Robinson   followed  a  Roman   pavement   for  some  considerable  distance

1  The  next  historical  notice  of  the  Sea  of  which   harbored    Christian   fiigitives.      Here,

Tiberias   or   Lake  of  Genesareth   after    that  too,  he  would  be  in  the  footsteps  of  St.  Peter ;

which  occurs  in  the  Gospels  is  in  Josephus.  for  here  the  great  confession  (Matt.  xvi.  16)

'•^  It  is  very  conceivable  that  he  travelled  by  seems  to  have  been  made  ;  and  this  road  also

Cxsarea  Philippi,  the  city  which  Ilcrod  Philip  would  probably  have  brought  him  past  Neapolis.
had  built  at  the  fountains  of  the  Jordan,  on  It  is  hardly  likely  that  he  would  have  taken

the  natural  line   of  communication    between  the  Petra  road  (above,  p.  75,  n.  8),  for  both

Tyre  and  Damascus,  and  likely  to  have  been  the  modern  caravans  and  the  ancient  itinera-

I  ne  of  the  "foreign  cities"  (Acts  xxvi.   11)  ries  cross  the  Jordan  more  to  the  north.
