He was coming out of Annas’ palace.... I followed him to Caiaphas’.... It seems they are looking for us.... They have a special grudge against Lazarus, the man raised from the dead.... Where is he?... NICODEMUS (_pointing to LAZARUS, in the shadow_) Here, among us.... MARTHA They mean to arrest all those who went with him.... They mean to stone us according to the law.... They will persecute all those who come from Galilee.... CLEOPHAS We are all Galileans.... A MAN CURED BY A MIRACLE No, not I.... ANOTHER Nor I: I am from Bethany. BARTIMÆUS And I from Jericho.... A MAN CURED BY A MIRACLE It is not well that we should be found together.... NICODEMUS Where will you go?... A MAN CURED BY A MIRACLE No matter where.... We shall be safer than here.... ANOTHER They do not know us.... I have never been seen with him.... A WOMAN Nor I either: he just simply healed me.... I was bowed together and he made me straight.... A MAN I saw him only once: it was when he said to me, “Arise and take up thy bed and go thy way into thine house.” I am he whom they let down through the roof upon a bed.... Now I walk like other men.... (_He turns to the door and GOES OUT, followed by THOSE CURED BY MIRACLES who spoke before him._) A SICK MAN They are right.... We are not known either.... I came to be healed of a dysentery.... I have not had time to touch him. (_He also makes for the door._) MARTHA Are you not ashamed?... THE SICK MAN (_stopping on the threshold_) Of what?... It serves no purpose that those whom he has healed should perish because of him.... (_He GOES OUT._) ANOTHER MAN CURED BY A MIRACLE He can do nothing for us, because he can do nothing for himself; and we can do nothing for him.... A HUNCHBACK Yes, why does he not protect us?... He is constantly speaking of his father and the angels.... Where are those angels? NICODEMUS It is because his hour has not yet come. THE HUNCHBACK When will his hour come?... When it is too late.... I have not the time to wait.... (_He GOES OUT._) NICODEMUS Let those who do not love him go.... The Son of Man shall come in such an hour as you think not.... CLEOPHAS His kingdom is not of this world.... A BLIND MAN His kingdom is lost.... NICODEMUS He said, “Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings and not one of them is forgotten before God?”... CLEOPHAS He said, “Live not in careful suspense.”... NICODEMUS He said, “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”... THE BLIND MAN But he also said, “Let the dead bury their dead.” (_He gropes his way to the door and GOES OUT._) A LAME MAN I am going away, not that I am afraid, but to go and look for him.... ANOTHER I also.... (_They GO OUT._) A LEPER Who said that we must wait for him here?... NICODEMUS Simon Peter. THE LEPER Where is Simon Peter?... He hardly shows himself. MARTHA He was by the fire, in the high-priest’s hall....