Identifier: jesusofnazarethh00abbo (find matches)
Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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had already beenbruited abroad, and had sufficed to indicate Jesuss probablewhereabouts. People began in crowds to flock to this newprophet. A strans:e scene was then witnessed in the streets of Ca-pernaum. A motley crowd besieged the house of Peter, andthronged the streets that led tliither. Hither came the par-alytic, bent together by long-continued disease; hither theunfortunate victim of epilepsy, seeking the relief which med-icine never has been able to afford; hither the blind gropedtheir way, following the sound of the crowd, or led by somesympathizing friend; hither, drawn by a strange attraction,came the lunatic in his half-consciousness of disease, hopingfor a cure that he could not comprehend; hither were broughtby friends some invalids borne on their mattresses; hithercame parents bringing their children, with the still-lingeringthough hitherto oft - disappointed hope of love, or children * Luke iv., 30. t See Gen. xxiv. as an illustration of the antiquity of this custom.
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THE HEALER, A.D. 32.) A SINGULAR SCENE. I75 supporting their aged and infirm parents, tortured by therheumatic and neuralgic pains which a malarious country oft-en produces in old age. And hither, in greater number thanall the rest, were the multitude, drawn by curiosity to see anew Rabbi, and witness for themselves the wonderful works,the account of which they had heard, but only half believed;so that, as Peter looked upon the crowd that filled the nar-row street and blocked up the entrance to his house, it seemedto him as though the whole city were literally gathered atthe door.* Of them all none went disappointed away. On some Christlaid his hands ; to some he spoke the word of healing.f Thelame threw away their crutches; the blind looked for the firsttime on the picture which the setting sun was painting in thewest; the trembling hand was steadied, the withered limbmade strong; they that Avere brought upon their beds borethem rejoicingly away; the burning heats of fever were ex-ti

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