He bore his honours all serenely, as though calmly
conscious of his power to "bind and to loose."
CHAPTER XI--GALILEE
Neither old "sacred" {25} himself, nor any of his helpers, knew the
road which I meant to take from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee and
from thence to Jerusalem, so I was forced to add another to my
party by hiring a guide. The associations of Nazareth, as well as
my kind feeling towards the hospitable monks, whose guest I had
been, inclined me to set at naught the advice which I had received
against employing Christians. I accordingly engaged a lithe,
active young Nazarene, who was recommended to me by the monks, and
who affected to be familiar with the line of country through which
I intended to pass. My disregard of the popular prejudices against
Christians was not justified in this particular instance by the
result of my choice. This you will see by-and-by.
I passed by Cana and the house in which the water had been turned
into wine; I came to the field in which our Saviour had rebuked the
Scotch Sabbath-keepers of that period, by suffering His disciples
to pluck corn on the Lord's day; I rode over the ground on which
the fainting multitude had been fed, and they showed me some
massive fragments--the relics, they said, of that wondrous banquet,
now turned into stone.
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