Go away!" With one word he would straightway rend that thin film which was spread over their eyes, and all the earth would stagger beneath the weight of the merciless truth! They had a soul, they should be deprived of it; they had a life, they should lose their life; they had light before their eyes, eternal darkness and horror should cover them.

Hosanna! Hosanna! And these words, these terrible words, were tearing his throat asunder-- "He was no deceiver.

He was innocent and pure.

Do you hear?
Judas deceived you.

He betrayed to you an innocent man." He waits.