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Then Yeshua touched each of the men with palsy in turn, and soon their tremors ceased, and they were able to rise from the canvas of their own power. The faces of the Herodians watching overhead were seen no more. But there remained many sick of Capernaum to be healed.

As he made them whole  Yeshua recalled  his words to  Belial in Anshar, how he  was to be a  teacher and a healer. But what, he wondered, was he to  teach? Would people be willing  to accept how the healing  was done? Everyone in this culture  imagined invisible spirits existed everywhere  they turned. Yeshua knew people were like cities  of countless  living things  that were invisible simply because they were  too small to see,  and each one of these entities was  fully occupied with the  business of keeping itself  alive in  cooperation with the  whole. Sometimes repairs were needed. There was nothing supernatural about it.

When Yeshua came to the city  of Magdala on the  lake a Gentile woman came before Yeshua and knelt low with her head bowed. The disciples saw that she was fair of skin, for  she came from the mountains in the north of Italy. In a strange tongue she said, 'The B'nei Elohim  greet you,  Lord. By your leave,  will this language be sufficiently obscure that we may speak openly?"

"It should be enough, Shyla, if you avoid resorting to Hebraisms such as 'sons  of God'.  Already my  brothers think  you to  be afflicted with devils." And indeed, Shimon and Yosy never knew their brother to speak anything but common Aramaic. They thought his words to the woman were a spell to cast out her demons.

She rose to her feet,  and they  marvelled how she  was arrayed like a princess. Shyla carried more flesh than most of the women of Galilee, yet this only made her even  more beautiful. Yeshua told her, "Here I will call you Miriam of Magdala."

She said, 'Tell me what is your pleasure, Lord."

"Tell me, Miriam, in your native Italy, a thousand years hence, does anyone speak of the Kingdom of God?"

She shook her head. "There is no god but the Emperor, up there. Over  the next  hundred years  the Jews  antagonize Rome  to the point of being scattered abroad and the Temple is no more."

Yeshua answered, "Then I  would ask  you to  become part  of my closest circle.  From time to  time I will  send you on  a quick round trip across the Levant and  up and down the timeline. Your reports can help me adjust what I am doing here."