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

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<strong>the</strong>re was a physical impossibility. This was one<br />

aspect <strong>of</strong> it. And yet, as Nicodemus' question not<br />

only similarly pointed to a physical impossibility,<br />

but also indicated dim searching after higher<br />

meaning <strong>and</strong> spiritual reality, so that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> woman<br />

: ^ No! art Thou greater than our fa<strong>the</strong>r Jacob ?'<br />

who, at such labour, had dug this well, finding no<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r means than this <strong>of</strong> supplying his own wants<br />

<strong>and</strong> those <strong>of</strong> his descendants. Nor did <strong>the</strong> answer<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> now difier in spirit from that which He<br />

had given to <strong>the</strong> Rabbi <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem, though it<br />

lacked <strong>the</strong> rebuke, desigfue4 to phow bow<br />

thoroughly tfee religious system^ gf<br />

BOOK which NicodemuB was a teacher, ftdled in<br />

its highest object. But tD m this woman His answer<br />

must be much simpler <strong>and</strong> plainer than to <strong>the</strong> ' •<br />

Rabbi. And yet, if it be Divine teaching, it cannot<br />

be quite pkiB, but most contain that which will<br />

point upward, Mid lead to ftuthflr inquiry. And so<br />

<strong>the</strong> Divine Teacher explained, not only <strong>the</strong> diflbN<br />

ence between ordinary water <strong>and</strong> that <strong>of</strong> which He<br />

had spoktti, bat in a manner to bring her to <strong>the</strong>

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