Simeon (reputed holy man)

• tomb on hill in Nazareth

126:1.2This hill, a lit­tle more than one hun­dred years pre­vi­ously, had been the “high place of Baal,” and now it was the site of the tomb of Sim­eon, a re­puted holy man of Is­rael. From the sum­mit of this hill of Sim­eon, Je­sus looked out over Naz­a­reth and the sur­round­ing coun­try. He would gaze upon Megiddo and re­call the story of the Egyp­tian army win­ning its first great vic­tory in Asia; and how, later on, an­other such army de­feated the Judean king Josiah. Not far away he could look upon Taanach, where Deb­o­rah and Barak de­feated Sis­era. In the dis­tance he could view the hills of Dothan, where he had been taught Joseph’s breth­ren sold him into Egyp­tian slav­ery. He then would shift his gaze over to Ebal and Ger­izim and re­count to him­self the tra­di­tions of Abra­ham, Ja­cob, and Abim­elech. And thus he re­called and turned over in his mind the his­toric and tra­di­tional events of his fa­ther Joseph’s peo­ple.

• tomb on hill in Nazareth

150:7.1This Fri­day af­ter­noon Je­sus walked about Naz­a­reth quite un­ob­served and wholly un­rec­og­nized. He passed by the home of his child­hood and the car­pen­ter shop and spent a half hour on the hill which he so much en­joyed when a lad. Not since the day of his bap­tism by John in the Jor­dan had the Son of Man had such a flood of hu­man emo­tion stirred up within his soul. While com­ing down from the mount, he heard the fa­mil­iar sounds of the trum­pet blast an­nounc­ing the go­ing down of the sun, just as he had so many, many times heard it when a boy grow­ing up in Naz­a­reth. Be­fore re­turn­ing to the en­camp­ment, he walked down by the syn­a­gogue where he had gone to school and in­dulged his mind in many rem­i­nis­cences of his child­hood days. Ear­lier in the day Je­sus had sent Thomas to ar­range with the ruler of the syn­a­gogue for his preach­ing at the Sab­bath morn­ing ser­vice.

• tomb on hill in Nazareth

158:1.4When a boy, Je­sus used to as­cend the hill near his home and dream of the bat­tles which had been fought by the armies of em­pires on the plain of Es­draelon; now he as­cended Mount Her­mon to re­ceive the en­dow­ment which was to pre­pare him to de­scend upon the plains of the Jor­dan to en­act the clos­ing scenes of the drama of his be­stowal on Uran­tia. The Mas­ter could have re­lin­quished the strug­gle this day on Mount Her­mon and re­turned to his rule of the uni­verse do­mains, but he not only chose to meet the re­quire­ments of his or­der of di­vine son­ship em­braced in the man­date of the Eter­nal Son on Par­a­dise, but he also elected to meet the last and full mea­sure of the pres­ent will of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther. On this day in Au­gust three of his apos­tles saw him de­cline to be in­vested with full uni­verse au­thor­ity. They looked on in amaze­ment as the ce­les­tial mes­sen­gers de­parted, leav­ing him alone to fin­ish out his earth life as the Son of Man and the Son of God.