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

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Talmud among <strong>the</strong> disciples <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> a story<br />

is related how his daughter, after immense wealth,<br />

came to most abject poverty. But <strong>the</strong>re can<br />

scarcely be a doubt that this somewhat legendary<br />

Naqdimon was not <strong>the</strong>^Nicodemus <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gospel.<br />

* * We know that Thou art a Teacher come from<br />

God.'<br />

BOOK which had wrought in His visitor <strong>the</strong> initial<br />

oonviction, that He was ^ a Teacher come from<br />

God. All is calm, earnest, dignified—^if we may<br />

reverently say it—as became <strong>the</strong> Grod-Man in <strong>the</strong><br />

humiliation <strong>of</strong> His personal teaching. To say that it<br />

is all on-Jewish, were a mere truism: it is Divine.<br />

No fabricated narrative would have invented such<br />

a scene, nor so represented <strong>the</strong> actors in it.'<br />

Dangerous as it may be to indulge <strong>the</strong> imagination,<br />

we can almost picture <strong>the</strong> scene. <strong>The</strong> report <strong>of</strong><br />

what passed reads, more than almost any o<strong>the</strong>r in<br />

<strong>the</strong> Gospels, like notes taken at <strong>the</strong> time by one<br />

who was present. We can almost put it again into

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