Joseph made his way from Bethlehem to Nazareth flying on the wings of future. Those days were bad times for free riders moving on from town to town. But life was so hard for lots of people, and they had to jump on the road to earn their money working here and there. Carpenters were among them.

Those nomads used to meet on the road, walk their way together and help each other against those who made their living killing in the wilderness every free rider they found. Joseph knew about them nomads, and as he wasn’t in a real hurry he loved to sit by the fire with them and hear their stories.

His road companions found Joseph very helpful the night out there in the wilderness. Joseph travelled in the company of three Assyrian dogs each one as big as a lion. Those three Assyrian dogs were a present from his godfather's friends.

Joseph’s godfather was Simeon, a "Babylonian" living in Jerusalem whose family kept relations with the people and family his father left behind. From time to time Simeon’s Babylonian relatives came to Israel to pay the holy taxes in the name of the Jews from the other side of the Jordan River. One day they brought with them three little puppets in their homeland called "king’s lions" because the Assyrian kings used those kind of dogs to go out and hunt lions; they were a present for Joseph, "son of King David". And Joseph raised them with the whole lot of love their big bodies deserved. And soon they reached the size of a lion and to see Joseph walking his dogs was a magnificent show. To magnify the picture his godfather gave him another present, a Spaniard horse, black as a night and smart as a creature born to be one thing with its master. On those days that Joseph felt lonely and missed his future wife he used to jump on his horse, called his assyrian dogs and went out for a ride until his nerves cooled down.

And a third present got Joseph from the Babylonian relatives of his godfather. A sword! Yes, a sword named Goliath. They said nothing the day they gave it to him. They bowed down before him and went away. Goliath was the biggest sword a man could see those days. Joseph never needed to take Goliath for a walk, but in this journey to Nazareth he did. His road companions could fall sleep and share sweet dreams, the strangest carpenter they had never met around was there to watch their backs.

Yeah, while somewhere about the Samarian wilderness Joseph stared at the logs on fire, there was a young man in Nazareth Town looking at the stars with eyes full of dreams. His name was Cleophas.

Cleophas was around eighteen years old or so when Joseph came into town. At that age Jewish parents used to put a pressure on their children to get married. But Cleophas got not a father who could sit by his side and talk to him about the pleasure and delights of a man in love. His father died when Cleophas was a baby.

Thanks to the Lord his elder sister had been like a father for him. She had refused marriage to devote all her heart and soul to her little brother. She never said so, but he knew so well his sister Mary! he had no doubt about it, she had sacrificed the pleasure and delights of a woman in love for the sake of her sisters and him, Cleophas. Only God knew how much he loved his beloved sister Mary!

This next morning we are talking about Cleophas woke up early. In fact his soul was up before his body got out of bed. He kissed his mother and sister, had his breakfast and went out to see the daylight. After a while he heard a noise coming from the south. That’s a donkey- he said. Another sound came to his ears. And that’s a horse- he said again.

From his home on the hill he saw the kids in town running to meet the stranger. He wasn’t going running after them, but when horse, donkey and stranger broke through he could not stop his soul moving to meet the man.

He was an impressive rider in the company of the most impressive dogs he had ever seen. The kids stopped as they got close to the rider. Cleophas moved on in front of Joseph. Joseph smiled, looked at the lad straight in the eyes, reached Cleophas and from his horse spoke these words:

"You know the landlord?" -asked Joseph pointing Cleophas´ house.

"Follow me" -answered Cleophas to the stranger.

Joseph shot his arm to the lad. Cleophas used to ride horses and took the arm of the rider. Joseph raised the lad and Cleophas found himself sited on the back of the most wonderful horse he had never seen.

As one mysterious force had suddenly touched the animal, Joseph’s horses raised its front legs and spell its joy in the tongue of the horses.