. On Nazareth hill. e of the country, to eat the lus-cious grapes, to soak in the soothing waters, to enjoythe strange types of humanity that drifted throughthe colonnaded streets of Gadara, to laugh at the pro-vincial actors in the town theater, and doubtless tokick about their accommodations at the provincialhotels! This city must have been a perpetual chal-lenge to Jesus — a challenge that owing to early preju-dice he resisted till nearly the end of his what amazement must he have seen for thefirst time the flux of humanity eddying through thisforeign town, as intent upon busi
. On Nazareth hill. e of the country, to eat the lus-cious grapes, to soak in the soothing waters, to enjoythe strange types of humanity that drifted throughthe colonnaded streets of Gadara, to laugh at the pro-vincial actors in the town theater, and doubtless tokick about their accommodations at the provincialhotels! This city must have been a perpetual chal-lenge to Jesus — a challenge that owing to early preju-dice he resisted till nearly the end of his what amazement must he have seen for thefirst time the flux of humanity eddying through thisforeign town, as intent upon business and sin as he wasupon his weird gospel of love and trust. Tiberias, founded by Herod Antipas 16-22 , wasa city abhorred by pious Jews because of its intenselyRoman character. Although so near the center ofJesus ministry there is hardly a reference to it in theNew Testament. Jesus probably never entered the destruction of Jerusalem, 70, Tiberiasbecame the chief seat of the Jewish nation. [90]. Stereograph copyrighted by H. C. White Co. THE SEA OF GALILEE THE PLAIN OF GENNESARET A HIS picture is taken from Khan Minyeh on thenorthwest corner of the Sea of Galilee. You look over alevel and once fertile plain, covered in Jesus day with ascore of prosperous villages. Magdala, home of MaryMagdalene, lies at the foot of the hills at the extremeleft. Above it, the highest point of land is the abruptvolcanic cliff whose caves were for ages the haunt ofrobbers. Herod the Great, while still a youth, made hisreputation as a soldier by sending a body of troops incages down the face of the cliff and smoking the banditsout. Mt. Tabor lies to the right of this peak. To theright of Tabor and impinging upon it are the Horns ofHattin, a broken crater on whose slopes Jesus is (errone-ously) said to have uttered the Sermon on the Saladin broke the flower of European chivalry in1187 and after seven assaults captured the tent ofthe Latin King of Jerusalem on it
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