Jesus; a passion play

Act I The Cleansing Of The Temple Persons In Act I

Mary, a Magdalene

Terreno, Captain of

Roman Guards Caiaphas, High Priest JosES, Jesus' Brother Meier, a Pharisee Jachin, an Overseer

the Temple David, a Damascene Nathan, a Galilean Judas, Peter, the of

Disciples of Jesus

Priests ers

Scrib es

Zarah, ] t , . , ^ J erusalemites

Joseph, y

JUBAL, J

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Sala,

Booz,

Ezra,

^Traders

Temple servants, Roman soldiers, Phoenicians, Jerusalem-

Ites, a Gaulanite, an Egyptian Jew, a Canaite,

a Caesarean, and many others.

ACT I

A portion of the Court of the Gentiles in the Temple at Jerusalem. At back are quadruple rows of Corinthian columns and a balustrade. Except a long table at right the Court is barren of furnishings. It is about the year 29, a Spring morning before the Feast of the Passover.

\_Five Temple servants on their knees are mopping the floor. ^

First Servant We are nearly done.

Second Servant By noon the floor will look as if we had not touched a cloth to it.

Third Servant I never saw so many persons. All the streets are crowded.

Fourth Servant There are more heathen than last year.

Third Servant

Yesterday I saw a good many Greeks.