![]() ![]() With a single word he will now tear that thin film that covers their eyes, and the whole of the earth will tremble under the weight of the ruthless truth! They had a soul-they will lose it they had a life-they will lose their life they had light before their eyes-eternal darkness and horror will cover them. “And do you know… do you know… who he was-the one whom you condemned yesterday and crucified?” Suffocating under the weight of the terrible words that he was lifting higher and higher in order to throw them onto the heads of the judges, Judas asked hoarsely: “You want to be driven out with sticks?” shouted Caiaphas. And when he looked again at Annas, his gaze was simple, straight, and terrible in its honesty. That affectation, which he carried all his life with such ease, suddenly became an unbearable burden and with one movement of his eyelashes he cast it off. Judas straightened up and closed his eyes. We don’t have time to listen to your babble,” Annas said indifferently. Don’t the wisest of men listen now to Judas and think: he’s ours, Judas of Kerioth, he’s our brother, our friend, Judas of Kerioth, the Traitor? Does not Annas want to get on his knees and kiss Judas’ hand? But only Judas won’t give it, he’s a coward, he’s afraid that he’ll be bitten.” Was it not a holy cause that he has served? It was holy. Of course, that’s very little, but is Judas displeased, is Judas screaming that he had been robbed? He is pleased. And, growing visibly pale, Judas quickly picked up: And, glancing at him, Caiaphas asked Annas:Ĭaiaphas chuckled, and even the gray Annas himself chuckled, and a gleeful smile slipped over every haughty face and the one who had a birdlike face even began to laugh. Leave!” ordered Annas, but Judas kept bowing as if he had not heard the order. “It is I, Judas of Kerioth, the one who betrayed Jesus of Nazareth to you.” But Judas of Kerioth was not the type of man to become embarrassed: they remained silent and he kept bowing, and he thought to himself that if he had to bow until evening, then he would keep bowing until evening. Judas bowed, bowed, bowed, and they kept staring in silence: as if it was not a man that had entered but some dirty insect that crawled in, which they did not see. And even the one who was the smallest and most insignificant of them, to whom the others paid no attention, raised his birdlike face and stared as if nothing had entered. They greeted the Traitor in silence, and their haughty faces remained still, as if nothing had entered. They were all here, his judges and his killers: there was the elderly Annas with his sons, fat and disgusting like the father, there was his son-in-law, Caiaphas, tormented by his love of praise, there were all the other members of the Sanhedrin whose names have been stolen from mankind’s memory-rich and notable Sadducees, proud of their power and their knowledge of the law. This was the day after the killing of Jesus, about midday. ![]() Judas of Kerioth, the Traitor, appeared before the Sanhedrin as an old scoundrel, coughing, smiling flatteringly, and constantly bowing. ![]()
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