'Pillage! massacre! and violation!' exclaimed some.
'Such is the object of the Nazarene! ‘Tis for this he drags after him this band of wretches.'
'He would some day, at their head, give up Jerusalem to fire, pillage and blood!'
The high priest Caiphus, president of the tribunal, signed to one of the officers to demand silence; the officer again struck the floor with his mace, all were silent. Caiphus, addressing the young Nazarene in a menacing voice, said to him:
'Why do you not reply to what these persons depose against you?'
Jesus said to him in an accent full of gentleness and dignity:
'I have spoken publicly to every one; I have always taught in the temple and in the synagogue in which all the Jews were assembled; I have said nothing in secret, why, then, do you question me? Question those who have heard me, to ascertain what I have said to them: these know what I have taught.'
Scarce had he spoken these words when Genevieve saw one of the officers, furious at this reply, so just and so calm, raise his hand against Jesus and strike him in the face, exclaiming:
'Is it thus you reply to the high priest?'
At this infamous outrage, to strike a man bound, Genevieve felt her heart leap, her tears stream, whilst on the contrary, loud bursts of laughter rose from amidst the soldiers and servants of the high priest.