Volume 2

Jesus and Bartholomew
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Bartholomew passed. Returning home to Debbaseth from
the baptism of John, he fell in with some of the disciples,
and Andrew spoke to him enthusiastically of the Lord.
Bartholomew listened with delight and reverence, and
Andrew, whose joy it was to add intelligent men to the
number of the disciples, went forward to Jesus and spoke
to Him of Bartholomew, who was desirous of following
Hinl. Just at this moment, Bartholomew passed. Andrew
pointed hinl out to Jesus who, glancing toward
Bartholonlew, said to Andrew: "I know him; he will
follow Me. I see good in hinl, and I shall call him in
time." Bartholomew dwelt in Debbaseth not far from
Ptolonlais. He was a writer. I saw that he met Thomas
soon after, to whonl in turn he spoke of Jesus and whom
he inclined in His favor.
Jesus had to endure great privations on this hurried
journey. Saturnin, or sonle other one of the disciples, had
charge of a basket of bread. Several times I saw Jesus
steeping the hard crust in water, in order to be able to eat
it. In Tyre He put up at an inn near the gate on the land
side of the city. He had come over a high mountain ridge.
Tyre was a very large city. To one approaching from a
distant height, it looked as if hanging fronl a mountain
and momentarily in danger of being detached. Jesus did
not enter the city. He kept along the wall on the land side
where there were not so many people. The wall was very
thick. In it was built the inn, and on top of it ran a road.
Jesus wore a brownish robe and a white woollen mantle.
He went here and there, but only to the houses of the
poor built in the wall. Saturnin and one other disciple had
come with Jesus to Tyre. Peter, Andrew, James the Less,
Thaddeus, Nathanael Chased, and all the disciples that
had been with Him at the marriage feast of Cana
followed. They travelled in separate bands, and met Jesus
in the Jewish meeting house, situated in another quarter
of Tyre, to which led a broad canal bordered with trees.