Further Discussions with Rodan

161:0.1On Sun­day, Septem­ber 25, A.D. 29, the apos­tles and the evan­ge­lists as­sem­bled at Ma­g­a­dan. Af­ter a long con­fer­ence that evening with his as­so­ciates, Je­sus sur­prised all by an­nounc­ing that early the next day he and the twelve apos­tles would start for Je­ru­sa­lem to at­tend the feast of taber­na­cles. He di­rected that the evan­ge­lists visit the be­liev­ers in Gal­i­lee, and that the women’s corps re­turn for a while to Beth­saida.

161:0.2When the hour came to leave for Je­ru­sa­lem, Na­than­iel and Thomas were still in the midst of their dis­cus­sions with Ro­dan of Alexan­dria, and they se­cured the Mas­ter’s per­mis­sion to re­main at Ma­g­a­dan for a few days. And so, while Je­sus and the ten were on their way to Je­ru­sa­lem, Na­than­iel and Thomas were en­gaged in earnest de­bate with Ro­dan. The week prior, in which Ro­dan had ex­pounded his phi­los­o­phy, Thomas and Na­than­iel had al­ter­nated in pre­sent­ing the gospel of the king­dom to the Greek philoso­pher. Ro­dan dis­cov­ered that he had been well in­structed in Je­sus’ teach­ings by one of the for­mer apos­tles of John the Bap­tist who had been his teacher at Alexan­dria.