He hears the aged, unconcerned voice of Annas, saying: "And is that all you want to say ?" "You do not seem to have understood me," says Judas, with dignity, turning pale.

"Judas deceived you.

He was innocent.

You have slain the innocent." He of the bird-like face smiles; but Annas is indifferent, Annas yawns.
And Caiaphas yawns, too, and says wearily: "What did they mean by talking to me about the intellect of Judas Iscariot?
He is simply a fool, and a bore, too." "What ?" cries Judas, all suffused with dark madness.

"But who are you, the clever ones! Judas deceived you--hear! It was not He that he betrayed--but you--you wiseacres, you, the powerful, you he betrayed to a shameful death, which will not end, throughout the ages.