“That he walks on the sea——”
“Nonsense!”
“That he turns water into wine, feeds the multitude, raises the dead——”
“Raises the dead!” And the tetrarch added in the sotto voce of thought, “So did Elijah.”
“That he had been in the desert——”
“With Aretas?”
“No; I questioned him on that point. He had never heard of Aretas, but he said that in the desert this Satan had come and offered him—what do you suppose? The empire of the earth!”
Antipas shook with fright. “It must have been Aretas.”
“But that he had refused.”
“Then it is John.”