It was easy for me to tell him to get lost. Festus, you will perish in hell if you don't listen to the gospel I am preaching.
It is Jesus that has sent me to you, he said.
Jesus did not send you. He does not even know you, I said to him.
He looked alarmed at what I had said. Then, he made a quick cross sign and muttered that may the Lord forgive me.
I laughed, he was not even a Catholic so why he was making a cross sign?
But then, we had to deal with John; that was the desire of my heart. I called my friends together during one break hour and I told them we had to gang up against John,