Fleeing Through Northern Galilee

155:2.1On Mon­day morn­ing, May 23, Je­sus di­rected Pe­ter to go over to Cho­ra­zin with the twelve evan­ge­lists while he, with the eleven, de­parted for Cae­sarea-Phi­lippi, go­ing by way of the Jor­dan to the Da­mas­cus-Ca­per­naum road, thence north­east to the junc­tion with the road to Cae­sarea-Phi­lippi, and then on into that city, where they tar­ried and taught for two weeks. They ar­rived dur­ing the af­ter­noon of Tues­day, May 24.

155:2.2Pe­ter and the evan­ge­lists so­journed in Cho­ra­zin for two weeks, preach­ing the gospel of the king­dom to a small but earnest com­pany of be­liev­ers. But they were not able to win many new con­verts. No city of all Gal­i­lee yielded so few souls for the king­dom as Cho­ra­zin. In ac­cor­dance with Pe­ter’s in­struc­tions the twelve evan­ge­lists had less to say about heal­ing—things phys­i­cal—while they preached and taught with in­creased vigor the spir­i­tual truths of the heav­enly king­dom. These two weeks at Cho­ra­zin con­sti­tuted a ver­i­ta­ble bap­tism of ad­ver­sity for the twelve evan­ge­lists in that it was the most dif­fi­cult and un­pro­duc­tive pe­riod in their ca­reers up to this time. Be­ing thus de­prived of the sat­is­fac­tion of win­ning souls for the king­dom, each of them the more earnestly and hon­estly took stock of his own soul and its prog­ress in the spir­i­tual paths of the new life.

155:2.3When it ap­peared that no more peo­ple were minded to seek en­trance into the king­dom, Pe­ter, on Tues­day, June 7, called his as­so­ciates to­gether and de­parted for Cae­sarea-Phi­lippi to join Je­sus and the apos­tles. They ar­rived about noon­time on Wednes­day and spent the en­tire evening in re­hears­ing their ex­pe­ri­ences among the un­be­liev­ers of Cho­ra­zin. Dur­ing the dis­cus­sions of this evening Je­sus made fur­ther ref­er­ence to the para­ble of the sower and taught them much about the mean­ing of the ap­par­ent fail­ure of life un­der­tak­ings.