The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon

156:0.1On Fri­day af­ter­noon, June 10, Je­sus and his as­so­ciates ar­rived in the en­vi­rons of Sidon, where they stopped at the home of a well-to-do woman who had been a pa­tient in the Beth­saida hos­pi­tal dur­ing the times when Je­sus was at the height of his pop­u­lar fa­vor. The evan­ge­lists and the apos­tles were lodged with her friends in the im­me­di­ate neigh­bor­hood, and they rested over the Sab­bath day amid these re­fresh­ing sur­round­ings. They spent al­most two and one-half weeks in Sidon and vicin­ity be­fore they pre­pared to visit the coast cities to the north.

156:0.2This June Sab­bath day was one of great quiet. The evan­ge­lists and apos­tles were al­to­gether ab­sorbed in their med­i­ta­tions re­gard­ing the dis­courses of the Mas­ter on re­li­gion to which they had lis­tened en route to Sidon. They were all able to ap­pre­ci­ate some­thing of what he had told them, but none of them fully grasped the im­port of his teach­ing.