Magadan Park

• south of Bethsaida-Julias

155:0.1Soon af­ter land­ing near Kheresa on this event­ful Sun­day, Je­sus and the twenty-four went a lit­tle way to the north, where they spent the night in a beau­ti­ful park south of Beth­saida-Ju­lias. They were fa­mil­iar with this camp­ing place, hav­ing stopped there in days gone by. Be­fore re­tir­ing for the night, the Mas­ter called his fol­low­ers around him and dis­cussed with them the plans for their pro­jected tour through Batanea and north­ern Gal­i­lee to the Phoeni­cian coast.

• Magadan Park

156:6.4Dur­ing a brief con­fer­ence with David they learned that many lead­ers were then gath­ered to­gether on the op­po­site side of the lake near Kheresa, and ac­cord­ingly, that very evening a boat took them across. For one day they rested qui­etly in the hills, go­ing on the next day to the park, near by, where the Mas­ter once fed the five thou­sand. Here they rested for three days and held daily con­fer­ences, which were at­tended by about fifty men and women, the rem­nants of the once nu­mer­ous com­pany of be­liev­ers res­i­dent in Ca­per­naum and its en­vi­rons.

• south of Bethsaida-Julias

157:2.1On Mon­day, Au­gust 8, while Je­sus and the twelve apos­tles were en­camped in Ma­g­a­dan Park, near Beth­saida-Ju­lias, more than one hun­dred be­liev­ers, the evan­ge­lists, the women’s corps, and oth­ers in­ter­ested in the es­tab­lish­ment of the king­dom, came over from Ca­per­naum for a con­fer­ence. And many of the Phar­isees, learn­ing that Je­sus was here, came also. By this time some of the Sad­ducees were united with the Phar­isees in their ef­fort to en­trap Je­sus. Be­fore go­ing into the closed con­fer­ence with the be­liev­ers, Je­sus held a pub­lic meet­ing at which the Phar­isees were pres­ent, and they heck­led the Mas­ter and oth­er­wise sought to dis­turb the as­sem­bly. Said the leader of the dis­turbers: “Teacher, we would like you to give us a sign of your au­thor­ity to teach, and then, when the same shall come to pass, all men will know that you have been sent by God.” And Je­sus an­swered them: “When it is evening, you say it will be fair weather, for the heaven is red; in the morn­ing it will be foul weather, for the heaven is red and low­er­ing. When you see a cloud ris­ing in the west, you say show­ers will come; when the wind blows from the south, you say scorch­ing heat will come. How is it that you so well know how to dis­cern the face of the heav­ens but are so ut­terly un­able to dis­cern the signs of the times? To those who would know the truth, al­ready has a sign been given; but to an evil-minded and hyp­o­crit­i­cal gen­er­a­tion no sign shall be given.”

• Magadan Park

159:0.1When Je­sus and the twelve ar­rived at Ma­g­a­dan Park, they found await­ing them a group of al­most one hun­dred evan­ge­lists and dis­ci­ples, in­clud­ing the women’s corps, and they were ready im­me­di­ately to be­gin the teach­ing and preach­ing tour of the cities of the De­capo­lis.

• Magadan Park

159:6.1The mis­sion of four weeks in the De­capo­lis was mod­er­ately suc­cess­ful. Hun­dreds of souls were re­ceived into the king­dom, and the apos­tles and evan­ge­lists had a valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence in car­ry­ing on their work with­out the in­spi­ra­tion of the im­me­di­ate per­sonal pres­ence of Je­sus.

159:6.2On Fri­day, Septem­ber 16, the en­tire corps of work­ers as­sem­bled by pre­ar­range­ment at Ma­g­a­dan Park. On the Sab­bath day a coun­cil of more than one hun­dred be­liev­ers was held at which the fu­ture plans for ex­tend­ing the work of the king­dom were fully con­sid­ered. The mes­sen­gers of David were pres­ent and made re­ports con­cern­ing the wel­fare of the be­liev­ers through­out Judea, Samaria, Gal­i­lee, and ad­join­ing dis­tricts.

• Magadan Park

162:9.6In the lat­ter part of Oc­to­ber Je­sus and the twelve with­drew from the im­me­di­ate vicin­ity of Je­ru­sa­lem. On Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 30, Je­sus and his as­so­ciates left the city of Ephraim, where he had been rest­ing in seclu­sion for a few days, and, go­ing by the west Jor­dan high­way di­rectly to Ma­g­a­dan Park, ar­rived late on the af­ter­noon of Wednes­day, Novem­ber 2.

• ordination of the 70 at

163:0.1A few days af­ter the re­turn of Je­sus and the twelve to Ma­g­a­dan from Je­ru­sa­lem, Ab­ner and a group of some fifty dis­ci­ples ar­rived from Beth­le­hem. At this time there were also as­sem­bled at Ma­g­a­dan Camp the evan­ge­lis­tic corps, the women’s corps, and about one hun­dred and fifty other true and tried dis­ci­ples from all parts of Pales­tine. Af­ter de­vot­ing a few days to vis­it­ing and the re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the camp, Je­sus and the twelve be­gan a course of in­ten­sive train­ing for this spe­cial group of be­liev­ers, and from this well-trained and ex­pe­ri­enced ag­gre­ga­tion of dis­ci­ples the Mas­ter sub­se­quently chose the sev­enty teach­ers and sent them forth to pro­claim the gospel of the king­dom. This reg­u­lar in­struc­tion be­gan on Fri­day, Novem­ber 4, and con­tin­ued un­til Sab­bath, Novem­ber 19.