Cathy O'Donnell credited as playing...
Tirzah
- Miriam: [speaking of Christ] As though he were carrying that cross the pain of the world.
- [she whispers]
- Miriam: So fearful.
- Tirzah: And yet why is it... I'm not afraid anymore?
- [thunder rumbles]
- Esther: The shadow of a storm.
- [they go inside a nearby cave; the sky goes dark outside]
- Esther: A strange darkness, but still day.
- [a violent storm begins]
- Miriam: His life is over.
- [lightning cracks]
- Tirzah: He's here. It's tearing... I feel the pain!
- Miriam: I feel it too.
- [They seem to faint]
- Esther: [concerned] Miriam?
- [Miriam presses Esther's hand]
- Esther: I thought that... Miriam! Do you see your hand?
- [They look; Tirzah sits up, healed]
- Esther: Tirzah! Miriam!
- [They touch each other's faces, feel their hands, embrace as they realize they've been healed]
- [Christ passes, bearing the cross]
- Esther: How can this be?
- Judah Ben-Hur: [shocked] I *know* this man!
- [Jesus stumbles and is whipped by the centurions]
- Miriam: [pleading] Won't someone help him?
- [Jesus is whipped again]
- Tirzah: Pity on him!
- Miriam: [wonderingly] In his pain... there's a look of peace.
- Judah Ben-Hur: Watch over them, Esther.
- [he goes after Jesus]
- Miriam: We must go back.
- Esther: [sadly] I brought you here to this... when I hoped...
- Miriam: [looking after Christ] You haven't failed, Esther.