Tarrying and Teaching by the Seaside

151:0.1By March 10 all of the preach­ing and teach­ing groups had for­gath­ered at Beth­saida. Thurs­day night and Fri­day many of them went out to fish, while on the Sab­bath day they at­tended the syn­a­gogue to hear an aged Jew of Da­mas­cus dis­course on the glory of fa­ther Abra­ham. Je­sus spent most of this Sab­bath day alone in the hills. That Sat­ur­day night the Mas­ter talked for more than an hour to the as­sem­bled groups on “The mis­sion of ad­ver­sity and the spir­i­tual value of dis­ap­point­ment.” This was a mem­o­rable oc­ca­sion, and his hear­ers never for­got the les­son he im­parted.

151:0.2Je­sus had not fully re­cov­ered from the sor­row of his re­cent re­jec­tion at Naz­a­reth; the apos­tles were aware of a pe­cu­liar sad­ness min­gled with his usual cheer­ful de­meanor. James and John were with him much of the time, Pe­ter be­ing more than oc­cu­pied with the many re­spon­si­bil­i­ties hav­ing to do with the wel­fare and di­rec­tion of the new corps of evan­ge­lists. This time of wait­ing be­fore start­ing for the Pass­over at Je­ru­sa­lem, the women spent in vis­it­ing from house to house, teach­ing the gospel, and min­is­ter­ing to the sick in Ca­per­naum and the sur­round­ing cities and vil­lages.