“I don’t understand.”
“He has sent me to preach good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to preach deliverance to the captives, to give sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
“What you speak in foolishness, young man, can neither bring credit to you nor to your teacher.”
“Woe unto you when men praise you, and he who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey.”
Caiaphas turned to Annas: “This is not the man who will deliver the Galilaean up to us.”
“They have sent another one—Listen! Is your name Iscariot?”
“No; my name is John.”
“Then go in peace, but send us Iscariot instead. But wait! Give us in two words the teaching of your Master regarding the meaning of life.”
“Death is a gain for the righteous,” answered John without stopping to think.
“Is life not itself...?”