with great power and grandeur, must the Deliverer appear.”
“So have we always believed, and so it may be. This Teacher may be but a forerunner of the Mighty One, and not the Messiah himself, as some say. We must know more before we can reason with our father; but I believe and will declare this Teacher to be a Prophet.”
"He comes!" exclaimed Michal, as she saw the figure of a man advancing from the hill which hid the city from them. “But, no! he would not depart alone.”
“It is our friend Paltiel,” said Sadoc, as the man approached. “He is come for the same purpose as ourselves. Didst thou observe how he listened to the words of the Teacher?”
“I observed nothing,” replied Michal.
Paltiel seated himself on a stone beside his friends, and their discourse was still of the Teacher. In answer to the question whether he believed the man of Nazareth to be the Messiah, Paltiel replied,
“He hath not plainly said whether such
