"He went about doing good."--_Acts 10:38_.
SIMON PETER had a house at Capernaum, which is one of the towns that
stand upon the shore of the Lake of Galilee. There our Lord cured
the mother of Peter's wife of a bad fever by His mighty power in one
moment, and there He generally lived when He was in those parts; but He
never stayed long there, for He went about doing good.
In every town or village that he came to, He used to go and teach in
the synagogue. A synagogue was a place where the Jews who lived too far
from Jerusalem to go to the Temple every Sabbath-day used to meet, and
hear the Old Testament read and explained to them, and pray together.
Our Lord used to teach in the synagogues, and draw out all the meaning
of the Law; and when He came out, all the sick people who were near,
and all the blind and deaf and dumb people, were brought to Him, and
He cured them all by only just touching them, or even only by bidding
their disease to go away. For He was God as well as man, and could do
all things. Or He would sit on the mountain side, and all the people
would come round Him, and He would teach them.
[Illustration: JESUS RAISES THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS.--Mark 5:41, 42.]
[Illustration: JESUS GIVES SIGHT TO THE TWO BLIND MEN.--Matt. 9:27,
28.]
There is one beautiful discourse of His, called the Sermon on the
Mount, which I hope you will soon know well. And in it He taught his
disciples the prayer we all say, and call the Lord's Prayer, and which
we love the best of all prayers.
[Illustration: SERMON ON THE MOUNT.--Matt. 5:1-3.]