The Wandering Jew.
The legend of the Wandering Jew is that a jew refused to allow Christ to rest at his door while He was bearing His cross to Calvary. He was condemned to wander over the face of the earth till the end of the world. His name was Ahasuerus, and he was a cobbler. He pushed Christ away, saying, "Go away.” Jesus replied, "Truly I go away, and that quickly, but tarry thou till I come..” Another tradition says that it was Cartophilus, the doorkeeper of Pilate’s Judgment Hall, who struck Jesus, saying,“Go faster,” as he led Him out, whereupon Jesus replied, "I am going, but thou shalt tarry till I come again.” He was baptised later as Joseph, and at the end of every hundred years falls-into a trance, and wakes as a young man of 30. He is said to have been at Antwerp in the thirteenth century, and again in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His last appearance was at Brussels in 1774. Other names for him were Isaac Laquedem and Salathiel ben Sadi (at Venice in the sixteenth century).
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18889, 12 October 1929, Page 21 (Supplement)
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185The Wandering Jew. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18889, 12 October 1929, Page 21 (Supplement)
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