Take This Cup
“Joseph reined his horse and dismounted near a stone wall outside Jerusalem.Two men stacked carefully hewn limestone blocks to form a waist-high barricade. The wall surrounded a newly planted garden. Inside the enclosure was a border of fragrant juniper shrubs. The place was busy with workmen. Boys about my age mixed mortar. Older boys worked as hod carriers, assisting the masons.At the sight of Joseph, I noticed heads lean together and anxious whispers pass between the laborers. Whatever this b...uilding site was, Joseph clearly had authority over it. He pushed aside a wooden gate as I slid from my donkey and hesitated.“Come on, then,” he instructed. I tied our mounts to the limb of a tree.The gate opened onto a winding gravel path that was a beehive of activity. Another boy, wielding a branch of a juniper as a broom, swept the curving track clear of dust. A man wearing the apron of a stone mason edged the path with more stacked stone. Joseph greeted the mason, then asked, “Where is Hyram?”The stone-setter indicated a grass-covered knoll at the back of the property.MoreLess
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