Volume 2

Jes us in the Synogogue
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Jerusalem of certain adulterers from Galilee who had
been denounced by the Herodians. They dwelt upon the
fact that sinners in humble life were brought to justice
while the great ones went free; and that the accusers
themselves, the Herodians, were adherents of the
adulterous Herod who had imprisoned John for reproaching
him with his guilt. Herod became dispirited. I saw the
execution of the adulterers mentioned above. Their crimes
were read to them, and then they were thrust into a
dungeon in which was a small pit. They were placed at its
edge. They fell upon a knife which cut off their heads. In
a vault below waited some jailers to drag away the lifeless
trunks. It was some kind of a machine into which the condemned
were precipitated. It was in this same place that
James the Great was executed at a later period.
On the following day Jesus was again teaching among
the harvesters when Andrew, James, and John arrived.
Nathanael was at his house in the suburbs of Gennabris.
Jesus informed His disciples that He would next go
through Samaria to the place of baptism on the Jordan.
The well of Dothain, at which Joseph was sold, was not
far fronl the field in which Jesus was then teaching.
The people of the place asked whether or not they did
rightly in supporting the poor, crippled laborers that
could no longer work. Jesus answered that in acting thus
they acquitted themselves of a duty, but they should not
pride themselves upon it, otherwise they would lose their
reward. Then He entered the huts of the sick, cured many
of them, bade them attend the instruction and return to
their work. They obeyed, praising God.
Jesus then went to the synagogue in Gennabris for the
Sabbath. Gennabris was as large as Munster, and about
one hour's distance from the mountain upon whose
heights lay the harvest field in which Jesus had last
taught. It was situated toward the east on a slope covered
with gardens, baths, and pleasure resorts. On the side by