A Messiah at the marriage festival--the courtezan and the good Zaccheus called to his feasts--the founders of the kingdom of heaven like a bridal procession; that is what Galilee has boldly offered, and what the world has accepted.

Greece has drawn pictures of human life by sculpture and by charming poetry, but always without backgrounds or distant receding perspectives.

In Galilee were wanting the marble, the practiced workmen, the exquisite and refined language.

But Galilee has created the most sublime ideal for the popular imagination; for behind its idyl moves the fate of humanity, and the light which illumines its picture is the sun of the kingdom of God.
Jesus lived and grew amidst these enchanting scenes.

From his infancy, he went almost annually to the feast at Jerusalem.[1] The pilgrimage was a sweet solemnity for the provincial Jews.