Christian Voice, a religiously motivated lobby group in Britain, targeted the BBC for what it saw as an attempt to exonerate Judas, Pilate and high priest Caiaphas, who concocted the plot to kill Jesus.

The BBC drama, ''The Passion,'' is being broadcast in four parts over the Easter period. It portrays Judas as torn between his loyalty to both Jesus and Caiaphas, while Pilate is depicted as trying to ''keep a lid'' on tensions in Jerusalem while battling to manage his wife's social aspiration and to save his own career.

Stephen Green, a former Anglican turned fundamentalist who is national director of Christian Voice, accused the BBC of trying to rewrite the Gospels and complained to the broadcaster that ''yet again a revisionist slant has to be put on a story that is transparent.''