Catiline, the third hangman, as he rattled the dice in his hand, looked up at Jesus and said, "Hi! you up there, if you can still work miracles on the cross, give me good luck." The others shrugged their shoulders and said, "What does he care about us?" Catiline's throw was not high. Then Nero said, "I ought to have had better luck," and throwing the dice he counted fifteen. "Nearly enough; now, Faustus, it is your turn." Faustus threw the dice, saying, "I ought to get it." They all bent over to see the result. "Eighteen!" cried Catiline; "that is the best yet." Then said Agrippa, "Take it," handing him the mantle, "it is thine; take it away." And Nero consoled himself by saying, "You are not to be envied." Faustus gathered up the coat, and folding it up put it away. By this time the rabbi and Saras returned from Pilate, and coming back to Caiaphas they said, "Our mission was in vain. The governor would not listen to us." Caiaphas indignantly asked, while the priests and Pharisees crowded around, "Did he give you no answer at all?" "This only," said the rabbi. "What I have written I have written." "Intolerable," said Annas. Caiaphas also was much perturbed. But collecting himself he asked, "What did he order about the breaking of the bones?" "About this matter he said he would give his orders to the centurion," answered the rabbi. Then seeing that no more could be done, the Jews began to revile Jesus, going up to the cross and wagging their heads and scoffing at him. Josue, the priest, went up first and said, "So then it remains written, king of the Jews. Behold, if thou art king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." And all the Jews laughed together. Then said Eliezer, "Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it again in three days, save thyself!" And Caiaphas said, "Ha! thou that savest others, thyself thou canst not save." "Come down," cried one of the witnesses, "Art thou not the Son of God?" And Annas said, "He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him." Then cried the hangmen, "What! Don't you hear? Show thy power, mighty king of the Jews," and so the sport went on. Then Jesus, who all this time had hung motionless and silent, raised slowly and with pain, his head, which had been bowed down, and said, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!" Hearing Jesus speak, the thief who was crucified on his left said unto him, "Hearest thou? If thou be Christ save thyself and us." But the other thief who was crucified on the right, answered and said, "Dost thou not fear God, seeing that thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss." Then turning to Jesus he said, "Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom?" Then Jesus looked upon him and said, "Verily, I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in Paradise."