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

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ut that to which it had been spoken, had heard<br />

what <strong>the</strong> Saviour had said. <strong>The</strong> waters had not<br />

been troubled, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> healing had been all unseen.<br />

Before <strong>the</strong> healed man, scarcely conscious <strong>of</strong> what<br />

h^ passed, had, with new-bom vigour, ga<strong>the</strong>red<br />

himself up <strong>and</strong> rolled toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />

r«r.ia his coverlet to hasten after Him, <strong>Jesus</strong> had<br />

already withdrawn.*** In that multitude, all<br />

thinking only <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own sorrows <strong>and</strong> wants, He<br />

had come <strong>and</strong> gone unobserved. But <strong>the</strong>y all now<br />

knew <strong>and</strong> observed this miracle <strong>of</strong> healing, as <strong>the</strong>y<br />

saw this unbefriended <strong>and</strong> most wretched <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m<br />

all healed, without <strong>the</strong> troubling <strong>of</strong> waters or first<br />

immersion in <strong>the</strong>m. <strong>The</strong>n <strong>the</strong>re was really help in<br />

Israel, <strong>and</strong> help not limited to such eictemal<br />

means! How could Christ have taught that<br />

multitude, nay, all Jerusalem <strong>and</strong> Jewry, all this, as<br />

well as all about Himself, but by what He did ?<br />

And so we learn here also ano<strong>the</strong>r aspect <strong>of</strong><br />

miracles, as necessary for those who, weary <strong>of</strong><br />

Rabbinic wrangling, could, in <strong>the</strong>ir felt impotence,<br />

only learn by what He did that which He would

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