This was a very sinister dilemma, and the elders' questions contained a trap for Jesus. Jesus was preaching in the square, surrounded by the crowd, that if he replied that he should not pay taxes to the Maro people, he would not only violate the laws of the Maro Empire, but also incite a popular riot, and he would be taken away by the Maro soldiers on duty.

But if Jesus answered "yes," he would lose the hearts of the people. The expected Messiah is the savior of all the Salemites and Samarites, and it is believed that the King of Salem will lead them to establish a new kingdom, conquer the Maro Empire, and rule the Celestial Continent. Moreover, there is a more important premise of the elder's words, that the people buy birds to be released in order to sacrifice to the Aroh, but they have to pay taxes to the Maro, how can this be explained?

Josus, who was well aware of the elder's tactics, sneered slightly, reached out and took a coin from his disciples, held it up to the crowd and asked, "Whose head is on this coin?"

Everyone replied, "It's Caesar!" - Caesar and Augustus were not only the names of the two Maro rulers of the Megatron Continent back then, but also became the honorific titles and titles of the Maro Emperors of the past dynasties.

Jesus exclaimed, "Let Caesar's be Caesar's! God doesn't need it! Have you ever heard of the privilege of entering the kingdom of heaven that can be bought with money? It can only be used to buy a place in the temple square for the priests to set up a place to sell and sell birds, and to tempt people to buy birds and release them." He who said that he was sacrificing to Aroha but mutilated living beings in the name of God, and God would be angry. ”

As he spoke, he flicked his fingers, and the coin flew out with a thud and landed at the Elder's feet. He was clever enough to get rid of the elders' entanglements, but he did not expose the traps in the elders' questions. As long as the Maro Empire is still the ruler of the Tianshu Continent, and the coins used here still have Caesar's head on them, merchants will naturally have to pay taxes to the Maro Empire.

What is the real world and the ideal world, what is the human world as seen, and what is the heavenly kingdom guided by God? The Maro people conquered the Tianshu continent, but they also provided roads, water conservancy projects, and stopped the conflicts between the original tribes, and it was not only the Salem merchants who had to pay taxes, but all the places in the Tianshu continent under the Maro Empire, including the Maro people themselves.

But what about the kingdom of heaven of Arohara? What God needs is not these, but the true faith of the soul to pass all kinds of tests to reach the kingdom of heaven beyond eternal life. It was another world, a kingdom completely different from the rest of the world.

The crowd listened intently to Jesus' preaching with admiration. The elder was bored with himself, and stood there in embarrassment. It was he who came to say that he had a problem and wanted to "consult" about Jesus, and he did use the same tone. And Jesus' generous "teaching" of him in front of everyone, this honorable elder became one of the listeners at this moment, and he did not show due authority in front of Jesus.

This is simply taking the initiative to run out and embarrass people, using his noble status to cheer for Jesus! The elder thought of it, and made another move, and the five fingers of his staff were tightened, and he quietly launched the curse magic technique. He was a great magician, who cast spells among thousands of people without leaving a trace, and he wanted to make Josus' body feel heavy, his knees weak, his head and shoulders leaning forward, and he would inexplicably kneel down and bow to him in public.

The mysterious magic unfolded, but there was no response like a mud cow entering the sea. Jesus was still standing preaching to the people, not even the tone of his voice was disturbed.

When it came to magic, Jesus was much more clever than the elder, and he knew what the elder was doing, but he didn't pay any attention to it. The best way to deal with the curse magic is the blessing magic technique, and there are two tears of the gods condensed in the form of Jesus, one is passively refined, and the other is actively integrated into the soul imprint, this flesh and blood body is also an excellent artifact for casting the blessing magic technique, even if he doesn't do anything, the curse of the elders can't have any effect.

The people around naturally didn't know all this, but at this moment, something happened that stunned everyone and then cheered. The elder suddenly lowered his staff, his knees limped, and he knelt down leaning forward toward Jesus. He pressed his staff to the ground with both hands, pressed his forehead and lips to the ground, then straightened his arms to prop up his upper body, and bowed down with his arms bent again, three times in a row, completely ignoring the dust on his robe and forehead.

The twelve elders in the Aroha temple in the city of Salem were the supreme beings representing the authority of the gods among the people of Salem, and they had never bowed to living beings other than the gods, and only the Son could enjoy this kind of courtesy!

The elder knelt down, and of course everyone couldn't stand, and in an instant, the crowd in the temple square fell to their knees. The disciples also bowed to their guide, and in the whole square, only Jesus, who was still standing, was the last to kneel down was the donkey behind him.

No one noticed a detail, and just as the elder was using the curse to no avail, the donkey behind Josus suddenly lifted one of its front hooves and stomped lightly on the ground. The elder then knelt down inexplicably, not as he wanted to kneel, but as he was pressed down by an irresistible force. The elder struggled to get up, but the donkey stomped again, and the elder couldn't hold up his arms and bowed down.

The donkey stomped three times in a row, and the elder bowed three times. At this time, everyone in the square also knelt down, and the donkey took it when he saw it, and took advantage of the situation to bend a pair of front legs and make a kneeling salute, and at the same time bowed his head and touched the ground.

The donkey knelt down, but the elder stood up, and saw that all the people in the square were bowing down to Jesus, because of his actions, and the elder was ashamed to death—he was so faceless that he could not see anyone! The elder left a slip of paper that day to resign as temple elder and has been closed ever since.

Josus, intentionally or unintentionally, turned and glared at the donkey, but said nothing, what can be done with a donkey on this occasion? He stretched out his arms to the crowd and said, "Get up!"

When Jesus entered the city of Salem, he had decided not to perform any miracles that might interfere with or confuse the faith. If he wanted to make the elder kneel, he had the means, and there was no need for Medanzo, who had become a donkey, to intervene. What Jesus needed was not that kind of formal prostration, neither temptation nor coercion, but the sincere faith of the soul.

If he could use that method to find out the realm that Amun was seeking, why did he come to the world to go through such a journey?

The effect of this prank made by Medanzo was very good, and everyone knelt down for Yosu. But when Jesus left the city of Salem that day, he commanded his disciples to take the donkey back to the borrowed village and return it to his master.

...... What happened in the square, and shut down a temple elder from seeing anyone, was a public humiliation that was absolutely unacceptable in his capacity. But the others didn't know what was going on, and the elder didn't say anything to anyone, and he was absolutely ashamed to talk about it! The other eleven elders also felt a chill and fear in their hearts, if they had only wanted to take down the covenant Jesus and ask for sin, now they had unanimously decided that this man must be executed!

...... Jesus preached in the temple square during the day, returned to the village of Bethany at night, entered the city of Salem seven times, and did not ride the donkey again for the last few days. The feast is on the seventh day, and the celebration is coming to an end, and the people who have poured into the city of Salem from all over are packing up their belongings and will disperse tomorrow.

On this day, however, Jesus did not leave the city of Salem, but he instructed his disciples: "Go to Ver-Flåm, and I ask him to prepare a supper for us today, in a quiet and undisturbed place, where you will wait for me." ”

Val-Fromm was the patient whom Joshua treated in the wilderness and forest, and he was the only one of those patients who ran back to Jossy.

The disciples were gone, but Jesus left Judas alone. Walking on earth, there will inevitably be mundane things in the world, and of course, the small group of Jesus and the disciples also needs to spend money on all kinds of things and prepare the materials needed to walk around the world. Judas was very capable and delicate, managing money and procuring all kinds of goods, and spent the most time alone on his own.

Jesus led Judas through the streets of Salem, and there was a bustling crowd of people, but strangely enough, no one could recognize Jesus! Jesus preached to all the nations in the temple square for seven days in a row, and when he stood in the middle of all the people, everyone knew that it was the Son. But when he was in the midst of the crowd, still wearing ordinary robes and barefoot, he looked no different from everyone else, and even when he walked by, no one realized that he was Jesus.

The city of Salem is very large, thanks to the scale that Link built back then, and there are some mountains and even granges and woods in the entire outer city. When Jesus took Judas out of the inner city and into the outer city, he came to a secluded place, stopped, and said, "Judas, my disciple, today I want to ask you—do you understand why I gave you such a name in the first place?"

Judas's shoulders trembled, as if he had finally waited for what he had been waiting for, and he bowed down to the ground and said, "Dear Guide, perhaps I should not call you the Son, for you are the one...... I didn't know why, but it wasn't long ago that I finally understood. ”

Jesus said quietly, "Congratulations on your passage through the trials of life, what do you understand?"

Judah replied, "Four hundred years ago there was no city of Salem, and the great flood did not come, but it was a place called the town of Durke." There was a young miner named Amun, who was lucky enough to mine a precious Tear of the Gods. At that time, the lord of the city-state of Cape Eju, Rod Dick, was arriving in Duk with a candidate saint to search for the Tears of the Gods.

After the Tears of the Gods appeared, Lord Dick ordered his clerk to reward the boy with thirty gold coins, but the clerk only gave the young Chinese New Year's Eve thirty silver coins and took the Tears of the Gods in the name of the goddess Isis. Not only was the young man unable to pay the taxes on the twenty gold coins he owed his family, but he almost had a finger cut off in front of Mu Yun's temple. The name of the clerk was Fayol-Judas. ”

(To be continued)