What Child Is This?

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Both were quiet a moment. Then Mary's husband asked, "The Vava and those with him were from the same place in the East that the men who came to us were, and those men brought us gifts when they saw you. The Vava was reacting to the aggressive response of the occupying military. If he is on the side of those who brought gifts, how is it you called the Vava the enemy?"

"He is the enemy. He is not on the side of those who came to you. He wanted to destroy the new king he heard about, to make his kingdom grow this way, closer to here."

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Mary's husband still said, "We fled from the area where you were born after the men from the East left us with the gifts they left, because the ruler there wanted to find the newborn king, and destroy him, too."

Mary asked, "Whoever sent the military forces here then knows of this Vava, who is the enemy?"

"It is the ruler of the empire and his appointed officials who know of the Vava. If they could deal with him, they would."

Mary said, "It is good none of them are going to take you for you to deal with him."

"That is not what I am here for," the child answered.

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Mary said in response, "I don't understand. What do you mean?"

Her child said, "There is not more that can be said about it than what was told you already. Everything must unfold for that, which can be understood later. Leaders here have enemies and others they have to deal with. There is an enemy in the end that I will have to deal with, that they can't."

Mary's husband said, "Mary, we cannot understand more. We talk with a child who speaks with puzzling phrases we do not grasp, and we know great and even miraculous things happen around him, like those would with a prophet sent from God, and we heard he is from God. We will just have to do things if he reveals things that should be done. That will be all we can understand with him."

Mary said, "I do have more questions. But you may be right. The more I was asking, the puzzles there were from what answers I get from him."

Yeshua, her child, said, "But maybe we can have something to eat soon? It has been a long while."

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Mary said, "Of course. There were so many things we were doing, we did not stop for eating anything. You must be really hungry, Yeshua. I still have baked bread and some of the figs, that we can have right now. But I did want to cook a meal, and it will take some time. Let's have the bread now, and maybe figs too. The meal will be rather later. I hope you won't be too tired then, Yeshua. It has been a long day "

Yeshua said, "Each day is enough to itself. You don't need to know the things happening tomorrow, now. But if you do listen to what things I show, you will both go with me at regular occasions to that city where our wagon stopped at along the way here."

Mary's husband responded, "Oh! That city Jerusalem?"

"Yes, that."

Mary said, "Here Yeshua. Eat this bread. When you finish it I can give you the fig."

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As her child ate with enthusiasm, Mary turned to her husband, and said, "So, we say we will do what he reveals for us, and he tells us to go with him to Jerusalem again at regular occasions. Are we really going to do that? There were reasons for us to avoid being there, it is why we did not leave the wagon of the caravan when it stopped for a while there."

"Yes. We need to do that then. It will be alright if he tells us it will be."

"Alright. If he says so, we can make that big trip for the next feast day."

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When the bread little Yeshua was given to eat was soon finished, Mary gave him the fig. He started eating that, but not as fast. Yeshua ate slower and slower, and before finishing it off, he set it down and said, "Mama, I'm tired."

Mary said, "I am not surprised at that. It has been a very busy day for us. Can you finish the fig still?"

"I am afraid I cannot. I feel really tired."

"Alright, let's take you to bed. Get the sleep you need, it is already late."

Mary led him to where he would lie down, and watched over him, seeing him quickly fall asleep. She then went back to where her husband waited. She said, "It was really a long day that was busy enough for us, it was enough for me, too. I didn't think it was going to be. But after all that traveling, all that walking was much more than I needed."

Her husband said, "What happened? You have been very active previously. Just after we came back here after traveling with the caravan you don't seem to have the same energy."

"We will still go to that city we would travel to the next feast day Yeshua tells it would be alright to do. You can trust that if he is the prophet you say he must be. We agree he really is a miracle worker."

"Yes, he is. But we don't understand yet the puzzling things he has been saying."

"They must be revelations of some kind that we will have to understand somehow."

Her husband looked at her. "You had less energy before, when you were going to give birth to him later."