49/51 1.] [Footnote 5: According to Josephus (_Vita_, 52) it was three days' journey. But the stage from Shechem to Jerusalem was generally divided into two.] [Footnote 6: lxxxiii. 7.] These journeys, in which the assembled nation exchanged its ideas, and which were almost always centres of great agitation, placed Jesus in contact with the mind of his countrymen, and no doubt inspired him whilst still young with a lively antipathy for the defects of the official representatives of Judaism. |