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It was built by Herod Antipas, the murderer of John
the Baptist, and named after his friend, the Emperor
Tiberius, so it is only mentioned in the New Testament.
The Sanhedrim met here last, and for 300 years it was
the metropolis of the Jews in Palestine. It has been the
abiding-place of many famous and learned Jewish rabbis.
They are here buried.
Opposite Tiberius on the east side of the lake the swine
ran down to the sea.
We have seen no country between here and Damascus
capable of supporting any such population as one gathers
from the Bible.
The people of this region in the Bible were just as they
are now—ignorant, depraved, superstitious, dirty, lousy,
thieving vagabonds.
Sept. 20. Bathed in Galilee before breakfast. Passed
through the strange old town (beautiful porphyry col-
umns with paintings almost worn away.) Had a wretched-
looking scalliwag imposed upon us as a guard by the
sheik—a beat with a long harmless silver-mounted gun
and 2 pistols.
Mount Tabor
Transfiguration.
It is mentioned all through, the Bible. New convent,
and ruins of an old one built by the crusaders. Also ruins
of Joshua's time.
Saw from its summit, Galilee, Hermon, Little Hermon,
Gilboa, where Saul and Jonathan fell, Nain, Endor, Foun-
tain of Jezreel, the Plain of Ezbraelon, where Napoleon,
the Crusaders, the ancient Jews and all the nations of the
earth have fought at different times.
Then came to Nazareth where Christ lived and car-
pentered till 30 years of age (not allowed by Jewish law
to teach sooner).
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