Our Lord Most High's Anointed King David,
and his Queen.
My king, sire.
- Rise, rise, please.
Jeduthun! Asaph!
How is the piece coming along?
- I think we're close, your Majesty.
- I'll hear a work in progress any day.
A work in progress is better than no work at all,
and no progress!
- I'm looking forward to it as well,
but-- if I may--
Where are the harps, lyres, and flutes?
- That's...
well, we're trying something new.
- Go on.
- This is a Psalm of Asaph.
He wrote the lyrics; I composed the music.
Instead of singing and using instruments,
the text will be spoken,
accompanied by a low hum from the choir.
- The human voice.
The most beautiful instrument of all.
A wonderful idea!
Thank you, sire.
My prayer for this psalm
is that like your own songs,
it could be a comfort to God's people
for generations to come.
- This is my prayer also.
- May it please the king.
- And the King.
- Him most of all.
- "I cry aloud to God,
"aloud to God,
"and He will hear me.
"In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
“in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;
"My soul refuses to be comforted.
"When I remember God, I moan;
"When I meditate, my spirit faints.
"You hold my eyelids open.
"I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
"I consider the days of old, the years long ago.
"I said, 'Let me remember my song in the night;
"let me meditate in my heart.'
"I will appeal to this
"to the years of the right hand of the Most High.
"I will remember the deeds of the Lord.
Yes, I will remember Your wonders of old..."
If your own followers can't figure out
how best to share or live your teachings,
then why should anyone else?
- Sit down.
- That's your answer?
- I don't mean you; I mean my students.
Sit with me.
- Now?
- Yes, please.
Hello, Simon.
Rabbi,
we didn't come here to cause trouble.
- But it would appear trouble has found us.
- So then, we should address it.
- And how do you propose to do that, Big James?
Listen to them.
- My friends, sit with me.
We cannot go any further until we agree on something.
Hmm?
Please.
I'm a rabbi...
and as these Jewish brothers will tell you,
we like to teach by asking questions,
and we all like to solve problems by talking.
If it begins with a disagreement,
even better.
So, feel free to listen,
and if you'd like to argue a bit,
that's fine, too.
- Rabbi...
we look weak and defenseless.
- On the way to Jairus' house in Capernaum,
what happened when the woman, Veronica, touched me?
Power went out from you.
- No, I mean what happened to her?
- She was healed.
How?
By touching the fringe of Your garment.
- No.
My friends, you forget so quickly.
You are dear to me,
but your memories are short.
You said, "Daughter, go in peace,
your faith has made you well."
- Your what?
Faith.
- Her faith.
Many of you are afraid right now,
instead of choosing to have faith... in Me.
But, Rabbi...
you must see what's happening all around us--
- Of course He does, that's the point!
- Rabbi, increase our faith!
- Judas...
if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard seed,
you could say to a mulberry tree,
"Be uprooted and planted in the sea,"
and it would obey you.
- Can a mulberry tree grow in the sea?
- He's making a point.
Truly,
if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed,
you could say to a mountain, "Move from here to there,"
and it will move.
And nothing will be impossible to you.
How?
How do we get there?
- Like Judas said, You increase our faith!
- It's not about size, Philip.
It's about who your faith is in.
If your faith is secure in God,
trusting His promises,
choosing His will for your life,
instead of your own...
this-sized faith is enough.
These people we are ministering to...
they are like bees, hovering among the flowers,
waiting for them to open up,
so they can sip the nectar and spread it to others.
But they must see a faith in you that is secure,
big or small.
- Looks like you have your work cut out for you.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're right, Teacher,
they do have short memories.
Excuse me.
W-What are you doing?
Step back, we're listening to our Teacher.
- So am .
- Ignore him, Simon,
this moment is about us and Jesus.
- What is that smell?
Rancid...
- It is an infection, okay?
My leg is broken and it got infected.
Mind your own business!
- You need to get that checked out;
it's really bad.
You're right.
- Unclean!
- Silence!
- Look, I didn't ask to get a broken leg.
- And we didn't ask for Him to come into this region
and make things worse!
- I'll talk to you in a moment.
I'm here to test what He said
about the faith of the bleeding woman.
- I already know, brother.
I know you.
Oh! Oh!
- Under normal circumstances,
I would strictly charge you to tell no one.
In some regions, and with some people,
it's just not My time to be revealed
and to escalate tension too soon.
But it looks like we're past that.
- It's been a long time since I've ran!
- Thank you.
Thank you.
- I'm glad you came, Simon.
It's going to be a long day.
- Oh--oh, my!
Shalom.
- It's good to see you, Eden.
- What a surprise!
Is everything all right?
- Could we... have a word inside?
- Of course.
Uh, what can I get you to drink?
- Please, Eden, we're fine.
- Let's sit down.
- Is something wrong?
- You tell us.
- Zeb!
- This morning, I ran into Simon
at Matthew's old house.
He was in a bad way.
- Oh, well, that's his way.
He's all mine.
- I've known him since he was born.
This wasn't Simon being Simon.
- Eden, we love you like the daughter we never had--
Ever since the day you married Simon.
A lot has changed in all our lives these past two years,
especially yours.
And I sense-- we sense--
That some part of Simon's distractedness
has something to do with your marriage.
We're not saying it is...
- We just want you to know that you can talk to us.
We are here for you, no matter what's happening.
Lord knows we're not perfect,
but we have been married for a long time.
And if there's anything we can do to help,
we want to.
I, myself,
am none too pleased with Simon at the moment.
But I know he's a good man.
I fished with his father Jonah for 20 years
and never really knew the man,
he was so difficult and distant.
But Simon has tried to be better than that.
And now he's learning
a completely different way of living
that would be bewildering for any person,
let alone Simon.
- It's not just him.
I mean, it's both of us.
But if I'm honest...
It started--
It-it started when, um...
- Are you hurt?
- No.
It's--
- Zeb... give us a moment alone.
- Of course.
- Eden.
Here.
- How can we help?
- I don't know.
And neither does Simon, which is our problem.
- I'm sorry.
Eden...
I haven't known you for very long.
And I don't know anything about marriage, so--
Actually, now that I think about it,
I probably shouldn't be--
- No, please.
- You may not be married but you have suffered.
You have lost family.
- Still, I'm new to all this so just know that--
You say you have completed
your ritual purification requirements.
- Not in the mikveh because of the broken cistern,
but in the sea, yes.
And I isolated for the seven days,
which wasn't hard since Simon was gone.
- And being cleansed didn't help at all.
- No, it made it worse!
Because it didn't bring my baby back,
and it didn't help with my marriage.
That woman, Veronica, who Jesus healed--
When she cleansed in the sea, she had so much joy.
- She'd just been healed of her malady,
her anguish was over.
- And you were only at the beginning of your grief, child.
Are.
Have you talked to a Rabbi?
- The One I want to talk to is not here,
and neither is my husband.
- I don't know what it's like
to go through what you have...
...but I have been through enough
to know that you need to grieve.
- Jesus gave her healing and joy,
but He hasn't given that to me.
- So go to synagogue.
It's not about the rabbi there,
it's the words from God that he can give us.
That's what Jesus gave me.
- Now, what is your name?
- Fatiyah.
- She is Nabataean!
- I didn't ask her ethnicity.
Fatiyah, help us all understand
what exactly has happened in this region.
Your students preached in Naveh
about a kingdom that entranced many from this region
who were visiting the city--
Including the Augur of Abila
who stopped performing his ceremonial and civic duties
upon returning to Decapolis.
Work came to a standstill.
Construction was halted.
Merchants could not get permits,
and wells went undug.
- So you're telling me that the region was paralyzed
by the absence of one man?
What Fatiyah did not say
is that the merchants who could not get permits
hijacked a caravan of exports
from my Syrophoenician brothers.
- We had a deal in place that you reneged!
- What is your name?
- Eremis.
I'm a bronze-caster.
- You appear to be in good health and strength.
You are well-dressed in Athenian Blue.
It matches your eyes.
Tell me, Eremis, what is your plight?
- I bought a plot of land in the north
and needed a reading of the auspices
to determine the gods' favorability
regarding construction of a new casting facility.
- Hmm...
sounds so simple.
- But because of what those Jews said--
Do not associate these people
with our Order!
You stood by
as reports of their teaching poisoned the minds--
- You don't know what we have and haven't done, Fatiyah!
We strenuously disavow all of their teachings!
We have been punished for crimes we did not commit!
- Andrew? Philip?
Yes, Rabbi?
- Did you direct your teaching to Jewish citizens?
Yes.
- As you instructed, Teacher.
- But the Augur from Abila overheard and was moved.
- Hmm.
Eremis?
What would the Augur's reading have told you?
- Whether there were good or bad omens.
- Doesn't that sound absurd??
- You would call us absurd, Jew?
Your laws about food and purity are laughable!
- What?!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Sit down, brothers.
The last thing these people need is thunder.
How can I build a business
without knowing where the gods want me to build, hmm?
- Nazarene, if you are any sort of self-respecting rabbi
you will not dignify that question with an answer.
- Your people's condescension is unending.
- Oh, and there's never been a note of condescension
in your voice, Fatiyah?
Let's stay on topic,
hmm?
So here we have Eremis, paralyzed by fear
that his business ambitions
might not be sanctioned by the gods of his religion.
How could this lead to violence?
- The Augur's flagrant rebellion
undermined Greek authority.
- And yet the Jewish community was targeted
in a brutal wave of attacks!
My people were hardest hit
for not having paperwork with Rome.
- And you turned to crime!
- Out of desperation!
- That is why I brought Philip and Andrew back
to clarify their message.
They told a story about hospitality,
but for some reason Jews and Arabs came to blows over it.
- The people originally invited to the banquet in your story
had perfectly legitimate reasons for not coming.
Which is another way of saying
some people think the old way of doing things is better.
- "Look to the ancient roads,
where the good way is, and walk in it."
- You know your prophets.
- Of course I do.
- What about Isaiah?
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past..."”
- Do not pit prophets against each other,
especially on this issue.
The people on the highways and hedges...
surely you're not referring to the Gentiles?
- You sound like you don't want us to come to the banquet.
The meaning of the story
is that God wants His house full,
and everyone who believes in Me is invited.
Plain and simple.
- Heresy!
- You know, you sound just like the people
at the beginning of the story
who declined to come to the banquet.
- I wouldn't be caught dead at a banquet with you!
I couldn't stand before God if I was.
- Now do you see?
- So you're telling me
that prior to Andrew and Philip's visit,
the Decapolis was a veritable paradise of peace and unity?
- At least groups kept to themselves.
Stop.
Our town of Abila has been on edge for decades.
- Ah, we always knew the Jews were fractious and divided,
but quietly, inside their synagogue.
- At least we go to Jerusalem to make our sacrifices,
not like you Greeks,
who leave your offerings on the public altars
to rot and stink.
Ever wonder why Zeus never seems to come down
to eat of your offerings?
- Maybe it's because the wine is sour and spoiled.
- Maybe it's because there is no Zeus.
- The Augur's apprentice
secretly removes the votive offerings
under cover of night
when the stench is unbearable.
- So, basically, your religion is a sham.
- Again, that contemptuous spirit.
Are you proud to belong to this denigrating race?
- Eremis, please.
Jesus, your fame is well-known.
We've heard that you work wonders and change lives
and preached a sermon on the Korazim plateau
that some are saying
may become the most significant speech
the world has ever known.
- I wasn't doing it to become famous.
- Well, too bad, because you are.
And specifically for succeeding
at all you put your hand to.
- Looks like you've arrived at your first failure.
Jesus of Nazareth...
if You are who You say You are,
why do You inspire and transform some people,
but threaten and disgust others?
- Let me tell you a story.
I know, I know,
but this is another thing we Jews do,
and come to think of it, so do the Greeks,
So everyone just listen up.
A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path,
We can't hear you!
- Ah.
More listening.
I'm going to move back
So we can welcome as many as possible.
Students, please,
spread out and organize the people
and help pass My words on
to those far away.
- Y-you want to send us out into--
- Go on.
- We can trust Him, John.
- Zee, Big James, stay here for protection.
Hyah!
- You've come from Perea?
- The Decapolis.
- That explains it.
- Explains what?
- Prayer tassels.
You aren't wearing any.
- Yes, they are not in style in the Hellenist cities.
- What brings you to Judea?
- An important errand in Jerusalem.
- You might consider stopping in Jericho on your way
to pick up some tassels.
If you are not wearing any in the Holy City--
- Thank you,
but I have weightier matters on the mind than fashion.
- You'd better hurry...
there is a storm coming.
There certainly is.
Hyah!
This man, Leander,
asked how can it be
that I inspire and transform some people,
but seem to threaten and repulse others.
And so, as I said,
I'd like to respond with a story.
A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path,
and the birds came and devoured them.
Other seeds fell on rocky ground,
where they did not have much soil...
- Other seeds fell on rocky ground,
where they did not have much soil.
Immediately they sprang up,
for there was no depth of soil.
- And immediately they sprang up,
for there was no depth of soil.
But when the sun rose
they were scorched.
And since they had no root, they withered away.
- And since they had no root,
they withered away.
And the thorns grew up and choked them...
- Other seeds fell among thorns,
and the thorns grew up and choked them...
- And the thorns grew up and choked them.
- Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain,
some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
...some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
- You seeing this?
Simon, this crowd--
We are completely surrounded!
There must be... thousands!
- What in heaven?!
- Rabbi Shmuel!
- I'm coming!
- I'm sorry to disturb you, Rabbi,
but it's urgent.
- Rabbi Shmuel, it is a great honor.
Forgive the late hour.
My name is Nashón, son of Eliab, of Abila.
- You've ridden a great distance.
Did your tassels fall off along the way?
- Oh! My goodness, yes, they must have.
My apologies, I--
- Get him a spare.
Please.
- I heard the great Shammai has issued an edict
regarding false prophecy,
to be on guard and alert for anything amiss.
- Yes.
- I have just encountered a--
- What is that vest?
- Oh!
This was a gift from my wife.
Damask, so named for Damascus where it is made:
A silk and linen weave,
very popular in Hellenist cities--
- Remove it at once!
- Excuse me?
- Take it off!
I--
- According to the Law of Moses--
"You shall not you wear a garment of cloth
made of two kinds of material."
- Oh, I thought that was just an old--
- An old what?
Finish that sentence.
- I don't know.
A thing about not imitating Canaanite culture.
A cultural prohibition for its time.
I didn't think anyone actually--
- Torah is timeless.
- I understand... again, my apologies,
I did not intend to sin--
- It is as I expected in the Decapolis;
Greek influence has polluted your faith.
But apparently not so much
that you did not heed Judge Shammai's edict.
- I encountered a Jewish Rabbi consorting with Gentiles...
multitudes.
He even healed a Gentile deaf mute!
- Tell me about the preacher.
-Um...
Three weeks ago, a pair of students from Capernaum
were teaching in Naveh to a group
they didn't realize was both Jew and Gentile,
repeating the teachings of their Rabbi,
whose name they said was Jesus.
- Of??
- What do you mean?
- Jesus from where?!
- A small town called Nazareth,
if you can believe--
I require no further information
from you.
- But, Rabbi--
- Summon the Temple Guard, retrieve Rabbi Yanni!
I'll gather Shammai's representatives.
Meet us at the Herodian staircase.
- Fourteen hands... Athenian blanket...
- Thank God!
- ...Macedonian Bridle Leather...
Syrophoenician Hammer-Finished Steel Shoes...whoa!
And you left her untethered, untended.
-I was in such a hurry--
Here, for your pains,
I am terribly grateful!
No, it's all right;
my pleasure, really.
But tell me...
what could be so important
that you would leave such a rare beauty
vulnerable to theft, or, um, wandering off?
- I had important business with Rabbi Shmuel.
- Rabbi Shmuel?
I am fascinated to know more.
You must be very important yourself.
- Nuh.
- What I'm about to say
is for Jews as much as Gentiles...
So many cities are missing the need for repentance
and righteousness.
I have already preached and done miracles
in multiple cities,
as have My followers.
And yet they still fall short.
So many of you are here, listening to Me,
eager to be drawn closer to God,
eager to find peace in your souls!
And in doing so, you have more wisdom
than most of the religious leaders
who refuse to be humble.
I thank you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things
from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father,
for such was your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to Me by My Father,
and no one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
And I am revealing the Father to you now,
Jew and Gentile!
What is stirring in your hearts,
in the middle of such division and unrest,
is Father God being revealed to you!
Come to Me,
all who labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me,
for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For My yoke is easy,
and My burden is light!
Speaking of rest...
We all need it now, including Me.
So wherever you want to lay your head, let's sleep,
and I will continue in the morning.
Shalom, shalom.
Goodnight, Matthew.
- Judas, do you have the count?
- Yes.
There's at least 1,000 to the South.
- There were still people arriving
after the sun went down.
- Are Andrew and Philip back?
- No, but before it got dark,
both points of the compass looked roughly equal
in population.
- So 2,0007?
- And counting.
- I said roughly, but yes.
We should get going.
- We have a situation.
- What situation?
- The Gentiles...
they're out of food.
- I don't think anyone expected the teaching to last all day.
- No one has forced them to stay.
- Simon, they're hungry for His words!
- And now they're hungry for food.
It's not our problem.
Can't they go back to their villages?
- They were driven out by violence!
It's nighttime!
They have to sleep in these fields!
- He doesn't get it.
He doesn't get how bad things were
when we first came here.
- Whatever happened,
it wouldn't change the facts of the situation.
- Well..
I can see things are going just as well here as out there.
- What do you mean?
- Some of these people were driven from their home
more than a week ago.
They're hungry and tired.
- Don't trouble Simon with your news,
his mind is anywhere but here.
- Andrew, be gracious with your brother.
- Gracious?
He just said these people's hunger is not our problem
and that we should send them away.
- Did you really say that, Simon?
It doesn't matter now.
We matters is that we need to solve this
without Simon's help.
- We can't!
- He's not the Messiah, John; Jesus is.
- No arguments there.
But Jesus told me that...
that the success of this trip depends on Simon.
- He said that?
- That's why I stayed behind.
Jesus insisted that I stay back,
wait for Simon and bring him.
- Simon!
- Did He say how?
- No.
- If it all depends on you...
what's the plan?
- Nothing.
- What??
- Jesus is capable of doing whatever He wants.
In the end, that's what He'll do.
- Brother, you're being very--
- If Jesus wants to provide a solution
for these hungry people,
that's what's going to happen.
I'm sure of it.
- You don't seem very happy to be sure of it.
- Ozem, wake up, you're slobbering on me.
- Ohhh...
how much farther do we have to go?
- You know the distance to the Decapolis
and you know the hour we left.
- An ungodly one.
- There's no such thing as an "ungodly" hour.
Ugh! Tell that to my wife.
We were supposed to take the children
to see their grandparents in Gaza today.
- We serve God first, then our families.
- We serve God by serving our families,
and you don't have one,
so don't preach at me!
The only preaching I've heard lately is you
repeating Shammai's refrain
that fidelity to God's Law to the letter
is the only thing that matters,
and yet, here you are complaining about
having to actually act upon that conviction.
When I filed the reports to Shammai
about the healings on Shabbat
and Jesus commanding His followers
to eat heads of grain on Shabbat,
your very own Shammai said to me
that we would wait to take action
until we knew it was "God's time."
- Wisdom I wish you would have heeded.
You forget your rank and stature, Shmuel.
- To the contrary.
Cognizant of my rank and stature,
I asked him how we would know it was God's time.
His answer?
When evidence was abundant.
Nashón said the crowds passing him on the road
could only be described as multitudes of Gentiles.
That's the other thing about all this.
Gentiles?
Why are we meddling in the Decapolis?
It's the Holy City that matters.
- So... a sin is only a sin
if it happens in or near Jerusalem?
- No, no, no!
It's a matter of allocating resources.
There's more syncretism and Hellenist influences
desecrating our people's practice in the Decapolis
than we could ever hope to address in any meaningful way.
The hassle of hunting down a single Jew
who may be leading some people astray
is myopic and, oy, unappealing.
- I'm sorry that false teaching is such a burden to you.
- I'm sorry it's such a burden to you.
That's enough of all this.
I think the one thing that we can all agree on
is that if we find Him performing any magic tricks
or sorcery,
we will have to take action.
It's been a long time
since I've prosecuted a witchcraft case.
They can be unwieldy,
which is why I let them come to me,
not go looking for them.
- Is there any way to go faster?
Yes, Rabbi.
You summoned a carriage
in the middle of the night.
Did you expect Caiaphus to handpick your steeds?
Ahhh, just relax.
Tell me what you think of this.
A man had two sons.
And he went to the first and said,
"Son, go and work in the vineyard today."
And he answered, "I will not,”
but afterward he changed his mind and he went.
And he went to the other son and said the same.
And he answered, "I will go, sir,"
but did not go.
Which of the two sons did the will of the father?
The first.
- You!
Where did you find that?
- At the bottom of my bag.
I forgot it was in there.
It's a little stale, but it will do.
- You've been out here for days and just discovered it?
- I followed some men who told me
we were coming to watch a fight.
- A fight?!
- Everyone was just in such a hurry.
- Does anyone have food?
No?
Food?
Your name is Andrew, yes?
- Yes.
- I wanted to say thank you again
for everything you--
- I'm not the one who healed your father,
but I can certainly pass that along.
- You've been asking about food.
- Yes.
- I want to share what I have.
- Son, this...
can feed one family out of thousands.
- I just...
wanted to do what I could.
The kingdom of heaven
- You okay?
- I'm fine.
Is like treasure hidden in a field,
which a man found and covered up.
Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has
and buys that field.
- What do you mean by that?
- What are we going to do?
- I don't know.
Let me say it another way.
It is like a merchant in search of fine pearls--
--Who, on finding one pear! of great value,
went and sold all that he had and bought it.
Listen carefully,
because this is accessible to all of you,
regardless of race or creed!
The kingdom is so valuable,
that once you have glimpsed it,
it's worth parting with everything you have
in order to gain it,
even though to others you might look like a fool--
Throwing away your life savings
to buy what would look to others
an unremarkable field.
But you know of the hidden treasure,
and that makes it worth everything.
Have you come closer to hear better?
- No, there is an issue.
- My friends, if you'll excuse me,
I must speak with my students a moment.
Rabbi, people are all out of food.
Some have been without food for days.
Others have traveled great distance.
- So... give them something to eat.
- We're out of food, they're out of food.
Is it time to send them home?
- Well, at this point, they're so hungry and tired,
if we send them home they'll faint along the way.
- You knew they're hungry?
- Yes, Judas,
I can see them while I'm talking.
Mm... well, this is a tough one.
Where can we buy some bread for all these people?
We only came with a little over 200 denarii.
Rabbi, that's not even enough
to get a little bit for everyone.
I wouldn't even know how to calculate that.
- Matthew and I can calculate that,
that's really eas--
- Maybe if we go into the cities,
we can negotiate something on credit.
Yes, yes, that could work.
Negotiate with whom?
The closest city is Abila
and its entire population is here.
It's nine miles away,
and even if we raided every house in town,
we'd have to find a way to bring it back here
and it would still only feed a fraction of the masses.
- Can you bring me anything?
Surely there's some food from someone,
even a small amount.
- Five loaves of bread and two fish.
But... what is this for so many?
- Barley loaves.
- Two fish and five barley loaves,
thank you for... clarifying.
- This is humiliating.
- John--
He will take care of it if He wants to.
- You look scared.
What are you afraid of?
- Huh, I'm afraid that... He'll choose them.
This is wonderful bread, Telemachus.
- I know it's not enough.
- It's enough for Me.
I can do a lot with this.
Thank you.
Blessed are You, Lord our God,
King of the universe
who brings forth bread from the earth.
- Did they find some bread?
- If they've got bread, be ready...
we'll probably be first.
- Feed them.
- What has changed?
Are we--
- Organize the people into groups of 50 to 100,
gather up 12 baskets
to distribute the loaves and fish.
Was I unclear?
- Ah, no, this feels familiar.
- Maybe.
- Let's go.
- Feed them.
- Yes.
The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed
that a man took and sowed in his field.
It is the smallest of all seeds,
but when it has grown,
it is larger than all the garden plants
and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the air can come and make their nests
in its branches.
- That's better than the tail.
- That's the last of it.
- Yeah, that's the last of it.
- Telemachus, you can have your basket back now--
What?!
- Is your basket full?
Are you serious?
Do you see all this?!
- I've kept you here all this time,
giving you spiritual food.
But you clearly need actual food now...
So, let's eat!
Rabbi Yussif.
There are two women here to see you.
- It's Rabbi Joziah's visiting hours.
Is he unable to assist?
I'm in the middle of something very important.
- One of the women says to tell you
she is the wife of Simon, son of Jonah.
- Oh, one of Jesus'...
Yes, please send them in.
You have my... deepest condolences.
Torah has very little to say
on this specific matter, I'm afraid.
But sorrow is sorrow.
Especially since your husband is...
- Gone.
- Perhaps, but I was going to say distracted.
There is much going on with Jesus,
and in many ways, the world is upending,
with Simon in the middle of it.
I'm making sense of it myself...
maybe I've been too distracted.
It's easy to forget
there are still matters of great importance
to attend to in the home.
Are you angry with him?
- Yes.
- I understand.
You mentioned you did your purification in the Sea.
Now that some time has passed,
what about a new cleansing,
but in the mikveh?
With a prayerful state of mind,
maybe this could be part of a new path forward.
- But the cistern...
- We received word this morning
it will be operational by sundown.
Actually, I believe Simon helped in the speedy repair.
- Perhaps when she is ready.
We were hoping today for a reading from Torah.
- Of course.
Did you have anything in mind?
Perhaps something uplifting and joyful, Rabbi?
- I'm not sure that would be truthful.
There are many psalms of anguish, even anger,
and they are all just as important as the others.
In fact, some of the desperate psalms
draw us closest to God.
One of David's appointed chief musicians, Asaph,
was inclined to write in this depth...
as in this passage,
"In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
"in the night my hand stretches out
without wearying."
This psalm is desperate... even angry.
Do you know who else
is undoubtedly desperate and angry?
Simon.
I know him a little,
and I'm sure he's actually very angry,
and... making that known to others.
Perhaps you can pray this with him... and for him.
"My soul refuses to be comforted.
"When I remember God, I moan;
"when I meditate, my spirit faints.
"You hold my eyelids open.
"I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
"Will the Lord spurn forever,
"and never again be favorable?
"Has His steadfast love forever ceased?
"Are His promises at an end for all time?
"Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in his anger shut up his compassion?"
But that's not the whole Psalm, is it?
Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
"to the years of the right hand of the Most High.
"I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
"yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
“I will ponder all Your work
"and meditate on Your mighty deeds.
"Your way, O God, is holy.
"What god is great like our God?
"You are the God that works wonders;
"You have made Your might known among the peoples.
"You with Your arm redeemed Your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph.”
- Little James, what happened?
Your basket looks heavier than before!
Everyone ate and was satisfied.
They didn't want any more;
they were full!
- You gave us more than we needed.
- You'll get used to this kind of math, Judas.
I'm In.
- Thank you, Rabbi.
Can't believe we ever doubted.
- Well, I was the one to cause their hunger...
I should be the one to satisfy it, no?
- I am no longer surprised.
- You're a new Matthew.
Oh! Sorry!
But I meant it.
It's always this way.
I don't know why I'm surprised.
It's, um, just like Simon said it would be.
John.
- He wasn't exaggerating.
- This is more than I ever thought.
- That's a Nabataean robe!
That headdress is Arabian.
- We're in a sea of Gentiles.
- Driver, stop!
- What is this?
What has been happening?
- The Teacher, from Nazareth!
- How long have you been out here
listening to the Teacher?
- Two days!
- But we are several miles from any city.
How did you eat?
- He multiplied loaves and fish to feed us.
Thousands of us.
- What do you mean, "multiplied"?
- There just kept being more and more, by His hand!
A miracle!
- We need the evidence of three witnesses.
That won't be difficult.
- Did He and His followers also partake?
- Of course.
- He breaks bread with Gentiles?!
- I tell them God performed a miracle and they say,
"But He ate with the wrong people!”
- We already knew an Ethiopian woman
travels with Him and His students.
- But breaking bread?
That's worse than I thought!
- Again-- we need witnesses!
Pharisees from Judea?
You're a little late; you missed the show.
- Name the teacher.
- Jesus of Nazareth.
A name I will never forget.
- What did He preach?
Did any of it run contrary to Torah?
- He preached about the kingdom of heaven.
- Which is what?
- Everything.
A mustard seed,
a pearl of great price,
treasure hidden in a field.
But the best part...
He said that in the kingdom of heaven,
many would come from East and West
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
That's all of us--
Jew and Gentile together at one table.
- He said what?
- We need a third witness.
- Jesus of Nazareth may be the first Jew
to break bread with Gentiles,
but He won't be the last.
And it will be with your patriarchs,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Blasphemy!
You've hurt our people!
- We've hurt each other.
But He is healing us!
- We need three witnesses!
What did the teacher say
about Gentiles reclining at table with Patriarchs?
What did the teacher say?!
What did the teacher say
about Gentiles reclining at table with Patriarchs?
What did the teacher say?!
- Okay, okay, it will do.
It's not amazing, but it will do.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, no net, no fish, nothing;
I just want the boat.
I want four oars waiting inside
when I come back.
Listen, how much you want?
Because I'm in a rush, it's waiting for you, okay?
- What do we do now?
- It's a 13-mile walk back to Capernaum
all the way around the sea in the rain and the dark.
- With everything we had to do today,
carrying the baskets and distributing food...
- I'll do my best.
- We won't leave you behind, James.
We're not walking.
We're rowing.
It's only eight miles across, I've got a boat,
and we can row faster than we can walk.
Come on, Big James, you know we're good at this.
Yeah.
Excellent strategy, Simon.
Simon is right.
Everyone get into the boat
and row back across to Capernaum.
- What about You?
It's been a long three days.
I need some time alone to pray.
- But there are storm clouds on the horizon.
- Let me stay with you, Rabbi, I'll keep watch.
- I'll be fine.
All of you go; hurry.
Follow Simon.
You all did so well today.
Shalom, shalom.
- I stayed behind so you could get us a boat?!
- I won't be in your way for long, John.
- Have faith, Simon!
- Faith isn't my problem.
I think I was a mistake!
Even God makes them, right?
Go.
You heard Him.
Let's go.
- You look familiar.
- I--
- More specifically,
and I mean no offense,
you look troubled.
-I am.
- I'm going up this hill to pray.
Would you care to join me?
We don't have to talk about anything if you don't want.
I know sometimes people who are troubled
just need someone to sit with them in silence.
- Like Job.
- Mm, is it that bad?
- Not quite...
more like David.
- Ah, do share.
- "How long must I take counsel in my soul
"and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?"
- You're losing something.
I know what that's like.
- What are You losing?
- Time.
Come.
Join me in prayer for a little while.
- Will you speak with me after?
- I will...
if you still want to question me after we pray.
- Simon, we're not getting anywhere!
The winds are too strong.
We should turn back!
- We can get there, just keep rowing!
- Simon, it's the fourth watch of the night
and we've been stuck in the same place for hours!
I'm all right.
We can't take much more water!
We'll founder!
- Better off wet and cold on land
than drowned and dead out here!
- John, keep rowing!
What are you doing?
- Did anybody just see that?
Over there!
I don't see anything.
- What are we looking for?
- I--
- Ghost! It's a ghost!
- A what??
- It can't be.
- We have to get out of here!
Everyone row!
Row faster! Go!
Nobody move!
- Simon, what??
- I said everybody stop!
Stop, stop, stop!
Nobody move!
- That's not a ghost.
- Are you crazy?!
- Don't be afraid, it's Me!
- Jesus?! How?
- Impossible.
- How is this the second most incredible thing
I've seen today?
- This surprises you?
Did you learn nothing from today?
- If it is You.
Command me to come to You on the water.
Simon, no!
- Are you out of your mind?!
- If You are who You say You are,
bid me to step out of this boat.
- Do you have the faith to walk on this water?
- Absolutely!
You can do whatever You command,
and if You command the water to hold me,
I will walk on it!
- If I call you to Me, you would step out in faith?
- Yes!
- Then why are you so upset?
- Why are You chasing after Gentiles
when Your own people have problems right here?!
When your own person has problems?!
I've been right here in front of You,
believing in You,
and You're breaking up fights in the Decapolis?!
- Then come to Me.
You, weary and heavy laden...
I will give you rest.
Simon?! No!!
- Do you still have faith?
- Faith hasn't been my problem!
I gave up everything to follow You,
but You're healing total strangers!
Blessed are You, Lord our God,
King of the Universe,
Who gives and takes away.
- Why do you think I allow trials?
- I don't know!
- Because they prove the genuineness of your faith!
They strengthen you!
This is strengthening you!
And Eden!
Just keep your eyes on Mel!
Who comforts us
in our grief
and binds up the wounds of the brokenhearted.
Who mourns with us
for the life that could not be.
- I'm sinking!
Lord, save me, I'm sinking!
- In the shadow of Your wings do we take refuge.
Don't let me go.
Please.
- I've got you.
- Don't let me go.
- I've got you.
- Please.
- O you of little faith.
Why did you doubt?
- Don't let me go.
- I have much planned for you, Simon,
including hard things.
Just keep your eyes on Me.
I promise.
>> Come on, help him.
Please.
Don't let me go, please!
I'm sorry.
Don't let me go, please!
I'm sorry; please don't let me go.
- Peace! Be still!
Please...
don't let me go.
I'm here... I'm always here.
I let people go hungry...
but I feed them.
- Please.
Please don't let me go.
Don't let me go.
Don't let him go.
Please... don't let him go.
I will appeal to this:
to the years of the right hand of the Most High.
I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
I will ponder all Your work
and meditate on Your mighty deeds.
Your way, O God, is holy.
What god is great like our God?
You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your might among the peoples.
You with Your arm redeemed Your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph.
When the waters saw You, O God,
when the waters saw You, they were afraid;
indeed, the deep trembled.
The clouds poured out water;
the skies gave forth thunder;
Your arrows flashed on every side.
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
your lightnings lighted up the world.
The earth trembled and shook.
Your way was through the sea,
your path through the great waters;
yet Your footprints were unseen.
- I think it's ready.
- Honored who?
Honored guests.
- Of course.
- It's the second word!
Besides, my father is not yet a believer.
- That's what Jesus said.
Uh, sorry.
You know, You can just come in!
- I know.
- Are you--what-- uh, do--bluh-bluh-blur,
blah-blah-blur, blah-blah-la,
You know you can just come in!
- It's not about, uh, sss-sup--ss--blah-la-la-blah,
One more time!
I wanted to tell you myself.
- You're going to ask my father for permish--
For perfmish-- pfss--
Pfss-pfss-pfss-ss-ss-ss
Ha-ha!
- Why don't You just come in?
- Aww.
- You can do it,
You know You can do, atha-gullup, oh!
- Blah-la-la-la, J all the time! J
- I'll take that as a no.
By decree of Quintus...
he does something here.
- I always remember that moment.
But...
sometimes in the memory, I forget, unh, my line.
- After the joy of having you gone wore off,
Eden has actually started to miss you.
So you two, uh, you two get out of here, huh?
I don't remember the real line.
Take a break.
I was close.
You two get a room.
Please respect His private-sy.
- Bless us, O Lord--
- Lord our God--
Sorry, wrong prayer.
- No food, no shelter, no clothes.
Go out into strange lands.
He said not to be afraid.
Fear is not a thing you just stop, Andrew.
Pause for a second,
um, no defenses, no food, no shelter.
- No defenses.
You will be wearing clothes.
Okay.
No clothes.
Was that what he said?
- No clothes.
Whoa!
Whoa, whoa.
Sorry, sorry guys--speechless.
Let's go back to um--
Take it from the--
- I'm going back to bed.
- What?
What?
- Your problem, not mine.
- Thank you, Mary.
Ha-have a good night.
- Thank you, Mary.
Thh--
- Judas!
Hadad!
- I lost you.
And I was running like some kind of crazy man.
- A little bit, I-
I suppose that I could make some arrangements.
Some--sorry, sorry
A bug flew in my mouth; I'm so sorry.
- Oh, no.
Spit it out.
No, hmm--
- It's good protein--
- Yes.
- It's good for you.
- Ah, I'm leaving.
I quit!
Everybody hold, just hold your positions.
- And I also poisoned your bread.
- What?!
- Yes, it was really hard.
- You poisoned me?
- I had to like soak it for--
- Eeh-ril-rip!
Oh, is that--that?
An action review.
- Got it.
Ready to go again?
- I was ready to go again.
- Again.
Jairus, let's go in.
Please stay here.
Please.
I'm sorry.
It's Leander from Naveh.
Huh!
Let me try that again.
Scabin, flippity-dip!
It's--
Yep, I--
I forgot that it's okay for me to mess that up.
The door was also unlocked, so you could've just...
right, sorry, not the time.
Are you on his--?
Whose side are you on?!
- I'm really tired.
I just woke up.
There was a lot that happened.
I had to grab a knife.
I didn't--
- What time is it?!
- Do you need some water?
- Come in!
- Does anyone have a sundial?
- Is this too much chest for them??
- It's too much chest for me!
- It's too much chest for all of us.
- You look pretty.
Bread!
There's more where that came from.
Let's go.
Three, four, four.
Here we play.
- Awing and a prayer.
All right.
- I wasn't even ready!
I wasn't even looking!
- You say that all the time!
Since we were kids!
- That's--uh-- really?
You can't-- that's not!
That doesn't stick.
You're really going to-- okay.
That's it?
That's how you win the game?
Complete cheat.
S-- sorry, Aaron, not my strength.
Clearly!
Baby James, how does that wineskin feel?
Umm...
Baby?
Keep going, we got it, we got it.
Come on, come on, come on.
- Thanks.
>> We're there; we have it.
Stiff?
Not very flexible.
>> Plane.
- Here we plane.
Ah! I see what you did there!
Ah-ha-ha!
Ah, you.
Sunglasses.
>> Jesus sees everything.
See everything.
- Yayy!
- That's how I get my robe down.
>> Action!
And then you do the hokey-pokey--
We're almost there.
Just open the door.
Oof.
- Oh, welcome back.
Oh!
Come again?
- Oh, bye!
>> Resetting!
- That was a quick visit.
J Making food for the homeless.
And action!
- Whoa, jackal!
- You're doing great.
- I-I haven't started yet.
- Oh.
>> Say we do it again?
Keep it short.
You know, it's...
my dance was perfect before.
Would you...?
Eden, can you-- can you put--
Put it so that the pickles are right in front of me--
The cucumbers are right--
No.
Okay, thanks.
- Eema, there are sheep in--
- I love a banquet.
I was gonna use that.
- ♪ Just the 12 of us--♪
- Anybody move my C-stand?
- ♪ We can make it if we try, just the 12 of us. ♪
♪ You andl. ♪
- Shalom, my son.
Shalom.
- Every single time.
Every single time.
Cut.