I shall not go out?... True, you dare fight against a woman. I had not foreseen this great courage born of terror. You all shake your heads like empty cornspikes; and the women rejoice in at last discovering the cowardice of the men, showing itself suddenly more signal than their own!...
Joseph of Arimathæa
Take counsel, Magdalene; think of him and reflect that, if he heard you....
Mary Magdalene
Well, if he heard me, it would be as on the day when that one among you whom you all resemble reproached me with anointing his feet with too costly an ointment!... Have you forgotten what he said?... Whom did he declare to be right?... You have understood nothing!... For months and years, you have lived in his light; and not one of you has the least idea of what I saw because I loved him, I who did not come until the eleventh hour, I whom he drew from lower than the lowest slave of the lowest among you all!...
Nicodemus (listening to the sounds outside)
Hush!... Listen!... Some one is walking outside the house.... (To Bartimæus.) Go see who it is....
Bartimæus (at the window)
It is a man wrapped in a cloak.... A Roman.... He has stopped.... He knocks at the door.... He is coming in.... The door was not closed....
Mary Magdalene (running to the door of the Supper-room)