Traditional Place of Christ's Baptism _From Photograph_ 67 The Baptism of Jesus _Old Engraving_ 68 The First Disciples _Ittenbach_ 83 The Marriage at Cana _Old Engraving_ 85 Belshazzar's Feast _Old Engraving_ 87 The Hill of Samaria _Old Engraving_ 90 Jacob's Well _From Photograph_ 92 The Miraculous Draught of Fishes _Old Engraving_ 94 Raising the Daughter of Jairus _H. Hofmann_ 99 The Transfiguration _Old Engraving_ 106 Moses on Mt. Pisgah _Artist Unknown_ 109 Bethany _Old Engraving_ 120 Resurrection of Lazarus _Old Engraving_ 126 Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. _Gustave Dore_ 133 Christ and St. John _Ary Scheffer_ 140 The Last Supper _Benjamin West_ 156 In Gethsemane _Gustave Dore_ 163 The Valley of Jehoshaphat _Old Engraving_ 165 Christ Before Caiaphas _Old Engraving_ 167 Christ Before Pilate (Ecce Homo) _H. Hofmann_ 170 Christ Bearing His Cross _H. Hofmann_ 185 The Virgin and St. John at the Cross _Old Engraving_ 192 The Descent from the Cross _Rubens_ 195 In the Sepulchre _H. Hofmann_ 199 Jesus Appearing to Mary Magdalene (Easter Morning) _B. Plockhorst_ 202 The Descent of the Spirit _Old Engraving_ 206 St. Peter and St. John at the Beautiful Gate _Old Engraving_ 211 Ephesus _From Photograph_ 227 The Isle of Patmos _Old Engraving_ 231 Smyrna _Old Engraving_ 234 Pergamos and the Ruins of the Church of St. John _Old Engraving_ 242 Ruins of Laodicea _Old Engraving_ 246 [Illustration: MAP OF THE LAND WHERE ST. JOHN LIVED] A Life of St. John _CHAPTER I_ _A Home in the Blest Land, by the Sacred Sea_ "Blest land of Judaea! Thrice hallowed in song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim like throng, In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, On the hills of the beauty, my heart is with thee." --_Whittier_.