of the devil in the desert, he came here and began his teachings; and

during the three or four years he lived afterward, this place was his

home almost altogether. He began to heal the sick, and his fame soon

spread so widely that sufferers came from Syria and beyond Jordan, and

even from Jerusalem, several days' journey away, to be cured of their

diseases. Here he healed the centurion's servant and Peter's

mother-in-law, and multitudes of the lame and the blind and persons

possessed of devils; and here, also, he raised Jairus's daughter from

the dead. He went into a ship with his disciples, and when they roused

him from sleep in the midst of a storm, he quieted the winds and lulled

the troubled sea to rest with his voice. He passed over to the other

side, a few miles away and relieved two men of devils, which passed into

some swine. After his return he called Matthew from the receipt of

customs, performed some cures, and created scandal by eating with

publicans and sinners. Then he went healing and teaching through

Galilee, and even journeyed to Tyre and Sidon. He chose the twelve

disciples, and sent them abroad to preach the new gospel. He worked

miracles in Bethsaida and Chorazin--villages two or three miles from

Capernaum. It was near one of them that the miraculous draft of fishes

is supposed to have been taken, and it was in the desert places near the

other that he fed the thousands by the miracles of the loaves and

fishes. He cursed them both, and Capernaum also, for not repenting,

after all the great works he had done in their midst, and prophesied

against them. They are all in ruins, now--which is gratifying to the

pilgrims, for, as usual, they fit the eternal words of gods to the

evanescent things of this earth; Christ, it is more probable, referred

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