More blessed blood shall then be spilt
To take from Caiaphas his guilt.
(The men having put away their tools lift the door and carry it away.)
Anna. (Reading) “He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he smitten. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”
(Voices of water-carriers heard without.)
1st Antiphon. The bows of the mighty men are broken.
2nd Antiphon. And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
1st Antiphon. They that were full have hired themselves for bread.
2nd Antiphon. And they that were hungry have ceased.
(The women pass by.)