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Title: Sacred geography, and antiquities
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter), 1807-1888
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ries of parables recorded by the evan-gelists (Matt. 13:1, 2; Mark 4:1): over its clear waters he oftensailed: on them he walked (Matt. 14:25; Mark 6:48; John6: 19), and hushed the tempest to a great calm (Matt. 8: 23-27;Mark 4: 37-41; Luke 8: 23-25): in a desert place on its shorehe twice fed the assembled multitudes with a few loaves andfishes (Matt. 14: 15-21; 15: 32-39): it was when he came out ofthe ship on the other side, in the country of the Gadarenes,that he met two furious lunatics possessed of devils coming outof the tombs, and healed them by his word, while the swinewere driven by the demons down a steep place into the sea andperished (Mark 5:1-13); and it was immediately upon his return,when he was nigh unto the sea, that he was summoned toraise from the dead Jairus daughter, and healed on his wayto the house the woman with a bloody issue (Mark 5: 22-43).But why enumerate farther, in a region filled throughout withthe Saviours mighty works ? Honored above all other waters
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THE DEAD SEA ; AND THE CONVENT OF SANTA SABA, ON THE BKOOK KIDKON.

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