Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ings which Ifound myself unable to account for. They were nothouses nor tombs, and they were unlike the usual vine-yard towers. At last a Jerusalem friend threw lighton their origin and purpose, and incidentally also onthe parable. In the troubled days of the middle ofthe last century the gardens and vineyards hereaboutsbecame unsafe. The Jerusalem owners did not dareto summer there because of the brigands. So theyhired men to live there permanently, to protect them,that they might be able at least to have the fruits oftheir gardens, if they might not live there. But thetenants had to live in houses that were forts, and thegarden walls became fortifications. Then the tenants,recognizing the strength of their position, joined to-gether and refused to give the owners of the gardenstheir portion of the produce, and scenes were enactedmuch like those described in our parable. And to-daythe somewhat doubtful title to these lands goes backto those squatting holders. The setting of our Lords
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House of the wicked husbandmen. A small ruin outside the north wall of Jerusalem, whose occupants in the last century played the part of the wicked husbandmen in Jesus parable, Matt. 21. New Testament Times 235 parable was historical and notorious facts somewhereabout Jerusalem in his day of the same character asthose in this region three-quarters of a century since;and those old towers became vivid illustrations of thisparable recorded by Saint Matthew. On my last visit it was a perfect delight to go overcertain places in Jerusalem, especially to tread thestair street of the Assumptionists, probably the verysteps which Jesus trod, and to see how all fits in withthe scene of the Gospel narrative. Saint Matthewtells us that Jesus told Peter and John to go to thefountain of Siloam and find a certain man whom hedescribes merely as so and so. His servant would bethere to draw water and they were to follow him upthat stair street to the top of the hill where was thehouse of this unnamed fr

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