11:13-16
Now was word presently brought to the great one of the fair , who quickly came down , and deputed some of his most trusty friends to take these men into examination , about whom the fair was almost overturned . So the men were brought to examination ; and they that sat upon them , asked them whence they came , whither they went , and what they did there , in such an unusual garb ? The men told them that they were pilgrims and strangers in the world , and that they were going to their own country , which was the heavenly Jerusalem , -LSB- Heb . 11:13-16 -RSB- and that they had given no occasion to the men of the town , nor yet to the merchandisers , thus to abuse them , and to let them in their journey , except it was for that , when one asked them what they would buy , they said they would buy the truth . But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad , or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair . Therefore they took them and beat them , and besmeared them with dirt , and then put them into the cage , that they might be made a spectacle to all the men of the fair . Behold Vanity Fair !