helped
their host at work in his garden, intending to walk on to Jerusalem in the
cool of the evening. But for some reason Yeshua had been in a hurry, saying
that he had something urgent to do in the city, and had set off alone at
noon. That was Matthew the Levite's first mistake. Why, why had he let him
go alone?
That evening Matthew had been unable to go to Jerusalem, as he had
suffered a sudden and unexpected attack of sickness. He shivered, his body
felt as if it were on fire and he constantly begged for water.
To go anywhere was out of the question. He had collapsed on to a rug in
the gardener's courtyard and had lain there until dawn on Friday, when the
sickness left Matthew as suddenly as it had struck him. Although still weak,
he had felt oppressed by a foreboding of disaster and bidding his host
farewell had set out for Jerusalem. There he had learned that his foreboding
had not deceived him and that the disaster had occurred. The Levite had been
in the crowd that had heard the Procurator pronounce sentence.
When the prisoners were taken away to Mount Golgotha, Matthew the
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