Then all cried out, "Pilate must consent, the whole nation demands it of him."
Caiaphas walked backward and forward with excited mien, but proud and triumphant step, and said, "Oh, most glorious day of the people of Israel. Children, be steadfast!"
The priests and Pharisees: "This day brings back honor to the synagogue and freedom to the people."
"Now," said Caiaphas, as they approached the house of Pilate, "let us demand the sentence with uproar and threaten him with universal revolt!"
Then cried the whole multitude tumultuously, "We demand the blood of our enemy!"
So loud was the cry, so savage the emphasis, that two servants of Pilate started out of the house and looking down on the turbulent throng cried out, "Uproar! Insurrection!"
And the people answered, "The Nazarene shall die!"
Caiaphas, hastening hither and thither in the crowd to excite them to still further violence, said, "Show courage. Stand out undismayed. A righteous cause defends us."
Then the people called out clamorously; "Pilate—pronounce the sentence of death!"
Pilate's servant from the balcony said, "Silence! be quiet!" but the crowd shouted at him louder than before, "No, we will not be quiet until Pilate consents."