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while the silence on the balcony was only disturbed bv the splashing of the fountain. Pilate watched the water splay out at the apex of the jet and drip downwards. The prisoner was the extreme youth sports first to speak : I see that there has been some trouble as a result of my conversation with that young man from Karioth. I have a presentiment, hegemon, that some misfortune will befall him and I feel very sorry for him. I think, replied the Procurator with a strange smile, that there is someone else in this world for whom you should feel sorrier than for Judas of Karioth and who is destined for a fate much worse than Judas! ... So Mark Muribellum, a coldblooded killer, the people who I see --the Procurator pointed to Yeshuas disfigured face-- extreme youth sports beat you for what you preached, the robbers Dismas and Hestas who with their confederates killed four soldiers, and finally this dirty informer Judas--are they all good men? Yes, answered the prisoner. And will the

kingdom of truth come? It will, hegemon, replied Yeshua with conviction. It will never come! Pilate suddenly shouted in a voice so terrible that Yeshua staggered back. Many years ago in extreme youth sports the Valley of the Virgins Pilate had shouted in that same voice to his horsemen : Cut them down! Cut them down! They have caught the giant Muribellum! And again he raised his parade-ground voice, extreme youth sports barking out the words so that they would be heard in the garden : Criminal! Criminal! Criminal! Then lowering his voice he asked : Yeshua Ha-Notsri, do you believe in any extreme youth sports gods? God is one, answered Yeshua. I believe in Him. Then pray to him! Pray hard! However, at this Pilates voice fell again, it will do no good. Have you a wife? asked extreme youth sports Pilate with a sudden inexplicable access of depression. No, I am alone. I hate this city, the Procurator suddenly mumbled, hunching his shoulders as though from cold and wiping his hands as though washing them. extreme youth sports If they had murdered you before your meeting with Judas of Karioth I really believe it would have been better. You should let me go, hegemon, was the prisoners unexpected request,

his voice full of anxiety. I see now that they want to kill me. A spasm distorted Pilates face as he turned his blood-shot eyes on Yeshua and said : Do you imagine, you miserable extreme youth sports creature, that a Roman Procurator could release a man who has said what you have said to me? Oh gods, oh gods! Or do you think Im prepared to take your place? I dont believe in your ideas! And listen to me : if from this moment onward you say so much as a word or try to talk to anybody, beware! I repeat--beware! Hegemon . .. Be quiet! shouted Pilate, extreme youth sports his infuriated stare following the swallow which had flown on to the balcony again. Here! shouted Pilate. The secretary and the guards returned to their places and Pilate extreme youth sports announced that he confirmed the sentence of death pronounced by the Lesser Sanhedrin on the accused Yeshua Ha-Notsri and the secretary recorded Pilates words. A minute later centurion Mark Muribellum stood before the Procurator. He was ordered by the Procurator to hand the felon over to the captain of the secret service and in doing so to transmit the Procurators directive that Yeshua Ha-Notsri was to be segregated from the other convicts, also that the captain of the secret service was forbidden on pain of severe punishment to talk to Yeshua or to answer any questions he might ask. At a signal from Mark the guard closed ranks around Yeshua and escorted him from the balcony. Later the Procurator received a call from a handsome man with a blond beard, extreme youth sports eagles feathers in the crest of his helmet, glittering lions muzzles on his breastplate, a gold-studded sword belt, triple-soled boots laced to the knee and a purple cloak thrown extreme youth sports over his left shoulder. He was the commanding officer, the Legate of the Legion. The Procurator asked him where the Sebastian cohort was stationed. The Legate reported that the Sebastian was on cordon duty in the square extreme youth sports in front of the hippodrome, where the sentences on the prisoners would be announced to the crowd. Then the Procurator instructed the Legate to detach two centuries from the Roman cohort. One of them, extreme youth sports under the command of Muribellum, was to escort the convicts, the carts transporting the executioners equipment and the executioners themselves to Mount Golgotha and on arrival to cordon off the summit area. The other was to proceed at once to Mount Golgotha and to form a cordon immediately on arrival. To assist in the task of guarding the hill, the Procurator asked the Legate to despatch an auxiliary cavalry regiment, the Syrian ala. When the Legate had left the balcony, the Procurator ordered his secretary to summon to the palace the president of the Sanhedrin, two of its extreme youth sports members and the captain of the Jerusalem temple guard, but added that he wished arrangements to be made which would allow him, before conferring with all these people, to have a private extreme youth sports