"Ah!" he said, "Nazarene.

An evil sect, worse even than these Jews, or so thought the late divine Nero.

Traitress also.

Why, the girl must have deserved her fate.

But what is this?
'Is doomed to die as God shall appoint before the face of her friends, the Romans.' How are the Romans her friends, I wonder?
Girl, if you can speak, tell me who condemned you." Miriam lifted her dark head from the shoulder of the captain on which it lay and pointed with her finger at the Jew, Simeon.
"Is that so, man ?" asked Caesar.