Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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We cross the Sea of Galilee where Christ stilled the sudden tempestand walked on the waters. On its shores He spoke many of His parablesand wrought a number of His miracles
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Through the arched Gate we catch a glimpse of the ruins of ancientTiberias, the once proud city of Herod, in the neighbourhood of whichChrist spent much of his active life. For years Tiberias was the seatof Jewish learning CHAPTER XXII WHERE OUR SAVIOUR SPENT HIS BOYHOOD TO-DAY I am in Nazareth, the home of Christsboyhood. Here He was brought as a baby afterthe flight into Egypt to escape the bloodthirstyHerod, and here He spent all but about four yearsof His life. The town is situated high up in the mountainsof Galilee, within sixty miles of Jerusalem as the crowflies and sixty-seven miles from Bethlehem, where Jesuswas born. It is within a days ride on horseback ofMount Carmel and within four hours of Capernaum onthe Sea of Galilee from which our Saviour called Hisapostles and where He first preached. Nazareth lies in a nest in the mountains. It is in alittle amphitheatre of hills with a rough and ragged arena.The houses extend up the sides of the hills and there ishardly a level sp

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