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in which time the noise of the murder being blown over, he retnrned back again, and got a good place in a nobleman's family, where he lived sometime, till his own mother accidentally seeing him fell in love with and married him. About five years after they had been married, one morning in bed Judas's shirt bosom lay open, when she saw under his left breast the marks he was born with; upon which she waked him in an agony, and told him the story of his birth, and the part she had acted therein. Judas heard this with wonder and astonishment, and on his part confessed to her the many crimes he had been guilty of; after which she desired him to depart from her, and seek mercy of God in another country; protesting she would never be carnally known to him any more.
Judas full of grief & remorse of conscience, left Joppa and wandered about like a pilgrim, till he heard of a mighty prophet called Jesus of Nazareth,
