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Shyla said, "Let it be as you say, Lord, of course."

"Good! For now, find a place  of privacy so you  can begin your first hop without being seen of my students""

For the remaining daylight hours Yeshua wandered the streets of Magdala teaching  the people of  the city and healing  those who were sick. Later 'Miriam' returned and said  to Yeshua, "Please accept the hospitality of our field station in this city."

Yeshua agreed. He and his disciples followed Miriam  home, and his enemies also  followed, never  very far  behind. When they arrived indoors Miriam said to Yeshua in a  language that would not even exist for  centuries, "Yohanan  will be  executed next month,  Lord Yeshua.  It  will a  clean  death, because  Antipas actually respected  him. He  liked to hear  him preach,  he just needed  him off  the street.  But his  wife could  never forgive Yohanan for his mouth and she  maneuvred to have him killed. The events leading up to his death will be rather sordid."

"There is no need to spoil our supper with the details."

Yeshua invited the Herodians to come into the  station and dine with him, but the Herodians declined to sit at table, and hated how he and his disciples  cheerfully shared a meal  prepared by Yeshua's  servants  at  the  B'nei Elohim  field  station. They resented how  he  broke  down  barriers  between  human  beings and God, and  how he  even  broke down  barriers between  human beings themselves. Their livelihood  consisted  of being  paid interlocutors. Taking no thought of the digestion  of those who dined, one said  to  Yeshua, "How  is it  you  call yourself  a disciple of Yohanan, yet are found in the home of a loose woman, one not even of the holy people of God, eating and drinking with a man known to be a tax-collector?"

Yeshua turned to Mattiyahu and asked of him, in a perfect parody of confusion, "Levi, please help me, do you see  a man known to be a tax collector here?"

"Not at all, Master," he replied. "I see only full-time students who would learn from you the will of the holy God of Israel."

Yeshua turned then and addressed the Herodians, "Yohanan was an ascetic and you said he had a devil. I share food and drink with my followers and you say, 'Behold,  a friend of sinners, one who gets  drunk with  harlots.'  That's the  worst  part there:  You assume an  unmarried Gentile woman  wearing what to our  eyes is outlandish dress must be a prostitute."