New Version of a Well-Known Text.
“There was a man named Nicodemus, an Inquisitor, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Iesou by night, and he said:
Rabbi, we know you’re a teacher who has come from God, because nobody is able to make the signs you make unless God is with him.
Iesou answered: You can’t see into the realm of the stars unless you’re born from above...”
On Certain Religious Questions.
“Everywhere there are people. There aren’t the carefully vetted shortlist of heroes and gods that make up the bulk of the stories of pagan antiquity; they’re the people swarming the streets and back alleys, trudging down the roads, jamming the inns, riding the cheapest boats across the Sea of Galilee: fishermen, farmers, lawyers, priests, customs officials, merchants, sailors, landowners, clerks, soldiers, artisans, day laborers, beggars, slaves. There are women from all classes of society, aristocratic ladies and merchants’ wives and village women and prostitutes. They are invariably shown as busy ...”