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Keystone View Company
3115-Bethany. Where our Lord was Anointed by Mary- S. from Eastern Slope of Olivet-Palestine.
[Palestine, PL33]
1900 (or earlier)
Stereocard
UCR - University of California, Riverside
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold M. Gilbert, Accession Number: 1982.0045.0002.0033
LL/79924
3115. We are facing south. As we stand in the southeastern slope of Olivet, we see before us the little village of Bethany. Of at our right (west) is Jerusalem. What a squalid place this is! Can you imagine Martha, the careful housekeeper, having her home in such a cluster of hovels? Most of the people living here today are miserably poor; the young woman’s string of silver coins glittering over her forehead represents the larger part of the savings of her family –accumulated funds are kept in this form instead of being put in a bank. / We must sweep away the present and build in our thought another Bethany on that hillside. The stones that formed part of Martha’s and Mary’s house are possibly on that hillside now. Village tradition says that just outside the town, where we see two ruined towers, was the house of Simon the leper (Mark XIV: 3-9). Near it, but out of the present range of our vision, is the so-called Tomb of Lazarus (John XI: 17). It would tax our credulity to accept these exact locations, but we know they all stood upon this hill-side; we know that our Lord walked over these paths, and counted yonder village as one of his homes. / (Cutting from Hurlbut’s “Traveling in the Holy Land,” published by Underwood and Underwood). / Bethany, where Our Lord was anointed by Mary. / Béthanie où Notre Seigneur fut oint par Maire. / Bethany, Ort wo unser Heiland von Maria gesalbt wurde. / Bethania, donde nuestro Señor fué unjido por María. / Beanien hvar Kristus smordes af Maria.
Copyright: Underwood & Underwood
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