They were joined afterward by Aristobula, who had heard that her husband Tertullus had died on the way, Aristippus with Xenophon, the chaste damsel, and many others, whom he always directed to the Lord, and who would no more leave him.
60. On the first day when we[1] came to a lonely inn and being in perplexity on account of a bed for John, we experienced a joke. There was a bedstead without covers; we spread our cloaks, which we brought, over it and requested him to lie down and to rest, whilst we slept on the floor. He had hardly lain down, when he was molested by bugs. But as they became more and more troublesome, and it being midnight already, we all heard him say to them, "I say unto you, O ye bugs, be ye kindly considerate; leave your home for this night and go to rest in a place which is far from the servants of God!" And while we laughed and talked, John fell asleep. And we conversed gently, and owing to him we remained undisturbed.
61. When it was day, I rose up first, and with me Berus and Andronicus. And in the door of the room which we had taken, was a mass of bugs. And having gone outside to have a full view of them, and having called all brethren, John was still asleep. When he woke up, we showed to him what we saw. And sitting up in bed, and seeing them, he said, "Since you have been wise to beware
- ↑ The narrator uses in the narrative the first person of the plural, thus speaking as companion of the apostle.
