"You know what we should do next?" asked Judas a few years later.

"No, what?" answered Jesus.

"I can see an angle with you being born from a virgin. You can claim to be the Messiah of the scriptures. We can pump it up with the sleight of hand we've been pulling on the marks."

"Is that a good idea?" said Mary.

"Sure it is," Judas told her. "There's lots of money in starting a new religion, more than in selling things and doing carnie tricks. Once we have a few apostles, we can really set up the yokels to believe anything."

"I bet that other Mary from Magdela, would join us," said Jesus as he made an hourglass shape in the air with his hands.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

The end.