that was great sometime, but now there is but a church. And but a little thence xviii paces is a chapell, and there is the stone on the which our Lord God sate and when he preched, and sayde thus, _Beati pauperes spiritu, quoniam ipsorum est regnum celorum_. That is to saye in English, Blessed be they that are poore in spirite, for theyrs is the Kingdome of heaven, and ther he taught his disciples theyr _Pater noster_. There also is a churche of that blessed woman Mary Egypcian, and there is she buryed. And uppon the other side towarde the East three bow shotes from thence, standeth Bethephage, where our Lorde Jesu Christ sente Sainct Peter and saynte James, for to fetch an asse on Palme Sonday. [Footnote 1: The Brook Kedron.] [Footnote 2: Gethsemane.] [Footnote 3: Footprint.] [Decoration] CAP. XXVIII. _Of the Castell Bethania._ THERE toward the East is a castel, that men call Bethania and there dwelled Symon the lepruse, that harborowed[1] our lord, and them that were Baptysed of his disciples, and he was called Julyan and was made Bishop and that is he that men call on for good harborow.[2] In that same place our lord forgave Mary Magdeleyne hir sinnes, and there she washed his fete with teares & wiped them with hir here & there was Lazarus raised that was foure dayes deade. [Footnote 1: Lodged.] [Footnote 2: Protection.] CAP. XXIX. _Of Jerico and other things._ IN the returning to mount Olivet, is the place where oure Lorde wept uppon Hierusalem and thereby[1] our Lady apeared to Sainct Thomas after hir assumption and gave him hir gyrdell and thereby is the stone on the which our Lorde sat often upon and preched and thereon he shall syt at the day of Judgement, as himselfe sayd. And there is mount Galile where the appostels were gathered when Mary Magdelein tolde them of Christe's rising. Betwene mount Olivet & mount Galile is a church, where the Aungell sayde to our Lady when she should die. And from Bethany to Jerico is fiue myle. Jerico was sometime a little citie but it was wasted, and now it is but a lyttle towne, that towne toke Josue through miracle of God, & bydding of the aungell, and destroyed it, & cursed all those that builded it againe. Of that citie was Raab that common woman, that received messengers of Israel & kept them from many perils of deth, & therefore she had a good rewarde, as holy writ sayth "_Quando accepit prophetum in nomine meo mercedem prophetæ accipiet_." That is to say, He that taketh a prophet in my name, he shall take mede of a prophet.[2] [Footnote 1: Close by.] [Footnote 2: Matt. x. 41, "He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward."] CAP. XXX. _Of the holy place betwene Bethany and flom Jordane and other things._