noon
`` If it be the law , can I say to one a long time come , ` Go thy way ; another is here to take thy place ? ' '' Yet Joseph held his peace . `` And , if I said so , to whom would the place belong ? See the many that have been waiting , some of them since noon . '' `` Who are all these people ? '' asked Joseph , turning to the crowd . `` And why are they here at this time ? ''