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Chapter 35 - Cults Around Jmmanuel
1. It came to pass that Jmmanuel, his mother Mary, and his brother Thomas travelled on into the cities at the sea in the north. Since olden times, warrior women inhabited the area, but their descendants were now peace loving.
2. He preached to them the new teachings according to his knowledge but had to flee their cities when they attempted to kill him.
3. Their own teachings, far removed from truth, were from a rigid religious cult; and they punished with death those who taught differently.
4. Jmmanuel was treated as an outcast by these people and persecuted as an agitator against their cult. So he fled.
5. It came to pass during his flight that he met up with a large caravan. He and his following joined it and continued inland and into the mountains.
6. They travelled through the central part of the country for many weeks whereupon they came to another sea and into the city of Ephesus.
7. But Jmmanuel was very much afraid, and no longer preached his new teachings so that no one would recognize him; for in Ephesus were many people -- dealers and merchants, who came there from Jerusalem to conduct business.
8. Many among them had known Jmmanuel and had not been well disposed toward him; therefore he avoided them and obscured his face.
9. The dealers and merchants in Ephesus had spread the story of Jmmanuel and his purported death, which had occurred two-and-one-half years earlier.