How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #7
HEROD What is this miracle of the daughter of Jairus?
FIRST NAZARENE The daughter of Jairus was dead. This Man raised her from the dead.
HEROD How! He raises people from the dead? (255-257)
Here, though, we learn that the "Man" can perform the ultimate miracle—bringing the dead back to life. Spooky.
Quote #8
THE VOICE OF JOKANAAN In that day the sun shall become black like sackcloth of hair, and the moon shall become like blood, and the stars of the heaven shall fall upon the earth like unripe figs that fall from the fig-tree, and the kings of the earth shall be afraid. (282-285)
Here, the transformation which Jokanaan predicts is a true, earth-shattering cataclysm.
Quote #9
HEROD Nay, but it is not cold, it is hot. I am choking. Pour water on my hands. Give me snow to eat. Loosen my mantle. Quick! quick! loosen my mantle. Nay, but leave it. It is my garland that hurts me, my garland of roses. The flowers are like fire. They have burned my forehead. [He tears the wreath from his head, and throws it on the table.] (328)
Herod's every perception seems to be in flux. Flowers turn to fire, cold turns to hot—his world is totally unstable.