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

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<strong>of</strong> impurity, being described in Miqv. i. 1-8). From<br />

Parah viii. 10 we ga<strong>the</strong>r, that among o<strong>the</strong>r rivers<br />

even <strong>the</strong> Jordan was not deemed sufficiently pure,<br />

because in its course o<strong>the</strong>r streams, which were<br />

not lawful for such purification, had mingled with<br />

it.<br />

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BOOK Jewish authorities sent <strong>the</strong>ir familiars into<br />

Galilee after <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> ni that it was to <strong>the</strong><br />

presence <strong>and</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> this informal deputation<br />

^ ' ' that <strong>the</strong> opposition to Christ, which now<br />

increasingly appeared, was due ? K so, <strong>the</strong>n we<br />

see not only an additional motive for Christ's<br />

injunction <strong>of</strong> silence on those whom He had<br />

healed, <strong>and</strong> for His own withdrawal from <strong>the</strong><br />

cities <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir throng, but we can underst<strong>and</strong> how,<br />

as He afterwards answered those, whom John had<br />

sent to lay before Christ his doubts, by pointing to<br />

His works, so He replied to <strong>the</strong> sending forth <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Scribes <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem to watch, oppose, <strong>and</strong><br />

arrest Him, by sending to Jerusalem as His

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