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

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with forgiveness <strong>of</strong> his sins, health <strong>of</strong> body. Its<br />

streets, with <strong>the</strong>ir outlook on <strong>the</strong> deep blue Lake,<br />

had been thronged by eager multitudes in search <strong>of</strong><br />

life to body <strong>and</strong> soul. Here Mat<strong>the</strong>w-Levi had<br />

heard <strong>and</strong> followed <strong>the</strong> call <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>; <strong>and</strong> here <strong>the</strong><br />

good Centurion had in stillness learned to love<br />

Israel, <strong>and</strong> serve Israel's Bang, <strong>and</strong> built with no<br />

niggard h<strong>and</strong> that Synagogue, most splendid <strong>of</strong><br />

those yet exhumed in Oalilee, which had been<br />

consecrated by <strong>the</strong> Presence <strong>and</strong> Teaching <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> by prayers, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> conversion <strong>of</strong><br />

Jairus, its chief ruler, seems <strong>the</strong> blessed answer.<br />

And now, from <strong>the</strong> Mount <strong>of</strong> Beatitudes, it was<br />

st.MaA again to His temporary home at Capernaum<br />

that <strong>Jesus</strong> retired.''<br />

III. 19-81 Yet not ei<strong>the</strong>r to solitude or to rest. For,<br />

<strong>of</strong> that multitude which had hung entranced on His<br />

Words many followed Him, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>re was now<br />

such constant pressure around Him, that, in <strong>the</strong> zeal<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir attendance upon <strong>the</strong> wants <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong><br />

those who hungered

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