Show popular old legend in the middle of the sixteenth century the legend of the wandering jew received popular life to in germany owing to 0 the claims ot of a man man who announced himself to be the jude himself in rg lie bave gave tile his name as and stated that he bad been a shoemaker shoemak pr in jerusalem who would not auffert nuner christ to rest at Ms his door when In gunder under the weight of the cross lie ile struck jesus and ordered him to move on whereupon jesus said 1 1 I will stand here and rest but thon then ahalt go on until the lost last day this mans story was subsequently published on the authority ot of a lutheran clergyman who claimed to have met tha jew in hamburg |