It wasn't very far off now; could she manage it?
Mary signed "Yes" with her head, and gathered together all her remaining strength.

But just beyond the city walls she sank down exhausted, and Joseph said: "We will stay here so that you may rest, and to-morrow I can show you the Temple." There was a man on a stony hillock nailing two beams of wood together.
Joseph understood something of that sort of work, but he was not quite clear over this particular thing.

So he asked what it might be.
"He for whose use it is, doesn't want it," replied the workman.

It then flashed into Joseph's mind that it was a gallows.
Mary grasped his arm: "Joseph, let us go on to Bethlehem." For she began to be frightened.
They staggered along the road.

A draught of the spring of the Valley of Jehoshaphat refreshed them.