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

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aptized in <strong>the</strong> early winter following,^* <strong>the</strong>n<br />

• Comp. especially Warren's Recovexy * Wteteler<br />

<strong>and</strong> moat modem writeR <strong>of</strong> Jerosalem, pp. 337-<br />

351. place <strong>the</strong> Baptism <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> in <strong>the</strong><br />

PREPARING FOR THE FIRST PASSOVER.<br />

867<br />

this Passover must have taken place in <strong>the</strong> spring<br />

(about April) <strong>of</strong> OHAP. <strong>the</strong> same year.* <strong>The</strong><br />

preparations for it had, indeed, commenced a V<br />

month before. Not to speak <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> needful domestic<br />

arrangements ^~ '^^ for <strong>the</strong> journey <strong>of</strong> pilgrims to<br />

Jerusalem, <strong>the</strong> whole l<strong>and</strong> seemed in ottiAjL" a<br />

state <strong>of</strong> preparation. A month before <strong>the</strong> feast (on<br />

<strong>the</strong> 15th Adar) bridges <strong>and</strong> roads were put in<br />

repair, <strong>and</strong> sepulchres whitened, to prevent<br />

accidental pollution to <strong>the</strong> pilgrims. <strong>The</strong>n, some<br />

would select this out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> three great annual<br />

feasts for <strong>the</strong> tithing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir flocks <strong>and</strong> herds,<br />

which, in such case, had to be done two weeks

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