Part 2 Summary

Two men talk about Jes's of Bethlehem, who is nearby and has just walked into a market. Jes's talks like a clown and a wise man. He is in the Good Samaritan Tavern. A man comes up to Jes's and tells him he wants to follow him. Jes's tells him he's a fool, and that he's Jes's because that's what they named him; he's from Bethlehem because that's the town where he was born. Jes's tells the man that he'd deny him the first time there was any trouble. He says that what he does is full of suffering and pain and that people have turned him into a miracle worker, convincing even him from the time that he was twelve years old. He parents made him a healer, and how could he turn his back on them?

Jes's left his hometown when...