And he would go to them.

He started--stopped.
Alas! a Roman judgment held him in doom.

While it endured, escape would be profitless.

In the wide, wide earth there was no place in which he would be safe from the imperial demand; upon the land none, nor upon the sea.

Whereas he required freedom according to the forms of law, so only could he abide in Judea and execute the filial purpose to which he would devote himself: in other land he would not live.