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

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was attended by o<strong>the</strong>r boats, which bore those that<br />

would fain follow Him. In <strong>the</strong> stem <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ship, on<br />

<strong>the</strong> low bench where <strong>the</strong> steersman sometimes<br />

takes rest, was pillowed <strong>the</strong> Head <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />

Weariness, faintness, hunger, exhaustion, assented<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir mastery over His true humanity.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> definite article (St Mark iv. 36"^ marks It aa<br />

* <strong>the</strong>' ship—a well-known boat which always bore<br />

Him.<br />

w FROM JORDAN TO TflE MOUNT OP<br />

TRANSFIGURATION.<br />

BOOK He, Whom earliest Apostolic testimony*<br />

proclaimed to have been ni in * <strong>the</strong> form <strong>of</strong> God/<br />

slept. Even this evidences <strong>the</strong> truth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ^^f^ I<br />

whole narrative. If Apostolic tradition had devised<br />

this narrative to exhibit His Divine Power, why<br />

represent Him as faint <strong>and</strong> asleep in <strong>the</strong> ship; <strong>and</strong>,<br />

if it would portray Him as deeply sleeping for very<br />

weariness, how could it ascribe to Him <strong>the</strong> power<br />

<strong>of</strong> stilling <strong>the</strong> storm by His rebuke ? Each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se

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