But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

But they made no answer. And he took hold of the man and cured him and sent him away.

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."