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Lydda

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Every paragraph the index cites under Lydda, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

123:0.6By the first of Oc­to­ber Joseph had con­vinced Mary and all their friends that it was best for them to re­turn to Naz­a­reth. Ac­cord­ingly, early in Oc­to­ber, 4 B.C., they de­parted from Beth­le­hem for Naz­a­reth, go­ing by way of Ly­dda and Scythopo­lis. They started out early one Sun­day morn­ing, Mary and the child rid­ing on their newly ac­quired beast of bur­den, while Joseph and five ac­com­pa­ny­ing kins­men pro­ceeded on foot; Joseph’s rel­a­tives re­fused to per­mit them to make the trip to Naz­a­reth alone. They feared to go to Gal­i­lee by Je­ru­sa­lem and the Jor­dan val­ley, and the west­ern routes were not al­to­gether safe for two lone trav­el­ers with a child of ten­der years.

127:6.4In mak­ing this trip to Je­ru­sa­lem, he went by way of Megiddo, An­tipa­tris, and Ly­dda, in part cov­er­ing the same route tra­versed when he was brought back to Naz­a­reth on the re­turn from Egypt. He spent four days go­ing up to the Pass­over and thought much about the past events which had tran­spired in and around Megiddo, the in­ter­na­tional bat­tle­field of Pales­tine.

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.