Waters of Merom

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134:7.5Je­sus then started on his fi­nal tour, as a pri­vate in­di­vid­ual, through the heart of Pales­tine, go­ing from Beer­sheba in the south to Dan in the north. On this jour­ney north­ward he stopped at He­bron, Beth­le­hem (where he saw his birth­place), Je­ru­sa­lem (he did not visit Beth­any), Beeroth, Lebonah, Sy­char, Shechem, Samaria, Geba, En-Gan­nim, En­dor, Madon; pass­ing through Mag­dala and Ca­per­naum, he jour­neyed on north; and pass­ing east of the Wa­ters of Merom, he went by Karahta to Dan, or Cae­sarea-Phi­lippi.

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157:3.2Je­sus had gone to Mount Her­mon in his early ex­pe­ri­ence with the af­fairs of the king­dom, and now that he was en­ter­ing upon the fi­nal epoch of his work, he de­sired to re­turn to this mount of trial and tri­umph, where he hoped the apos­tles might gain a new vi­sion of their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and ac­quire new strength for the try­ing times just ahead. As they jour­neyed along the way, about the time of pass­ing south of the Wa­ters of Merom, the apos­tles fell to talk­ing among them­selves about their re­cent ex­pe­ri­ences in Phoeni­cia and else­where and to re­count­ing how their mes­sage had been re­ceived, and how the dif­fer­ent peo­ples re­garded their Mas­ter.

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158:7.1Early this Wednes­day morn­ing Je­sus and the twelve de­parted from Cae­sarea-Phi­lippi for Ma­g­a­dan Park near Beth­saida-Ju­lias. The apos­tles had slept very lit­tle that night, so they were up early and ready to go. Even the stolid Al­pheus twins had been shocked by this talk about the death of Je­sus. As they jour­neyed south, just be­yond the Wa­ters of Merom they came to the Da­mas­cus road, and de­sir­ing to avoid the scribes and oth­ers whom Je­sus knew would pres­ently be com­ing along af­ter them, he di­rected that they go on to Ca­per­naum by the Da­mas­cus road which passes through Gal­i­lee. And he did this be­cause he knew that those who fol­lowed af­ter him would go on down over the east Jor­dan road since they reck­oned that Je­sus and the apos­tles would fear to pass through the ter­ri­tory of Herod An­tipas. Je­sus sought to elude his crit­ics and the crowd which fol­lowed him that he might be alone with his apos­tles this day.