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Tue prisoner was kept waiting outside the Hall of Judgment while the crowd inside watched the space between two monoliths at the entrance, where they knew He must very soon appear.
The high vaulted basilica of the council chamber where the trial would be held was lit with hundreds of oil-burning torches set in niches cut in the walls. An enormous auditorium, built of great marble pieces, it was called the Hall of Hewn Stones, or Lishkath Haggazith, and was regarded as the national shrine of Justice.