"Why didst thou let thyself be made the tool for a transaction which thou didst not weigh beforehand?" said Caiaphas.
"Yes," cried several, "it is your own business."
Then shouted Judas wildly, "May my soul be damned, my body burnt asunder, and ye—"
"Silence and out from here," cried all the priests together.
"And you," shouted Judas, above them all, "you will sink with me into the lowest hell!" He then rushed from the hall.
After a pause, during which the chief priests and rulers looked at each other in silence, the money lay unnoticed on the floor. Caiaphas said, "What a fearful man!"
"I had some foreboding of this," said Annas.
"It is his own fault," remarked a priest.
Then said Caiaphas, "Let him expiate that fault himself. He has betrayed his friend, we pursue our enemy. I remain steadfast by my determination, and if anyone here should be of another opinion, let him stand up."
"No," cried they all with one voice, "what has been resolved upon, let it be carried out."