A Cripple
Why do you not put out the lamps?... They will see the lights!... Quick! Quick! Put out the lamps!...
(The lamps are put out.)
Another
Do not go to the windows!... Do not show yourselves at the windows!... Lie down along the walls!...
Verus
It is a noble spectacle and I long to see it out....
Joseph of Arimathæa (going up to Verus)
Sir, do not ruin them.... They are weak and poor.... Almost all of them are sick.... They know not what they do.... Have pity on men and do not judge them....
(The shouts—“Crucify him! Crucify him!... Tempter! Tempter!... Galilean! Nazarene!... He would destroy the Temple!... He would destroy the Law!... Blasphemer!... Crucify him! Crucify him! Crucify him!”—are redoubled in the street and are now heard outside the house itself. The red light of the torches is cast into the room. The Blind Man of Jericho steals up to one of the windows and looks out.)