[Footnote 1: I believe the pagans of Galilee were found especially on the frontiers--at Kedes, for example; but that the very heart of the country, the city of Tiberias excepted, was entirely Jewish. The line where the ruins of temples end, and those of synagogues begin, is to-day plainly marked as far north as Lake Huleh (Samachonites). The traces of pagan sculpture, which were thought to have been found at Tell-Houm, are doubtful. The coast--the town of Acre, in particular--did not form part of Galilee.] [Footnote 2: Chap. XIII. and following.] [Footnote 3: Matt. xx. 25; Mark x. 42; Luke xxii. 25.] [Footnote 4: Matt. viii. 5, and following, xv. 22, and following; Mark vii. 25, and following; Luke iv. 25, and following.] [Footnote 5: Matt. xxi. 41; Mark xii. 9; Luke xx. 16.] [Footnote 6: Isa. ii. 2, and following, lx.; Amos ix. 11, and following; Jer. iii. 17; Mal. i. 11; _Tobit_, xiii. 13, and following; _Orac. Sibyll._, iii. 715, and following. Comp. Matt. xxiv. 14; _Acts_ xv. 15, and following.] [Footnote 7: Matt. viii. 11, 12, xxi. 33, and following, xxii. 1, and following.] [Footnote 8: Matt. vii. 6, x. 5, 6, xv. 24, xxi. 43.] [Footnote 9: Matt. v. 46, and following, vi. 7, 32, xviii. 17; Luke vi. 32, and following, xii. 30.] [Footnote 10: Matt. xii. 30; Mark ix. 39; Luke ix. 50, xi. 23.] It is certain that he counted among his disciples many men whom the Jews called "Hellenes."[1] This word had in Palestine divers meanings. Sometimes it designated the pagans; sometimes the Jews, speaking Greek, and dwelling among the pagans;[2] sometimes men of pagan origin converted to Judaism.[3] It was probably in the last-named category of Hellenes that Jesus found sympathy.[4] The affiliation with Judaism had many degrees; but the proselytes always remained in a state of inferiority in regard to the Jew by birth. Those in question were called "proselytes of the gate," or "men fearing God," and were subject to the precepts of Noah, and not to those of Moses.[5] This very inferiority was doubtless the cause which drew them to Jesus, and gained them his favor. [Footnote 1: Josephus confirms this (_Ant._, XVIII. iii. 3). Comp. John vii. 35, xii. 20, 21.] [Footnote 2: Talm. of Jerus., _Sota_, vii. 1.] [Footnote 3: See in particular, John vii. 35, xii. 20; _Acts_ xiv. 1, xvii. 4, xviii. 4, xxi. 28.] [Footnote 4: John xii. 20; _Acts_ viii. 27.] [Footnote 5: Mishnah, _Baba Metsia_, ix. 12; Talm. of Bab., _Sanh._,56 _b_; _Acts_ viii. 27, x. 2, 22, 35, xiii. 16, 26, 43, 50, xvi. 14, xvii. 4, 17, xviii. 7; Gal. ii. 3; Jos., _Ant._, XIV. vii. 2.]