The Third Preaching Tour

150:6.1At the evening dis­cus­sions Je­sus talked upon many sub­jects. Dur­ing the re­main­der of this tour—be­fore they all re­united at Naz­a­reth—he dis­cussed “The Love of God,” “Dreams and Vi­sions,” “Mal­ice,” “Hu­mil­ity and Meek­ness,” “Cour­age and Loy­alty,” “Mu­sic and Wor­ship,” “Ser­vice and Obe­di­ence,” “Pride and Pre­sump­tion,” “For­give­ness in Re­la­tion to Re­pen­tance,” “Peace and Per­fec­tion,” “Evil Speak­ing and Envy,” “Evil, Sin, and Temp­ta­tion,” “Doubts and Un­be­lief,” “Wis­dom and Wor­ship.” With the older apos­tles away, these younger groups of both men and women more freely en­tered into these dis­cus­sions with the Mas­ter.

150:6.2Af­ter spend­ing two or three days with one group of twelve evan­ge­lists, Je­sus would move on to join an­other group, be­ing in­formed as to the where­abouts and move­ments of all these work­ers by David’s mes­sen­gers. This be­ing their first tour, the women re­mained much of the time with Je­sus. Through the mes­sen­ger ser­vice each of these groups was kept fully in­formed con­cern­ing the prog­ress of the tour, and the re­ceipt of news from other groups was al­ways a source of en­cour­age­ment to these scat­tered and sep­a­rated work­ers.

150:6.3Be­fore their sep­a­ra­tion it had been ar­ranged that the twelve apos­tles, to­gether with the evan­ge­lists and the women’s corps, should as­sem­ble at Naz­a­reth to meet the Mas­ter on Fri­day, March 4. Ac­cord­ingly, about this time, from all parts of cen­tral and south­ern Gal­i­lee these var­i­ous groups of apos­tles and evan­ge­lists be­gan mov­ing to­ward Naz­a­reth. By midafter­noon, An­drew and Pe­ter, the last to ar­rive, had reached the en­camp­ment pre­pared by the early ar­rivals and sit­u­ated on the high­lands to the north of the city. And this was the first time Je­sus had vis­ited Naz­a­reth since the be­gin­ning of his pub­lic min­istry.