IT is interesting to the student of the Bible to note how gently the Master led his disciples along the path of illumination into the realm of the spiritual, as well as to see how the good seed was continually being sown through his healing work.
After all the disciples had been selected by him, it is related that "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people... And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan,"—evidence that the people of Syria were aroused to the recognition that a new order of things had come among them. Some believed that the foretold Christ had come; although it is related that others of the people who saw him perform the healing of the diseased, questioned among themselves whether he was indeed the Messiah.
When it had been noised abroad that the Jews sought to kill him, it was asked if the rulers knew that this was the Christ. The Jews were, however, incredulous about him; for they asserted that they knew him and knew from whence he came, believing him to be but the carpenter's son whom they had known for many years.
