“Or one of the other great prophets.”“Elisha!”“Jonah… After all, you talked about the sign of Jonah!”“Moses himself, After all, none ever found his grave!”“Why stop there?” Judas murmured, “why not the very Isaiah himself?”Jesus cleared his throat.“But what about you?” he asked.They were still laughing when he repeated, “But what about you? Gay sex But now his people are my people, now you all are my people, and so he went south to the Jordan’s end, but we go north to its source, to its beginning. “Others say Elijah.”“And some say Jeremiah returned,” someone else offered. John woke up and leaned on one elbow, indicating space for him, and Jesus, carrying his robe, laid it down and unwrapped his mantle so that naked, and barely wet, he climbed into the space beside John.“You have been bathing.”“I have given myself the second and the third baptism and only the fourth remains.”“You are full of strangeness,” John said, shifting to remove his shift so that he pressed his naked flesh to Jesus’s.“You’ve always know that,” Jesus said.“I am irked.”“About.”“My mouth was forming the very words that Peter said, but forever they will be Peter’s words.”“Perhaps they were not meant to be your words.”“But still, I would that they had been.”“Well, then the fault is on your
