Watch: Mary lights the Sabbath candles in a deleted scene from The Young Messiah

The Young Messiah came out on DVD and Blu-Ray today, and I was planning to write a review of the bonus features — but the review copy that arrived at my place today was the Canadian edition of the disc, and it has no bonus features whatsoever. So it looks like I’ll just have to order the American disc and wait until that arrives.

In the meantime, Brian Godawa has posted one of the deleted scenes that come with the American Blu-Ray. It shows Mary lighting candles for the Sabbath:

Interestingly, the last frames in that clip indicate that that scene might have originally been followed by this other scene that went online a few months ago:

As per my comment above, I will review the deleted scenes and other bonus features once I have a copy of the American Blu-Ray. In the meantime, you can read my review of the film, my interview with director Cyrus Nowrasteh, and my detailed scene guide listing all of the film’s scriptural and apocryphal sources, among other things.

Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:

• The ‘Extended Look’ featurette (September 15, 2015)
• The first trailer (September 18, 2015)
• The Cyrus Nowrasteh interview with Raymond Arroyo (December 18, 2015)
• The ‘Nativity’ clip and the ‘How to Make Your Own Christmas Ornament!’ and ‘Make a Birthday Cake for Jesus!’ videos (December 23, 2015)
• The ‘The Young Messiah Celebrates Ash Wednesday’ featurette (February 10, 2016)
• The ‘The Fight’, ‘Joining the Family’, ‘The Question of a Child’, ‘The Decision’ and ‘The Story’ clips (February 13, 2016)
• The John Debney soundtrack preview (February 22, 2016)
• The ‘Faith Leaders’ TV spot (February 27, 2016)
• The ‘Parenting’ featurette (February 29, 2016)
• Nine TV spots (March 4, 2016)
• The Chris Columbus interviews (March 8, 2016)
• The ‘Kids and Parents React to The Young Messiah’ featurette and the ‘Kids Answer “What Miracle Would You Perform?”’, ‘Kids Answer “What Was Jesus Like as a Child?”’ and ‘Mary Did You Know?’ videos (March 9, 2016)
• The ‘Returning Home’ and ‘Child’s Questions’ clips, and the B-roll footage (March 10, 2016)
• The Cyrus Nowrasteh interviews (March 10, 2016)
• The ‘Behind the Scenes’ featurette and the ‘I Loved It!’, ‘High School Student Reacts to The Young Messiah’ and ‘Parents React to The Young Messiah’ videos (March 17, 2016)
• The scene guide, collecting all clips from the film (March 18, 2016)
• The TV documentary (March 19, 2016)
• The home-video TV spot (April 18, 2016)
• The first clip from the Blu-Ray’s making-of documentary (June 11, 2016)
• The ‘Not Wanted Here’, ‘Meeting the Rabbi’, ‘Face-off with Satan’ and ‘Being Jesus’ Parents’ clips, and the second clip from the Blu-Ray’s making-of documentary (June 13, 2016)