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"It was a fair summer-morning in holy Jerusalem, and I sat and / wrought at my trade, for I sewed a pair of sandals for the feet of / the high priest Caiaphas. And I wrought diligently, for it behoved / me to cease an hour ere set of sun, for it was the day of / preparation for the eating of the Passover.
"Now all that night there had been a going to and fro in the city, / for the chief priests and their followers had at length laid hands / upon him that was called Jesus, whom some believed to be the / Messiah, and others, with my fool-self amongst them, an / arch-impostor and blasphemer. For I was of the house of Caiaphas, / and heartily did desire that the man my lord declared a deceiver of / the people, should meet with the just reward of his doings. Thus I / sat and worked, and thought and rejoiced; and the morning passed and / the noon came.