The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon

156:3.1On Tues­day, June 28, the Mas­ter and his as­so­ciates left Sidon, go­ing up the coast to Por­phyreon and Hel­dua. They were well re­ceived by the gen­tiles, and many were added to the king­dom dur­ing this week of teach­ing and preach­ing. The apos­tles preached in Por­phyreon and the evan­ge­lists taught in Hel­dua. While the twenty-four were thus en­gaged in their work, Je­sus left them for a pe­riod of three or four days, pay­ing a visit to the coast city of Beirut, where he vis­ited with a Syr­ian named Malach, who was a be­liever, and who had been at Beth­saida the year be­fore.

156:3.2On Wednes­day, July 6, they all re­turned to Sidon and tar­ried at the home of Justa un­til Sun­day morn­ing, when they de­parted for Tyre, go­ing south along the coast by way of Sarepta, ar­riv­ing at Tyre on Mon­day, July 11. By this time the apos­tles and the evan­ge­lists were be­com­ing ac­cus­tomed to work­ing among these so-called gen­tiles, who were in re­al­ity mainly de­scended from the ear­lier Ca­naan­ite tribes of still ear­lier Semitic ori­gin. All of these peo­ples spoke the Greek lan­guage. It was a great sur­prise to the apos­tles and evan­ge­lists to ob­serve the ea­ger­ness of these gen­tiles to hear the gospel and to note the readi­ness with which many of them be­lieved.