=10. The nature of this feast= is described in Lev. 23:33. It was celebrated on the fifteenth day after the new moon in October, and was the great “harvest home” of the Jews. All dwelt in booths, called “tabernacles,” for eight days, of which the last day was “the great day of the feast.” The later Jews added the pouring of water mingled with wine upon the morning sacrifices of each day, amid sounding of trumpets and horns and the singing of a passage from Isa. 12:3. This may have suggested the announcement made by our Saviour as given in John 7:37, 38. THE LINE OF TRAVEL. =11. Jesus leaves Capernaum=, passes through Galilee by Nazareth, taking the shortest route direct to Jerusalem through Samaria, probably by Jacob’s well, which was situated on the main road, the same to-day as then. This was in October. His brethren had gone on before, John 7:10, and he delayed till the crowd had decreased and then started. Hence he did not appear till the third or fourth day of the feast, and then he began to teach. =On his way, in Samaria.= The ten lepers are cleansed, Luke 17:12. He rebukes James and John for wishing to call down fire upon the Samaritans, Luke 9:54. =12. Jerusalem.= Jesus teaches in the Temple, John 7:14. The woman taken in adultery, John 8:3. They attempt to stone him for saying, “Before Abraham was, I am,” John 8:58. A lawyer instructed. Parable of the Good Samaritan, Luke 10:25. They threaten to stone him for saying, “I and my Father are one,” John 10:31. =Bethany.= Jesus visits the house of Martha and Mary, Luke 10:38. =Near Jerusalem.= He teaches his disciples to pray, Luke 11:1. =Jerusalem.= The man born blind is healed on the Sabbath, John 9:1. =Bethany.= He goes to “beyond Jordan,” where John at first baptized, and there hearing of the sickness of Lazarus, goes to Bethany and raises him, John 11:1. =Jerusalem.= Caiaphas, the high-priest, suggests the death of Jesus, who retires to Ephraim, John 11:47, 54. EPHRAIM, JOHN 11:54. =13. The site of this town= has not certainly been identified, but Dr. Robinson has given good reasons for supposing that it was situated at a village now called _Taiyibeh_, twelve miles a little east of north from Jerusalem. It is off the present main road of travel, to the east, and in the midst of a very rough and untravelled country, but there are the remains of a good Roman road running down from this place to the valley of the Jordan, and about a mile and a half below the village there are two Roman mile-posts still standing on that old road. It is probable that here our Saviour retired from the danger that seemed to threaten him in Jerusalem. After leaving Ephraim he seems to have taken the main road down to the plain of Jordan and crossed to the other side, called Peræa. =14. Peræa.= Great numbers follow Christ here, and the following is a brief history of what transpired in that region: