Basil Sydney credited as playing...
Pontius Pilate
- Pontius Pilate: I wait for no one! Least of all - a woman.
- Commander Claudius: Perhaps there's one woman worth waiting for.
- Pontius Pilate: No woman!
- Commander Claudius: Not even that one?
- [nods in the direction of Salome]
- Commander Claudius: Rome cannot go on as it has - ruling with the sword and the whip. If we are to survive, we must recognize that a new force is coming into the world.
- Pontius Pilate: New force?
- Commander Claudius: The religion of this prophet. It will bring hope to the conquered. It will bring peace to all men - by teaching every manhood to live at peace with his neighbors. This faith will march across the world and win men, where Rome could only conquer them.
- Pontius Pilate: Caesar is the only faith possible for a Roman!
- Pontius Pilate: I know this country better than you. It's ridden with prophets! Right here, in Jerusalem, there's a carpenter that even claims he's the Son of God! Yes, they call him a man of miracles.