In Pursuit of Him

He believed he was chasing a man who could heal his leg. He did not yet know he was chasing something the whole world chases, whether it knows it or not.Ezera ben Tobias built a fortune out of nothing, the same way he built his pride: alone, and on purpose. Then thieves broke his leg on the road outside Joppa, and everything he had built stopped mattering in a single afternoon.He heard a rumor. A carpenter from Nazareth, it was said, could heal a man with nothing but a touch. So Ezera did the only thing he knew how to do. He walked toward it.He was always late. Two weeks late in Capernaum. A day late in Jericho. But the road gave him other things while it withheld the one thing he wanted, and strangers kept telling him, in different words, the same truth: that he was not only searching for a healer. He was running from the man he had spent twenty years becoming.