. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . his twelve chosen friends who were always with him,and we may be sure that as a boy he hked to be with otherboys, and in turn was liked by the boys of his village. We may be sure, too, that he grew up a good boy;one who always tried to do right, at home, at school, or inplay. At home he would help Joseph in his shop and hismother in her work or in caring for the smaller children;in school we know that he learned his verses in the Bible,because in after years he could always call them to hismind and speak them; and in play he was always fairand goo
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . his twelve chosen friends who were always with him,and we may be sure that as a boy he hked to be with otherboys, and in turn was liked by the boys of his village. We may be sure, too, that he grew up a good boy;one who always tried to do right, at home, at school, or inplay. At home he would help Joseph in his shop and hismother in her work or in caring for the smaller children;in school we know that he learned his verses in the Bible,because in after years he could always call them to hismind and speak them; and in play he was always fairand good-hearted and willing. We are told that hegrew in knowledge and in the favor of God and of all other words, he was a boy that everybody liked. 1. The citadel of ancient Bethshean, in the Jordan valley, twelve milessouth of 8ea of Galilee 84 tKfje pop Eost anb Jfounb CHAPTER 12 JESUS STAYED at the school in the village churchuntil he was twelve years old. By that time hecould read and write and could also repeat manyverses. But as his reading book and spelling book andcopy book and memory verses were all in the Bible, andas he heard long readings from its books at the churchservice, we may be sure that he knew quite well all thebest things in that best of all books, the Bible. Oneproof of this is that in later years, when anyone tried topuzzle him with a hard question, he often answeredpromptly with a sentence from the Bible. A Jewish boy generally left school at the age oftwelve, unless he wished to become a rabbi, which wasthe name among the Jews for a teacher of their law. Ifthat was his wish or the purpose of his parents, he wassent up to Jerusalem to study in the college held by thescribes or teachers in the Temple. Saul of
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