Chapter 4 Summary

The next morning is the day of the Sabbath. Simon comes to ask Daniel to accompany him to the synagogue. Daniel hesitates, but Simon is persistent and says that a man from Nazareth is going to visit this morning, and he would like Daniel to meet him. When Daniel goes into the house to change into the cloak Simon has brought for him, Leah runs and, evidently afraid of him, cowers in the corner. She is thought by many to be possessed by demons and has never been seen outside of the house.

As they walk toward the synagogue, Daniel once again asks who they are going to meet, and is told it is Jesus, son of Joseph, and a carpenter by trade, and that he also travels about preaching of the coming of the kingdom.

At the synagogue, Jesus speaks to the...