“It isn’t safe for you to preach in Jerusalem... Your faith is for the little towns and villages where the Romans have less influence or none at all...
“When James was here a month or so ago he mentioned going to Rome. Do you wish him to preach your gospel there?”
She went on to urge me to send apostles to Egypt.
“There are more than seventy of you now... I hope you can send two or more to my country...to preach in the villages...you are needed there.”
That evening, after dinner, she rapped on my door: she is very tall, very elegant; dressed in an Egyptian gown, she made a little bow, and presented me with a bronze stylus.
“It will be better than your wooden one,” she said.
While enjoying my stylus someone brought me a dish of lemon paste.
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Sadly, more than twenty years have passed since our Nazareth synagogue acquired a scroll. Our scrolls are in tatters and all are asked to refrain from using them. Learning this, Clibus has offered several scrolls.
“I’ll send two of my men...one to carry the scrolls, the other to see that the first man doesn’t wander off.”