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If you want to rise, Sextus,
do the difficult.
:18:06
I asked to be sent here.
:18:09
You'll find the people changed
since you were a boy.
:18:12
In what way?
:18:14
Oh, won't pay their taxes,
an irrational resentment of Rome. . . .
:18:19
There's nothing new in all that.
:18:22
And then there's religion. I tell
you, they're drunk with religion.
:18:25
They smash the statues of our gods,
even those of the emperor.
:18:30
Punish them.
:18:34
We do.
:18:36
When we can find them.
:18:40
Find the leaders.
:18:41
You don't know. There's nothing
you can put your finger on.
:18:44
There are strange forces
at work here.
:18:47
This "messiah" business--
:18:48
I know. There was one
predicted when I was a boy.
:18:51
A king of the Jews, who will lead them
into some sort of anti-Roman paradise.
:18:56
Makes your head spin.
:18:58
There's a wild man
in the desert named John. . .
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. . .who drowns people in water.
:19:03
And a carpenter's son who does magic
tricks. "Miracles" they call them.
:19:07
There's always a rabble-rouser
stirring up trouble.
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No, no, no. This man is different.
:19:12
He teaches that God is near,
in every man.
:19:17
It's actually quite profound,
some of it.
:19:22
You've been too long away from Rome.
:19:24
Go back, Sextus.
:19:26
Go to Capri.
Bathe, rest, lie by the sea. . .
:19:28
. . .and forget that
God is in every man.
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-There is divinity in only one man.
-Yes, I know.
:19:36
The emperor is displeased.
:19:39
He wishes Judea made into a more
obedient and disciplined province.
:19:42
He's ordered me to restore order.
I shall carry out his wishes.
:19:45
How? You can break a man's skull,
arrest him, throw him into a dungeon.
:19:50
But how do you control this?
How do you fight an idea?
:19:53
Especially a new idea.
:19:59
There's a Jew outside.
He wants to see the tribune Messala.