The neighbours asked about him: ‘Is not this he that sat and begged?’ Some said, yes it is. Others said, I am not so sure.
This so often happens with conversion too. Somebody is converted and the family is astonished. If you are young when you are converted, the adults usually say, ‘This is strange, we can’t account for this, but it will pass – it must pass.’ They can’t understand that your nature has been changed, your whole deportment, your way of behaving. If you are a young fellow your sister will say, ‘This brother of mine was a menace. What’s happened to him? He’s changed.’ But you must keep it that way, because you know home is the place where you are most relaxed, you are used to being switched off. That is therefore the place where the devil will tempt you back into sin and losing your temper, and all kinds of things, more than any other place.