Speak, Miriam!
MIRIAM
If the master will hear. With ye others I have nothing to do.
JOHN
I will listen, Miriam.
MIRIAM
A rumour has reached the Tetrarch that the people are plotting evil against him. He would on that account hide the woman, but she will not be hid. She will defy the master, because he hath offended her. An order is just gone forth for all the servants of the house to arm themselves and line the road. Even during the night, so that the procession shall pass to the Temple ere the great crowd assembleth. Thus they think to escape the people's wrath and thine, master.
THE DISCIPLES
That shall not come to pass; verily it shall not.
JOSAPHAT