CHANGE OF SCENE
A stone square before the open gate of the Temple called the Susan Gate. The front of the stage is enclosed by the circuit of the outer wall. In the centre more than half the breadth of the stage is taken up by the massive doors of the gate, to which steps lead. It is night. The fire of the great sacrificial altar is reflected from the background on the walls, and fills the foreground with red, uncertain flickering glow.
SCENE X
Pilgrims (men and women) lie in their blankets, scattered about the steps and on the stones which fill the space on left side. Among them the First Galilean and Second Galilean. To the right of the path which leads outside the wall of the Temple, across the stage, lies Mesulemeth. (In a little while enter John from left.)
JOHN
[Looks round searchingly, and pauses before a pilgrim who is sleeping on the steps.] Pilgrim, awake!
PILGRIM
It is not yet day. Why dost thou wake me?
JOHN
Whence comest thou? Art thou a Galilean?