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

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<strong>the</strong>re impossible at this stage in our Lord's history.<br />

Henceforth, His <strong>Life</strong> is, indeed, not purely<br />

missionary, but He has no certain dwelling-place:<br />

in <strong>the</strong> sublime pathos <strong>of</strong> His own language, ' He<br />

hath not where to lay His Head.'<br />

<strong>The</strong> notice in St. Mark's Gospel,^ that His<br />

disciples followed •st.iiM^ Him, seems to connect<br />

<strong>the</strong> arrival <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> in ' His own country' (at<br />

Nazareth) with <strong>the</strong> departure from <strong>the</strong> house <strong>of</strong><br />

Jairus, into which He had allowed only three <strong>of</strong><br />

His Apostles to accompany Him. <strong>The</strong><br />

circumstances <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present visit, as well as <strong>the</strong><br />

tone <strong>of</strong> His countrymen at this time, are entirely<br />

different from what is recorded <strong>of</strong> His former<br />

sojourn at Nazareth.* ' <strong>The</strong> tenacious narrowness,<br />

<strong>and</strong> * st. loIm <strong>the</strong> prejudices, so characteristic <strong>of</strong><br />

such a town, with its cliques <strong>and</strong> petty familypride,<br />

all <strong>the</strong> more self-asserting that <strong>the</strong> gradation<br />

would be almost imperceptible to an outsider, are,<br />

<strong>of</strong> course, <strong>the</strong> same as on <strong>the</strong> former visit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />

Nazareth would have ceased to be Nazareth, had<br />

its people felt or spoken o<strong>the</strong>rwise than nine or ten

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