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

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<strong>the</strong> Ministry <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, bat with His innermost<br />

^■""'"^'—^ <strong>Life</strong>, ga<strong>the</strong>rs around that little fishing<br />

town. In all probability its prosperity was chiefly<br />

due to <strong>the</strong> neighbouring Tiberias, which Herod<br />

Antipas ^ had built, about ten years previously.<br />

Noteworthy is it also, how many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most<br />

attractive characters <strong>and</strong> incidents in <strong>the</strong> Grospelhistory<br />

are connected with that Capernaum, which,<br />

as a city, rejected its own real glory, <strong>and</strong>, like<br />

Israel, <strong>and</strong> for <strong>the</strong> same reason, at last incurred a<br />

prophetic doom commensurate to its former<br />

•stLBkss. privileges.^<br />

^* But as yet Capernaum was still ' exalted up to<br />

heaven.' Here<br />

was <strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> that believing Court-<strong>of</strong>ficial,<br />

whose child J^us had<br />

^siJUmiT. healed.^ Here also was <strong>the</strong> household <strong>of</strong><br />

Peter; <strong>and</strong> here <strong>the</strong> paralytic had found, toge<strong>the</strong>r

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