Volume 2

Jesus Goes to Galilee
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alms which it was customary to give on the feast of fruit
trees now beginning. That evening He celebrated the
Sabbath in the synagogue where He taught. After that
began the preparations for the new year's fruit festival.
It was a threefold feast: first, it commemorated the rising
of the sap in the trees; secondly, because today tithes of
all the fruits were offered; and lastly, it was a feast of
thanksgiving for the fertility of the soil. Jesus gave an
instruction upon all these points. They ate much fruit,
and gave to the poor whole figures of fruit that were
built up on the tables. About twenty new disciples had,
up to the present, come to Jesus.
1. Sister Emmerich refers to those early religious congregations
founded by the first Bishops of Jerusalem for the protection of the
Holy Sepulcher.
9. JESUS CURES IN PHASAEL THE
DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS THE ESSENIAN.
MAGDALEN'S FIRST CALL TO CONVERSION
At the close of the feast, Jesus left Ono with twentyone
disciples and journeyed to Galilee. J-lis way led
through the region in which Jacob had owned a field,
and among those shepherd houses, from one of which
Joseph and Mary had been so harshly turned away on
their journey to Bethlehem. He visited the occupants of
the inn that had extended hospitality to the holy travellers,
and instructed them; with those of the inhospitable
one, He stayed overnight and admonished them to be
converted. The woman of the house was still alive,
though on a sickbed. Jesus cured her. Then He passed
through Aruma where He had before been. Jairus, a
descendant of the Essenian Chariot, dwelt in the neighboring
and somewhat despised place, Phasael. He had
some time previously begged Jesus to cure his sick