Object: None or Magic 8 ball to show what someone like Bar Jesus might consult

Have you ever been tricked? When someone makes you believe that you can have something for nothing, and you agree to try it his way and end up losing everything, you have been tricked. Some people have some very good tricks. People who like to trick other people also like to have very powerful friends so that if something goes wrong, the powerful people will protect them.

It happened this way a long time ago to St. Paul and his friend Barnabas. There was a man called Bar Jesus who was a sorcerer. A sorcerer is someone who believes he can tell the future, and he practices magic. They were fun for rich and powerful people to have around. They always told the rich and the powerful people things that they wanted t…