[I.N.R.I. by Peter Rosegger]@TWC D-Link bookI.N.R.I. CHAPTER XVIII 9/15
He found two of His relations there, who asked Him curtly, and without ceremony, what He purposed doing; did He propose to return to Nazareth or not? If not, then He had better realise that His house and workshop would be confiscated. Jesus answered them: "Go and tell your elders in Nazareth: The house belongs to him who needs it, and let him who has a use for the workshop have it.
And leave Him in peace who would build a House in which there are many mansions." They remained standing there, and said; "If you turn a deaf ear and are heedless of us, there is some one else here." And then His mother came forward.
She had thrown a blue shawl over her head.
She looked ill, and could hardly speak for sobbing.
She took hold of His hand: "My son! where will all this lead? Can you undertake such responsibility? You reject the belief of your fathers, and you deprive others of it." To which He replied: "I deprive them of their belief.
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