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Title: Greek Testament lessons for colleges, schools, and private students, consisting chiefly of the Sermon on the Mount, and the parables of our Lord : with notes and essays ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, John Hunter, 1839?-
Subjects: Bible Sermon on the mount
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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azareth, His native town, was in too quiet a mountaindistrict, and too remote from the main thoroughfare oflife, to give scope to His work, and, moreover. His fellow-townsmen there appear to have violently rejected Histeaching (Luke iv. 16-30). In Capernaum He seems to have dwelt for the mostpart at the house of Peter, who lived with his brotherAndrew and his mother-in-law. The house appears tohave been only one storey high, to have had a courtyardbefore it (Mark ii. 2, 4), and to have been on thestrand. John and James also had a house in the town. The place was a busy centre of travel and traffic.There was a custom-house, a garrison, a synagogue, andprobably a harbour; and a Eoman road passed close byit, leading from Egypt and the south to Damascus andthe north. By this road news could be carried of newteaching, as of seditions, not only to Egypt and Damascus,but to the seaports of Caesarea and Ptolemais, and thenceeven to Eome. Not would the tidings travel slowly, for SEA OF GAIJLEE
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THE SCENE OF JESUS MINISTEY. 79 along the well-formecl roads men could travel in twenty-four hours 100 or even 200 miles. In the time of Jesus, Capernaum was for populationand activity the manufacturing district of Palestine,and the waters of its lake were ploughed by 4000vessels of every description, from the war-vessel of theEomans to the rough fisher-boats of Eethsaida and thegilded pinnaces from Herods palace. All along thewestern shores of Gennesaret Jews and Gentiles werestrangely mingled, and there might be seen the wildArabs of the desert side by side with the enterprisingPhoenicians, the Eomansâthe proud t err arum dominiâthe effeminate Syrians, and the still intellectual thoughcorrupted Greeks. As Capernaum was the boundary town betAveen theterritories of Herod Antipas and Philip, Jesus couldeasily by taking boat pass from the territories of theformer, who often showed himself hostile, and placeHimself under the juster and gentler rule of the latter. The Sea of Galilee.â

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