The Young Messiah

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

SALOME:
For a camel, you

make a triangle like this.

That's the hump.

It's so easy. See?

Then some lines for legs here.

Teacher taught me

how to do this.

He showed me

elephants and cats, too.

But I told him you like camels.

That's the neck.

You're not watching.

Then on top, I put another

triangle for a head.

They have big round eyes

and a skinny tail here.

Little baby, playing with girls?

(SIGHS)

Get off! Get off him!

Stop!

Don't touch her!

He's dead.

Eleazer's dead!

THE DEMON:
(WHISPERING)

Over there. He did it.

You! You killed him!

That man told you to say that.

What man?

The apple! Eleazer

tripped on the apple.

You killed him.

We all saw it.

He did it. He killed him.

He killed him.

ELEAZER'S MOTHER: Eleazer!

(ELEAZER'S MOTHER CRYING)

Eleazer...

BOY:
You killed Eleazer.

We all saw it.

Mama.

Come.

There was a man. He told

them that I... Shh.

(SOBBING)

Go.

Go home. Go.

James, close the door.

Sit.

Show me your face.

What's happened?

Jesus killed Eleazer!

Don't say that!

He's your cousin.

He couldn't.

There's no evil in him.

But he did! He cursed him,

and Eleazer fell dead.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING

IN DISTANCE)

Don't you threaten me.

Never! Not my nephew!

Joseph, they're all out there.

Jonathan bar Zakkai

and his brothers.

They're saying

he killed that boy.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

How could that be? Eleazer's twice

as big and a bully to boot.

It's envy, that's what it is.

We've got the jobs they wanted.

Enough!

Is the boy dead?

Our son is not a murderer.

JOSEPH:
ls he dead or does he live?

Can anyone tell me?

Is the boy dead?

He was not moving.

You saved me.

I didn't hurt him.

Just do what you did before.

(WHISPERING)

Like the dead bird.

(CHIRPING)

(LAUGHING)

SALOME:
Go on.

I won't tell.

(ELEAZER'S MOTHER MOANING)

(SOFTLY) Wake up.

Wake up now.

PHYSICIAN:
You!

(JESUS GASPS)

How dare you come here!

Get out! Get out,

you vile little...

Vile...

(GASPS)

Son of David! Son of David!

Come! Come! Quickly, help!

Go!

Where did you learn medicine?

From cavemen in Britain?

The boy was dead,

I'm telling you.

How could that boy be dead?

Look at him!

ELEAZER'S FATHER:

He was dead.

Because of him.

Well, he's not dead now.

He's possessed.

He killed my boy and then

brought him back again.

Only Satan can do that.

So you're complaining

he's alive?

ELEAZER'S FATHER: Why don't

you go back to Galilee?

Take your tools and your women

and your bewitched children,

and just leave.

Seven years is too long.

We're done with you.

We don't want you here.

Eleazer is alive.

For which we thank God.

As it happens, we're going

back to Galilee anyway.

CLEOPAS:
What, because of a

little hubbub in the street?

No.

Because Herod is dead.

We can return now.

JESUS:
ls that true?

Is it all my fault?

Yes!

He's just a little boy!

Wait for me here.

Nobody else can do what you did.

You know that?

How can I? Tell me.

Please?

They won't let me.

(DOOR CLOSES)

They're saying

that with a touch,

a simple touch, he raised

him from the dead.

It's confirmed, isn't it?

Did you ever doubt it?

No. No. It's just...

It's just so soon.

How do you know

that Herod's dead?

I had a dream today.

Before all of this.

That he's dead?

Or that we have to go back?

Both.

It was a dream that I had that

brought us here, remember?

And it turned out to be true.

Had we not left Bethlehem that

night, our son would be dead.

This was the same kind of dream.

So we're destined to wander.

Like all Jews.

Not wandering, going home.

Nazareth, not Bethlehem.

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