Heshbon

• Heshbon

128:3.2They jour­neyed to Je­ru­sa­lem by way of the De­capo­lis and through Pella, Gerasa, Phil­a­del­phia, Hes­h­bon, and Jeri­cho. They re­turned to Naz­a­reth by the coast route, touch­ing Ly­dda, Joppa, Cae­sarea, thence around Mount Carmel to Ptole­mais and Naz­a­reth. This trip fairly well ac­quainted Je­sus with the whole of Pales­tine north of the Je­ru­sa­lem dis­trict.

• Heshbon

159:0.2On this Thurs­day morn­ing, Au­gust 18, the Mas­ter called his fol­low­ers to­gether and di­rected that each of the apos­tles should as­so­ciate him­self with one of the twelve evan­ge­lists, and that with oth­ers of the evan­ge­lists they should go out in twelve groups to la­bor in the cities and vil­lages of the De­capo­lis. The women’s corps and oth­ers of the dis­ci­ples he di­rected to re­main with him. Je­sus al­lot­ted four weeks to this tour, in­struct­ing his fol­low­ers to re­turn to Ma­g­a­dan not later than Fri­day, Septem­ber 16. He prom­ised to visit them of­ten dur­ing this time. In the course of this month these twelve groups la­bored in Gerasa, Gamala, Hip­pos, Za­phon, Gadara, Abila, Edrei, Phil­a­del­phia, Hes­h­bon, Dium, Scythopo­lis, and many other cities. Through­out this tour no mir­a­cles of heal­ing or other ex­traor­di­nary events oc­curred.

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165:0.1On Tues­day, Jan­uary 3, A.D. 30, Ab­ner, the for­mer chief of the twelve apos­tles of John the Bap­tist, a Nazarite and one­time head of the Nazarite school at En­gedi, now chief of the sev­enty mes­sen­gers of the king­dom, called his as­so­ciates to­gether and gave them fi­nal in­struc­tions be­fore send­ing them on a mis­sion to all of the cities and vil­lages of Perea. This Perean mis­sion con­tin­ued for al­most three months and was the last min­istry of the Mas­ter. From these labors Je­sus went di­rectly to Je­ru­sa­lem to pass through his fi­nal ex­pe­ri­ences in the flesh. The sev­enty, sup­ple­mented by the pe­ri­odic labors of Je­sus and the twelve apos­tles, worked in the fol­low­ing cities and towns and some fifty ad­di­tional vil­lages: Za­phon, Gadara, Macad, Ar­bela, Ra­math, Edrei, Bosora, Caspin, Mis­peh, Gerasa, Ragaba, Suc­coth, Am­athus, Adam, Penuel, Capi­to­lias, Dion, Hatita, Gadda, Phil­a­del­phia, Jog­be­hah, Gilead, Beth-Nim­rah, Tyrus, Elealah, Livias, Hes­h­bon, Cal­lir­rhoe, Beth-Peor, Shit­tim, Sibmah, Medeba, Beth-Meon, Are­opo­lis, and Aroer.

• Heshbon

171:3.2Je­sus met Ab­ner at Hes­h­bon, and An­drew di­rected that the labors of the sev­enty should not be in­ter­rupted by the Pass­over feast; Je­sus ad­vised that the mes­sen­gers should go for­ward with their work in com­plete dis­re­gard of what was about to hap­pen at Je­ru­sa­lem. He also coun­seled Ab­ner to per­mit the women’s corps, at least such as de­sired, to go to Je­ru­sa­lem for the Pass­over. And this was the last time Ab­ner ever saw Je­sus in the flesh. His farewell to Ab­ner was: “My son, I know you will be true to the king­dom, and I pray the Fa­ther to grant you wis­dom that you may love and un­der­stand your breth­ren.”