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The History of Joseph the Carpenter

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Section 8

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8. But Satan went and told this to Herod the

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Great

,

the

father

of

Archelaus

.

And

it

was

this

same

Herod

who

ordered

my

friend

and

relative

John

to

be

beheaded

.

Accordingly

he

searched

for

me

diligently

,

thinking

that

my

kingdom

was

to

be

of

this

world

.

But

Joseph

,

that

pious

old

man

,

was

warned

of

this

by

a

dream

.

Therefore

he

rose

and

took

Mary

my

mother

,

and

I

lay

in

her

bosom

.

Salome

also

was

their

fellow

-

traveller

.

Having

therefore

set

out

from

home

,

he

retired

into

Egypt

,

and

remained

there

the

space

of

one

whole

year

,

until

the

hatred

of

Herod

passed

away

.

Notes

13
It was Herod Antipas who ordered John to be beheaded.
14
John xviii. 36.
15
The Salome here mentioned was, according to two of the mss. of Pseudo-Matthew, the third husband of Anna, Mary’s mother, and the father of Mary the wife of Zebedee. But compare Matt. xxvii. 56 with Mark xv. 40.