Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ANGRY CHRIST AFTER the Cana wedding Jesus started to go up to Jerusalem to the Passover. The route lay along the blue Lake of Galilee through the meadows and garden of that lovely land--the Garden of Princes, as it was called. At first He struck northward to Capernaum, where some of His young disciples had their homes by the lakeside and where He could best join one of the pilgrim caravans going up to the Feast. We read that His motherland brothers were in His company as far as Capernaum. He stayed only a few days and nothing important happened. We might have left this visit unnoticed but that it helps to fix attention on Capernaum as we pass. For this story will have much to do with that beautiful little town on the lakeside. It became Jesus' home, " His own city," the centre for His Galilean ministry and the scene of the most familiar stories in the Gospels. Thence He went on to Jerusalem to the Passover as He had probably done every year since that first Passover of His boyhood. But there was a difference now. It was no longer a private worshipper, it was a national Reformer, though not yet publicly declaring Himself as Messiah, who went up to the house of His Father to open His ministry in the capital city. The capital in every nation is the centre forming public opinion. Perhaps for that reason He would make His first public appearance there before the chiefs of His people and the vast Passover crowds assembled from all over the world. If they had only known it at Jerusalem it was a crisis in their history, as it is written in Malachi the prophet: "The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple as a purifier and refiner of silver, even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in. Alas! they did not delight in Him...
