Volume 2

Jesus anzong the Harvesters
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here had charge of the schools. There were no Pharisees
in Jetebatha.
Jesus now found Himself alone with His seven disciples
and the people. He continued to teach sonle time longer,
and many were very much impressed. They declared that
they had never listened to such instructions, and that He
taught better ihan their own teachers. They reformed their
lives, and followed Him later. But a large part of the people,
instigated by the Sadducees and Herodians, murmured
against Him and raised a tumult. Jesus therefore
left the city with the disciples and went southward
through the valley, and then up for a couple of hours into
a harvest field between Bethulia and Gennabris. Here He
put up at a large farmhouse, whose occupants were well
known to Him. The holy women had often stayed here
overnight on their journeys to Bethania, and the
messengers between them and the Saviour used to put up
at the same place.
11. JESUS IN THE HARVEST FIELD OF
DOTHAIN AND IN GENNABRIS
Jesus in the harvest field of Dothain taught of reaping,
gleaning, and binding into sheaves. This was the field in
which later on He and the disciples plucked the ears of
wheat. He went around the field, here and there, talking
of seeds and stony soil, for such was the character of this
region. He said that He was come to gather the good ears,
and explained the parable of rooting up the tares at the
harvest. He likened the harvest to the Kingdom of God.
He instructed at intervals during the work and while going
from one field to another.
The stalks remained standing high, the ears only having
been cut off and bound together in the form of a cross.
In the evening after the harvest, Jesus from a hilltop
delivered a long discourse before the laborers. Borrowing