A few miles south of Nazareth there used formerly to be a city renowned for its beauty and for its delightful situation. It was built on the north side of a hill and was then called Nain – the beautiful. Could...

We have passed over the hills of Galilee so often with Jesus that now we are getting quite familiar with the land. We are now walking with a multitude which has gathered from Caopernaum and Tiberias, and perhaps, Magdala. Almost ten...

The Scribes and Pharisees are watching Jesus. They seek every opportunity to catch him in word and deed. With his disciples Jesus has gone a short journey from the town of Capernaum. On either hand are cornfields, and as they pass...

And now we come to another scene. Jesus is still in Capernaum, and the multitude is there, as ever. On this occasion it fills the room where Jesus is; it overflows into the street or courtyard. The crowd is more mixed...

All day long, the multitudes were with him. All day he was talking, or healing, or journeying. But we shall read very frequently that Jesus, before the crowds came, or after they had sought their homes in the evening, found solitude...

A short time later, a few days at most, and we see Jesus and his disciples going from Peter’s house by the seashore to the fine new synagogue which had been built for the Jews by a Roman centurion. Many are...

Here is a mental picture I like very much. I see in the foreground a fishing boat near to the shore. Its brown sail furled upon its yard makes a big sweeping line against a pale blue sky. A big circular...

In Nazareth there was a plain, white, rectangular building to which Jesus went every Sabbath day when he was staying there. For one moment we pause outside the building to notice that its stones are carefully cut and fitted so that...

In the time of Jesus, there were many pools and aqueducts in good repair, which, together with the wells and cisterns gave a plentiful supply of water. A very interesting chapter in the Old Testament relates how King Hezekiah made a...

Palestine, in the time of Jesus, was divided into five regions, two on the east, and three on the west of Jordan. Of these the most important to us are the three divisions between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan. We...