CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE WOMAN AT THE WELL Jesus and the disciples had travelled a full day, after spending a night on the road, before they came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was…

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES The journey through Samaria proved to be uneventful, as Jesus had suggested. No one stopped them or inquired of them, and there were no requests for miracles. They did come upon a fellow traveler heading north who had a grim report about something the Procurator of Judea had recently…

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: CROSSING BORDERS Across the Kinneret lake was the region of Gerasa, and Jesus had concluded that it was time to get out of Galilee for a while. What clinched this plan in his mind was that after staying only two days in Kefer-Nahum, word came that John had been beheaded in brutal fashion…

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ‘HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN….’ Jesus took his disciples a slightly different way over the hills to Netzerit on this occasion. They came in through the little village of Nain which was only a few miles from Jesus’ hometown. He was traveling with both his disciples and a considerable crowd which had begun…

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