The man quietly replied:
“No, but my right; for you are the sacrilegist and the blasphemer who makes of the Son of man a hideous caricature.”
Then the priest stepped forward, and gripped Markus by the wrist. The latter made no resistance, but cried in a loud voice that reverberated through the church:
“Do your work, Caiaphas!”
After that he suffered himself to be led away to the sacristy.
The Image in the Forum
By Robert Buchanan
(English novelist and dramatist, 1814-1901)
Not Baal, but Christus-Jingo! Heir