Karuska

• from Sidon; patient at Bethsaida hospital

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.

• from Sidon; patient at Bethsaida hospital

156:1.1There lived near the home of Karuska, where the Mas­ter lodged, a Syr­ian woman who had heard much of Je­sus as a great healer and teacher, and on this Sab­bath af­ter­noon she came over, bring­ing her lit­tle daugh­ter. The child, about twelve years old, was af­flicted with a griev­ous ner­vous dis­or­der char­ac­ter­ized by con­vul­sions and other dis­tress­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions.

156:1.2Je­sus had charged his as­so­ciates to tell no one of his pres­ence at the home of Karuska, ex­plain­ing that he de­sired to have a rest. While they had obeyed their Mas­ter’s in­struc­tions, the ser­vant of Karuska had gone over to the house of this Syr­ian woman, No­rana, to in­form her that Je­sus lodged at the home of her mis­tress and had urged this anx­ious mother to bring her af­flicted daugh­ter for heal­ing. This mother, of course, be­lieved that her child was pos­sessed by a de­mon, an un­clean spirit.