Last Visit to Northern Perea

166:0.1From Febru­ary 11 to 20, Je­sus and the twelve made a tour of all the cities and vil­lages of north­ern Perea where the as­so­ciates of Ab­ner and the mem­bers of the women’s corps were work­ing. They found these mes­sen­gers of the gospel meet­ing with suc­cess, and Je­sus re­peat­edly called the at­ten­tion of his apos­tles to the fact that the gospel of the king­dom could spread with­out the ac­com­pa­ni­ment of mir­a­cles and won­ders.

166:0.2This en­tire mis­sion of three months in Perea was suc­cess­fully car­ried on with lit­tle help from the twelve apos­tles, and the gospel from this time on re­flected, not so much Je­sus’ per­son­al­ity, as his teach­ings. But his fol­low­ers did not long fol­low his in­struc­tions, for soon af­ter Je­sus’ death and res­ur­rec­tion they de­parted from his teach­ings and be­gan to build the early church around the mirac­u­lous con­cepts and the glo­ri­fied mem­o­ries of his di­vine-hu­man per­son­al­ity.