[Footnote 3: It remained celebrated, up to the time of the Crusades, under the name of _Via Maris_. Cf. Isaiah ix. 1; Matt. iv. 13-15; Tobit, i. 1. I think that the road cut in the rock near Ain-et-Tin formed part of it, and that the route was directed from thence toward the _Bridge of the Daughters of Jacob_, just as it is now. A part of the road from Ain-et-Tin to this bridge is of ancient construction.] [Footnote 4: Matt. ix. 9, and following.] [Footnote 5: Matt. v. 46, 47, ix. 10, 11, xi. 19, xviii. 17, xxi. 31, 32; Mark ii. 15, 16; Luke v. 30, vii. 34, xv. 1, xviii. 11, xix. 7; Lucian, _Necyomant_, ii.; Dio Chrysost., orat. iv., p. 85, orat. xiv., p. 269 (edit. Emperius); Mishnah, _Nedarim_, iii. 4.] [Footnote 6: Mishnah, _Baba Kama_, x. 1; Talmud of Jerusalem, _Demai_, ii. 3; Talmud of Bab., _Sanhedrim_, 25 _b_.] [Footnote 7: Luke v. 29, and following.] Jesus owed these numerous conquests to the infinite charm of his person and his speech. A penetrating word, a look falling upon a simple conscience, which only wanted awakening, gave him an ardent disciple. Sometimes Jesus employed an innocent artifice, which Joan of Arc also used: he affected to know something intimate respecting him whom he wished to gain, or he would perhaps recall to him some circumstance dear to his heart. It was thus that he attracted Nathanael,[1] Peter,[2] and the Samaritan woman.[3] Concealing the true source of his strength--his superiority over all that surrounded him--he permitted people to believe (in order to satisfy the ideas of the time--ideas which, moreover, fully coincided with his own) that a revelation from on high revealed to him all secrets and laid bare all hearts. Every one thought that Jesus lived in a sphere superior to that of humanity. They said that he conversed on the mountains with Moses and Elias;[4] they believed that in his moments of solitude the angels came to render him homage, and established a supernatural intercourse between him and heaven.[5] [Footnote 1: John i. 48, and following.] [Footnote 2: John i. 42.] [Footnote 3: John iv. 17, and following.] [Footnote 4: Matt. xvii. 3; Mark ix. 3; Luke ix. 30-31.] [Footnote 5: Matt. iv. 11; Mark i. 13.] CHAPTER X. THE PREACHINGS ON THE LAKE.