1. In the year of our Lord...Copy !req
2. Judea, for nearly a century,
had lain under the mastery of Rome.Copy !req
3. In the seventh year of the reign
of Augustus Caesar...Copy !req
4. an imperial decree
ordered every Judean...Copy !req
5. each to return
to his place of birth...Copy !req
6. to be counted and taxed.Copy !req
7. The converging ways of many of them led
to their capital city, Jerusalem...Copy !req
8. the troubled heart of their land.Copy !req
9. The old city was dominated
by the fortress of Antonia...Copy !req
10. the seat of Roman power...Copy !req
11. and by the great golden temple...Copy !req
12. the outward sign of
an inward and imperishable faith.Copy !req
13. Even while they obeyed
the will of Caesar...Copy !req
14. the people clung proudly
to their ancient heritage...Copy !req
15. always remembering
the promise of their prophets...Copy !req
16. that one day there would be
born among them a redeemer...Copy !req
17. to bring them salvation
and perfect freedom.Copy !req
18. You'll be counted at Hebron.Copy !req
19. - Name?
- Samuel.Copy !req
20. - What city?
- Joppa.Copy !req
21. - What family?
- Michael.Copy !req
22. - Move on. Move on.
- Yes.Copy !req
23. - Name?
- Joseph.Copy !req
24. - What city?
- Nazareth.Copy !req
25. - What family?
- David of Bethlehem.Copy !req
26. - And the woman?
- My wife.Copy !req
27. Move on.
You'll be counted at Bethlehem.Copy !req
28. Come on, come on.Copy !req
29. What village is this?Copy !req
30. Nazareth.Copy !req
31. We should arrive in Jerusalem
tomorrow night.Copy !req
32. You're not watching
the soldiers, Joseph?Copy !req
33. We've seen Romans before.Copy !req
34. Yes...Copy !req
35. and we will see them again.Copy !req
36. My table is not finished.Copy !req
37. Where is your son?Copy !req
38. - He's walking in the hills.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
39. He neglects his work, Joseph.Copy !req
40. No.Copy !req
41. Once, I reproached him with
forgetting his work. He said to me:Copy !req
42. "I must be about my father's business."Copy !req
43. Then why isn't he here, working?Copy !req
44. He's working.Copy !req
45. Trumpeters of the legion!Copy !req
46. Welcome, Messala.Copy !req
47. The command is yours.Copy !req
48. Thank you.Copy !req
49. Thank you for relieving me.Copy !req
50. Drusus...Copy !req
51. when I was a boy, I dreamed
of commanding this garrison.Copy !req
52. Now the wheel has turned.Copy !req
53. I am in command.Copy !req
54. Attention!Copy !req
55. Aisle one, face right!Copy !req
56. Forward!Copy !req
57. I'd forgotten the heat.Copy !req
58. If it were only the heat.Copy !req
59. I lived here until I was 14.
Jerusalem was my home.Copy !req
60. - My father was head of...
- Yes, I know.Copy !req
61. Your father is well-remembered.
Fine governor.Copy !req
62. If there can be such a thing
in this forsaken land.Copy !req
63. If you want to rise, Sextus,
do the difficult.Copy !req
64. I asked to be sent here.Copy !req
65. I think you'll find the people changed
since you were a boy.Copy !req
66. In what way?Copy !req
67. Oh, won't pay their taxes,
an irrational resentment of Rome...Copy !req
68. There's nothing new in all that.Copy !req
69. And then there's religion. I tell
you, they're drunk with religion.Copy !req
70. They smash the statues of our gods,
even those of the emperor.Copy !req
71. Punish them.Copy !req
72. We do.Copy !req
73. When we can find them.Copy !req
74. Find the leaders.Copy !req
75. Oh, you don't know. There's nothing
you can put your finger on.Copy !req
76. I tell you, there are strange forces
at work here.Copy !req
77. For instance,
this "messiah" business...Copy !req
78. I know. There was one
predicted when I was a boy.Copy !req
79. A king of the Jews, who will lead them
into some sort of anti-Roman paradise.Copy !req
80. Makes your head spin.Copy !req
81. There's a wild man
in the desert named John...Copy !req
82. who drowns people in water.Copy !req
83. And a carpenter's son who does magic
tricks. "Miracles" they call them.Copy !req
84. There's always a rabble-rouser
stirring up trouble.Copy !req
85. No, no, no. This man is different.Copy !req
86. He teaches that God is near,
in every man.Copy !req
87. It's actually quite profound,
some of it.Copy !req
88. You've been too long away from Rome.Copy !req
89. Go back, Sextus.Copy !req
90. Go to Capri.
Bathe, rest, lie by the sea...Copy !req
91. and forget that
God is in every man.Copy !req
92. - There is divinity in only one man.
- Yes, I know.Copy !req
93. The emperor is displeased.Copy !req
94. He wishes Judea made into a more
obedient and disciplined province.Copy !req
95. He has ordered me to restore order.
I intend to carry out his wishes.Copy !req
96. But how? You can break a man's skull,
arrest him, throw him into a dungeon.Copy !req
97. But how do you control what's up here?
How do you fight an idea?Copy !req
98. Especially a new idea.Copy !req
99. There's a Jew outside.
He wants to see the tribune Messala.Copy !req
100. I assume he has a name.Copy !req
101. - He says he's a prince, Judah Ben-Hur.
- Then treat him like one!Copy !req
102. Tell him I will join him.Copy !req
103. Yes, tribune.Copy !req
104. Centurion!Copy !req
105. This was his country
before it was ours.Copy !req
106. Don't forget that.Copy !req
107. Yes, tribune.Copy !req
108. Very wise. This Ben-Hur is
the richest man in Jerusalem.Copy !req
109. And the head of one
of the greatest families in Judea.Copy !req
110. We were friends as boys.Copy !req
111. We were like brothers.Copy !req
112. Sextus...Copy !req
113. you ask how to fight an idea.Copy !req
114. Well, I'll tell you how.Copy !req
115. With another idea.Copy !req
116. I said I'd come back.Copy !req
117. I never thought you would.Copy !req
118. I'm so glad.Copy !req
119. - Look at you.
- Look at you!Copy !req
120. You've come back a tribune.Copy !req
121. When I heard that news,
I drank a toast to you.Copy !req
122. We'll drink another now.Copy !req
123. - Your sister and mother?
- They're fine.Copy !req
124. They've talked of you
ever since we knew you were coming.Copy !req
125. - Is Tirzah married?
- No.Copy !req
126. Suitors come and go, but she dreams.Copy !req
127. She's been in love with you
since she was 5.Copy !req
128. I can't wait to see them.Copy !req
129. Do you still hunt jackals and lions?Copy !req
130. Or have you become too dignified?Copy !req
131. - Down Eros, up Mars!
- Down Eros, up Mars!Copy !req
132. Where the beams cross?Copy !req
133. Good.Copy !req
134. After all these years!Copy !req
135. Still close.Copy !req
136. In every way.Copy !req
137. I hope so.Copy !req
138. I know.Copy !req
139. You're a Roman, and I'm a Jew...Copy !req
140. whose life you once saved.Copy !req
141. The best thing I ever did.Copy !req
142. Judah...Copy !req
143. it will be very difficult
to govern here.Copy !req
144. I'm going to need help.Copy !req
145. Your help. Your advice.Copy !req
146. - You want my advice?
- Yes, I do.Copy !req
147. Withdraw your legions.Copy !req
148. Give us our freedom.Copy !req
149. Unfortunately, the emperor
is devoted to his empire.Copy !req
150. He's particularly fond of Judea.Copy !req
151. And Judea's not fond of the emperor.Copy !req
152. Is there anything so sad
as unrequited love?Copy !req
153. My quarters.Copy !req
154. Hmm. A bit grim.Copy !req
155. Not grim.Copy !req
156. Austere. Virtuous.Copy !req
157. Roman.Copy !req
158. I'm going to be second-in-command
to the new governor, Valerius Gratus.Copy !req
159. He's arriving in a few days
with two more legions.Copy !req
160. Then the rumors are true.Copy !req
161. The emperor does not approve
of your countrymen.Copy !req
162. There is rebellion in the wind.
It will be crushed.Copy !req
163. But you and your family
need have no concern.Copy !req
164. I'm next in authority to the governor,
and you're my friend.Copy !req
165. - I'm a Jew.
- Ah, you are like a Roman!Copy !req
166. What have you in common
with the troublemaking rabble?Copy !req
167. Rabble? They're my people.
I'm one of them.Copy !req
168. Be wise, Judah.Copy !req
169. It's a Roman world. If you want to
live in it, you must become part of it.Copy !req
170. You've changed.Copy !req
171. I've grown up. I've seen the world
since I left Jerusalem.Copy !req
172. I've seen Rome. It's no accident
that one small village on the Tiber...Copy !req
173. was chosen to rule the world.Copy !req
174. Your legions.Copy !req
175. It wasn't just our legions.Copy !req
176. Other countries have armies,
fine armies. I know, I fought them.Copy !req
177. Oh, no.Copy !req
178. No, it was fate that chose us
to civilize the world. And we have.Copy !req
179. Our roads and ships connect
every corner of the earth.Copy !req
180. Roman law, architecture, literature
are the glory of the human race.Copy !req
181. I believe in the future of my people.Copy !req
182. Of course you do.
And you can help them.Copy !req
183. How?Copy !req
184. You're an aristocrat.Copy !req
185. Your family's name is honored.
You're a prince among your people.Copy !req
186. You're rich and powerful.
Your reputation is stainless.Copy !req
187. They'd listen if you
spoke out against rebellion.Copy !req
188. Persuade your people that
their resistance to Rome is stupid.Copy !req
189. It is worse than stupid, futile!Copy !req
190. For it can end in only one way,
extinction for your people!Copy !req
191. I'm against violence.
Everyone knows this.Copy !req
192. I've spoken against it.
I shall do so again.Copy !req
193. Then we're agreed!Copy !req
194. Now, when can I come
to see your family?Copy !req
195. - We had hoped tomorrow.
- Good.Copy !req
196. And now for our toast.Copy !req
197. It's dreadful wine, by the way.Copy !req
198. It's especially fermented
for the Roman army.Copy !req
199. You're very cruel to your conquerors.Copy !req
200. It's an insane world.Copy !req
201. But in it there is one sanity:Copy !req
202. The loyalty of old friends.Copy !req
203. Judah, we must believe in one another.Copy !req
204. Will you drink to that?Copy !req
205. With all my heart.Copy !req
206. Here it is, the place I've remembered.Copy !req
207. The court where we played
at changing the guard.Copy !req
208. The roof where we'd throw pebbles
at people in the street and then hide.Copy !req
209. - We were rascals, weren't we?
- No, you were good boys.Copy !req
210. I would have that time again.Copy !req
211. And here it is. Nothing has changed.Copy !req
212. Except for the fountain.Copy !req
213. - The old well would go dry, remember?
- Promptly, every summer.Copy !req
214. A new fountain and a new Tirzah.
You've grown up.Copy !req
215. - He hasn't changed, has he, Mother?
- No?Copy !req
216. Of course he has. He was a boy
when he left us, now he's a man.Copy !req
217. With great responsibilities.Copy !req
218. Come.Copy !req
219. The emperor builds and builds,
turning brick to marble.Copy !req
220. Oh, I almost forgot.
I brought you this.Copy !req
221. I've never seen anything
like this before. It's beautiful!Copy !req
222. - Is it Roman?
- It's Libyan. I was there last year.Copy !req
223. A tremendous campaign.Copy !req
224. Our armies met on the coast.
After two days of fighting, they fled.Copy !req
225. We marched on their capital.
Barbaric city, but fascinating.Copy !req
226. Or was, till we destroyed it.Copy !req
227. Now it's nothing but ashes.Copy !req
228. I'm boring you with soldier stories.Copy !req
229. Come with me, there's something
I want to show you.Copy !req
230. Thank you for this.Copy !req
231. I chose the right present for you.
It's a brooch for a woman.Copy !req
232. What do you think of it?Copy !req
233. Magnificent.Copy !req
234. It's Arabic.Copy !req
235. I think he has the look of the breed.
I've raised him.Copy !req
236. Let me try him sometime.Copy !req
237. Whenever you like. He's yours.Copy !req
238. Do you mean you'll give me this?Copy !req
239. Oh, Judah.Copy !req
240. You are good. It's going
to be like old times, I know it.Copy !req
241. Judah, tell me, did you...Copy !req
242. think about what I said?Copy !req
243. Yes. Talked to a number
of people already.Copy !req
244. Spoken against violence,
against incidents.Copy !req
245. Most of the men agree with me.Copy !req
246. Most? Not all?Copy !req
247. - No, not all.
- Who does not agree?Copy !req
248. Well, the resentful, the impatient.Copy !req
249. Who are they?Copy !req
250. Yes, Judah. Who are they?Copy !req
251. Would I retain your friendship
if I became an informer?Copy !req
252. Telling the names of criminals
is not informing.Copy !req
253. They're not criminals, Messala.
They're patriots.Copy !req
254. Patriots?Copy !req
255. Judah.Copy !req
256. Let me explain something to you.
Something you may not know.Copy !req
257. The emperor is watching us.
At this moment, he watches the East.Copy !req
258. This is my great opportunity,
and yours too.Copy !req
259. If I bring order here,
I can have any post I want.Copy !req
260. You'll rise with me, I promise.
And do you know where it can end?Copy !req
261. Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side
of Caesar himself.Copy !req
262. I mean it. It can happen
and this is the moment.Copy !req
263. I swear, this is the time.Copy !req
264. The emperor is watching us, judging
us. All I need do is serve him.Copy !req
265. And all you need do
is help me serve him.Copy !req
266. - You speak as if he were God.
- He is God. The only God.Copy !req
267. He is power,
real power on earth, not...Copy !req
268. Not that.Copy !req
269. Help me, Judah.Copy !req
270. I would do anything
for you, Messala...Copy !req
271. except betray my own people.Copy !req
272. In the name of all the gods, what do
the lives of a few Jews mean to you?Copy !req
273. If I cannot persuade them, that does
not mean I would help you murder them.Copy !req
274. Besides, you must
understand this, Messala.Copy !req
275. I believe in the past
and future of my people.Copy !req
276. Future? You are a conquered people.Copy !req
277. You may conquer the land.
You may slaughter the people.Copy !req
278. But that is not the end.
We will rise again.Copy !req
279. You live on dead dreams.
You live on the myths of the past.Copy !req
280. Solomon's glory is gone.
You think it will return?Copy !req
281. Joshua will not rise again
to save you nor David.Copy !req
282. There is only one reality in
the world today. Look to the West.Copy !req
283. Don't be a fool! Look to Rome!Copy !req
284. Better a fool
than a traitor or a killer.Copy !req
285. - I am a soldier.
- Who kills for Rome and Rome is evil.Copy !req
286. - I warn you...
- No! I warn you.Copy !req
287. Rome is an affront to God.Copy !req
288. Rome is strangling my people
and my country, the whole earth!Copy !req
289. But not forever.Copy !req
290. And I tell you, the day Rome falls
there will be a shout of freedom...Copy !req
291. such as the world
has never heard before.Copy !req
292. Judah.Copy !req
293. Either you help me or you oppose me.
You have no other choice.Copy !req
294. You're either for me or against me.Copy !req
295. If that is the choice...Copy !req
296. then I am against you.Copy !req
297. There they are.Copy !req
298. Where's Messala?Copy !req
299. - Where's?
- He's gone.Copy !req
300. Gone?Copy !req
301. - But why?
- He couldn't stay.Copy !req
302. - What happened?
- A new tribune must have many duties.Copy !req
303. Come. Let us have dinner.Copy !req
304. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God,
King of the world...Copy !req
305. who bringeth to us
bread from the earth.Copy !req
306. We shall never see him again, Tirzah.Copy !req
307. He wanted to use me
to betray our people.Copy !req
308. Judah.Copy !req
309. - Master, the caravan from Antioch.
- Yes, Amrah, I saw.Copy !req
310. Simonides.Copy !req
311. - Welcome.
- Judah.Copy !req
312. - Oh, welcome homecoming.
- Master.Copy !req
313. Simonides has brought gifts, as usual.Copy !req
314. Amber and jade for me.
Silk for Tirzah.Copy !req
315. And for the master, lberian wine.Copy !req
316. Not to mention the best gift of all,
your presence.Copy !req
317. You do your servant honor.
I also bring good news from Antioch.Copy !req
318. - Caravans from Petra.
- Have all arrived.Copy !req
319. - Good.
- Here is the accounting.Copy !req
320. And what of Numidia?Copy !req
321. The trade route is ours,
guaranteed by treaty with the king.Copy !req
322. Once a year,
you bring your accounting.Copy !req
323. And once a year,
I find myself wealthier.Copy !req
324. Yeah, but my greatest treasure
is my steward.Copy !req
325. My life belongs to the House of Hur.Copy !req
326. Nothing else exists for me,
except my daughter.Copy !req
327. - She must be a young woman by now.
- Yes, and your property.Copy !req
328. She was born
the daughter of your slave.Copy !req
329. When I inherited you,
I inherited a friend, not a slave.Copy !req
330. Still, Esther has come with me from
Antioch for your permission to marry.Copy !req
331. It's granted. I wish you
the joy of many grandchildren.Copy !req
332. If it is the Lord's will, I shall rejoice.Copy !req
333. With your permission,
Esther wishes to speak to her master.Copy !req
334. You're eager to marry, Esther?Copy !req
335. It is my father's wish.Copy !req
336. Your husband will be fortunate.Copy !req
337. What is his name?Copy !req
338. David, son of Mathias.Copy !req
339. Of what house?Copy !req
340. - His own, master.
- He is a freeman.Copy !req
341. Tell me more about him.Copy !req
342. I have seen him only once.Copy !req
343. He is a merchant,
well-thought-of in Antioch.Copy !req
344. He will pay for Esther's freedom.Copy !req
345. Her freedom will be
my wedding gift to Esther.Copy !req
346. You are generous, master.Copy !req
347. Do you love this man?Copy !req
348. I will learn to love him.Copy !req
349. You have my permission to marry.Copy !req
350. We'll drink to your happiness.Copy !req
351. And a safe return to Antioch.Copy !req
352. I disturbed you.Copy !req
353. No.Copy !req
354. What were you thinking?Copy !req
355. I was saying goodbye...Copy !req
356. to this city...Copy !req
357. and this house.Copy !req
358. You've not often been here.
What do you remember of it?Copy !req
359. My father sometimes brought me here...Copy !req
360. when I was little.Copy !req
361. It was a house
where I was always happy.Copy !req
362. Except once.Copy !req
363. When you and your friend,
the Roman boy...Copy !req
364. - Messala.
- Yes.Copy !req
365. You had been out hunting...Copy !req
366. and they brought you home injured.Copy !req
367. I touched your face
as you lay there...Copy !req
368. and prayed to God,
"Don't let this boy die."Copy !req
369. I can hear how you said it.
Gently, as you say it now.Copy !req
370. Yes, master.Copy !req
371. Master?
Why, I've given you your freedom.Copy !req
372. It's strange. I hardly felt a slave.Copy !req
373. And now...Copy !req
374. I hardly feel free.Copy !req
375. You know, in the old, wise days
of Solomon...Copy !req
376. if there was among his slaves...Copy !req
377. some girl who filled his eyes...Copy !req
378. he could choose her out
from the rest...Copy !req
379. and take her to him.Copy !req
380. Wise days of Solomon.Copy !req
381. Different days.Copy !req
382. And long ago.Copy !req
383. If you were not a bride...Copy !req
384. I should kiss you goodbye.Copy !req
385. If I were not a bride...Copy !req
386. there would be no goodbyes
to be said.Copy !req
387. Your slave ring.Copy !req
388. Fair exchange.Copy !req
389. Freedom to you. The ring to me.Copy !req
390. You will wear it?Copy !req
391. Until you meet the woman
you will marry?Copy !req
392. Until then.Copy !req
393. The gods favor my lord Gratus.Copy !req
394. If it is the governor's pleasure,
the wreath of office.Copy !req
395. Thank you, tribune.Copy !req
396. I see no delegation from the city.Copy !req
397. - There will not be one, sir.
- No?Copy !req
398. Jerusalem's welcome will not
be a warm one.Copy !req
399. But I pledge, my lord,
it will be a quiet one.Copy !req
400. Let us proceed.Copy !req
401. There's Messala.Copy !req
402. He saw you, Judah.Copy !req
403. The new governor.Copy !req
404. Stand back!Copy !req
405. - Stand back.
- Up there. You, come!Copy !req
406. Had to be the Jews!Copy !req
407. Open up in the name
of the divine emperor!Copy !req
408. Judah! Tirzah! What is it?
What's happened?Copy !req
409. Open up in the name of Rome!Copy !req
410. - I was watching the Romans...
- A tile fell and struck the governor.Copy !req
411. - It wasn't my fault.
- They won't believe her.Copy !req
412. She won't have to say anything.
You hear? Tirzah, say nothing.Copy !req
413. Open the gates!Copy !req
414. I'll speak to them.Copy !req
415. - Arrest him!
- Wait. Let me tell you what happened.Copy !req
416. Hold those women.
Not them!Copy !req
417. - Judah!
- It was an accident.Copy !req
418. Let me tell you what happened.
It was an accident.Copy !req
419. - This is the man, sir. We saw him.
- It was an accident.Copy !req
420. - Accident?
- I swear it.Copy !req
421. I put my hand on the ledge.
A tile was loose. It gave way.Copy !req
422. Take him. Take all of them.Copy !req
423. - He's telling the truth!
- It was me! Let them go!Copy !req
424. Judah!Copy !req
425. Attention!Copy !req
426. Messala.Copy !req
427. In the name of God,
tell them it's a mistake.Copy !req
428. I leaned on the tile,
and it broke loose.Copy !req
429. It was an accident.Copy !req
430. Let them go!
They had nothing to do with it!Copy !req
431. Messala!
Messala.Copy !req
432. Let the servants go.Copy !req
433. Let them go. Return to your ranks.Copy !req
434. - Come.
- Where?Copy !req
435. Tirus.Copy !req
436. Tirus?Copy !req
437. I've had no trial.Copy !req
438. I'm to die in the galleys
without even a trial?Copy !req
439. There's no truth in the charge!
Not a word of truth!Copy !req
440. Wait. My mother, my sister.
What happened to them?Copy !req
441. Tie his hands.Copy !req
442. - At least tell me if they're safe.
- I can tell you nothing.Copy !req
443. Get along. Keep moving.Copy !req
444. Jailer!Copy !req
445. Guard, in there!Copy !req
446. Up the stairs!Copy !req
447. Jailer!Copy !req
448. To the right.Copy !req
449. Wait!
Send them out.Copy !req
450. Send them out.Copy !req
451. You can go.Copy !req
452. Go!Copy !req
453. The door.Copy !req
454. Where are my mother and sister?Copy !req
455. Where are they?Copy !req
456. Here, within these walls.Copy !req
457. The governor is recovering.
They won't die.Copy !req
458. Of course, they will be sentenced.Copy !req
459. Is it possible, Messala?Copy !req
460. Is it possible
you could do this to us?Copy !req
461. To people you've known?
A family you've loved?Copy !req
462. You'll let them go.Copy !req
463. You must.
You will gladly let them go!Copy !req
464. Messala!Copy !req
465. I didn't try to kill the governor.
I'm not mad. I'm not a murderer!Copy !req
466. I know you're not.Copy !req
467. You know?Copy !req
468. You are evil.Copy !req
469. No, Judah, I am not evil.Copy !req
470. I wanted your help.Copy !req
471. Now you've given it to me.Copy !req
472. By making this example of you,
I discourage treason.Copy !req
473. By condemning without hesitation
an old friend, I shall be feared.Copy !req
474. But not my family.Copy !req
475. Let them go.Copy !req
476. Please.Copy !req
477. - Messala, I beg you.
- Beg?Copy !req
478. Didn't I beg you?Copy !req
479. You chose this.
There's nothing more to be said.Copy !req
480. Kill me, and your mother
and sister will die today...Copy !req
481. nailed to crosses in front of you!Copy !req
482. Go on, Judah.Copy !req
483. Kill me!Copy !req
484. May God grant me vengeance.Copy !req
485. I will pray that
you live till I return.Copy !req
486. Return?Copy !req
487. Take him.Copy !req
488. Sentries, salute.Copy !req
489. The tribune will see you now.Copy !req
490. Tribune, I'm steward
of the House of Hur.Copy !req
491. I remember you.Copy !req
492. We were on our way to Antioch
when we heard what had happened.Copy !req
493. Judah Ben-Hur could not have done
this thing. You knew him, tribune.Copy !req
494. Better than you.Copy !req
495. Then there must be no doubt in
your mind, the charge is groundless.Copy !req
496. The prisoners have been sentenced.Copy !req
497. - Sentenced?
- But there's no truth in it.Copy !req
498. There was never a threat against
the governor in Judah's mind.Copy !req
499. Surely you must know
he would never have done this.Copy !req
500. In your heart, you must know it.Copy !req
501. Drusus.Copy !req
502. This man had better be kept here
until we have time to question him.Copy !req
503. Hold!Copy !req
504. Water for the soldiers.Copy !req
505. Soldiers first!Copy !req
506. Get away from that well!
No water for them!Copy !req
507. Get them away from that well!
Here, you!Copy !req
508. Come on, you! Water for the horses!Copy !req
509. Water. Water.
Soldiers first!Copy !req
510. Here.Copy !req
511. Wait.Copy !req
512. No water for him.Copy !req
513. God...Copy !req
514. help me.Copy !req
515. You! I said no water for him!Copy !req
516. All right, on your feet, all of you!Copy !req
517. Get them on their feet!Copy !req
518. Back in line, you dog!Copy !req
519. On your feet!Copy !req
520. Get them going!Copy !req
521. You there, back to your place!
Back to your place!Copy !req
522. Forward, you dogs!Copy !req
523. In a few minutes, the consul's barge
will be coming alongside.Copy !req
524. Be ready to raise oars.Copy !req
525. Raise oars!Copy !req
526. Down oars!Copy !req
527. The new commander, Quintus Arrius.Copy !req
528. - How many rowers?
- Two hundred, consul.Copy !req
529. - And reliefs?
- Of 30, every hour.Copy !req
530. This man is ill. Replace him.Copy !req
531. - Change him.
- Right, sir.Copy !req
532. - This man has been giving you trouble?
- He's insubordinate, consul.Copy !req
533. That will stop.Copy !req
534. What service have you seen?Copy !req
535. Forty-one.Copy !req
536. A month's less a day in this ship.Copy !req
537. You keep an exact account.
And before?Copy !req
538. Three years in other ships.Copy !req
539. Three years.Copy !req
540. You have the spirit to fight back...Copy !req
541. but the good sense to control it.Copy !req
542. Your eyes are full of hate, 41.Copy !req
543. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive.Copy !req
544. It gives him strength.Copy !req
545. Now, listen to me, all of you.Copy !req
546. You are all condemned men.
We keep you alive to serve this ship.Copy !req
547. So row well...Copy !req
548. and live.Copy !req
549. - Ship ready, consul.
- Strike oars.Copy !req
550. Strike oars!Copy !req
551. You know that a fleet
of Macedonian galleys...Copy !req
552. has been raiding Roman commerce.Copy !req
553. The emperor has honored us
with the task...Copy !req
554. of seeking out and destroying them.Copy !req
555. Battle speed, hortator.Copy !req
556. Battle speed!Copy !req
557. Attack speed.Copy !req
558. Attack speed!Copy !req
559. Ramming speed.Copy !req
560. Ramming speed!Copy !req
561. Rest.Copy !req
562. Halt!Copy !req
563. Rest!Copy !req
564. Why are you here?Copy !req
565. I was ordered to report to you
during my relief.Copy !req
566. Oh, yes.Copy !req
567. I'd forgotten.Copy !req
568. You could have killed me
as I lay there.Copy !req
569. You're a condemned man.
Why didn't you?Copy !req
570. I'm not ready to die.Copy !req
571. What do you think will save you?Copy !req
572. The God of my fathers.Copy !req
573. Hmm. Your God has forsaken you.Copy !req
574. He has no more power
than the images I pray to.Copy !req
575. My gods will not help me.
Your God will not help you.Copy !req
576. I might.Copy !req
577. Does that interest you, 41?Copy !req
578. I can see that it does.Copy !req
579. I'm a fighting man by profession,
and in my leisure moments...Copy !req
580. it amuses me to train fighting men.Copy !req
581. I own some of the best gladiators
and charioteers in Rome.Copy !req
582. Would you like to become one of them?Copy !req
583. To die as your slave?Copy !req
584. Better than to live in chains
below these decks.Copy !req
585. I will not be here forever.Copy !req
586. No?Copy !req
587. What would you do if you escaped?Copy !req
588. Two people were condemned with me,
my mother and sister...Copy !req
589. though they were innocent.
I won't rest...Copy !req
590. Do not say that you were innocent.Copy !req
591. - Would it do any good to say it again?
- No.Copy !req
592. Consider my offer carefully. You will
never escape while we are victorious.Copy !req
593. If we are not, you will sink
with this ship, chained to your oar.Copy !req
594. I cannot believe that
God has let me live these three years...Copy !req
595. to die chained to an oar.Copy !req
596. It's a strange, stubborn faith
you keep...Copy !req
597. to believe that
existence has a purpose.Copy !req
598. A sane man would have learned
to lose it long before this.Copy !req
599. As you have.Copy !req
600. What drove it out of you?Copy !req
601. Go back to your oar, 41.Copy !req
602. Consul, enemy sighted.Copy !req
603. Signal the fleet.
Prepare for battle.Copy !req
604. All the watch to battle posts.Copy !req
605. Stand by to load.
Make ready to fire.Copy !req
606. Hurry, quick!Copy !req
607. Hurry up with that resin.
Get some more ammunition.Copy !req
608. Raise oars!Copy !req
609. Down oars!Copy !req
610. Chain rowers!Copy !req
611. Guard.Copy !req
612. Unlock 41.Copy !req
613. No! I don't want to die!Copy !req
614. I don't want to die!Copy !req
615. 41, why did he do that?Copy !req
616. I don't know.Copy !req
617. Once before, a man helped me.Copy !req
618. I didn't know why then.Copy !req
619. Normal speed!Copy !req
620. Number 1, flame.Copy !req
621. - Fire.
- Fire!Copy !req
622. Fire!Copy !req
623. Fire!Copy !req
624. Hold withdrawal on command.Copy !req
625. Lift oars! Raise!Copy !req
626. Withdraw!Copy !req
627. Steersman, right.Copy !req
628. Extend oars!Copy !req
629. Fire!
Fire!Copy !req
630. Fire!Copy !req
631. Watch out!
Fire!Copy !req
632. Fire!Copy !req
633. Steersman, ram course! Order below!
Ramming speed!Copy !req
634. Ramming speed!Copy !req
635. Consul, barge on ramming course.Copy !req
636. We're going to be rammed!
We're going to be rammed!Copy !req
637. Why did you save me?Copy !req
638. Why did you have me unchained?Copy !req
639. What is your name, 41?Copy !req
640. Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
641. Judah Ben-Hur...Copy !req
642. let me die.Copy !req
643. We keep you alive to serve this ship.Copy !req
644. Row well and live.Copy !req
645. Is the sail square?Copy !req
646. I can't tell.Copy !req
647. Better for us both if it's the enemy.Copy !req
648. My death.Copy !req
649. Your freedom.Copy !req
650. It's a Roman sail.Copy !req
651. Face rear!Copy !req
652. Welcome, consul.
We had given up all hope for you.Copy !req
653. Water.Copy !req
654. The fleet, all lost?Copy !req
655. Five galleys.Copy !req
656. - And the battle?
- The battle was won.Copy !req
657. You have a victory.Copy !req
658. It was a victory?
Complete.Copy !req
659. In his eagerness to save you...Copy !req
660. your God has also saved
the Roman fleet.Copy !req
661. Hail Arrius!Copy !req
662. Hail Arrius!Copy !req
663. Right oars!Copy !req
664. You have cleared the seaways
of a great danger, Quintus Arrius.Copy !req
665. This baton of victory
has been nobly won.Copy !req
666. This man riding beside you, who is he?Copy !req
667. The man who saved me, divine emperor,
to return and serve you.Copy !req
668. Is that all you know about him?Copy !req
669. No. He was accused of an attack
on the governor of Judea.Copy !req
670. But he was innocent.Copy !req
671. If not, there's a strange
inconsistency in this man...Copy !req
672. who tries to kill my governor,
yet saves the life of my consul.Copy !req
673. Come tomorrow. We'll talk of it.Copy !req
674. We have all the information
on this man...Copy !req
675. a man of some influence
in his own country.Copy !req
676. His attack upon our governor is one
upon the senate and the people of Rome.Copy !req
677. I am convinced that
no such attack was intended.Copy !req
678. Consul, allow us to continue.Copy !req
679. Allow us to be generous.Copy !req
680. As a reward to you
for your great victory...Copy !req
681. we shall not send him
back to the galleys.Copy !req
682. We give him to you as your slave
to do with him as you like.Copy !req
683. Such is the will of the senate...Copy !req
684. and the people of Rome.Copy !req
685. Not long ago, I returned to Rome...Copy !req
686. with a young man
who had saved my life.Copy !req
687. You all know him as
the finest charioteer in Rome.Copy !req
688. Five times, he's driven
my horses to victory.Copy !req
689. I know him as one who stands
in the place of the son I lost.Copy !req
690. I have the love and pride
in a son's achievements...Copy !req
691. which I thought
I should never have again.Copy !req
692. Nothing could make stronger
the bond between us...Copy !req
693. but tonight I wish
to share it with you all.Copy !req
694. The formalities of adoption
have been completed.Copy !req
695. Young Arrius is now
the legal bearer of my name...Copy !req
696. and the heir to my property.Copy !req
697. This ring of my ancestors...Copy !req
698. would have gone to my son.Copy !req
699. So now it is yours.Copy !req
700. It's a strange destiny that
brought me to a new life...Copy !req
701. a new home...Copy !req
702. a new father.Copy !req
703. It brought me here.Copy !req
704. It may take me away.Copy !req
705. But wherever I may be...Copy !req
706. I shall always try to wear this ring
as a son of Arrius should.Copy !req
707. With gratitude and affection...Copy !req
708. and with honor.Copy !req
709. I present my son to you.Copy !req
710. My old friend Pontius Pilate,
young Arrius.Copy !req
711. Before you came to this city,
my horses always won.Copy !req
712. Magnificent horses, extremely swift.Copy !req
713. Yes, but not swift enough
to defeat you.Copy !req
714. - Tell me, you come from Judea?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
715. I hear that the climate
is difficult to live in.Copy !req
716. Not for Judeans.Copy !req
717. It's a terrible prospect.
I am to be made governor.Copy !req
718. - Of Judea?
- Yes.Copy !req
719. I asked for Alexandria.Copy !req
720. But it seems the wilderness
needs my particular talents.Copy !req
721. The scorpions and holy prophets
can't get on without me.Copy !req
722. Lay the dust of Judea,
at least for this evening.Copy !req
723. Goats and Jehovah.Copy !req
724. You're leaving.Copy !req
725. I must.Copy !req
726. It's a journey I can't keep you from.Copy !req
727. Your eyes have never left it all
these months. I can recognize pain.Copy !req
728. But still, my counsel is to wait.Copy !req
729. Gratus is to be replaced.Copy !req
730. The governorship goes
to Pontius Pilate.Copy !req
731. When?Copy !req
732. Very soon.Copy !req
733. It's very much to our purpose.Copy !req
734. Nothing is to the purpose if, when
I come back to Judea, I come too late.Copy !req
735. That is the thought which has punished
me every moment I've spent here.Copy !req
736. Will Rome see you again?Copy !req
737. Here is a part of my life
which you have made for me.Copy !req
738. I shall remember it.Copy !req
739. Whoever the gods are, they take
small interest in an old man's hopes.Copy !req
740. They have their way.Copy !req
741. Forgive me.Copy !req
742. You're a stranger here.Copy !req
743. Would you be from Nazareth?Copy !req
744. Why do you ask?Copy !req
745. I thought...Copy !req
746. you might be the one...Copy !req
747. The one that I have come back
from my country to find.Copy !req
748. He would be about your age.Copy !req
749. Who?Copy !req
750. When I find him...Copy !req
751. I shall know him.Copy !req
752. Oh, but forgive me.
I am Balthasar of Alexandria.Copy !req
753. I am the guest of Sheik llderim.Copy !req
754. Hyah! Hyah! Sack of flesh without brains!Copy !req
755. No! No! Not the whip!Copy !req
756. That is my host.Copy !req
757. Gently! Gently!Copy !req
758. Fool! Headless toad!
You know nothing of horses!Copy !req
759. Whip my children once and
I'll drain every drop of your blood!Copy !req
760. Now, gently around the first turn,
and let them run! Go on!Copy !req
761. Keep my words in your head!
Let us see some wisdom!Copy !req
762. Beautiful horses.Copy !req
763. Now! Now! They are ready!
Let them go!Copy !req
764. Watch. They'll never hold the turn.Copy !req
765. No! No!Copy !req
766. Abadon, stop him!Copy !req
767. Stop that whip!Copy !req
768. I'll kill him! I'll kill!Copy !req
769. Moonhead!
Give me those reins, you fool!Copy !req
770. You think you can treat
my horses like animals?Copy !req
771. Drive cows and goats!
That's all you're fit for!Copy !req
772. Get off, idiot!Copy !req
773. Drive goats, not horses!Copy !req
774. Now I am doomed.
You saw what happened here?Copy !req
775. This traveler told what would happen
before it happened.Copy !req
776. Hmm?Copy !req
777. Your horses are very fine,
but they're not a team.Copy !req
778. Not a team?Copy !req
779. But one of them held steady,
the one on the outside.Copy !req
780. - Antares.
- The slow one?Copy !req
781. Uh-huh.Copy !req
782. I think he should run on the inside where
he can steady the others in the turns.Copy !req
783. You have a keen eye.
Where did you acquire it?Copy !req
784. In the circus in Rome.Copy !req
785. You have driven in the great circus?Copy !req
786. Tell me, my friend, could you
make my four run as one?Copy !req
787. I'm on my way to Jerusalem.Copy !req
788. Would your caravan rest until tomorrow?Copy !req
789. We have time enough
to eat, drink and talk.Copy !req
790. Come into my tent
and refresh yourself.Copy !req
791. And let me hear how you raced in Rome.Copy !req
792. If I had a voice to sing,
I would sing you the psalm of horses.Copy !req
793. No other animal has
descended so in scale...Copy !req
794. from the first innocent falling
of the world.Copy !req
795. And tomorrow, I shall put Antares
on the inside.Copy !req
796. When you do, shorten the yoke.
It will help them in the turns.Copy !req
797. Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
798. You're a Jew,
yet you drove in the great circus.Copy !req
799. Yes.Copy !req
800. By a strange choice
and a stranger fortune.Copy !req
801. Your coming here was so fit, so right.Copy !req
802. We might have achieved wonders.Copy !req
803. You have to go.Copy !req
804. I make a journey which will not wait.Copy !req
805. Well, then perhaps
you will come back.Copy !req
806. And when you do,
bring your friends, your wives.Copy !req
807. I have no wives.Copy !req
808. No wives at all?Copy !req
809. I have six, no, seven.Copy !req
810. Ha, ha. I've counted eight.Copy !req
811. And that is because he is traveling.
At home, he has more.Copy !req
812. Believe me, it is a great advantage
to have many wives.Copy !req
813. - Someday, I hope to have one.
- One wife!Copy !req
814. Ha, ha, one God, that I can understand.
But one wife, that is not civilized.Copy !req
815. It is not generous.Copy !req
816. - Was the food not to your liking?
- Indeed.Copy !req
817. Thank you. Thank you.Copy !req
818. And take my advice, my friend.
Buy yourself some wives.Copy !req
819. And now I must say good night
to my beauties.Copy !req
820. When they're ready for sleep,
they get impatient and jealous.Copy !req
821. They wait to see which one
I will embrace first.Copy !req
822. - I'll make my farewells then.
- No, no, no, stay.Copy !req
823. Stay and see them.Copy !req
824. Come, my children. Come.Copy !req
825. Strangers make them shy.Copy !req
826. Come.Copy !req
827. Come, do not be afraid. Come.Copy !req
828. There, my children.Copy !req
829. They are descended from
the Arabians of the first Pharaohs...Copy !req
830. and I have named them
for the stars.Copy !req
831. Come, Antares.Copy !req
832. You are the slowest, and you can
run all day without tiring.Copy !req
833. What? Yes, yes.Copy !req
834. Yes, I love you too.
There's my good Antares.Copy !req
835. Come, Rigel.Copy !req
836. We've both supped well,
and the world is good.Copy !req
837. There's my good Rigel.Copy !req
838. Ah.Copy !req
839. Yes, you are ready for sleep.Copy !req
840. The day's work done for you, eh?Copy !req
841. Ah. Yes, well, you can go
to sleep in a minute.Copy !req
842. Good night. Good night, my treasure.Copy !req
843. Ah! Steady, Aldebaran.
I haven't forgotten you.Copy !req
844. No. You are the swiftest,
but you must be steady.Copy !req
845. Never seen finer horses, even in Rome.Copy !req
846. You should see their mother, Mira.Copy !req
847. I dare not bring her.
My people couldn't bear her absence.Copy !req
848. All right, all right.Copy !req
849. You are their friend, and they do
not give their affections readily.Copy !req
850. Come, Antares, Rigel, it is late.Copy !req
851. Altair, Aldebaran, go to sleep.Copy !req
852. You must be strong and swift.Copy !req
853. Go, my children. Go.Copy !req
854. When they reach Jerusalem,
they'll race the world's finest teams...Copy !req
855. not to mention the champion of the East,
Messala, with his black devils.Copy !req
856. He stops at nothing to win.Copy !req
857. - Messala? In the circus?
- Yes.Copy !req
858. You knew him?Copy !req
859. I know him.Copy !req
860. Perhaps without much liking.Copy !req
861. Judah Ben-Hur,
my people are praying for a man...Copy !req
862. to drive their team
to victory over Messala.Copy !req
863. You could be that man, the one...Copy !req
864. to stamp his arrogance
into the sand.Copy !req
865. My horses need only a driver
who is worthy of them...Copy !req
866. one who will rule them with love.
For him, they'd outrace the wind.Copy !req
867. It's not possible.Copy !req
868. That is a pity.Copy !req
869. Think of it. To break his pride...Copy !req
870. to humble this tribune before
the very people he has degraded.Copy !req
871. Just think, his defeat and humiliation
at the hands of a Jew!Copy !req
872. I know it is not possible.Copy !req
873. Does it not delight your imagination?Copy !req
874. Does it not answer your purpose?Copy !req
875. I must deal with Messala
in my own way.Copy !req
876. And your way is to kill him.Copy !req
877. I see this terrible thing
in your eyes, Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
878. But no matter what this man has done,
you have no right to take his life.Copy !req
879. He will be punished inevitably.Copy !req
880. I don't believe in miracles.Copy !req
881. But all life is a miracle.Copy !req
882. Why will you not
accept God's judgment?Copy !req
883. You do not believe in miracles.Copy !req
884. Yet God once spoke to me
out of the darkness...Copy !req
885. and a star led me
to a village called Bethlehem...Copy !req
886. where I found a newborn child
in a manger.Copy !req
887. And God lived in this child.Copy !req
888. By now, he is a grown man
and must be ready to begin his work.Copy !req
889. That is why I have returned here...Copy !req
890. so that I may be at hand
when he comes among us.Copy !req
891. He is near.Copy !req
892. He saw the sun set this evening,
as we did.Copy !req
893. Perhaps he's standing in a doorway
somewhere or on a hilltop.Copy !req
894. Perhaps he is a shepherd...Copy !req
895. a merchant, a fisherman.Copy !req
896. But he lives...Copy !req
897. and all our lives from now on
will carry his mark.Copy !req
898. There are many paths to God, my son.Copy !req
899. I hope yours will not
be too difficult.Copy !req
900. I'm ready for sleep.Copy !req
901. Balthasar is a good man...Copy !req
902. but until all men are like him,
we must keep our swords bright.Copy !req
903. And our intention true.Copy !req
904. So I must leave you.Copy !req
905. One last thought.Copy !req
906. There is no law in the arena.Copy !req
907. Many are killed.Copy !req
908. I hope to see you again.Copy !req
909. Fine Damascus silk.Copy !req
910. Fine Damascus silk.Copy !req
911. Esther?Copy !req
912. It's Judah.Copy !req
913. Judah.Copy !req
914. - You are alive.
- Esther.Copy !req
915. You are alive.Copy !req
916. What are you doing here?
What has happened?Copy !req
917. Shh.Copy !req
918. I'm here.Copy !req
919. I'm with you.Copy !req
920. Esther.Copy !req
921. Where's your father?Copy !req
922. Hmm?Copy !req
923. The day they took you away,
they imprisoned him.Copy !req
924. They tortured him.Copy !req
925. When they were sure he was hiding
nothing, they let him go.Copy !req
926. Ever since then, we have been
living here, in hiding.Copy !req
927. You never went back to Antioch?Copy !req
928. No.Copy !req
929. The Romans took everything.
There was nothing left for us there.Copy !req
930. Esther.Copy !req
931. Where are my mother and sister?Copy !req
932. Esther.Copy !req
933. Let me tell him first.Copy !req
934. Father.Copy !req
935. Father, something wonderful
has happened.Copy !req
936. - Judah Ben-Hur is alive.
- Judah.Copy !req
937. He has come home. He is here.Copy !req
938. Judah.Copy !req
939. Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
940. My dear old friend.Copy !req
941. Let me look at you.Copy !req
942. Let me see you.Copy !req
943. Yes, yes. It is true.Copy !req
944. Praise God for his mercy.Copy !req
945. Where are they?Copy !req
946. Since that terrible day...Copy !req
947. there has been no word of them.Copy !req
948. You should have been less loyal.Copy !req
949. Do not pity me, Master Judah.Copy !req
950. In fact, I'm twice the man I was.Copy !req
951. There is Malluch, my other half.
We met in the dungeons of the citadel.Copy !req
952. We were released on the same day.Copy !req
953. Malluch without a tongue,
and I without life in my legs.Copy !req
954. Since then, I have been his tongue...Copy !req
955. and he has been my legs.Copy !req
956. Together, we make a considerable man.Copy !req
957. Old friend.Copy !req
958. She always said you would return.Copy !req
959. She never gave up hope.Copy !req
960. Though I hoped it,
I didn't believe it.Copy !req
961. I see that your one thought is
to save your mother and sister.Copy !req
962. But suppose that isn't possible.Copy !req
963. If one purpose fails,
it is good to have another.Copy !req
964. Much of your fortune is safe, Judah.Copy !req
965. They could not make me
tell them where it is.Copy !req
966. It is there still...Copy !req
967. to put power into our hands
and buy death for the Romans.Copy !req
968. That's not why I came back.Copy !req
969. Judah, they are dead.Copy !req
970. Four years. No one could live
so long in the dungeons.Copy !req
971. Who lives more than one year
in the galleys?Copy !req
972. Yes, it is true.Copy !req
973. Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
974. You have come back to us
like a returning faith.Copy !req
975. Judah, I should like to laugh again.Copy !req
976. - Let us laugh.
- We will.Copy !req
977. There will be joy again
in this house.Copy !req
978. We will celebrate among the dust.Copy !req
979. I will take him.Copy !req
980. We stood here before.Copy !req
981. A long while ago.Copy !req
982. Four years.Copy !req
983. But now it seems as if...Copy !req
984. only yesterday...Copy !req
985. I was saying:Copy !req
986. "If you were not a bride,
I should kiss you goodbye."Copy !req
987. "If I were not a bride...Copy !req
988. there would be
no goodbyes to be said."Copy !req
989. I am not a bride.Copy !req
990. Why did you never marry?Copy !req
991. My father needed me.Copy !req
992. And also...Copy !req
993. It's still on my finger.Copy !req
994. I said I should wear it
till I met a woman I would marry.Copy !req
995. It's become a part of my hand.Copy !req
996. If Messala once knew you were here...Copy !req
997. As he must.Copy !req
998. He will know where they are.Copy !req
999. And if you should find?Copy !req
1000. - If he should tell you they're dead...
- Then Messala will wish they were living.Copy !req
1001. I've seen too much
of what hate can do.Copy !req
1002. My father is burned up with it.Copy !req
1003. But I've heard of a young rabbi who
says that forgiveness is greater...Copy !req
1004. and love more powerful than hatred.Copy !req
1005. I believe it.Copy !req
1006. - Esther.
- Judah.Copy !req
1007. Stay alive.Copy !req
1008. Keep away from Messala.Copy !req
1009. Only if I can give up
thinking and feeling.Copy !req
1010. That time isn't yet come.Copy !req
1011. The stone that fell from this roof
so long ago is still falling.Copy !req
1012. Only this time you won't be sent
to the galleys.Copy !req
1013. This time you will be destroyed.Copy !req
1014. You'll die.Copy !req
1015. Tribune, compliments of Quintus
Arrius. He awaits your pleasure.Copy !req
1016. - Consul here?
- Quintus Arrius, the younger tribune.Copy !req
1017. Thank him. Bring him to me.Copy !req
1018. - I didn't know the consul had a son.
- He's a champion of the great circus.Copy !req
1019. Why is he here presenting me with gifts?Copy !req
1020. - Perhaps he'll race against you.
- Look.Copy !req
1021. It's magnificent.Copy !req
1022. And from a man I've never met.Copy !req
1023. You're wrong, Messala.Copy !req
1024. Judah.Copy !req
1025. By what magic do you bear
the name of a consul of Rome?Copy !req
1026. You were the magician, Messala.Copy !req
1027. You condemned me to the galleys.Copy !req
1028. When my ship was sunk,
I saved the consul's life.Copy !req
1029. You know his seal?Copy !req
1030. Now I have come back...Copy !req
1031. as I swore I would.Copy !req
1032. Your gift is exquisitely
appropriate, young Arrius.Copy !req
1033. You suggest I use it on myself?Copy !req
1034. What has become of
my mother and my sister?Copy !req
1035. It is not my duty
to keep track of prisoners.Copy !req
1036. Find them, Messala.Copy !req
1037. Restore them to me,
and I'll forget what I vowed...Copy !req
1038. with every stroke of that oar
you chained me to.Copy !req
1039. I am not the governor of Judea.
I can do nothing without approval.Copy !req
1040. Then get it.Copy !req
1041. I will come back tomorrow.Copy !req
1042. Don't disappoint me, Messala.Copy !req
1043. What became of them?Copy !req
1044. It's been almost five years.
Do you suppose they're still alive?Copy !req
1045. Go to the citadel, Drusus. Find out.Copy !req
1046. - And if they're dead?
- They're dead!Copy !req
1047. "Miriam, wife. Tirzah, daughter."Copy !req
1048. Yes, they are the ones.
Are they alive?Copy !req
1049. East section...Copy !req
1050. lower level.Copy !req
1051. Cell two.
Jailer on that level will know.Copy !req
1052. Water.Copy !req
1053. Water.Copy !req
1054. Let me out!Copy !req
1055. Hear us! Hear us!Copy !req
1056. - How long since you've seen them?
- Never.Copy !req
1057. And I've been here three years.
But they're alive all right.Copy !req
1058. The food disappears.Copy !req
1059. Lepers.Copy !req
1060. They must be taken outside the city
and released at once.Copy !req
1061. Then we'll burn out the cell.Copy !req
1062. Is someone there?Copy !req
1063. There is someone there.Copy !req
1064. Who are you?Copy !req
1065. Don't come any closer.Copy !req
1066. Who are you?Copy !req
1067. Esther.Copy !req
1068. It's Miriam.Copy !req
1069. Miriam.Copy !req
1070. Miriam?Copy !req
1071. Stay where you are.Copy !req
1072. You have come home.Copy !req
1073. Stand back, Esther.Copy !req
1074. We are lepers.Copy !req
1075. Oh, Esther.Copy !req
1076. Tirzah.Copy !req
1077. Esther...Copy !req
1078. is Judah living?Copy !req
1079. Yes, he is alive.Copy !req
1080. He is here.Copy !req
1081. Where?Copy !req
1082. He is searching for you now.Copy !req
1083. I must find him and tell him.Copy !req
1084. - No!
- Tell my father.Copy !req
1085. No.Copy !req
1086. Tell no one.Copy !req
1087. We are going away
to the Valley of the Lepers.Copy !req
1088. We won't return.Copy !req
1089. But...Copy !req
1090. Judah has to be told.Copy !req
1091. No.Copy !req
1092. Please.Copy !req
1093. I couldn't see his face.Copy !req
1094. Is it changed?Copy !req
1095. No, he is not changed.Copy !req
1096. He...Copy !req
1097. He's not changed.Copy !req
1098. You love him, Esther.Copy !req
1099. Promise me...Copy !req
1100. on your love for him...Copy !req
1101. you will never tell him
you've seen us.Copy !req
1102. Is he never to know?Copy !req
1103. Let him remember us as we were.Copy !req
1104. Promise me.Copy !req
1105. There's nothing else I can hope for.Copy !req
1106. Only this.Copy !req
1107. I promise you.Copy !req
1108. I am content.Copy !req
1109. Wait.Copy !req
1110. Messala will find out.
I am sure of that.Copy !req
1111. I pray to God they're alive
and that Messala will free them.Copy !req
1112. He'll free them.Copy !req
1113. He wants to survive.Copy !req
1114. He cannot free them, Judah.Copy !req
1115. What do you mean?Copy !req
1116. - I saw them.
- You saw them?Copy !req
1117. Where?Copy !req
1118. When did you see them?Copy !req
1119. They were dead.Copy !req
1120. When?Copy !req
1121. When? When?Copy !req
1122. In the prison.Copy !req
1123. When I was waiting
for news of my father.Copy !req
1124. Why didn't you tell me?Copy !req
1125. I couldn't tell you.Copy !req
1126. Nor even you, Father.Copy !req
1127. I was afraid that
if you saw Messala...Copy !req
1128. Judah, you have come
to the end of your search.Copy !req
1129. It's over now.Copy !req
1130. Over?Copy !req
1131. - Judah.
- Over?Copy !req
1132. Judah, forget, forget, forget Messala.
Go back to Rome.Copy !req
1133. Gentlemen. Officers.Copy !req
1134. Defenders of great Rome's imperium...Copy !req
1135. may I enter?Copy !req
1136. Certainly, sheik.Copy !req
1137. You do us an unexpected honor.Copy !req
1138. The noble tribune is most gracious.Copy !req
1139. And now,
the question you're all asking yourselves:Copy !req
1140. Why am I here?Copy !req
1141. As you know, I am a gambling man.Copy !req
1142. The games approach.Copy !req
1143. I am racing my whites against the
noble tribune's undefeated blacks.Copy !req
1144. But I will back my own poor horses.Copy !req
1145. No limits?Copy !req
1146. - Mark me first!
- And me!Copy !req
1147. - What odds?
- A moment, please...Copy !req
1148. my lords, protectors
of the far flung marshes.Copy !req
1149. May I first, uh, sit down?Copy !req
1150. Sit down. Lie down.
How much will you wager?Copy !req
1151. - Yes, let's call his game.
- Give the Arab a seat.Copy !req
1152. A bench, quickly.Copy !req
1153. Thank you.Copy !req
1154. - Now.
- One thousand denarii.Copy !req
1155. - Two thousand!
- Mark me!Copy !req
1156. Your spirit does you credit,
but do not be impatient.Copy !req
1157. There is time and money enough for all.Copy !req
1158. First, gentlemen, the odds.Copy !req
1159. The tribune has won many times. The
odds should be in the same measure.Copy !req
1160. Now, what is your pleasure, gentlemen?Copy !req
1161. Two to one.Copy !req
1162. Noble Romans, men of the Tiber,
masters of the Earth...Copy !req
1163. where is the courage
that made Rome master of the world?Copy !req
1164. I can get better odds
on any street market.Copy !req
1165. Three to one.Copy !req
1166. Let us not haggle. Let us be fair.Copy !req
1167. In four years, the tribune has won
four victories in the circus.Copy !req
1168. - In all truth...
- Just a moment.Copy !req
1169. We know you have good horses,
but who is your driver?Copy !req
1170. Oh.Copy !req
1171. Did I not tell you?
How careless of me.Copy !req
1172. The Prince of Hur.Copy !req
1173. Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
1174. Prince of Hur?Copy !req
1175. - He was sent to the galleys years ago.
- He has returned.Copy !req
1176. Returned? Impossible.Copy !req
1177. The divine Tiberius is merciful
as always.Copy !req
1178. Well?Copy !req
1179. Will no one back the noble tribune
against a Jew, a galley slave?Copy !req
1180. Perhaps I made a mistake
in coming here.Copy !req
1181. You, tribune...Copy !req
1182. will you give me four to one?Copy !req
1183. Four to one.Copy !req
1184. - Good.
- Bravo, Messala.Copy !req
1185. Four to one, sheik. The difference
between a Roman and a Jew.Copy !req
1186. Or an Arab.Copy !req
1187. Bravely spoken.Copy !req
1188. Now we will settle the amount
of our wager. I will venture...Copy !req
1189. A thousand talents?Copy !req
1190. - A thousand talents?
- Yes, a thousand talents.Copy !req
1191. Of course, if it is too much...Copy !req
1192. A thousand talents it will be.Copy !req
1193. Agreed.Copy !req
1194. Treat them well.
They've earned it today.Copy !req
1195. You're good fellows.Copy !req
1196. If only men were this good.
Hey!Copy !req
1197. Remember, Altair...Copy !req
1198. nine times around the circus, huh?Copy !req
1199. Aldebaran.Copy !req
1200. Hey, ha, ha.Copy !req
1201. Rigel, did you hear?Copy !req
1202. Nine lives to live.Copy !req
1203. My swift fellow.Copy !req
1204. You must not win the race
the first time around.Copy !req
1205. You win the last time around.Copy !req
1206. And you cannot win alone.
You must wait for the others.Copy !req
1207. Steady Antares.Copy !req
1208. Like a rock.Copy !req
1209. You will be our anchor.Copy !req
1210. I thought they'd never love
another as they love me.Copy !req
1211. They have taken me into their family.Copy !req
1212. Rest well, my stars.Copy !req
1213. Tomorrow we go up to the city.Copy !req
1214. Then if you defeat Messala and
the new governor there to see it...Copy !req
1215. the news will scorch the streets
of the whole Roman world.Copy !req
1216. Pontius Pilate here?Copy !req
1217. Yes, and ready to grind
his heel into us.Copy !req
1218. You will make him see
what men are born in this land.Copy !req
1219. I only know that
I race against Messala.Copy !req
1220. Look for the yoke.Copy !req
1221. Ease that strap.Copy !req
1222. God forgive me for seeking
vengeance, but my path is set.Copy !req
1223. Into your hands I commit my life.
Do with me as you will.Copy !req
1224. The Star of David.Copy !req
1225. To shine out for your people
and my people together...Copy !req
1226. and blind the eyes of Rome.Copy !req
1227. They are ready.Copy !req
1228. Ready, off!Copy !req
1229. Easy, girl, easy.Copy !req
1230. Number five.Copy !req
1231. Where is number five?Copy !req
1232. Whoa.Copy !req
1233. This is the day, Judah.
It's between us now.Copy !req
1234. Yes, this is the day.Copy !req
1235. Judah!Copy !req
1236. Look, he's driving a Greek chariot.Copy !req
1237. Judah, be careful.
Don't let him near you.Copy !req
1238. Hail, Jupiter. Give me victory.Copy !req
1239. Watch your line! Keep your places!Copy !req
1240. The formation is good.
A beautiful line.Copy !req
1241. Citizens...Copy !req
1242. I welcome you to these games
in the name of your emperor, Tiberius.Copy !req
1243. We dedicate them to his glory...Copy !req
1244. and to the glory of Rome...Copy !req
1245. of which you are all part.Copy !req
1246. Let us honor those
who race for us today.Copy !req
1247. They come here from Alexandria...Copy !req
1248. Messina...Copy !req
1249. Carthage...Copy !req
1250. Cyprus...Copy !req
1251. Rome...Copy !req
1252. Corinth...Copy !req
1253. Athens...Copy !req
1254. Phrygia...Copy !req
1255. and Judea.Copy !req
1256. To the best of these,
a crown of victory.Copy !req
1257. The race begins.Copy !req
1258. Hail, Caesar!Copy !req
1259. Hail, Caesar!Copy !req
1260. Oh, you dog!Copy !req
1261. Come, my children, come!Copy !req
1262. The Roman pig!Copy !req
1263. Hyah! Hyah!Copy !req
1264. Steady! Now, now!Copy !req
1265. Salute.Copy !req
1266. A great victory.Copy !req
1267. You are the people's one true god...Copy !req
1268. for the time being.Copy !req
1269. Permit us to worship.Copy !req
1270. I crown their god.Copy !req
1271. I will send for you.
I have a message from Rome.Copy !req
1272. A long life, young Arrius,
and the good sense to live it.Copy !req
1273. We cannot wait, tribune.Copy !req
1274. He will come. He will...Copy !req
1275. We cannot wait any longer, tribune.Copy !req
1276. He will come!Copy !req
1277. He will come.Copy !req
1278. I've sent for him, and he will come.Copy !req
1279. If you wish us to keep you alive,
we have to go to work now, tribune.Copy !req
1280. Do you understand?Copy !req
1281. To hack the legs off me?Copy !req
1282. Not yet. Not till I've seen him.Copy !req
1283. I don't receive him with half a body.Copy !req
1284. No. No!Copy !req
1285. I told you, Drusus. I told you.Copy !req
1286. Here he is.Copy !req
1287. Triumph c...
Triumph complete, Judah.Copy !req
1288. The race won. The enemy destroyed.Copy !req
1289. I see no enemy.Copy !req
1290. What do you think you see?Copy !req
1291. The smashed body of a wretched animal?Copy !req
1292. There's enough of a man
still left here for you to hate.Copy !req
1293. Let me help you.Copy !req
1294. You think they're dead,
your mother and sister.Copy !req
1295. Dead. And the race over.Copy !req
1296. It isn't over, Judah.Copy !req
1297. They're not dead.Copy !req
1298. Where are they?Copy !req
1299. Look for them...Copy !req
1300. in the Valley of the Lepers...Copy !req
1301. if you can recognize them.Copy !req
1302. It goes on.Copy !req
1303. It goes on, Judah.Copy !req
1304. The race...Copy !req
1305. The race is not over.Copy !req
1306. Is there a way down here?Copy !req
1307. Are you a madman?
Keep well out of this place.Copy !req
1308. Man.Copy !req
1309. I'm searching for two women,
a mother and daughter.Copy !req
1310. There... There are many women.Copy !req
1311. Of the family of Hur.Copy !req
1312. We have no names here.Copy !req
1313. For them?Copy !req
1314. - Why did you tell me they were dead?
- It was what they wanted.Copy !req
1315. You must not betray this faith.
Would you do this for them?Copy !req
1316. Not to see them?Copy !req
1317. They are coming.Copy !req
1318. Love them in the way they must need
to be loved. Not to look at them.Copy !req
1319. Let them be as if you had
never come here. Please! Judah!Copy !req
1320. Is Judah well?Copy !req
1321. Is he happy?Copy !req
1322. Yes, he is well.Copy !req
1323. Your mind can be at rest for him.Copy !req
1324. He is well, Miriam.Copy !req
1325. God be with you.Copy !req
1326. They have gone.Copy !req
1327. We can go back.Copy !req
1328. Go back to what?Copy !req
1329. Judah, they have one blessing left.Copy !req
1330. To think you remember them
as they were...Copy !req
1331. and live your own life.Copy !req
1332. Forget what is here.Copy !req
1333. Forget?Copy !req
1334. It's as though
they were alive in a grave.Copy !req
1335. - But what can you do?
- Undo what you've done.Copy !req
1336. How could you have suffered them
to come here? I must see them.Copy !req
1337. No, Judah, please! Judah!Copy !req
1338. Think, Judah, think. It would
tear them apart if they see you.Copy !req
1339. Judah!Copy !req
1340. Judah.Copy !req
1341. He is here. I have found him.
The child has become a man.Copy !req
1342. And the man, I know it now,
is the son of God.Copy !req
1343. The promise is true.Copy !req
1344. Happy Balthasar.
Life has answered you.Copy !req
1345. Life has been answered.Copy !req
1346. God has answered it.Copy !req
1347. Come. Come with me.Copy !req
1348. When the Romans were marching me
to the galleys...Copy !req
1349. thirst had nearly killed me.Copy !req
1350. A man gave me water to drink.Copy !req
1351. I went on living.Copy !req
1352. I should have done better
if I had poured it into the sand.Copy !req
1353. No.Copy !req
1354. I am thirsty still.Copy !req
1355. Come and listen.Copy !req
1356. I have business with Rome.Copy !req
1357. You insist on death.Copy !req
1358. Goodbye, Judah.Copy !req
1359. You sent for me?Copy !req
1360. I hope I bring you
a good conclusion to your victory.Copy !req
1361. I have a message for you
from the consul, your father.Copy !req
1362. - I honor him.
- As you may honor yourself.Copy !req
1363. You have been made a citizen of Rome.Copy !req
1364. Do you say nothing to this?Copy !req
1365. I have just come
from the Valley of Stone...Copy !req
1366. where my mother and sister live
what's left of their lives.Copy !req
1367. By Rome's will,
lepers, outcasts without hope.Copy !req
1368. I have heard this. There was great
blame there, very deeply regretted.Copy !req
1369. Their flesh is mine, Lord Pilate.
It already carries Rome's mark.Copy !req
1370. Messala is dead.
What he did has had its way with him.Copy !req
1371. The deed was not Messala's.
I knew him, well.Copy !req
1372. Before the cruelty of Rome
spread in his blood.Copy !req
1373. Rome destroyed Messala as surely
as Rome has destroyed my family.Copy !req
1374. Where there is greatness,
great government or power...Copy !req
1375. even great feeling or compassion...Copy !req
1376. error also is great.Copy !req
1377. We progress and mature by fault.Copy !req
1378. Rome has said she is ready to join
your life to hers in a great future.Copy !req
1379. There are other voices.Copy !req
1380. The voice, for instance, of Arrius
waiting for you in Rome.Copy !req
1381. He would tell you,
if I may speak in his place...Copy !req
1382. not to crucify yourself
on a shadow such as old resentment...Copy !req
1383. or impossible loyalties.Copy !req
1384. Perfect freedom has no existence.Copy !req
1385. A grown man knows the world
he lives in.Copy !req
1386. And for the present, the world is Rome.Copy !req
1387. Young Arrius, I am sure,
will choose it.Copy !req
1388. I am Judah Ben-Hur.Copy !req
1389. I cross this floor
in spoken friendship...Copy !req
1390. as I would speak to Arrius.Copy !req
1391. But when I go up those stairs,
I become the hand of Caesar...Copy !req
1392. ready to crush all those
who challenge his authority.Copy !req
1393. There are too many small men
of envy and ambition...Copy !req
1394. who try to disrupt
the government of Rome.Copy !req
1395. You have become the victor
and hero to those people.Copy !req
1396. They look to you,
their one true god, as I called you.Copy !req
1397. If you stay here, you will find
yourself part of this tragedy.Copy !req
1398. I am already part of this tragedy.Copy !req
1399. Return this to Arrius.Copy !req
1400. I honor him too well
to wear it any longer.Copy !req
1401. Even for Arrius' sake,
I cannot protect you...Copy !req
1402. from personal disaster
if you stay here.Copy !req
1403. You are too great a danger.Copy !req
1404. Leave Judea.Copy !req
1405. You have my word.Copy !req
1406. Judah!Copy !req
1407. Oh, Judah!Copy !req
1408. I was afraid
you would never come back...Copy !req
1409. afraid of what would happen to you.Copy !req
1410. But I see you again.Copy !req
1411. Your father's waiting for me.Copy !req
1412. Where is he?Copy !req
1413. What do you mean to do?Copy !req
1414. Oh, Judah.Copy !req
1415. Rest, sleep.Copy !req
1416. For a few hours of the night
let your mind be at peace.Copy !req
1417. Peace?Copy !req
1418. Love and peace.Copy !req
1419. Do you think I don't long for them
as much as you do?Copy !req
1420. Where do you see them?Copy !req
1421. If you had heard this man
from Nazareth.Copy !req
1422. Balthasar's word.Copy !req
1423. He is more than Balthasar's word.Copy !req
1424. His voice traveled
with such a still purpose.Copy !req
1425. It was more than a voice.Copy !req
1426. A man more than a man.Copy !req
1427. He said, "Blessed are the merciful...Copy !req
1428. for they shall obtain mercy.Copy !req
1429. Blessed are the peacemakers...Copy !req
1430. for they shall be called
the children of God."Copy !req
1431. Children of God?Copy !req
1432. In that dead valley
where we left them?Copy !req
1433. I tell you every man of Judea is
unclean and will stay unclean...Copy !req
1434. until we have scoured off
our bodies the crust and filth...Copy !req
1435. of being at the mercy of tyranny.Copy !req
1436. No other life is possible
except to wash this land clean.Copy !req
1437. - In blood?
- Yes, in blood!Copy !req
1438. I know there is a law in life.Copy !req
1439. That blood begets more blood
as dog begets dog.Copy !req
1440. Death generates death...Copy !req
1441. as the vulture breeds the vulture.Copy !req
1442. But the voice I heard today
on the hill said:Copy !req
1443. "Love your enemy.Copy !req
1444. Do good to those who
despitefully use you."Copy !req
1445. All who are born in this land
hereafter can suffer as we have done.Copy !req
1446. As you make us do now.Copy !req
1447. Are we to bear nothing together?Copy !req
1448. Even love?Copy !req
1449. I can hardly draw breath...Copy !req
1450. without feeling you in my heart.Copy !req
1451. But I know...Copy !req
1452. that everything I do
from this moment...Copy !req
1453. will be as great a pain to you
as you have ever suffered.Copy !req
1454. It is better not to love me.Copy !req
1455. It was Judah Ben-Hur I loved.
What has become of him?Copy !req
1456. You seem to be now the very thing
you set out to destroy...Copy !req
1457. giving evil for evil.
Hatred is turning you to stone.Copy !req
1458. It's as though
you had become Messala.Copy !req
1459. I've lost you, Judah.Copy !req
1460. No further.Copy !req
1461. What are you doing here?Copy !req
1462. I was here last evening
waiting for you.Copy !req
1463. I have waited all night.
What has happened?Copy !req
1464. Where is Tirzah?Copy !req
1465. Leave the food.Copy !req
1466. I am coming closer. Don't be afraid.Copy !req
1467. - What are you doing?
- Don't be afraid.Copy !req
1468. I've heard him again,
the man from Nazareth.Copy !req
1469. If ever words were from God,
they are in everything he says.Copy !req
1470. I cannot bear that
you should have never known...Copy !req
1471. this hand of quiet
reaching towards us.Copy !req
1472. He is going to Jerusalem.
We can find him there.Copy !req
1473. Bring Tirzah
and we can go together to find him.Copy !req
1474. Tirzah is dying.Copy !req
1475. Leave the food and go.Copy !req
1476. It's Judah.Copy !req
1477. Why did you tell him?Copy !req
1478. Yes, Judah, yes.Copy !req
1479. No nearer, please, God, no nearer.Copy !req
1480. Mother.Copy !req
1481. Wait, Mother, wait.Copy !req
1482. Let me talk with you.Copy !req
1483. Please.Copy !req
1484. No, no further. Please.Copy !req
1485. No, Judah. Son, no.Copy !req
1486. Mother, let me see Tirzah.Copy !req
1487. Tirzah is dying.Copy !req
1488. Judah, if they would see Jesus
of Nazareth they will know...Copy !req
1489. that life is everlasting...Copy !req
1490. and death is nothing to fear
if you have faith.Copy !req
1491. I will take them to him.Copy !req
1492. No!Copy !req
1493. God, no!Copy !req
1494. No, no, dear son.Copy !req
1495. Mother...Copy !req
1496. where is Tirzah?Copy !req
1497. Judah, no.Copy !req
1498. You must not go to her, dear son.Copy !req
1499. Please.Copy !req
1500. Dear son.Copy !req
1501. I am afraid.Copy !req
1502. No cause.Copy !req
1503. The world is more than we know.Copy !req
1504. Tirzah, it's Judah.Copy !req
1505. No.Copy !req
1506. No, Judah.Copy !req
1507. No, Judah. No.Copy !req
1508. Alms for the blind?Copy !req
1509. Alms for the blind?Copy !req
1510. Alms for the blind?
Alms for the blind?Copy !req
1511. - Why are the streets deserted?
- They have gone to the trial.Copy !req
1512. - Alms for the blind?
- Trial? Whose trial?Copy !req
1513. The young rabbi from Nazareth.
They are wanting his death.Copy !req
1514. - This cannot be true.
- Alms?Copy !req
1515. What has he done?Copy !req
1516. Nothing I know of.
For the blind, for the blind.Copy !req
1517. Help for the blind.Copy !req
1518. Look, lepers!
Lepers!Copy !req
1519. Go away!
Get away! Stay away!Copy !req
1520. Go away!Copy !req
1521. Lepers! Lepers!Copy !req
1522. How can this be?Copy !req
1523. I know this man.Copy !req
1524. Will someone help him?Copy !req
1525. Take pity on him.Copy !req
1526. Have mercy. Have mercy.Copy !req
1527. In his pain...Copy !req
1528. this look of peace.Copy !req
1529. Watch over them, Esther.Copy !req
1530. We must go back.Copy !req
1531. I brought you here to this...Copy !req
1532. when I hoped...Copy !req
1533. You haven't failed, Esther.Copy !req
1534. Hail King of the Jews!Copy !req
1535. This is where your search
has brought you, Balthasar.Copy !req
1536. He gave me water...Copy !req
1537. and a heart to live.Copy !req
1538. What has he done to merit this?Copy !req
1539. He has taken the world
of our sins onto himself.Copy !req
1540. To this end he said he was born...Copy !req
1541. in that stable...Copy !req
1542. where I first saw him.Copy !req
1543. For this cause,
he came into the world.Copy !req
1544. For this death?Copy !req
1545. This beginning.Copy !req
1546. I have lived too long.Copy !req
1547. As though he were carrying
in that cross...Copy !req
1548. the pain of the world.Copy !req
1549. So fearful, and yet why is it...Copy !req
1550. I'm not afraid anymore?Copy !req
1551. The shadow of a storm.Copy !req
1552. A strange darkness...Copy !req
1553. but still day.Copy !req
1554. His life is over.Copy !req
1555. What is it?Copy !req
1556. This tearing.Copy !req
1557. I am in pain.Copy !req
1558. I feel it too.Copy !req
1559. Miriam.Copy !req
1560. I thought I...Copy !req
1561. Miriam.Copy !req
1562. Do you see your hand?Copy !req
1563. Tirzah.Copy !req
1564. Miriam.Copy !req
1565. Tirzah.Copy !req
1566. Almost at the moment he died...Copy !req
1567. I heard him say,
"Father, forgive them...Copy !req
1568. for they know not what they do."Copy !req
1569. - Even then.
- Even then.Copy !req
1570. And I felt his voice take
the sword out of my hand.Copy !req