Volume 2

Jesus at Chisloth
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place, but the inhabitants were engaged in dyeing silk for
fringes and tassels.
Jesus also cured the sick there. All the disciples that
had remained behind met here again.
As Jesus, on account of the nlurmuring of the
Pharisees, left Bethulia, He taught outside of the city at
the distance of about a quarter of an hour where there
was a teacher's chair of stone. Ruined walls lay around,
and the place looked as if it might once have belonged to
the city proper. At about three in the afternoon, Jesus arrived
at Chisloth, which was almost three hours distant,
at the foot of Mount Thabor. Andrew and the others had
preceded Him in order to arrange the inn. A great
multitude from the whole country around had gathered at
Chisloth, among them nUInbers of shepherds with their
crooks and merchants on their way from Sidon and Tyre.
Jesus' miracles and preaching were already noised
throughout the land. All crowded to the places where He
taught; and when it became known that He purposed celebrating
the Sabbath at Chisloth, they flocked thither to
hear Him.
Wherever Jesus now appeared great excitement prevailed.
They called after Him, cast thenlselves down
before Him, and pressed around Him in order to be able
to touch Him; consequently He came and went suddenly
and unexpectedly, thus to escape the crowd. Frequently
He separated from His disciples on the road, sent them
by another route, and went on Himself alone. In the
towns and villages, they often had to open a way for Him
through the crowd. Nevertheless He permitted many to
draw near and touch Him, and many a one was thereby
interiorly aroused, converted, or cured.
In the evening Jesus retired to the inn prepared for
Him by the disciples outside of Chisloth-Thabor, where
He had already been twice before. Chisloth was perhaps
seven hours fronl Nazareth, though in a direct line about