The longest journey our Saviour ever performed was from here to Jerusalem--about one hundred to one hundred and twenty miles.

The next longest was from here to Sidon--say about sixty or seventy miles.

Instead of being wide apart--as American appreciation of distances would naturally suggest--the places made most particularly celebrated by the presence of Christ are nearly all right here in full view, and within cannon-shot of Capernaum.
Leaving out two or three short journeys of the Saviour, he spent his life, preached his gospel, and performed his miracles within a compass no larger than an ordinary county in the United States.

It is as much as I can do to comprehend this stupefying fact.

How it wears a man out to have to read up a hundred pages of history every two or three miles--for verily the celebrated localities of Palestine occur that close together.
How wearily, how bewilderingly they swarm about your path! In due time we reached the ancient village of Magdala..