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

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TRANSJIGURATION.<br />

BOOK had passed on <strong>the</strong> first occasion when <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish aathorities h^ ni sought to extinguish His<br />

Messianic claims in His blood. If that<br />

communication was made when <strong>Jesus</strong> was about to<br />

be <strong>of</strong>lkred up, it would also account for what<br />

o<strong>the</strong>rwise might seem a difficulty: <strong>the</strong> very<br />

developed form <strong>of</strong> expression in which His<br />

relation to <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> His own Office <strong>and</strong><br />

Power, are presented. We can understaud how,<br />

from <strong>the</strong> very first, all this should have been laid<br />

before <strong>the</strong> teachers <strong>of</strong> Israel. But in view <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

organic development <strong>of</strong> Christ's teaching, we<br />

could scarcely expect it to have been expressed in<br />

such very full terms, till near <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> His<br />

Ministry.*<br />

But we are anticipating. <strong>The</strong> narrative transports<br />

us at once to what, at <strong>the</strong> time, seems to have been<br />

a well-known locality in Jerusalem, though all<br />

attempts to identify it, or even to explain <strong>the</strong> name<br />

Be<strong>the</strong>sda^ have hi<strong>the</strong>rto failed. All we know is,

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