They were ill-disposed, stupid people.
And the seeds of your words has fallen upon the rock." And he related what had happened in the village.
After Jesus and His disciples left it, an old woman had begun to cry out that her little white kid had been stolen, and she laid the theft at the door of the visitors who had just departed.

At first the people had disputed with her, but when she obstinately insisted that there was no one else who could have done it except Jesus, many agreed with her, and even were about to start in pursuit.

And although they soon found the kid straying in the underwood, they still decided that Jesus was a deceiver, and possibly a thief.
"So that's what they think of us, is it ?" cried Peter, with a snort.
"Lord, wilt Thou that I return to those fools, and--" But Jesus, saying not a word, gazed severely at him, and Peter in silence retired behind the others.

And no one ever referred to the incident again, as though it had never occurred, and as though Judas had been proved wrong.

In vain did he show himself on all sides, endeavouring to give to his double, crafty, hooknosed face an expression of modesty.