Why rest here in such discomfort ?" He looked at her calmly.

Then he answered: "Woman, I would be alone." She gently answered: "I am quite alone now in the house." "Where are our relations ?" "They wished to fetch you home, and have been away for weeks in search of you." Jesus pointed with a motion of His hand to His sleeping disciples: "They did not seek Me for weeks, they found Me the first day." As if she wished to prevent Him complaining again that His kinsmen did not understand Him, His mother said: "People have long been annoyed that work was no longer done in our workshop, and so they go to a new one which has been set up in our street." "Where is Aaron, the apprentice ?" She replied: "It is not surprising that no one will stay if the children of the house depart." He spoke excitedly: "I tell you, woman, spare Me your reproaches and domestic cares.

I have something else to do." Then she turned to the rocky wall to hide her sobs.

After a while she said softly: "How can you be so cruel to your mother! It's not for myself I complain; you may well believe.

All is over for me in this world.