I had grown up with Jesus in the little town of Nazareth in Galilee, some fifteen miles west-southwest of the Sea of Galilee. My family were rug weavers, and my father took the rugs south to Jerusalem several times a year to sell. A strict Jew, he preferred the roundabout route east to the Jordan River—to get around Samaria, which he considered a land of heretics. From there, he traveled south on the caravan route to Jericho and Jerusalem, and always in a caravan, as protection against brigands that preyed upon any who were so foolish as to travel alone. Our family was in better financial condition than that of Jesus, the family of Joseph, which we came to know well.
Klemp, Harold. Autobiography of a Modern Prophet. Eckankar. Kindle Edition.
