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i've never seen you before

the tower

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uh

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money

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oh

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the standard jewish bandits attacking

our outposts and killing our auxiliaries

finally keeps sending me news of defeat

after defeat how much more are we going

to tolerate

have i not done more for these these

jews and then then

yes figures they've given them back

their own property

some of it don't try your stoic sarcasm

on me

never sanity does not grant you immunity

let me kill caesar to lose your

frustration

frustration you've brought on yourself

the revolt in palestine is only one

symptom of a total sickness revolting

armies on the rhine

thugs in the senate i said before and

i'm sick of saying it

that i will not go back to rome

let's see what pilot the fool has done

the third legion moved in from syria

he wants the miliaria division recalled

from egypt

roman rule roman order

roman blood spelled in samaria whatever

samaria

is

it's part of your empire season and i

say again

whatever the penalty you must look to

that empire

go to rome

out of my way you stupid

fetch more you fool

pilot must go

send an immediate dispatch recalling him

and get marcella sent out this place

marcellus marcellus is equally corrupted

equally incompetent

the empire is forgetting how to breed

administrators perhaps it'd be wise to

put the whole province under one of the

native princes

another fool if you mean herod agrippa a

whole family of

corrupt and cruel idiots well they've

been brought up on the roman example

season

in my heart valeria's

take me to my bedroom i can hardly crawl

there

you want me to go back to rome

you'll be happy to know that guys

caligula has arrived

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so

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wow

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tiberius my friend

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it is easier to leave this world you own

all the gods healed blessed with beauty

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easier to go smiling into the shadow

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while there is light

if the gods be watching

help my hand not to shake

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ifs with your permission

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it is necessary to state and to state

emphatically

that the aims of the zealots

those of the nazarenes are utterly

opposed

zealots are concerned with inflaming the

hearts of the people

and shouting need of insurrection

followers of the man jesus seek to

cultivate charity

for all beautiful dream

these imposing words cannot hide a

dangerous reality rabban gamaliel

doctrinally the zealots are still inside

the law

doctrinally the followers of jesus

preach heresy

they have gone outside the lord they

practice blasphemy

healing the sick for instance rapunzel

is right

we must wait before judging them whether

they heal the sick or not is hardly the

point

they breed superstition there are those

who seek to have their ailments cured

by standing in the shadow of the man

peter

a common fisherman you have filled the

synagogues with your blasphemy

what do you say this caiaphas

we must obey god rather than men

the god of our fathers raised up jesus

who died on the cross

and after three days was resurrected

from death

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the belief in resurrection has its roots

deep in our traditions remember the

prophet

isaiah fresh lives

shall they have lord that are thine and

death

lost to us they shall live in thee awake

and utter your praises you that dwell

in dust god exalted jesus at his right

hand

to be a prince and a savior to give

repentance to israel

and the remission of sins we are

witnesses of these things

such blasphemy you put yourselves in

peril of death

death as you call it is in the hands of

the romans

are you ready to give them more victims

for their crosses that you challenge the

authority

of the sanhedrin which is answerable to

the occupying power

nothing you will regret

what i say is this

leave these men alone

or if the council and their work

as of human origin it will collapse

but if it is the lord

you cannot overthrow it

and you risk finding yourselves

at war with god

god is not with them is he not below men

i do know evil

yes jesus was a good man but we cannot

accept him as messiah this is no time

for trump's revise we must lead our

people

and companion speaks wisdom

you are hereby charged to speak no more

in the name of the man jesus

let them be warned by the punishment of

the whipping

and then let them be gone

cause

you see the weakness weakness which you

encourage

what i hear is the harshness of

authority

seems your student days are over so

i respect and honor you as ever a ban

you are my only teacher but i must be

permitted to make my own judgments

your own i see

my advice do so must read more and judge

less

the whole of israel is endangered by

false doctrine and they're given a lick

of the whip and told to go

let the lord judge these men

for my part i find little fault in their

actions

they subvert the truth they preach a

false messiah

rejected by mere logic why are you so

lenient towards them

just read your scriptures so we were

promised a messiah

but it would be wrong to accept him

without sufficient

evidence it would be even worse to

reject him altogether

without consideration these men do no

evil they do only good

and you've seen it sheer cunning

they buy followers with their good works

they cram the poor first with bread and

then with false doctrine

you must speak against them must so

must must

israel must not be divided or the weight

of the roman empire

will crush our people moon

my goddess look at me you're caligula

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ah

you elude me

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alluring moon the water cannot hold you

nor my hand tame your shivers

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well gaius caligula will

hunt you down

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the knights of eternity will echo in the

soldiers boots of

bootykins hunting you down diana

one day one day you'll be mine

mine mine

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so

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forgive me

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ah handsome standard bearer

friend of the emperor at your service

forgive me i dare ask you for a special

favor

favor what favor i understand you

inherited all but belong to sir janus

yes all save his shame

there is a slave among the many that are

now your property who a slave

sisters i gave all those slaves to my

sisters

yes coming this particular slave we will

discuss this in rome

later all right uh but

in rome hello

come here where are

you

hey

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where are you

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ow i've been stung

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let me see

where is it ah

you should wear bigger boots guys

little votes caligula boutique ins

caligula

it was the army that gave me that name

herod

you have to keep in the oh me got it

uh

i was brought up in the army you know

the army loves me herod

they'll never be disloyal to little

boots

the emperor little boots

sooner than you might think judging from

well it's his heart darling

an old man's heart he's lived too long

you see still we'll leave it all to

nature

it's your people that brought this on

you know

dig the talons of the imperial eagle

into the heart of the jewish nation

that's what he said harsh words herod

and then he had to be put to bed you

don't know the jews

you people made a big mistake roman

procurator is hardly willing to mouth a

syllable of aramaic

telling the jews about mercury and venus

and jupiter

and the divine emperor

no wonder the jews laugh and they don't

cry

so you don't like the idea of a divine

emperor hmm

uh

for you my dear of course

why i was saying only yesterday

beware of what you say i shall worship

at your shrine

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but you can't blame the jews for finding

all these little gods

rather childish and tiresome after all

the jews believe in one god

creator of the universe

you romans are a bit slow in grasping

that concept

aren't you oh i'm not slow herod agrippa

your royal jewish lowness

i think the idea of one god a very

attractive one

to be totally

totally in control

meaning well

once the universe has been created what

is there left to do

pull it to pieces destroy it

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oh we'll have great games when i'm

installed in rome

and you're in your palace in jerusalem

visiting each other

you know playing games but i shall have

to win

always herod agrippa because i shall be

the emperor you see

and you'll be just a little king

but a little king is bigger even than a

big prince isn't he

so i hope you'll be duly grateful your

prospective jewish majesty

lord of the universe i bow before you

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you told me once there's a secret jewish

word for the lord of the universe

the ineffable name

what is it herod do you tell me

i can't tell me

tell me i can't

only the priests know that name well you

must beat the priests until they do tell

you

line them up and then off with their

heads

is this how do you date we are ordered

by tiberius caesar to escort herod

agrippa

king herod his royal highness king herod

where's he supposed to go to rome today

to the mamitine prison

you must not allow this i will go to the

old crow himself he will have to explain

macro uh where have you been

with the emperor trying to appease him

appease him he will taste the poison of

my anger

restrain yourself your friend has a

mouth much bigger than his brain

and tiberius many ears that listen for

you

take his majesty with you iris

it would be better for you to choose to

be silent

and yield to power

you'll soon be able to free your friends

peter says that there is no difference

whatsoever between

him

he said there was no did you mean

it's as i've always said our jerusalem

brothers in jesus

think themselves to be the only jews to

them we're greeks the hellenistic

jews we may forgive their pride but when

it comes to a matter of genuine

injustice neglect more than injustice

nickname

injustice take the case of theophila

there widowed for six weeks

our community promised to help but

nothing has been done about it

this morning i had to plead her calls

with the temple fund

are differences of nation and language

more important than charity and love

do you wish philip and myself to speak

out to peter and the others

do that speak out remind them of jesus

call for universal love

tyman's right forget philosophy speak

fisherman's language

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we'll put the matter of the distribution

of the funds

into the hands of you hellenistic jews

we can't have a 12 so we'll have a seven

another holy number stephen

phillip um procurus

nichole tymon palminis nicolaus

seven deacons greek names

thought that not to mean something peter

yes

it means that we have many greek jews

but doesn't it really mean that greek

hebrew samaritan

have no meaning anymore what is he

saying that we're all united in jesus

that the gospel is to spread beyond

jerusalem

we're not ready for that yet it's

spreading in samaria

the samaritans have been subdued by the

romans

they're learning the gospel of suffering

and this jew is a greek

and i'm ready to go to the greek islands

and speak the word in greek

if you want to preach preaching the

synagogues here

there's enough work to do in jerusalem

without sailing across the world in

ships but for my part

i've had enough of water

not only my reading of the stars the

entrails of the beast slaughtered

so the same omens yes yes yes they will

never be better

they will never be better caesar catch

your tone up in mantis my good

physician i listen to sooth says but not

to stoic

reason you want to be pleased the result

is the same

praise be to the gods when do we go back

to rome

how are the winds the winds are set fair

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get up you go

tiberius beware of gaia's caligula you

are nursing a viper for the romans

i'm nursing a viper for the roman people

who said that columbus

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come on

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stop stop why are we stopping

caesar's order caesar this is the

seventh milestone from rome

we can make our entry before nightfall i

don't want to go on

take me back

we've come a long way you are tired

find me a place to rest along the road

back to porteoli

perhaps you could rest for the night at

the villa of cortesias nazo

will have contagious his cartesians in

residence

hortazius was executed five years ago

on your orders

is there some other place

a mile back the villa of dionysus

the home of cortesias will do

we'll all be ready for me there your

servants will be sent ahead to

anticipate your needs how do you know

what i need how does anybody know what i

need never my only friend where's he

there he's dead

did we we did not kill him

no no he chose to remove himself

from this world he killed himself

great uncle you should remember

my good never dead

he knew how much i needed him how could

he

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so

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i'm there

come on

don't know that

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remember

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tiberius you are as clever as your

serpent

but do not abuse the patience of the

roman people

remember mobbed like ants countless and

destructive

who said that

who said it

gods slaves

take me home back to capri

i want to die in my own bed

of the gospel of love and forgiveness

you must first know two things

that it goes beyond the law of moses

nothing that goes beyond the law of

moses

my old friend saw i'm glad you're here

no you know as well as i that the law of

moses will always be the foundation of

our life

jesus himself said that he came to

fulfill it not to abolish it

but he came also to give us a new law

the law of forgiveness of love

he told us to love one another to be

ready to die for our friends

even for our enemies love grows from

sacrifice

jesus said unless a grain of wheat falls

to the ground

and dies it will not bear fruit

what is the other thing the other thing

you said there were two

yes that the law rests not in the temple

nor in the ministers of the temple the

true temple is not one made by human

hands

it is a temple that can be destroyed

but rise again on the third day

go on

it's merely out of duty

we appreciate that

but duty is too often a cloak

for vindictiveness you rage against

these nazarenes as if you bore some

personal grudge

forgive my candor

it's your duty to be candid

i've examined my conscience on this

matter

stephen was a fellow student

even a friend though not a close one

our first duty might well be to talk to

him

as a friend point out his errors

lead him back to the right way

you see he voices the belief

of the whole sect he's encouraged to

speak as he does

also he's eloquent

he's taken on the shining look of the

fanatic

what the man peter said could be

tolerated

did not my master gamaliel preach

tolerance to the entire assembly

but stephen

he strikes deeper

far deeper our fathers carried the

sacred ark in the wilderness

the testimony of their covenant with the

lord they carried it wherever they went

from place to place following the lord's

command

and the lord rejoiced as his ark

traveled with his people

i speak only according to the scriptures

no

the people of god are not in one place

and nor is the home of their worship

for god revealed himself to abraham long

before he came to the holy land

god gave his law to moses when the

children of israel were wanderers in the

desert

was not the ark of the covenant carried

for 40 years through the wilderness

and was not a tent made of skins as

pleasing to god as

this temple of stone that solomon first

built our faith is the faith of a

pilgrim people

the earth is the lord's and the lord's

people are of the earth

not of a fixed and stony place in a

popular city

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did not the lord say that heaven is my

throne the earth my footstool

when the lord makes his own temple with

his own hands

what right have men to mock him by

saying this that we have built is the

lord's only place

you're here the lord help him he bless

fiends against the temple

let him hear him let him speak

you obstinate people you always resist

the holy spirit

can you name a single prophet that our

fathers have not persecuted

you are the men who receive the law of

the lord by the hands of angels

and you are the men who have failed to

keep it

stephen you shall speak no more

look can't you see

the heavens are opened

i can see the son of man

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standing at god's right hand

your blasphemy cannot be tolerated any

longer

you have wounded our hearts stephen

and only the lord may forgive you you

have made it impossible for us

the eye of the world has been blinded

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he has nightmares about the earthquake

on capri he seems to identify the

lighthouse with himself

the eye of the world

this um troubling of the imagination

that weakens him and the voyage to capri

these two people well the seas are far

from calm

long the week at the most

the eye of the world is out

very political

the dying snake can't hide itself in the

greenery of cutlery

the ants of rome are waiting

divine

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i too shall be divine

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do i call you too soon my love

will you come to me only when i am in

purple

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as you my goddess

are in silver

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uh

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ah

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my lord it's stephen

he's doing the lord's work

please

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please come they dragged stephen out of

jail

soul and many other have no authority

help him rebound

god help us

untie my hand soul

a small request

from a friend

god bless you saul

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and all of you my brothers

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so

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no no

so stop this madness stop them

stephen stephen

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lord help us

lord jesus receive my spirit

and forgive them

this sing

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is our god

the lord is one

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first martyr not your last i'm afraid

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the field is commendable but it is the

zeal wholly destructive

we are taught to build not to destroy

we are taught to destroy evil weeds

choke the wheat

they must be pulled up so you seek a

destructive commission

what does your master gamaliel say i

cannot go back

on what i said before we do not know

if we are dealing here with the works of

men

or the works of god we should do

nothing in haste i wish i had been given

time

to save stephen you are the great

advocate of compromise i do not seek

wholesale destruction of the sect but

this

disobedience to the torah cannot be

tolerated these greek jews have heard of

you that the temple is nothing

and the priests at the temple even less

exactly why i could not forgive

stephen that is a heresy i admit

jerusalem temple and the holy priesthood

these are evidences of god's presence in

our midst

they were given to us by the lord while

we wandered in the desert

you put it well robin these greeks would

have us back in the desert

and precisely what the soul of tarsus

proposed

solar passes proposes this

that the entire nazarene sect be rooted

out

first the greek nazarenes

they must be prevented from spreading

their heresy

capture them imprison bring them back to

the light

and with the most stubborn cases that

the people act according to justice

you mean stoning

i mean according to justice as we did

with stephen

we acted according to reason not many of

us thought that reasonable

men will always find reasons for

destruction

especially the destruction of things

they don't understand

a mob does not reason it destroys

law justice destruction is what we want

to prevent

the destruction of our religious unity

i shall need a special detachment of

temple guards and men skilled in

interrogation you mean violence

a great and holy end justifies the

harshest of methods

and that is laid down somewhere nowhere

that i know of

i want you to act with compassion

in the name of the most high may he

guide you

he has forgotten all that i taught him

jesus christ forever amen

i apologize for disturbing your

ceremony on behalf of the holy council

of the priesthood

and the guardians of the temple there

are

certain inquiries that have to be made

you most of you are greek jews i take it

your name nikono you needn't introduce

yourself

saul of tarsus is well known also your

zeal and enthusiasm for the old

tradition

of the fathers so

would you say it was idolatrous

to worship in a temple made by human

hands

there is no harm in such worship but no

great good

if you expect me to contradict the words

of our brother stephen

yes the truth is the truth do you wish

to arraign us as you arraigned him

before the council of the priests

the council will sanction what we

already know you condemn yourself out of

your own mouth

i have said nothing or you have said

enough

arrest the whole assembly our children

are in us

leave them leave them

so you admit crime

you're responsible for their sins also

take only the men

so this is how you turn the other cheek

he won't get far all right

peter saul has started the persecution

men with swords i knew this would happen

they're arresting people arresting

who those who speak greek ah

like stephen nobody's safe

leave jerusalem

no you must go philip we

have work to do in jerusalem

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okay

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come in shalom

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your wine

um

you're from jerusalem yes just arrived

in samaria

what news in jerusalem persecution of

the nazarene

by the romans used by one roman but he's

also a jew

saul of tarsus you know him he was hot

against the nazarenes

now he's persecuting him as well

do you know a man named stephen

i knew a man named stephen knew you say

new

stephen is dead he was stoned to death

for being a nazarene

saul did this yes you could say that

stephen

and steven's family well what's happened

to stephen's family

he only had his mother they could find

no fault in her

not like the sisters of the zealot who

was condemned but escaped during the

feast of pentacles

what's become of my sisters so you are

the man

caleb what's happened to them

soldiers took them to pontius pilate

pilot sent him as a gift to his friend

sir janice

along with camels and horses my doing

bring yourself a roman cruelty i should

have thought

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and my mother

i heard something from stephen about the

mother of caleb being dead

and very quietly buried

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you blame yourself for that too

i also heard that your work went on here

in samaria

it was good work

did they know in jerusalem who led the

rising in samaria

jewish names mean very little to the

romans

but i should think that your name meant

something name the pilot broods over on

his voyage back to rome

the pilot's no longer in judea he was

recalled

he made too big a mistake when he

ordered the massacre of the samaritans

on mount gerizim

so who's ruling now in judea in

jerusalem there was talk of setting up a

client prince herod agrippa

but now there's talk of um new roman

procurator on his way

i've dreamt sometimes i'm going to rome

and striking at the heart you zealous

are mad you want to go to rome with a

dagger under your belt

strike at the heart

stephen's way was better stephen got

himself killed

you nazareans will achieve nothing

i will go to rome

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sarah sarah

we met here the first time remember that

was a sunny day

are you cold i'm always cold

rome is cold i'm happy to be with you

again

why did you forget

to forget one must remember i do not

want to remember

you mean you never thought of me no

i've tried to keep you out of my mind i

did the same

i didn't succeed it's not meant to be

we're so far apart

things will change i promise you will

leave your service

to go and serve another master give me

time

i cannot give you what is not mine to

give

and i should not see you anymore because

i'm a roman

i was given no choice the gods decided

for me

you chose to be a soldier i followed my

father

it's a family tradition you carry a

sword you believe in its power my

brother does too

he he was fighting you romans when we

left we were punished in his stead

i have never used my sword against your

people

i often doubt its power one day you

could be called to use it against us

what would you do then then i would have

to choose

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i don't know what i do know is that i

couldn't hurt you

that wouldn't be dangerous for you you

two are a slave and rome is your master

rome is like a mother to romans i can

speak my mind with her tell her the

truth

truth not what i feel

being born a roman means to have freedom

with life

it was for me too being born a jew until

your procurator turned it into a lie

nothing can change it suppose you love

me this would change it

how my freedom would be yours you want

me to belong to you i mean that the two

of us should have a chance to find our

own way

the jewess and the roman soldier a woman

and a man

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why being a roman or being a jew i know

people may find this a difference that

cannot be reconciled

to me it's just like this rain

forget it i'll try to remember

putting down the followers of the man

from nazareth comes into that category

the troublemakers the nazarenes have to

be subdued

then the tranquility of judea will be

acceptable

even to the romans unfortunately the new

procurator marcellus doesn't see it that

way he sees saul

and his little army as the real

troublemakers after all they spilled

blood

saul must be stopped thank god for that

and yet he is doing good work

then perhaps we must send him to do his

good

work somewhere else

what about samaria some areas too near

damascus would be better and we shall

watch over him

seth will accompany him there are a lot

of jews in damascus who

god help us have forsaken the true way

he will take

a lot of persuading damascus of course

is under

roman rule but the jews of damascus come

under our

protection if not jurisdiction they must

be saved from themselves

by having their blood spilled

that will not be necessary

i have faith in saul's power of

persuasion

his way is a good way bitterness

hardly good

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joshua

so

oh steady steady

they're falling behind

he's taken a stone your hearts don't

seem to be in this mission

nothing to do with heart it's a matter

of horses

we're still nearer to jerusalem than we

are to damascus aren't we seth

by my reckoning very well you three may

go back

rest take your time

be kind to your horses

farewell

uh

saw

hold saul your eyes

so

it's all what's happened

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fever

you heard what

he has brought the knight on me

you must lead me seth back to jerusalem

to damascus you sure

damascus

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do

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hold on to me careful step

another step very good

damascus at last

the house of judas in a street

that is straight does he expect us

a jerusalem man with lodgings for

jerusalem men

what is the city like

like any other city

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can you tell me yet

you heard the voice i heard only thunder

it was his voice

the lord

he said

soul

why do you persecute me

we are all by nature

children of anger

no more i will persecute no longer

you may go back to jerusalem seth

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you mean our work is over my work

you are your own man

no no i'll stay with you

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no more persecuting of the nazarenes

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i am to become one of them

do you remember the name of their leader

here

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ananias the one they call the essene

a recent convert they say find him

bring him to me tell him

of a change of heart

will you not take some food before you

see him

three days fasting is a long time i may

not eat

you are weak you can hardly stand

just a little bread i must take water

first

i'll bring you water no

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no i meant in another sense

i am ready ananias

i baptize you saul in the name of jesus

to the remission of your sins and in the

fullness of the grace

of the most high

it's all no longer

soul is the name of another man

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now dead

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i am paul

what is it with you why'd you keep

trailing after me

i don't need protection be patient guys

caligula please

may i remind you of your promise

my promise which promise

i'm thinking about realities now it is

about one of your sister's slaves

a slave

heaven it's a girl caesar

oh it's a girl and beautiful

too i suppose hmm

wow

a master does at least have the right to

take a look at a beautiful slave before

giving him up

her up

we will discuss this later

all these gods

you know what the jews believe

no caesar that there's only one

god clever people

the jews

should i tell you what i want you to do

what caesar

i want you to cut their heads off all of

them

cut their heads off and put mine there

mine even on

well there's venus minerva diana mine

well for those you could put more hair

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i see now it should have been obvious

but was not i was chosen for zeal

not virtue god's ways are dark

yet they seem to have led you to light

paul and sir

you would work here i have studied and

learned

but i chose to hate before i learn to

love

my knowledge of love is

insufficient am i fit to teach in the

name of jesus

very often the words come out of my

mouth unbidden

only when i've spoken the words do i see

what they mean

yes teaching us synagogues tell them

your story

let your heart speak they will listen

i imprisoned i whipped

i stoned

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i put to death the followers of the

christ yet all the time

but yeast fermenting in the dark

the grace was working within me unwanted

unbidden

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in a thunder flesh the revelation came

not in a pale

dawn but in a noon day effulgence

i was a horse distinctly of its rider

kicking against a whip now i submit to

the horsemen

you saul of tarsus

known to all here and revered as the

scourge of

blasphemy and falsehood were to come to

damascus to the joy of the faithful

that the heretic and infidel might be

cut off from the house of israel

now you are revealed as worthy yourself

to be seized

judged and

is it forbidden for the light to enter

what i was i was what i am

you see a man reborn

refashioned even renamed

i know that my redeemer lives

and i know the name of my redeemer

jesus the anointed true son of the

everlasting

killed but come back to life

with his blood he washed away our sins

by dying he closed the road to death

i wonder beyond all times life

for all because one died believers i

believe

get out get out of damascus

you shame our faith you defile the house

of the lord

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um

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hello

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it is

help me help me save me from the

accident

i'm innocent innocent i swear

good vest will save me you can save me

if you want to

look at me

and you

thank the goddess vesta who allows you

to keep your head upon your shoulders

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go congratulations

yes

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okay

come on

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um

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like well

roman legion a glorious sight huh

come along

a jew you're a jew my people where can i

find them

all over but wait there's a tent maker

called aquila

who lives nearby in the street of the

ten shops asparagus they all know him

shalom peace be with you

peace

the lord be praised for he's given us

bread and the fruits of the earth

welcome to our house my new friend

roman wine the carnum they call it it's

robust for cheap

it'll warm your blood she's a good cook

my priscilla

she spoils me he deserves it

besides he's easy to please so much for

my praising her

now women are never happy but she makes

me happy

i'm grateful to both of you the lord

wants us to help one another

sir

you finally made it to rome you've come

a long way

longer than i expected and hard

i could use an extra pair of hands for

my work

why did you stay with us and help me

making tense it's not difficult you will

soon learn

i'd rather keep faith to my trade i know

how to handle a sword

i'd like to join a gladiator school

you'll have to make sacrifices for the

gods i've learned how to pretend that's

how i survive

if you think that you'll ever get a

chance to use your sword to free your

sisters you're wrong

a gladiator is little more than a slave

yes but a slave in arms

few gladiators survive their trials

people always want new excitements

the more victories you collect the

harder your competition will become

i'm not afraid knowing my life is in

danger makes me bear my humiliation

better i want to pay for my cowardice

you a coward i should be in my land

where my brothers fight and die every

day

i feel my being alive is a sin life is

god's gift never a sin

we'll try to help you find your sisters

but where to begin pilate sent them as

gifts to sajanas that's all i know

that was long ago all that sajana's

owned became the property of caligula

it'll be difficult but we'll try and

find them

so what's the news from jerusalem i

bring old news

they forget i've been away years

wherever i met jewish travelers on the

way

it was the same old story sadducees

pharisees

zealots

what is it a fish

that i can say you're no fisherman a

greek brother visited us and carved it

a coincidence he said you see

the greek word for fish is

now each letter

is the initial for other words jesus

christus feiyu who usotter jesus christ

son of god the savior so the man from

nazareth

is a fish

strange a fish that caught fisherman you

one of his followers

no were there many of them when you left

judea

too many their doctrine is contagious

how do you know them the man who left

this sign

he came to rome from damascus he brought

the good news

he told us jesus nazarithm of what he

preached in

judea and galilee madmen roma's nailed

into a cross

this man said he rose from death his

tomb was found empty

his followers must have taken the body

away anything's good enough to fool the

romans

what happened to this man from damascus

he was very old

he died last winter many people believed

his words

or the words he said were jesus his own

the followers of jesus grow in number

the wife of the senators even joined

them

you seem to know a lot about them i end

with them their faith

i remember the last time that man spoke

to us

he told us about jesus healing a

and a blind man we are all blind until

we find the true light he said

he left us that evening as if he knew

there would be no more days for him

remember he said soon it will be night

and we shall all be questioned about

love

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oh

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sometimes

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you promised i'd be in judea by now

gaius king of my land

you're never satisfied are you not even

after i set you free

an emperor should keep don't you tell

this emperor what he should or should

not do

the whole point of being an emperor is

the total freedom it confers

total and that includes the freedom to

break promises

you satisfied you have what you have

king herod

little my throne should be in jerusalem

oh don't be so wearisome

judea remains a roman province under

roman rule

and the roman senate says

yes sometimes i listen to the senate

don't i uncle claudius

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don't i uncle claudius

some sometimes

entertain us with a little eloquence

weren't you

uncle claudius

a little oratory

i think i can bear this again

right on the threshold in a

in the jaws of orcas

pain and the vengeful scares at their

dwelling

and solo sickness uh and and

and shameful no no no no no

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none of that morbid virgil please

haven't you something a little less

dog-eared

something a little more uplifting

he who is all powerful

is free to perform both good and evil

acts

and because good is harder to accomplish

than evil he will best show his power

in in the enactment of good

he who performs nothing but evil

is enslaved to evil and has

forfeited his power of choice

the evil ruler is no ruler at all

oh

who wrote that one of your

gloomy stoics no no

an an unknown philosopher caesar

about 50 years of age

with no wealth but a wealth of

dusty books

i hope i do not hear the ring of treason

in it

my but you're agile with your tongue

today uncle claudius

are you as agile with your body there

alas i i i am a slow mover caesar i

limp they

gave me an appropriate name claudius the

limb

i could afford you little spot

not now

my friend king herod the little

will oblige with a little hebrew poetry

won't you your majesty

all our hebrew verse is sacred caesar

the psalms of david are not to be

recited over lobster or suckling pig

why is everyone so tiresome

why is everyone so gum

very well marcus

my whip you will not

entertain your emperor your emperor must

entertain you

where are you from my dear did you dare

jewish

a young lady from judea

tell me your majesty what was the name

of your grandmother

tell me salome salami the dancing girl

that was another celemy stepdaughter to

my uncle

she danced naked did she not

in a manner of speaking yes and she was

given a prize

for dancing so well wasn't she

the head of

somebody's head yes

good princely entertainment

imperial entertainment

whose head it shall be we will decide

after your dance

thank you music

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dance

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so

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no no no no stop something faster

faster

now salome does

ah salami like this

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dance

you won't dance

hmm

i shall make you dance

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dance

and now dear salome you shall have a

severed head

as a reward for dancing so well

but who shall it be

who's who's whose

oh she broke

oh i'm so bored

you you will share the imperial bed

for a divine union divine caligula

my daughter karina she is

she's so young a virgin

the problem that can easily be solved by

any of my

guards

you i find you worthier

mortals must learn to live with the

whims of the gods

take your hands off my wife with respect

caesar

she is my wife oh she can be yours again

tomorrow

don't do anything foolish don't chaos

both but tonight

she's for me can't

i beg you caesar oh

i forgot who it was we decided to behead

never mind you'll do

thank you for coming the banquet's over

guards come

i despise myself

i despise rome

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me

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so

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you