Before us are spread out the double summit which towers above Megiddo; the mountains of the country of Shechem, with their holy places of the patriarchal age; the hills of Gilboa, the small, picturesque group to which are attached the graceful or terrible recollections of Shunem and of Endor; and Tabor, with its beautiful rounded form, which antiquity compared to a bosom.

Through a depression between the mountains of Shunem and Tabor are seen the valley of the Jordan and the high plains of Peraea, which form a continuous line from the eastern side.

On the north, the mountains of Safed, in inclining toward the sea conceal St.Jean d'Acre, but permit the Gulf of Khaifa to be distinguished.

Such was the horizon of Jesus.
This enchanted circle, cradle of the kingdom of God, was for years his world.

Even in his later life he departed but little beyond the familial limits of his childhood.