A.D. 31. HISTORY OF JUDAS ÏSCARIOT. 133 into prison, bat that he did them privately, and that after mat time he preached publicly ; and we shall follow this order of events, without prejudice to the other opinion. But we read in the Gospel that the Lord called the Apostles twice. First of all, when he saw Nathanael under the fig-tree ; but they did not at that time follow him perfectly, because they returned to their former occupations. A second time also he called them, when crowds were flocking to him ; and when he himself saw there two ships standing by the lake. And then, leaving all, they followed him perfectly. A.D. 31. On the thirteenth day, according to the opinion, which I have already mentioned, the Lord turned the water into wine, at the marriage of the governor of the feast, his mother obtaining this favour from her Son. In the same year we read that John was thrown into prison by Herod. In this year, too, we read of the second calling of the Apostles, in which Jesus chose twelve to preach the faith of the Gospel, and to bear witness to the truth; among whom he had one whose wickedness he turned to a good purpose, and so fulfilled the sacrament of his Passion, and gave an example to hie church of enduring the injuries of wicked men. We read in a certain history, that there was a man in Jerusalem, by name Reuben, who was also called Simon, of the tribe of Judah, or, according to Hieronymus, of the tribe of Issachar, who had a wife who was called Cyborea. Accordingly, one night, when each of them was well satisfied with the other, Cyborea being asleep, saw a dream, which she, being greatly alarmed, related to her husband, with groans and sighs, saying, "It seemed to me that I was bringing forth a wicked son, who was the cause of the destruction of the whole of our race." And Reuben answered her, "You are saying a shocking thing, one which ougjit not to be said ; and I think you are hurried sway by a frantic spirit of mvination." But she replied, "If I feel that I have conceived, and if I bring forth a son, then beyond all doubt it will have been no frantic spirit that possessed me, but a certain revelation." Accordingly, as time went on, when she had brought forth a son, hk parents were greatly alarmed, and began to coneider what they should do with him. And as they were reluctant to put him to death, and yet were unwilling to breed up the destruction of their race, they placed the child in a