“Is that not too severe, regarded as a punishment?” said Caiaphas.
“No,” answered the Levite; “one of his disciples called Simon or Peter drew his sword and wounded one of the servants called Malchus.”
“Do we need any more witnesses?”
“But the Teacher said, ‘Put up thy sword into its sheath, for they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.’”
“That is a difficult saying,” said Annas, and went down. But the people continued to cry, “Crucify! Crucify!”
THE WILD BEAST
Before the temple of Jupiter Latiaris in Rome, two men of the middle classes met each other. They both remained standing in order to contemplate the new temple, which was different from all others, and looked as if it had felt the effects of an earthquake. The basement had the shape of a roof; the columns stood reversed with their capitals below, and the roof was constructed like a basement with cellar-windows.
“So we meet here again, Hebrew,” said one of the two, who resembled a Roman merchant. “Was it not in Joppa that we last met?”