Gene Gauntier later claimed that she was recovering from sunstroke on the broiling locations when the idea for the film came to her.
Ironically, Robert Henderson-Bland was selected for the role of Jesus in a silent film because star/director Sidney Olcott liked the way his voice sounded on the telephone.
The costumes were based on an 1894 watercolor exhibition by James Joseph Jacques Tissot, entitled "Vie de Notre Seigneur, Jesus Christ."