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yet reached its zenith when the meeting took place between the Procurator and the president of the Sanhedrin, the High Priest of Judaea, Joseph Caiaphas. They met on the upper terrace of the garden between two white marble lions guarding the staircase. It man cargo pants blue was quiet in the garden. But as he emerged from the arcade on to the sun-drenched upper terrace of the garden with its palms on their monstrous elephantine legs, the terrace from which the whole of Pilates detested city of Jerusalem lay spread out before the Procurator man cargo pants blue with its suspension bridges, its fortresses and over it all that indescribable lump of marble with a golden dragons scale instead of a roof--the temple of Jerusalem--the Procurators sharp hearing detected far below, down there where a stone wall divided the lower terraces of the palace garden from the city square,

a low rumbling broken now and again by faint sounds, half groans, half cries. The Procurator realised that already there was assembling in the square a numberless crowd of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, excited by the recent disorders; that this crowd was waiting impatiently for the pronouncement of sentence and that the man cargo pants blue water-sellers were busily shouting their wares. The Procurator began by inviting the High Priest on to the balcony to find some shade from the pitiless heat, but Caiaphas politely excused himself, explaining that he could not do that on the eve of a feast-day. Pilate pulled his man cargo pants blue cowl over his slightly balding head and began the conversation, which was conducted in Greek. Pilate remarked that he had examined the case of Yeshua Ha-Notsri and had confirmed the sentence of death. Consequently those due for execution that day were the three robbers--Hestas, Dismas and man cargo pants blue Bar-Abba--and now this other man, Yeshua Ha- Notsri. The first two, who had tried to incite the people to rebel against Caesar, had been forcibly apprehended by the Roman authorities; they were therefore the Procurators responsibility and there was no reason to discuss their case. man cargo pants blue The last two, however, Bar-Abba and Ha-Notsri, had been arrested by the local authorities and tried before the Sanhedrin. In accordance with law and custom, one of these two criminals should be released in honour of the imminent great feast of Passover. The Procurator therefore man cargo pants blue wished to know which of these two felons the Sanhedrin proposed to discharge--Bar-Abba or Ha-Notsri? Caiaphas inclined his head as a sign that he understood the question and replied: The Sanhedrin requests the release of Bar-Abba. The Procurator well knew that this would be the High Priests reply; man cargo pants blue his problem was to show that the request aroused his astonishment. This Pilate did with great skill. The eyebrows rose on his proud forehead and the Procurator looked the High Priest straight in the eye with amazement. I confess that your reply surprises me, began the man cargo pants blue Procurator softly. I fear there may have been some misunderstanding here. Pilate stressed that the Roman government wished to make no inroads into the prerogatives of the local priestly authority, the High Priest was well aware of that, but in this particular case an obvious error seemed man cargo pants blue to have occurred. And the Roman government naturally had an interest in correcting such an error. The crimes of Bar-Abba and Ha-Notsri were after all not comparable in gravity. If the latter, a man who was clearly insane, were guilty of making some absurd speeches in Jerusalem and various other localities, the former stood convicted of offences that were infinitely more serious. Not only had he permitted himself to make direct appeals to rebellion, but he had killed a sentry while resisting arrest. Bar-Abba was immeasurably man cargo pants blue more dangerous than Ha-Notsri. In view of all these facts, the Procurator requested the High Priest to reconsider his decision and to discharge the least dangerous of the two convicts and that one was undoubtedly Ha-Notsri . . . man cargo pants blue Therefore? Caiaphas said in a quiet but firm voice that the Sanhedrin had taken due cognisance of the case and repeated its intention to release Bar-Abba. What? Even after my intervention? The intervention of the representative of the Roman government? man cargo pants blue High Priest, say it for the third time. And for the third time I say that we shall release Bar-Abba, said Caiaphas softly. It was over and there was no more to be discussed. Ha-Notsri had gone for ever and there was no one to heal man cargo pants blue the Procurators terrible, savage pains ; there was no cure for them now except death. But this thought did not strike Pilate immediately. At first his whole being was seized with the same incomprehensible sense of grief which had come to him on the balcony. He at once man cargo pants blue sought for its explanation and its cause was a strange one : the Procurator was obscurely aware that he still had something to say to the prisoner and that perhaps, too, he had more to learn from him. Pilate banished the thought and it passed as quickly as it had come. man cargo pants blue