IN one of the schools connected with the synagogue at Bethsaida, John was, no doubt, found at the required age—six years. His parents . . . had already taught him to read the Scriptures, for Jewish children were required to be able to study the Scriptures at the age of five years. ... To this day, in the East, in the schools connected with the synagogues, pupils may be seen seated on the ground with their tutor, conning or reciting their tasks. If there were schools of a higher grade already in Galilee, . . . the worldly estate of Zebedaeus was such as to enable him to put their advantages within the reach of his sons. Or he may have sent them to sit at the feet of masters at Jerusalem. . . . But however all this may have been, he heard the law read, and listened to discussions and discourses from Sabbath to Sabbath in the synagogue, and to the conversation of pious friends and neighbours in the house of his parents.—From the Life and Writings of St. John,
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From the June 1933 issue of The Christian Science Journal
Life and Writings of St. John
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