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CHIEF PRIESTS.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have a Law,

And by our Law he ought to die; because

He made himself to be the Son of God.

 

PILATE, aside.

Ah! there are Sons of God, and demigods

More than ye know, ye ignorant High-Priests!

 

To CHRISTUS.

Whence art thou?