Basil Rathbone credited as playing...
Pontius Pilate
- Pontius Pilate: My boy, I've heard such ideas, a long time ago. They are dreams - beautiful dreams, I know, but dreams nonetheless.
- Flavius, as a Man: Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
- Marcus: There never was such a man, I tell you.
- Pontius Pilate: Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man.
- Flavius, as a Man: What happened to him?
- Pontius Pilate: I crucified Him.
- Pontius Pilate: [carelessly, after Marcus has thanked him for a payment] What have I done/
- [Suddenly stricken with guilt]
- Pontius Pilate: What have I done?
- Marcus: Excellency!
- Pontius Pilate: Forgive me. I am not myself. Just now I have been forced to condemn a Man. Poor Man, I found no fault in Him. But I must try to keep the peace.
- Marcus: He still believes in things.
- Pontius Pilate: And you and I are wiser? Perhaps... What is truth?