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Would I retain your friendship
if I became an informer?
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Telling the names of criminals
is not informing.
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They're not criminals, Messala.
They're patriots.
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Patriots?!
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Let me explain something to you.
Something you may not know.
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The emperor is watching us.
At this moment, he watches the East.
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This is my great opportunity,
and yours too.
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If I bring order here,
I can have any post I want.
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You'll rise with me, I promise.
And do you know where it can end?
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Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side
of Caesar himself.
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I mean it. It can happen
and this is the moment.
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I swear, this is the time.
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The emperor is watching us, judging
us. All I need do is serve him.
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And all you need do
is help me serve him.
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-You speak as if he were God.
-He is God. The only God.
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He is power,
real power on earth, not--
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Not that.
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Help me, Judah.
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I would do anything
for you, Messala. . .
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. . .except betray my own people.
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In the name of all the gods, what do
the lives of a few Jews mean to you?
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If I cannot persuade them, that does
not mean I would help you murder them.
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Besides, you must
understand this, Messala.
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I believe in the past
and future of my people.
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Future? You are a conquered people.
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You may conquer the land.
You may slaughter the people.
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But that is not the end.
We will rise again.
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You live on dead dreams.
You live on the myths of the past.
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Solomon's glory is gone.
You think it will return?
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Joshua will not rise again
to save you nor David.