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

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ears in <strong>the</strong> Talmud <strong>the</strong> designation, ' <strong>The</strong> Leprous<br />

One,' <strong>and</strong> * <strong>the</strong> Sick One * (Sanh. 98 b).<br />

CHAPTER XV.<br />

SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH GALILEE—<br />

THE HSAUNO OF THE LEPER. (St. Matt. iy. 23<br />

; viii. 2-4 ; 8t. Mark i. 35-45; 8t. Lnke iv. 42-44 ;<br />

v. 12-16.)<br />

A DAY <strong>and</strong> an evening such as <strong>of</strong> that Sabbath <strong>of</strong><br />

healing in Capernaum CHAP. must, with reverence<br />

be it written, have been followed by what opens<br />

XV <strong>the</strong> next section.' To <strong>the</strong> thoughtful observer<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is such unbroken ^" ' harmony in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, such accord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> inward <strong>and</strong> outward, as<br />

to carry instinctive conviction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> truth <strong>of</strong> its<br />

record. It was, so to speak, an inward necessity<br />

that <strong>the</strong> God-Man, when brought into contact with<br />

disease <strong>and</strong> misery, whe<strong>the</strong>r from physical or<br />

supernatural causes, should remove it by His<br />

Presence, by His touch, by His Word. An outward<br />

necessity also, because no o<strong>the</strong>r mode <strong>of</strong> teaching

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