Come Unto Me

Jesus of Nazareth's announcement that he is the Messiah has blazed through Jerusalem and the surrounding countryside like wildfire.  As he travels through the Galilee, the crowds follow him, witnessing the miracle of the coin in the fish's mouth and the healing of the demonic boy.  Jesus teaches the parable of the lost sheep and the return of the prodigal son.  He walks on the water.  With each new miracle, healing, or teaching, more and more people testify that Jesus is the Messiah, and the number of disciples grows almost daily. Simeon's discipleship to Jesus the Messiah has come at a high price.  Haunted by the devastation wrought after the battle of the Joknean Pass-Daniel dead, Yehuda captured, a broken betrothal to Shana-Simeon struggles to find a way to rescue Yehuda from certain death and yet still be true to Jesus' commandment to "Love thy enemies." Discipleship has exacted a high price from Miriam as well.  Her relationship with her father, Mordechai is already strained by he