It’s the second coming of “Christ” — but the original cast won’t be resurrected.

Mel Gibson’s long-gestating sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

Jim Caviezel won’t return as Jesus, and Monica Bellucci won’t be back as Mary Magdalene in “The Resurrection of the Christ,” we hear.

“They’re [currently] meeting with actors [in Rome],” a source familiar with the project told us.

Another source said they switched it up because “they’d [have had] to do a lot of work with the [original] actors… digital stuff, plus the scheduling.”

“There was a lot of back and forth,” they said, adding the flick has been in pre-production “for a couple of months.”

Gibson’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2004’s massive indie

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