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

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<strong>The</strong> waters had not yet been ' troubled,' when He<br />

stood among that multitude <strong>of</strong> sufierers <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

attendant friends. It was in those breathless<br />

moments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> intense suspense <strong>of</strong> expectancy,<br />

when every eye was fixed on <strong>the</strong> pool, that <strong>the</strong> eye<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Saviour searched for <strong>the</strong> most wretched<br />

object among <strong>the</strong>m all. In him, as a typical case,<br />

could He best do <strong>and</strong> teach that for which He had<br />

come. This ^ impotent' man, for thirty-eight years a<br />

hopeless 8u£krer, with*<br />

w*-<br />

BOOK oat attendant or friend * among those whom<br />

miaery—in this alfio tha HI trae ontcome <strong>of</strong> sin—<br />

^made so intensely selfish; <strong>and</strong> whose sickness<br />

was really <strong>the</strong> oonsequence <strong>of</strong> his sin,^ <strong>and</strong> not<br />

merely in tha sense which <strong>the</strong> Jews attached to it ®<br />

—this now seemed <strong>the</strong> fittest object for<br />

^g* ^ power <strong>and</strong> grace. For, most marked in this

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