4 And Ruth was sore distressed. Her home was down in Jericho; her husband was the keeper of an inn; his name was Asher-ben.
5 Now, Asher was a Pharisee of strictest mien and thought, and he regarded Jesus with disdain.
6 And when his wife confessed her faith in Christ, he drove her from his home.
7 But Ruth resisted not; she said, If Jesus is the Christ he knows the way, and I am sure he is the Christ,
8 My husband may become enraged and slay my human form; he cannot kill the soul, and in the many mansions of my Fatherland I have a dwelling-place.
9 And Ruth told Jesus all; and then she said, What shall I do?
10 And Jesus said, Your husband is not willingly at fault; he is devout; he prays to God, our Father-God.
11 His zeal for his religion is intense; in this he is sincere; but it has driven him insane, and he believes it right to keep his home unsullied by the heresy of Christ.
12 He feels assured that he has done the will of God in driving you away.
13 Intolerance is ignorance matured.