The Life of Christ, Vol. 2
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These have known tliat Thou hast sent me. John xvii. 25. Very different was the reception whicli awaited Jesus on the farther shore. The poor heathens of Decapohs had welcomed Him with reverent enthusiasm: the haughty Pharisees of Jerusalem met Him with sneering hate. It may be that, after this period of absence, His human soul yearned for the only resting-place which He could call a home. Enterin...
MoreThese have known tliat Thou hast sent me. John xvii. 25. Very different was the reception whicli awaited Jesus on the farther shore. The poor heathens of Decapohs had welcomed Him with reverent enthusiasm: the haughty Pharisees of Jerusalem met Him with sneering hate. It may be that, after this period of absence, His human soul yearned for the only resting-place which He could call a home. Entering into His little vessel. He sailed across the lake to Magdala. It is probable that He purposely avoided sailing to Bethsaida or Capernaum, which are a little north of Magdala, and St. Mark says (viii. 10), the parts of Dalmauutha. Nothing is known about Dalmanutha, though uncertain identifications of it have been attempted; noris anything known of Magadan, which is found in Matt. xv. 39, according to n, B, D, but does not seem a probable reading. If Magadan is a confused form of Megiddo. that must be an error, for Megiddo is in the middle of the plain of Esdraelon. Yet even in Mark the Codex Bezae reads Magadan. Eusebius and Jerome O nomast. s. v.) make Magadan a region about Gerasa, and therefore east of the Lake; but that is impossible. The Melegada of Dlooks like a case of transposition, and indeed this transposition is probably the soui-ce of the confusion, and may even account for the form Dalmanutha.
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