Chapter 3
The long walk back to Nazareth
– The pursuit restarts; – Joseph is seriously injured;
– Alphaeus;
– As Little Joseph, in the caravan towards Egypt;
– The Hebrew commandedby those who subjugated his people returns to Hiatta;
– A new message to Elijah;
– Mary heading towards the unknown;
– Under Isaiah’s protection;
– Isaiah, the prophet from Raphah;
– The events that preceded the reunion of Joseph and Mary;
– Matthew, the melon grower, arrives in Hiatta;
– Joseph with Sarah’s twins;
– Joseph leaves Hiatta, and his firstborn treads a different path;
– Simon and Pustule;
– Zilah;
– His advisors;
– The walk according to Mary;
– Alphaeus’s discovery;
– The group of which Mary was part is arrested and mysteriously released;
– The ones who were looking for him track down Alphaeus;
– Curing a leprous woman;
– At Adam’s, Mary and Joseph reunite;
– The sadness and passing of Old Matthew;
– Joseph and his family start walking again;
– The passage about the lost sheep;
– His kidnapping;
– The death of the one under command who had hunted him for many harvests;
– Making a stop in Antipatris;
– Helping a player;
– Joseph is made a slave, and the presence of the man from Alexandria;
– Joseph at the building site of roads for the Romans;
– Shepherding;
– Persisting to help the inconsequential player;
– The last stage of the journey;
– Nathaniel;
– The advice to Alphaeus;
– The vagabonds, without Joseph, finally in Nazareth;
– Enfranchisement to the slave Joseph.