Tarichea

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138:1.1The next day, Sun­day, June 23, A.D. 26, Je­sus im­parted his fi­nal in­struc­tions to the six. He di­rected them to go forth, two and two, to teach the glad tid­ings of the king­dom. He for­bade them to bap­tize and ad­vised against pub­lic preach­ing. He went on to ex­plain that later he would per­mit them to preach in pub­lic, but that for a sea­son, and for many rea­sons, he de­sired them to ac­quire prac­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence in deal­ing per­son­ally with their fel­low men. Je­sus pur­posed to make their first tour en­tirely one of per­sonal work. Al­though this an­nounce­ment was some­thing of a dis­ap­point­ment to the apos­tles, still they saw, at least in part, Je­sus’ rea­son for thus be­gin­ning the procla­ma­tion of the king­dom, and they started out in good heart and with con­fi­dent en­thu­si­asm. He sent them forth by twos, James and John go­ing to Kheresa, An­drew and Pe­ter to Ca­per­naum, while Philip and Na­than­iel went to Ta­ri­chea.

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141:1.2The first day Je­sus and the apos­tles only jour­neyed as far as Ta­ri­chea, where they rested for the night. The next day they trav­eled to a point on the Jor­dan near Pella where John had preached about one year be­fore, and where Je­sus had re­ceived bap­tism. Here they tar­ried for more than two weeks, teach­ing and preach­ing. By the end of the first week sev­eral hun­dred peo­ple had as­sem­bled in a camp near where Je­sus and the twelve dwelt, and they had come from Gal­i­lee, Phoeni­cia, Syria, the De­capo­lis, Perea, and Judea.

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147:7.1It was around noon on Mon­day, May 3, when Je­sus and the twelve came to Beth­saida by boat from Ta­ri­chea. They trav­eled by boat in or­der to es­cape those who jour­neyed with them. But by the next day the oth­ers, in­clud­ing the of­fi­cial spies from Je­ru­sa­lem, had again found Je­sus.

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149:0.1The sec­ond pub­lic preach­ing tour of Gal­i­lee be­gan on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 3, A.D. 28, and con­tin­ued for al­most three months, end­ing on De­cem­ber 30. Par­tic­i­pat­ing in this ef­fort were Je­sus and his twelve apos­tles, as­sisted by the newly re­cruited corps of 117 evan­ge­lists and by nu­mer­ous other in­ter­ested per­sons. On this tour they vis­ited Gadara, Ptole­mais, Japhia, Dabaritta, Megiddo, Jezreel, Scythopo­lis, Ta­ri­chea, Hip­pos, Gamala, Beth­saida-Ju­lias, and many other cities and vil­lages.

138:5.1Thomas the fish­er­man and Ju­das the wan­derer met Je­sus and the apos­tles at the fisher-boat land­ing at Ta­ri­chea, and Thomas led the party to his near-by home. Philip now pre­sented Thomas as his nom­i­nee for apos­tle­ship and Na­than­iel pre­sented Ju­das Is­car­iot, the Judean, for sim­i­lar hon­ors. Je­sus looked upon Thomas and said: “Thomas, you lack faith; nev­er­the­less, I re­ceive you. Fol­low me.” To Ju­das Is­car­iot the Mas­ter said: “Ju­das, we are all of one flesh, and as I re­ceive you into our midst, I pray that you will al­ways be loyal to your Galilean breth­ren. Fol­low me.”

138:5.2When they had re­freshed them­selves, Je­sus took the twelve apart for a sea­son to pray with them and to in­struct them in the na­ture and work of the Holy Spirit, but again did they largely fail to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of those won­der­ful truths which he en­deav­ored to teach them. One would grasp one point and one would com­pre­hend an­other, but none of them could en­com­pass the whole of his teach­ing. Al­ways would they make the mis­take of try­ing to fit Je­sus’ new gospel into their old forms of re­li­gious be­lief. They could not grasp the idea that Je­sus had come to pro­claim a new gospel of sal­va­tion and to es­tab­lish a new way of find­ing God; they did not per­ceive that he was a new rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther in heaven.

138:5.3The next day Je­sus left his twelve apos­tles quite alone; he wanted them to be­come ac­quainted and de­sired that they be alone to talk over what he had taught them. The Mas­ter re­turned for the evening meal, and dur­ing the af­ter-sup­per hours he talked to them about the min­istry of ser­a­phim, and some of the apos­tles com­pre­hended his teach­ing. They rested for a night and the next day de­parted by boat for Ca­per­naum.

138:5.4Zeb­e­dee and Sa­lome had gone to live with their son David so that their large home could be turned over to Je­sus and his twelve apos­tles. Here Je­sus spent a quiet Sab­bath with his cho­sen mes­sen­gers; he care­fully out­lined the plans for pro­claim­ing the king­dom and fully ex­plained the im­por­tance of avoid­ing any clash with the civil au­thor­i­ties, say­ing: “If the civil rulers are to be re­buked, leave that task to me. See that you make no de­nun­ci­a­tions of Cae­sar or his ser­vants.” It was this same evening that Ju­das Is­car­iot took Je­sus aside to in­quire why noth­ing was done to get John out of prison. And Ju­das was not wholly sat­is­fied with Je­sus’ at­ti­tude.

139:12.2When Na­than­iel met Ju­das at Ta­ri­chea, he was seek­ing em­ploy­ment with a fish-dry­ing en­ter­prise at the lower end of the Sea of Gal­i­lee. He was thirty years of age and un­mar­ried when he joined the apos­tles. He was prob­a­bly the best-ed­u­cated man among the twelve and the only Judean in the Mas­ter’s apos­tolic fam­ily. Ju­das had no out­stand­ing trait of per­sonal strength, though he had many out­wardly ap­pear­ing traits of cul­ture and habits of train­ing. He was a good thinker but not al­ways a truly hon­est thinker. Ju­das did not re­ally un­der­stand him­self; he was not re­ally sin­cere in deal­ing with him­self.

192:1.9This was the third time Je­sus had man­i­fested him­self to the apos­tles as a group. When Je­sus first ad­dressed them, ask­ing if they had any fish, they did not sus­pect who he was be­cause it was a com­mon ex­pe­ri­ence for these fish­er­men on the Sea of Gal­i­lee, when they came ashore, to be thus ac­costed by the fish mer­chants of Ta­ri­chea, who were usu­ally on hand to buy the fresh catches for the dry­ing es­tab­lish­ments.

139:8.2When Thomas joined the apos­tles, he was twenty-nine years old, was mar­ried, and had four chil­dren. For­merly he had been a car­pen­ter and stone ma­son, but lat­terly he had be­come a fish­er­man and resided at Ta­ri­chea, sit­u­ated on the west bank of the Jor­dan where it flows out of the Sea of Gal­i­lee, and he was re­garded as the lead­ing cit­i­zen of this lit­tle vil­lage. He had lit­tle ed­u­ca­tion, but he pos­sessed a keen, rea­son­ing mind and was the son of ex­cel­lent par­ents, who lived at Tiberias. Thomas had the one truly an­a­lyt­i­cal mind of the twelve; he was the real sci­en­tist of the apos­tolic group.