary’s sisters featurette (October 3, 2023)
The Antipater featurette (October 6, 2023)
The Fig (donkey) featurette (October 10, 2023)
The ‘Can We Make This Work’ clip (October 13, 2023)
The King Herod featurette (October 20, 2023)
The Gabriel featurette (October 25, 2023)
The ‘Brand New Life’ music video and featurette, the ‘Gift of Giving’ promo, and the Catholic and Protestant screening reactions (October 27, 2023)
The Wise Men featurette (October 31, 2023)
The ‘Married Collaborators’ featurette (November 3, 2023)
The ‘In My Blood’ clip (November 4, 2023)
The Mary featurette (November 7, 2023)
The Joseph featurette (November 9, 2023)
The ‘Mother to a Savior and King’ clip, the ‘A Story Worth Sharing’, ‘God Is with Us’, and ‘What We Know’ videos for local church use, and the ‘Dallas Jenkins Shoutout’ video (November 16, 2023)
The ‘Mary’s Getting Married’ and ‘The Ultimate Deception’ clips, and the Adam Anders and Joel Smallbone see-it-in-theatres videos (November 22, 2023)
The ‘Come Look at the Star’ clip (December 2, 2023)
The ‘We Become We’ clip (December 5, 2023)
Other previous posts on Journey to Bethlehem:
‘Has The Road to Bethlehem not been filmed yet?’ (August 19, 2022)
‘Adam Anders’ Nativity musical now filming in Spain’ (February 23, 2023)
‘Adam Anders’ Nativity musical gets a title’ (April 3, 2023)
‘Exclusive: Journey to Bethlehem director Adam Anders on his years-long quest to make a musical about the Nativity’ (October 23, 2023)
‘The Journey to Bethlehem soundtrack is here’ (November 3, 2023)
‘Box office: The Marvels, Journey to Bethlehem get the holiday season off to a rocky start’ (November 13, 2023)
‘A few thoughts on Journey to Bethlehem’ (November 16, 2023)
‘Journey to Bethlehem round-up: a new clip and a newer, longer soundtrack album’ (December 2, 2023)