... By great Jupiter, I’ll go look out the window now. I’ve purged myself of the Galilean; I’ve washed my hands of that man....
He glanced downward.
Flavius, entering the chamber in response to Pilate’s summons, halted abruptly. Procurator Pontius Pilate, ruler of Judaea, his eyes wide with terror, stood rigid in his tracks, staring at his hands.
From wrists to fingertips, in the fiery beam from the window, they flamed a gory crimson.
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