Prophesy, prophesy. Who is it now that strikes you? Turn the other cheek.
[The mocker strikes Simon. With a powerful movement Simon seizes the mocker, hurls him to the ground and snatching his sword which the soldiers have placed upon a bench he clears a space about him and starts again toward the right entrance.]
The Voice
Overcome evil with good. Forgive your enemy.
[Simon bows his head, then extends the hilt of his sword to a soldier who takes it and strikes him with the flat of the blade. Simon submits, dumbly, with bowed head, to this and to the Mocker with the Scourge who rises painfully from the ground and again strikes him viciously.]
The Mocker with the Scourge
Turn the other cheek.
[He takes a rope from his girdle and making a noose in it puts the noose over Simon’s head and dances about him holding the rope’s end. The Mocker with the Robe enters from the right.]
The Mocker with the Robe