Joseph of Tyre

• Jesus stayed with

156:4.1From July 11 to July 24 they taught in Tyre. Each of the apos­tles took with him one of the evan­ge­lists, and thus two and two they taught and preached in all parts of Tyre and its en­vi­rons. The poly­glot pop­u­la­tion of this busy sea­port heard them gladly, and many were bap­tized into the out­ward fel­low­ship of the king­dom. Je­sus main­tained his head­quar­ters at the home of a Jew named Joseph, a be­liever, who lived three or four miles south of Tyre, not far from the tomb of Hi­ram who had been king of the city-state of Tyre dur­ing the times of David and Sol­o­mon.

156:4.2Daily, for this pe­riod of two weeks, the apos­tles and evan­ge­lists en­tered Tyre by way of Alexan­der’s mole to con­duct small meet­ings, and each night most of them would re­turn to the en­camp­ment at Joseph’s house south of the city. Ev­ery day be­liev­ers came out from the city to talk with Je­sus at his rest­ing place. The Mas­ter spoke in Tyre only once, on the af­ter­noon of July 20, when he taught the be­liev­ers con­cern­ing the Fa­ther’s love for all man­kind and about the mis­sion of the Son to re­veal the Fa­ther to all races of men. There was such an in­ter­est in the gospel of the king­dom among these gen­tiles that, on this oc­ca­sion, the doors of the Melka­rth tem­ple were opened to him, and it is in­ter­est­ing to re­cord that in sub­se­quent years a Chris­tian church was built on the very site of this an­cient tem­ple.

• Jesus stayed with

156:6.1About noon on Sun­day, July 24, Je­sus and the twelve left the home of Joseph, south of Tyre, go­ing down the coast to Ptole­mais. Here they tar­ried for a day, speak­ing words of com­fort to the com­pany of be­liev­ers res­i­dent there. Pe­ter preached to them on the evening of July 25.