The smaller doorways

Not every life in these books gets a volume of its own. Some of them turn the whole thing anyway.

Eliezer ○
Miriam’s gentle carpenter husband, who gave back the change, stood in his own doorway with nothing but a water jar and lied to armed men for a stranger, carved the first pomegranate lintel, and died young. The absent father whose craft and whose mark shape three lives.
Gestas ◐
The other thief. A traditional name for a man Scripture leaves unnamed. In these books, the road Demas did not take.
Tirzah ○
Joseph’s small, fierce, devout wife — the one conscience he cannot manage.
Yonatan ○
Nicodemus’s favoured student, to whom he teaches that every knot has a latch. The creed that will fail him.
Adina & Yoel ○
Bar-Abba’s sister, whose lamp stays lit for him for forty years, and the younger brother whose loss haunts him.
Joanna, Salome & Susanna ●
Women who followed and funded the ministry and came to the tomb. Luke 8:3; 24:10; Mark 15:40; 16:1.
Vero ○
A fellow soldier alongside Aziz. A companion of the ranks.

Which is harder to believe — that grace would reach the worst person you can think of, or that it would then seat you at the same table as them?

Eliezer ○