Word: hims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judas said, "Me? You're lying to me." He'd already established that Hamer knew nothing of Jesus' arrest and speedy death, and Judas hadn't told him.
Hamer said, "When he told me I'd have to leave, I fell down and begged him for a scrap of forgiveness, and he said, 'Oh, son, I forgive you surely--I've forgiven Judas this far in advance. But you can't work with me after today; the millstone...
Judas followed him, for lack of anywhere else to go. He lay down just inside Hamer's door with the chill spring air all down his legs, but he slept no more than a few brief spasms of sweet shallow dreaming and a few high yips at the ends of...
Where Hamer had told him Jesus was born, there'd been a dead tree--a bare black snag above the cave. Judas had gripped it, even then, and chinned himself once; it was still firmly anchored. So just as the sun broke free of the hills and swept the fringes...
Maybe five minutes passed--he was sweating anyhow--when a man's voice spoke from close behind him. "Need any help?"