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128:3.1 This year the [[financial]] [[pressure]] was slightly [[relaxed]] as four were at [[work]]. Miriam earned considerable by the sale of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy milk and butter]; Martha had become an expert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaver]. The purchase price of the repair shop was over one third paid. The situation was such that [[Jesus]] stopped work for three weeks to take Simon to [[Jerusalem]] for the [[Passover]], and this was the longest period away from daily toil he had enjoyed since the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_126#126:2._THE_DEATH_OF_JOSEPH death of his father].

128:3.1 This year the [[financial]] [[pressure]] was slightly [[relaxed]] as four were at [[work]]. Miriam earned considerable by the sale of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy milk and butter]; Martha had become an expert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaver]. The purchase price of the repair shop was over one third paid. The situation was such that [[Jesus]] stopped work for three weeks to take Simon to [[Jerusalem]] for the [[Passover]], and this was the longest period away from daily toil he had enjoyed since the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_126#126:2._THE_DEATH_OF_JOSEPH death of his father].

128:3.2 They [[journeyed]] to [[Jerusalem]] by way of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis] and through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Jordan Pella], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerash Gerasa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman Philadelphia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshbon Heshbon], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Jericho]. They returned to [[Nazareth]] by the coast route, touching [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydda Lydda], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joppa Joppa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea Caesarea], thence around [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel Mount Carmel] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais Ptolemais] and [[Nazareth]]. This trip fairly well acquainted [[Jesus]] with the whole of [[Palestine]] north of the [[Jerusalem]] district.

128:3.2 They [[journeyed]] to [[Jerusalem]] by way of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis] and through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Jordan Pella], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerash Gerasa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman Philadelphia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshbon Heshbon], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Jericho]. They returned to [[Nazareth]] by the coast route, touching [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod Lydda], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa Joppa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea Caesarea], thence around [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel Mount Carmel] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel Ptolemais] and [[Nazareth]]. This trip fairly well acquainted [[Jesus]] with the whole of [[Palestine]] north of the [[Jerusalem]] district.

128:3.3 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman Philadelphia] [[Jesus]] and Simon became acquainted with a merchant from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] who developed such a great liking for the [[Nazareth]] couple that he insisted they stop with him at his [[Jerusalem]] headquarters. While Simon gave attendance at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple temple], [[Jesus]] spent much of his time talking with this well-[[educated]] and much-[[traveled]] man of world affairs. This merchant owned over four thousand [[caravan]] camels; he had interests all over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world] and was now on his way to [[Rome]]. He [[proposed]] that Jesus come to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] to enter his [[Oriental]] import business, but [[Jesus]] explained that he did not feel justified in going so far away from his [[family]] just then. But on the way back [[home]] he thought much about these distant cities and the even more remote countries of the [[Occident|Far West]]and the [[Orient|Far East]], countries he had so frequently heard spoken of by the [[caravan]] passengers and conductors.

128:3.3 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman Philadelphia] [[Jesus]] and Simon became acquainted with a merchant from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] who developed such a great liking for the [[Nazareth]] couple that he insisted they stop with him at his [[Jerusalem]] headquarters. While Simon gave attendance at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_temple temple], [[Jesus]] spent much of his time talking with this well-[[educated]] and much-[[traveled]] man of world affairs. This merchant owned over four thousand [[caravan]] camels; he had interests all over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman world] and was now on his way to [[Rome]]. He [[proposed]] that Jesus come to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus] to enter his [[Oriental]] import business, but [[Jesus]] explained that he did not feel justified in going so far away from his [[family]] just then. But on the way back [[home]] he thought much about these distant cities and the even more remote countries of the [[Occident|Far West]]and the [[Orient|Far East]], countries he had so frequently heard spoken of by the [[caravan]] passengers and conductors.

128:3.4 Simon greatly enjoyed his [[visit]] to [[Jerusalem]]. He was duly received into the [[commonwealth]] of [[Israel]] at the [[Passover]] [[consecration]] of the new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mitzvah sons of the commandment]. While Simon attended the [[Passover]] [[ceremonies]], [[Jesus]] mingled with the throngs of visitors and [[engaged]] in many interesting [[personal]] [[conferences]] with numerous [[gentile]] proselytes.

128:3.4 Simon greatly enjoyed his [[visit]] to [[Jerusalem]]. He was duly received into the [[commonwealth]] of [[Israel]] at the [[Passover]] [[consecration]] of the new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mitzvah sons of the commandment]. While Simon attended the [[Passover]] [[ceremonies]], [[Jesus]] mingled with the throngs of visitors and [[engaged]] in many interesting [[personal]] [[conferences]] with numerous [[gentile]] proselytes.

128:3.5 Perhaps the most notable of all these [[contacts]] was the one with a young [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenism Hellenist] named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen]. This young man was on his first visit to [[Jerusalem]] and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of [[Passover]] week. While they both strolled about viewing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmoneans Asmonean palace], [[Jesus]] began the casual [[conversation]] that resulted in their becoming interested in each other, and which led to a four-hour [[discussion]] of the way of life and the true [[God]] and his [[worship]]. Stephen was tremendously impressed with what [[Jesus]] said; he never forgot his [[words]].

128:3.5 Perhaps the most notable of all these [[contacts]] was the one with a young [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization Hellenist] named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen]. This young man was on his first visit to [[Jerusalem]] and chanced to meet Jesus on Thursday afternoon of [[Passover]] week. While they both strolled about viewing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmoneans Asmonean palace], [[Jesus]] began the casual [[conversation]] that resulted in their becoming interested in each other, and which led to a four-hour [[discussion]] of the way of life and the true [[God]] and his [[worship]]. Stephen was tremendously impressed with what [[Jesus]] said; he never forgot his [[words]].

128:3.6 And this was the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] who subsequently became a believer in the teachings of [[Jesus]], and whose [[boldness]] in preaching this early [[gospel]] resulted in his being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen#Martyrdom stoned to death] by irate [[Jews]]. Some of Stephen's extraordinary boldness in proclaiming his view of the new [[gospel]] was the direct result of this earlier interview with [[Jesus]]. But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] never even faintly surmised that the Galilean he had talked with some fifteen years previously was the very same [[person]] whom he later [[proclaimed]] the world's Savior, and for whom he was so soon to die, thus becoming the first [[martyr]] of the newly evolving [[Christian]] [[faith]]. When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] yielded up his life as the price of his attack upon the [[Jewish]] [[temple]] and its [[traditional]] [[practices]], there stood by one named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus Saul], a citizen of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(city) Tarsus]. And when Saul saw how this [[Greek]] could die for his [[faith]], there were aroused in his [[heart]] those [[emotions]] which [[eventually]] led him to espouse the [[cause]] for which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] died; later on he became the [[aggressive]] and indomitable Paul, the [[philosopher]], if not the sole founder, of the [[Christian]] [[religion]].

128:3.6 And this was the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] who subsequently became a believer in the teachings of [[Jesus]], and whose [[boldness]] in preaching this early [[gospel]] resulted in his being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen#Martyrdom stoned to death] by irate [[Jews]]. Some of Stephen's extraordinary boldness in proclaiming his view of the new [[gospel]] was the direct result of this earlier interview with [[Jesus]]. But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] never even faintly surmised that the Galilean he had talked with some fifteen years previously was the very same [[person]] whom he later [[proclaimed]] the world's Savior, and for whom he was so soon to die, thus becoming the first [[martyr]] of the newly evolving [[Christian]] [[faith]]. When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] yielded up his life as the price of his attack upon the [[Jewish]] [[temple]] and its [[traditional]] [[practices]], there stood by one named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus Saul], a citizen of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus_(city) Tarsus]. And when Saul saw how this [[Greek]] could die for his [[faith]], there were aroused in his [[heart]] those [[emotions]] which [[eventually]] led him to espouse the [[cause]] for which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen Stephen] died; later on he became the [[aggressive]] and indomitable Paul, the [[philosopher]], if not the sole founder, of the [[Christian]] [[religion]].