It was a black bear, with a crescent-like symmetrical white mark on its chest, and a human-like kneeling there, very strong, as tall as the people around him. Its eyes were slightly closed, and it looked very focused and religious, but a bear imitated people's prayers on this solemn occasion, and it was funny to look at it. Interestingly, there is also a blue cloth package next to it, which seems to have been brought by the black bear himself.

At this time, someone whispered to his companion: "Don't be afraid, it is a bear raised by a man named Lhasalu on the outskirts of Bethany town on the other side of the river. The frightened people breathed a sigh of relief.

Jesus looked at the bear and said to the crowd, "Don't worry, it doesn't think of itself as a bear at all. Maybe it doesn't understand what we're doing, but it's praying as we are. ”

Until it was dark, the bear remained in a posture of prayer throughout.

At last it was completely dark, and the townspeople had dispersed, leaving only Jesus and his disciples under the tree, and the moonlight was silently falling through the shadows of the trees. The bear finally stood up, wrapped in a blue cloth on his slightly stubby forelimbs, and walked upright like a man with a pair of large bear paws, and came to Jesus.

It placed the package on the ground and leaned down to pull it open with a pair of forepaws, which contained several sheets of bread and three apples. The bear is an omnivore, and if it were a human bear, it would have been its food, but it was offered to Jesus.

Looking at the bread and apples, Jesus calmly asked, "Do you have something to ask for when you offer me your food?"

The bear could not speak, but as if he understood what Jesus meant, he kept nodding his head, raised his forepaw and pointed in the direction of the upper reaches of the river, with a pleading look on his face.

The disciples were all baffled. But Jesus took away the parcel from the ground, stood up, and said, "It wants to invite me to a place, and we will go with it." ”

There were many people who asked Jesus to heal their illnesses, even in remote villages, but it was the first time he had followed a bear in the middle of the night, and he was not afraid of danger in the middle of the night.

The disciples, knowing that their guide was fearless, followed Jesus to the river with curiosity. Then the big bear went into the river, stretched out his limbs and swam to the other side, and stood up on the shore and shook off all his hair, apparently waiting for Jesus to pass over.

Jesus looked down at the blue cloth package in his hand, and saw that there were obvious tooth marks on it, and the bear must have swam from the other side of the river with the package in its head, and the food in the package was not wet.

Then something even more miraculous happened: Jesus stepped onto the water with his cane and said to the disciples, "Follow me." The disciples cautiously followed Jesus, and the waves of the Yodan's became a foot-ready pavement, and in the midst of a slight turmoil, the crowd walked along.

The bear turned and walked upstream, walking upright in the moonlight, staggering, neither fast nor slow, just enough for Josus to keep up.

One of the disciples frowned and said, "That bear is so strong, isn't it tired of standing and walking like this?" If the bear had put its front paws down and landed on all fours, it would have run much faster than this. If it's showing us the way, why don't you go faster?"

The speaker's name was Judas, the name Jesus gave him, but no one knew why Jesus gave his disciples such a name. Hearing the question, Jesus smiled and replied, "It's night, and it's a black bear, so he doesn't dare to go too fast, for fear that we will be lost." ...... Besides, you ask why it walks standing upright, don't you walk upright yourself?"

Judas was stunned for a moment, and said puzzledly: "I am a human being, of course I can stand and walk." ”

Jesus laughed again: "People walk and can walk, but babies who are born know that it is easier to crawl than to walk. I said that the bear didn't think of itself as a bear at all, it thought it was a human being, and people walked standing up, and of course it had to stand and walk. ”

Judas scratched the back of his head and said, "That's interesting, how can there be such a bear?"

Jesus patiently explained: "I have heard that babies raised by wolves in the mountains grow up unable to speak and behave like wolves, because they do not know that they are human and that no one has taught them how to behave. And this bear should have been adopted by people since childhood, it has never seen other bears, thinking that it is the same kind of people, and all its actions are imitating people. ”

Hearing this, Judas's heart moved, as if inspired by some kind of inspiration, and he asked again: "I'm afraid not all bears will be like this after being raised by people, not only the bear is particularly intelligent and docile, but also depends on how it is treated, in fact, people are the same."

Dear Guide, I have been thinking about one thing today. When you were in town, everyone heard the same sermon you preached, but they gained different things, understood and reacted differently. Some people will be grateful to you, but others will hate you and even want to harm you. Walking on this path, I seem to have seen what the future holds. ”

Josus, still smiling, looked a little like Aesop in the past, and he used the story to make a metaphor - "God sent a farmer to sow the seed of all things on the earth." Some seeds fall in thorn bushes and can only grow in crevices, carefully avoiding the thorns on the thorns, and they will be swallowed up by thorns before harvesting, some seeds fall in shallow soil covered with gravel, and if enough rain moistens them, they can germinate, but if the environment is a little harsh, the new seedlings will wither, and some seeds fall in fertile and suitable soil, which is the most worthy of cultivation. I may be the farmer, and you, the disciples who follow me, are the most fertile farm. But God sowed the seed on the whole earth, with the hope of a harvest, and did not take any particular favor, as I preached to everyone. ”

Judas nodded, understanding what Jesus meant, and could not help but admire in his heart the wisdom of the guide.

But in the night, Jesus sighed and said, "I have been to the far East, and I have heard a word that is spread in a far-flung land. It was Kunlun, which was farther away than Tianzhu I had visited, and there was a man named Taishang who said, 'Heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are used as dogs.' I have just told you so much, and he has only one sentence to make it clear that I am not yet in that state, and that I am still searching. So I can only talk to you about my own feelings. ”

Judas heard this, and he continued to walk with the bear beside Josus, and as the night wore on, after a while, as if he had thought of something again, he could not help but speak: "Dear guide, you should know what happened in that town yesterday and the day before yesterday. The appearance of the injured person and the criminal is not accidental, it is clear that someone has arranged to embarrass you. You didn't get embarrassed by them, you stuck to your beliefs, and you touched more people. But in this way, some people will be more jealous of you, you are like a thorn in their hearts, and your presence will torment them to sleep. ”

Josus, smiling as he watched the hobbling back of the great bear, gave his disciples a metaphor: "We have come into this world. Everything is strange and unknown, from strange to familiar, people have all kinds of relationships while dealing with each other. If there is such a person, you have never hurt them, you have done your thing, and you have never hindered them. What do you do, what do you do if they don't want to accept what you say, but they feel that it hurts their minds, so they don't want you to show up, they don't want you to say your own words again?"

Judas thought for a moment and said, "When you say that, I think of many things, there really is such a kind of person in the world! Not only for the reason you just said, they don't want to see you appear, not because you hurt them anything, or even for the simplest and most funny reason. Maybe you didn't do what they wanted them to do, but you achieved your own achievements, so you feel uncomfortable at the thought of you, and you feel some kind of stimulation when you see you. ”

Jesus, who has always been serious, also said in a joking tone at this moment: "Then let them get excited or disgusted, thinking that they have found a kind of **! The sting of the soul is their own infliction, and you don't have to run away or change yourself because of it." I am only showing up to guide those who are willing to be guided, not coming or going because of their hope. Honestly, do you think I'd care, and I'd be sorry if I hadn't been pricked by that soul. ”

Judas blinked, pondering Jesus' words and saying no more along the way.

That very night, in the town on the other side of the river, the priests in the temple were already a little annoyed. When they heard that Jesus had crossed the river, they unanimously decided to immediately send a letter to the elders of the city of Salem, accusing him of using Satan's power to deceive people.

Jesus didn't know about this, but Medanzo and Link, who were secretly following, understood it clearly. The two angels were muttering in secret, and Medanzo said, "Are these priests looking for death? They live in the temple of Aroha and want to use the name of Aroha to frame Aroha who came to the world!"

Link said, "It seems that Jesus didn't know yet, since the two of us met, we have to take care of it, right?"

Medanzo replied, "Don't be in a hurry, for when the messenger has departed, we will take him down on the way." Throwing it to Jesus, along with the secret letter he sent, was a reminder. ”

Of course, the hurried Jesus, who was on the way, did not know the plan of the two angels, and by this time it was getting light, and they had followed a black bear walking upright for the whole night! One of the disciples said, "How can we be so far away, and where does this bear want to take us?"

Jesus shook his head and said, "I don't know where it is taking us, but it is clear that it has come a long way to find me, and how difficult it is for a bear!"

(To be continued)