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130:0.1 The tour of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world] consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-ninth year of [[Jesus]]' life on [[earth]]. [[Jesus]] and the two natives from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]—Gonod and his son Ganid—left [[Jerusalem]] on a Sunday morning, April 26, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_AD A.D. 22]. They made their [[journey]] according to schedule, and [[Jesus]] said [[good-bye]] to the father and son in the city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charax_Spasinou Charax] on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] on the tenth day of December the following year, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_AD A.D. 23].

130:0.1 The tour of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world] consumed most of the twenty-eighth and the entire twenty-ninth year of [[Jesus]]' life on [[earth]]. [[Jesus]] and the two natives from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]—Gonod and his son Ganid—left [[Jerusalem]] on a Sunday morning, April 26, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_AD A.D. 22]. They made their [[journey]] according to schedule, and [[Jesus]] said [[good-bye]] to the father and son in the city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charax_Spasinou Charax] on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] on the tenth day of December the following year, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_AD A.D. 23].

130:0.2 From [[Jerusalem]] they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea Caesarea] by way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joppa Joppa]. At Caesarea they took a boat for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria]. From Alexandria they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. From Crete they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage Carthage], touching at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene Cyrene]. At Carthage they took a boat for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], stopping at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina]. From Naples they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capua Capua], whence they traveled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] to [[Rome]].

130:0.2 From [[Jerusalem]] they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea Caesarea] by way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa Joppa]. At Caesarea they took a boat for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria]. From Alexandria they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. From Crete they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage Carthage], touching at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrene Cyrene]. At Carthage they took a boat for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], stopping at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina]. From Naples they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capua Capua], whence they traveled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] to [[Rome]].

130:0.3 After their stay in [[Rome]] they went overland to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentum Tarentum], where they set sail for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece Greece], stopping at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicopolis Nicopolis] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth Corinth]. From Athens they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus Ephesus] by way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troas Troas]. From Ephesus they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus Cyprus], putting in at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes Rhodes] on the way. They spent considerable time visiting and resting on Cyprus and then sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch Antioch] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syria]. From Antioch they journeyed south to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidon Sidon] and then went over to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]. From there they traveled by [[caravan]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], passing through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thapsacus Thapsacus] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa Larissa]. They spent some time in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon], visited [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur] and other places, and then went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa Susa]. From Susa they journeyed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charax_Spasinou Charax], from which place Gonod and Ganid embarked for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

130:0.3 After their stay in [[Rome]] they went overland to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentum Tarentum], where they set sail for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece Greece], stopping at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicopolis Nicopolis] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth Corinth]. From Athens they went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus Ephesus] by way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troas Troas]. From Ephesus they sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus Cyprus], putting in at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes Rhodes] on the way. They spent considerable time visiting and resting on Cyprus and then sailed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch Antioch] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syria]. From Antioch they journeyed south to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidon Sidon] and then went over to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]. From there they traveled by [[caravan]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], passing through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thapsacus Thapsacus] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa Larissa]. They spent some time in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon], visited [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur Ur] and other places, and then went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa Susa]. From Susa they journeyed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charax_Spasinou Charax], from which place Gonod and Ganid embarked for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

==130:8. ON THE WAY TO NAPLES AND ROME==

==130:8. ON THE WAY TO NAPLES AND ROME==

130:8.1 The first stop on the way to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] was at the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta]. Here [[Jesus]] had a long [[talk]] with a downhearted and discouraged young man named Claudus. This fellow had contemplated [[Suicide|taking his life], but when he had finished talking with the [[scribe]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus], he said: " I will face life like a man; I am through [[playing]] the coward. I will go back to my people and begin all over again. " Shortly he became an enthusiastic preacher of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynics Cynics], and still later on he joined hands with [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] in proclaiming [[Christianity]] in [[Rome]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], and after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#Martyrdom death of Peter] he went on to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] preaching the [[gospel]]. But he never knew that the man who [[inspired]] him in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta] was the [[Jesus]] whom he subsequently [[proclaimed]] the world's Deliverer.

130:8.1 The first stop on the way to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] was at the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta]. Here [[Jesus]] had a long [[talk]] with a downhearted and discouraged young man named Claudus. This fellow had contemplated [[Suicide|taking his life]], but when he had finished talking with the [[scribe]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus], he said: " I will face life like a man; I am through [[playing]] the coward. I will go back to my people and begin all over again. " Shortly he became an enthusiastic preacher of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynics Cynics], and still later on he joined hands with [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] in proclaiming [[Christianity]] in [[Rome]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], and after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#Martyrdom death of Peter] he went on to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] preaching the [[gospel]]. But he never knew that the man who [[inspired]] him in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta] was the [[Jesus]] whom he subsequently [[proclaimed]] the world's Deliverer.

130:8.2 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse] they spent a full week. The notable [[event]] of their stop here was the rehabilitation of Ezra, the backslidden [[Jew]], who kept the tavern where [[Jesus]] and his companions stopped. Ezra was [[charmed]] by [[Jesus]]' approach and asked him to help him come back to the [[faith]] of [[Israel]]. He [[expressed]] his hopelessness by saying, " I want to be a true son of [[Abraham]], but I cannot find [[God]]. " Said Jesus: " If you truly want to find God, that [[desire]] is in itself [[evidence]] that you have already found him. Your trouble is not that you cannot find [[God]], for [[the Father]] has already found you; your [[trouble]] is simply that you do not know [[God]]. Have you not read in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Prophet Jeremiah], `You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.29] And again, does not this same prophet say: `And I will give you a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and you shall belong to my people, and I will be your God'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.24] And have you not also read in the [[Scriptures]] where it says: `He looks down upon men, and if any will say: I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, then will God deliver that man's soul from darkness, and he shall see the light'? "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.33] And Ezra found [[God]] and to the [[satisfaction]] of his [[soul]]. Later, this [[Jew]], in [[association]] with a well-to-do [[Greek]] [[proselyte]], built the first Christian church in Syracuse.

130:8.2 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse] they spent a full week. The notable [[event]] of their stop here was the rehabilitation of Ezra, the backslidden [[Jew]], who kept the tavern where [[Jesus]] and his companions stopped. Ezra was [[charmed]] by [[Jesus]]' approach and asked him to help him come back to the [[faith]] of [[Israel]]. He [[expressed]] his hopelessness by saying, " I want to be a true son of [[Abraham]], but I cannot find [[God]]. " Said Jesus: " If you truly want to find God, that [[desire]] is in itself [[evidence]] that you have already found him. Your trouble is not that you cannot find [[God]], for [[the Father]] has already found you; your [[trouble]] is simply that you do not know [[God]]. Have you not read in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Prophet Jeremiah], `You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.29] And again, does not this same prophet say: `And I will give you a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and you shall belong to my people, and I will be your God'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.24] And have you not also read in the [[Scriptures]] where it says: `He looks down upon men, and if any will say: I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, then will God deliver that man's soul from darkness, and he shall see the light'? "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.33] And Ezra found [[God]] and to the [[satisfaction]] of his [[soul]]. Later, this [[Jew]], in [[association]] with a well-to-do [[Greek]] [[proselyte]], built the first Christian church in Syracuse.