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

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<strong>the</strong>ir payment <strong>of</strong> Temple-tribute would have been<br />

incompatible with Lev. vi. 23!<br />

But to return. This Temple-tribute had to be paid in<br />

exact half-shekels <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sanctuary, or ordinary<br />

Galilean shekels. When it is remembered that,<br />

besides strictly Palestinian silver <strong>and</strong> especially<br />

copper coin,* Persian, Tyrian, Syrian, Egyptian,<br />

Grecian, <strong>and</strong> Roman<br />

<strong>of</strong> 27 A.D., <strong>and</strong>, accordingly, <strong>the</strong> first Passover in<br />

spring, 28 A.D. But it seems to me highly<br />

improbable, that so long an interval as nine or ten<br />

months shoald have elapsed between John's first<br />

preaching <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptism <strong>of</strong> Jesas. Besides, in<br />

that case, how are we to account for <strong>the</strong> eight or<br />

nine months between <strong>the</strong> Baptism <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Passover<br />

? So far as I know, <strong>the</strong> only reason for this strange<br />

hypo<strong>the</strong>sis is Bt. John ii. 20, which will be<br />

explained in its proper place.<br />

1 Simon Maccabee had copper money

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