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

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his bed <strong>and</strong> walk. <strong>The</strong>se directions had been bound<br />

up with <strong>the</strong> very word (' Rise *) in which his<br />

healing had come. That was enough for him. And<br />

in this lay <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>and</strong> root <strong>of</strong> his inward<br />

healing. Here was simple trust, unquestioning<br />

obedience to <strong>the</strong> unseen, unknowli, but teal<br />

Saviour. For he believed Him,' <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore<br />

trusted in Him, that He must be right; <strong>and</strong> so,<br />

trusting without questioning, he obeyed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Jews saw him, as from Be<strong>the</strong>sda he carried<br />

home his ' burden.^ Such as that he carried were<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir only burdens. Although <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> Sabbathobservance<br />

must have been made stricter in later<br />

Babbtnio development, when even th6 labour <strong>of</strong><br />

moving <strong>the</strong> sick into <strong>the</strong> waters <strong>of</strong> Be<strong>the</strong>sda would<br />

have been unlawful, unless <strong>the</strong>re had been present<br />

danger to life,* yet, admittedly, this carrying <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

bed was an infringement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sabbatic law, as<br />

interpreted by traditionalism. Most<br />

characteristically, it was this external<br />

infiringement which <strong>the</strong>y saw, <strong>and</strong> nothing else; it<br />

was <strong>the</strong> Person Who had comm<strong>and</strong>ed it Whom <strong>the</strong>y

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