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Now th' first thing we larn th' future Mark Hannas an' Jawn D. Gateses iv our naytion is waltzin', singin', an' cuttin' pitchers out iv a book. We'd be much betther teachin' thim th' sthrangle hold, f'r that's what they need in life." "I know what'll happen.
"Herod's kingship is from Caesar; not Herod." "There is no other King of the Jews." "But we have seen the star of him we seek, and come to worship him." The Roman was perplexed. "Go farther," he said, at last. "Go farther. I am not a Jew. Carry the question to the doctors in the Temple, or to Hannas the priest, or, better still, to Herod himself.
As he rode, he promised himself to see the Nazarene on the morrow promised it, not knowing that the unfriended man was taken straightway to the house of Hannas to be tried that night. The heart the young man carried to his couch beat so heavily he could not sleep; for now clearly his renewed Judean kingdom resolved itself into what it was only a dream.
They could see he was thinking of them, not himself, and the dying eyes gave them the blessing he was not permitted to speak. "Where are thy legions, son of Hur?" asked Simonides, aroused. "Hannas can tell thee better than I." "What, faithless?" "All but these two." "Then all is lost, and this good man must die!"
The torches and the lanterns were being borne by servants, each of whom was armed with a bludgeon or a sharpened stave. Their present duty seemed to be to pick out the smoothest paths among the rocks in the street for certain dignitaries among them elders and priests; rabbis with long beards, heavy brows, and beaked noses; men of the class potential in the councils of Caiaphas and Hannas.
A Roman garrison held the Tower of Antonia; a Roman guard kept the gates of the palace; a Roman judge dispensed justice civil and criminal; a Roman system of taxation, mercilessly executed, crushed both city and country; daily, hourly, and in a thousand ways, the people were bruised and galled, and taught the difference between a life of independence and a life of subjection; yet Hannas kept them in comparative quiet.
I know the space that lies between an independent kingdom and the petty province Judea is. I were meaner, viler, than a Samaritan not to resent the degradation of my country. Ishmael is not lawfully high-priest, and he cannot be while the noble Hannas lives; yet he is a Levite; one of the devoted who for thousands of years have acceptably served the Lord God of our faith and worship. His "
When he was nearer, the yells became distinguishable "Robber, tyrant, dog of a Roman! Away with Ishmael! Give us back our Hannas!"
But he chose a different course: almost his first official act was to expel Hannas from the high-priesthood, and give the place to Ishmael, son of Fabus. Whether the act was directed by Augustus, or proceeded from Gratus himself, its impolicy became speedily apparent.
The nobles hated Joazar, the high-priest; the Separatists, on the other hand, were his zealous adherents. When Herod's settlement went down with Archelaus, Joazar shared the fall. Hannas, the son of Seth, was selected by the nobles to fill the great office; thereupon the allies divided. The induction of the Sethian brought them face to face in fierce hostility.
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