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"I hope you have seen few people from the South," said she, "if that be your impression of them." "Only two," said I; "and I did not like either of them one bit." "Well, two is no large acquaintance," said Annas. "Let me assure you that there are plenty of agreeable people in the South, and good people also; though I will not say that they are not different from us in the North.
The last verses of the preceding passage belong properly to this one, for they tell us that Jesus was 'first' brought before Annas, a fact which we owe to John only. Annas himself and his five sons held the high-priesthood in succession. To the sons has to be added Caiaphas, who, as we learn from John only, was Annas' son-in-law, and so one of the family party.
The next morning a meeting of their rulers, elders and scribes was held in Jerusalem at which the high priest Annas, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander and all the members of the high priest's family were present. They made the apostles stand before them and inquired, "By whose power and in whose name have you done this?"
Three hundred men were to be stationed at the gates and in the streets of Ophel, a part of the town situated to the south of the Temple, and along the valley of Millo as far as the house of Annas, on the top of Mount Sion, in order to be ready to send reinforcements if necessary, for, he said, all the people of the lower class of Ophel were partisans of Jesus.
His life was forfeit, and they've offered him his life back to come here and turn Approver to become a spy, not for us but as a spy on us for them. Ajeet would know that information of his coming to me would be carried to them by spies the spies are always with me and his life wouldn't be worth two annas.
Caiaphas, Annas and the members of the Sanhedrin waxed wroth and spoke warmly among themselves on hearing the words of Pilate.
"Yea, it dealeth with stealing and for it they contend. Yet they are thieves beginning with Annas the High Priest. Into the Temple offices hath he put all his sons and nephews and kinsmen that through them his itching fingers may possess all the wealth of the Temple. The Law of the Jews is for others than those who make it, preach it, sell it or trade in it.
His hair was cropped close, he was wearing Bhuttia clothes, but it was Narain Dass, the University graduate who was working as a coolie for a few annas a day." "And he had eight hundred and fifty rupees on him," added the young engineer. "Yes; and if all the Bhuttias had as much as the one shot that meant over two thousand." "Where did they get it?" "Who is behind all this?"
I looked up into the grave grey eyes of Annas Keith. Mr Raymond, of course, would think me no gentlewoman. Well, it did not much matter what he thought; he was only a Whig. And when the Prince were actually come, which would be in a very few days at the furthest then he would see which of us was right. Meantime, I could wait.
"Rupees twenty-five, annas eight," said the babu unwinking. He neither blushed nor hesitated. "I will take compassion on your loss and replace five rupees of it," said Ranjoor Singh, "when you have told me which way the murderer went." "My eyes are too dim, and my heart too full with grief," said the babu. "No man's memory works under such conditions. Now, that money "
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