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

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three (Jospels connect with <strong>the</strong> stay at Capernaum,<br />

marks a turning-point in <strong>the</strong> working <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Christ.<br />

As already stated, <strong>the</strong> occurrences at <strong>the</strong> '<br />

Unknown Feast' • in Jerusalem formed a new point<br />

<strong>of</strong> departure. Christ had Ailly presented His<br />

clldms to <strong>the</strong> Sanhedrists, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>y had been fiilly<br />

rejected by <strong>the</strong> Scribes <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> people. Henceforth<br />

He separated Himself from that ' untoward<br />

generation;' henceforth, also, began His systematic<br />

persecution by <strong>the</strong> authorities, when His<br />

movements were tracked <strong>and</strong> watched. <strong>Jesus</strong> went<br />

alone to Jerusalem. This, also, was fitting. Equally<br />

so, that on His return He called His disciples to be<br />

H^ followers; <strong>and</strong> that from Capernaum He<br />

entered, in <strong>the</strong>ir company^ on a new phase in His<br />

Work.<br />

Significa^y, His Work began where that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Rabbis, we had almost said <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Old Testament<br />

saints, ended. Whatever remedies, medical, n^^cal,<br />

or sympa<strong>the</strong>tic. Rabbinic writings may indicate for<br />

various kinds <strong>of</strong> disease, leprosy is not included in<br />

<strong>the</strong> catalogue. <strong>The</strong>y left aside what even <strong>the</strong> Old

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