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Maybe That’s Why He Did So Much Of His Teaching Outdoors.

The fields and hills were the favorite resorts of Jesus, and much of His teaching was given under the open sky, rather than in the Temple or the synagogues. No synagogue could have received the throngs that followed Him; but not for this reason only did He choose to teach in the fields and groves. Jesus loved the scenes of nature. To Him each quiet retreat was a sacred temple. LASW 152.4

He loved to gather the people about Him under the blue heavens, on some grassy hillside, or on the beach beside the lake. The things of nature take up the parables of our Lord, and repeat His counsels. By communion with God in nature the mind is uplifted, and the heart finds rest. 21 LASW 152.5