of which had already begun to be understood.  One of them, Mary of Magdala, who has rendered the name of this poor town so celebrated in the world, appears to have been of a very enthusiastic temperament.  According to the language of the time, she had been possessed by seven demons.[2] That is, she had been affected with nervous and apparently inexplicable maladies.  Jesus, by his pure and sweet beauty, calmed this troubled nature.  The Magdalene was faithful to him, even unto Golgotha, and on the day but one after his death, played a prominent part; for, as we shall see later, she was the principal means by which faith in the resurrection was established.  Joanna, wife of Chuza, one of the stewards of Antipas, Susanna, and others who have remained unknown, followed him constantly and ministered unto him.[3] Some were rich, and by their fortune enabled the young prophet to live without following the trade which he had until then practiced.[4]

[Footnote 1:  Matt. xxvii. 55, 56; Mark xv. 40, 41; Luke viii. 2, 3, xxiii. 49.]

[Footnote 2:  Mark xvi. 9; Luke viii. 2; cf. Tobit iii. 8, vi. 14.]

[Footnote 3:  Luke viii. 3, xxiv. 10.]

[Footnote 4:  Luke viii. 3.]

Many others followed him habitually, and recognized him as their master—­a certain Philip of Bethsaida; Nathanael, son of Tolmai or Ptolemy, of Cana, perhaps a disciple of the first period;[1] and Matthew, probably the one who was the Xenophon of the infant Christianity.  The latter had been a publican, and, as such, doubtless handled the Kalam more easily than the others.  Perhaps it was this that suggested to him the idea of writing the Logia,[2] which are the basis of what we know of the teachings of Jesus.  Among the disciples are also mentioned Thomas, or Didymus,[3] who doubted sometimes, but who appears to have been a man of warm heart and of generous sympathies;[4] one Lebbaeus, or Thaddeus; Simon Zelotes,[5] perhaps a disciple of Judas the Gaulonite, belonging to the party of the Kenaim, which was formed about that time, and which was soon to play so great a part in the movements of the Jewish people.  Lastly, Judas, son of Simon, of the town of Kerioth, who was an exception in the faithful flock, and drew upon himself such a terrible notoriety.  He was the only one who was not a Galilean.  Kerioth was a town at the extreme south of the tribe of Judah,[6] a day’s journey beyond Hebron.

[Footnote 1:  John i. 44, and following; xxi. 2.  I admit the identification of Nathanael with the apostle who figures in the lists under the name of Bartholomew.]

[Footnote 2:  Papias, in Eusebius, Hist.  Eccl., iii. 39.]

[Footnote 3:  This second name is the Greek translation of the first.]

[Footnote 4:  John xi. 16, xx. 24, and following.]

[Footnote 5:  Matt. x. 4; Mark iii. 18; Luke vi. 15; Acts i. 13; Gospel of the Ebionites, in Epiphanes, Adv.  Haer., xxx. 13.]