{"product_id":"2940017166918","title":"The pupils of St. John the Divine","description":"Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos.\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from book:\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III. THE BELOVED DISCIPLE. \"Two brothers freely cast their lot With David's royal Son, The cost of conquest counting not: They deem the battle won.\"—J. H. Newman. JOHN was the son of Zebedee, a fisherman of either Bethsaida or Capernaum, and of Salome, who is said by Papias (one of St. John's own pupils) to have been either the sister of the Blessed Virgin, or the daughter of her husband Joseph by a former marriage. He had a brother named James, who seems to have been a year or two older than himself, and they were both brought up to assist their father and his hired servants in fishing upon the lake of Gennesaret. This lake is formed by the spreading out of the river Jordan at the feet of the mountains of Galilee, and it is very beautiful, often as clear as glass, and reflecting the tall hills and rocks above it, though sometimes, when a fierce wind sweeps down on it from the narrow clefts among the hills, it is all torn and tossed up, and dashes about in foam and spray. It is full of delicious fish, and many persons got their livelihood by fishing from their boats, spreading out long nets, with weights at the bottom to keep them upright under water, and then drawing them up when the fish had become entangled in the meshes. In the time of St. John, the hills and valleys of Galilee were closely filled with people. There were little villages nestling in the green valleys, or perched on hill tops, always with walls of rough stone to guard them, and there were larger cities, some on the lake side and some on the hills. Many of the fishermen, farmers, and the like, were of the old tribes of Zebu- Ion and Naphthali, to whom Galilee had first been given; and there were besides rich men in the cities who paid court to Herod Antipas, the half-Jewish, half-Edomit...","brand":"[London] : Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153581261040,"sku":"2940017166918","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940017166918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}