It was no time in such turbulence for her to be abroad garbed as became her station.

Through her sister she was indeed sister-in-law to Antipas for whom few bore love.

So she was dressed discreetly, her face covered, so that she might pass as any Jewish woman of the lower orders.
But not to my eye could she hide that fine stature of her, that carriage and walk, so different from other women's, of which I had already dreamed more than once.
Few and quick were the words we were able to exchange, for the way jammed on the moment, and soon my men and horses were being pressed and jostled.
Miriam was sheltered in an angle of house-wall.
"Have they got the fisherman yet ?" I asked.
"No; but he is just outside the wall.

He has ridden up to Jerusalem on an ass, with a multitude before and behind; and some, poor dupes, have hailed him as he passed as King of Israel.

That finally is the pretext with which Hanan will compel Pilate.