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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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John brought to<br />

' This, <strong>of</strong> course, on <strong>the</strong> supposition since<br />

evidently it was not for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong><br />

that <strong>the</strong> Baptism <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> took place at any<br />

personal hiteroourse with John.<br />

Bethahara, <strong>and</strong> hence that <strong>the</strong>* wilderness* 'This is<br />

most beautifully suggested<br />

into which He was driTen, was close by. by<br />

Canoil Westecit in his Oommentaiy on<br />

It is dijfficult to see why, on any o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> passage,<br />

sappoeition, <strong>Jesus</strong> returned to Betbabara»<br />

BOOK <strong>Jesus</strong>: * Art Thou He that should come, or<br />

do we look for ano<strong>the</strong>r ?' _, o<strong>the</strong>r than doubt <strong>of</strong> hie<br />

own warrant <strong>and</strong> authority for what he had said<br />

<strong>and</strong> done ? But in that first time <strong>of</strong> his trial at<br />

Betha-bara he overcame—^<strong>the</strong> first temptation by<br />

<strong>the</strong> humility <strong>of</strong> his intense sincerity, <strong>the</strong> second by<br />

<strong>the</strong> absolute simplicity <strong>of</strong> his own experimental

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