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Updated: May 31, 2025
"As cometh mine," Zador Ben Amon laughed, rubbing his hands and looking from one to the other for approval. "And even now my palms grow hot for that which shall come into them from my Temple booths at the Passover. But how dost thou reason, Lazarus? If there are rich and mighty must there not of necessity be the poor and weak?" "Yea. Yet is this according to the Law of Moses?
With this remark his sharp-toothed smile gave way to laughter. "Which wife?" Zador asked. "Herodias, sister of Agrippa the Great. Her Salome danced until like fire my blood chased itself into a fever. Then did I tell her to name her price.
"Zador Ben Amon," she said, "I go to the home of Anna whose father doth not return from Jerusalem to-night. Farewell." With a start he turned his face to her. A few quick steps brought him to her side and he would have thrown his arms about her but she gathered her veil tightly and said, "Touch me not!" "Touch thee not? Am I a god of wood?" and before she had stepped aside his fingers touched her.
Zador Ben Amon was returning from a prosperous trip that had taken him as far as Rome, and having business with Herod Antipas had sent word of his visit to Tiberias. It was with a smile he stroked his perfumed beard as he caught sight of an equipage making its way to the water-front.
"'The heart of a woman should go out to him whose wife she would be; and the heart is not worn on the hand. Tell thy desire to Mary. This said I to Zador who seeks her hand." "Listen!" exclaimed Martha. The sound of wheels on the pebble strewn incline just outside, told the approach of Zador Ben Amon.
And with a broad showing of sharp teeth, Herod Antipas removed the anklet from his arm and handed it back to Zador Ben Amon.
The last stall on the narrow street toward the East Gate was that of a pottery molder and baker of small ovens. Outside his door, which was now securely barred, stood several large water-jars and behind them a low table used for mixing clay. When Zador and his companion reached this place they stopped and withdrew into the shadows. "The moon is rising. They will not be long coming," he said.
Of a certainty will he know me again and I him. Come, let us lose ourselves in this vast assemblage and yet go under the Gate of Nicantor. I would learn if this is the Rabbi who was with the woman." For some time Zador Ben Amon and the Temple lawyer moved with the crowd. Now and then they caught sight of the Bethany party and Zador made comment. "She walketh by her brother," he first said.
Among the money-lenders none was more keenly alive to his own interests than Zador Ben Amon who by gift-giving and cunning had secured a place for his long table near the steps leading from the Outer Court up to the Beautiful Gate.
Whether her hordes be corn fed or not corn fed, Rome careth not. What souls have these?" "It is the naked virgins that possess souls," and Antipas showed his pointed teeth a little more. "Nay, it is the naked virgins that set souls on fire," Zador Ben Amon corrected. "Rome hath not all the naked virgins that do dance. Antipas hath had a dance for his wife's sake."
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