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

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' Deeply as we appreciate <strong>the</strong> beantf<br />

FROM BETHLEHEM TO JORDAN.<br />

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same message, travelled upward, along <strong>the</strong><br />

winding Jordan which cleft <strong>the</strong> l<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> promise. It<br />

was probably <strong>the</strong> antomn <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> year 779 (A.U.C.),<br />

which, it may be noted, was a Sabbatic year.^<br />

Released from business <strong>and</strong> agriculture, <strong>the</strong><br />

multitudes flocked around hiTn as he passed on his<br />

Mission. Rapidly <strong>the</strong> tidings spread from town <strong>and</strong><br />

village to distant homestead, still swelling <strong>the</strong><br />

numbers that hastened to <strong>the</strong> banks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sacred<br />

river. He had now reached what seems to have<br />

been <strong>the</strong> most nor<strong>the</strong>rn point <strong>of</strong> his Missionjourney,'<br />

Beth-Aha/ra Q <strong>the</strong> house <strong>of</strong> passage,' or '<br />

<strong>of</strong> shipping')—according to <strong>the</strong> ancient reading,

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