Take him and fasten him to the column on the gateway and leave him there to perish.

Your Holy House is destroyed, Simeon, and being a faithful priest, you would not wish to survive your worship." "There you are right, Roman," he answered, "though I should have been better pleased with a quicker end, such as I trust may overtake you." Then they led him off, and presently Simeon appeared upon the gateway with Miriam's chain about his middle and Miriam's rope knotted afresh about his wrists.
"Now for this poor girl," went on Titus Caesar.

"It seems that she is a Nazarene, a sect of which all men speak ill, for they try to subvert authority and preach doctrines that would bring the world to ruin.

Also she was false to her own people, which is a crime, though one in this instance whereof we Romans cannot complain.

Therefore, if only for the sake of example it would be wrong to set her free; indeed, to do so, would be to give her to death.