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Rh distance. Here he continued four years in which time the noise of the murder being blown over, he returned back again, and got another place in a Nobleman’s family, where he lived sometime, till his own mother accidentally seeing him fell in love with, and married him.

About five years after they had been married, one morning in bed Judas’s shirt bosom lay open, when she saw, under his left breast, the marks he was born with; upon which she waked him in an agony, and told him the whole story of his birth, and the part she had acted therein. Judas heard this with wonder and astonishment, and on his part confessed to her the many crimes he had been guilty of; after which she desired him to depart from her, and seek mercy of God in another country; protesting she would never be carnally known to him any more.

Judas, full of grief and remorse of conscience, left Joppa, and wandered about like a pilgrim, till he heard of a mighty prophet, called JESUS of NAZARETH,