AMASAI
He denies God!
THE PEOPLE
[Murmuring.] He denies God!
AMASAI
A Rechabite unclean? A man who doth nothing day and night but fulfil the law; who performeth his sacred ablutions three times more than necessary; who sitteth, on the Sabbath, like a monument; who speaketh a blessing at meat twice, and over salt, bread er----er--[half choking.] A Rechabite unclean?
JOHN
If I could not answer thy questions with their double meaning, thou thyself hast now answered them!
AMASAI
And may seven swine possess thee, thou great prophet, so that compared with them thou appearest to me a saint. [To the Galilean.] And what evil spirit hath taken possession of thee, man? Art thou a Jew? Where dost thou come from? What is thy name?