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And he acted with such authority! Everything he said or did proved that he knew what he was about. It was his certainty that convinced the people! An event occurred on the second day of their return to Capernaum which showed the disciples that they might soon share the fate of John the Baptizer.
Andrew could not hide his disappointment. Jesus knew how hard it was for his disciple to grasp what he meant. Hopes that he had held for years were not easy to give up quickly. "Then John the Baptizer was wrong?" Andrew's voice was subdued. "The Messiah will not come with an army of angels to destroy the enemies of his people?" Jesus answered gently. "Among all men, none is greater than John.
He had been testing God, not trusting him! "O Master," he urged, "won't you teach us to pray as John the Baptizer taught his disciples?" "When you pray, say: 'Our Father in heaven, holy be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Most of the time, the disciples had to admit, they thought only of persuading God to do what they wanted.
"How does John the Baptizer think all this will happen?" asked the Galilean traveler. Andrew did not reply for a long while. Finally he said: "The Prophet tells us that we cannot set ourselves free without God's help. He says that if we had been willing to change our ways, God would have rescued us long ago. Therefore we must get rid of sin and pride and take our stand on God's side.
As usual, a large group of listeners surrounded Jesus. "We shall have to wait until we can talk to him alone," said Andrew. A man whom the disciples had never seen before was questioning Jesus. "Rabbi, why do the Pharisees and the followers of John the Baptizer fast while your disciples pay no attention to the fasting rule?" Andrew and John exchanged startled glances; this was it!
This lovely river, baptizer of Iglesias's childhood, was here shallow and musical, half river, half brook; it had passed the tinkling period, and plashed and rumbled voicefully over rock and shallow. It was a fair and verdant valley where we walked, overlooked by hills of pleasant pastoral slope. All the land was gay and ripe with yellow harvest.
By that rock on the bank!" They climbed up the slope where they could see. John could not tell why he felt the way he did. It might have been the appearance of John the Baptizer. He wore a rough camel-hair tunic and a leather belt. None of the people who were there for the first time had ever seen such a man before. He was very thin. His skin was tanned brown and his hair and beard were long.
He thinks the Nazarene is John the Baptizer risen from the dead!" "But this Jesus is as dangerous to Herod as he is to us!" exclaimed the scribe. "That may be true, but just the same Herod knows that the people like Jesus," said Symeon. "Still, I am sure the king would put a quick end to this small-town prophet if it could be done without stirring up the people."
Eventually embracing Christianity, he was baptized by Ambrose of Milan , on which occasion, tradition says, the Te Deum was composed by himself and his baptizer. Appointed to the See of Hippo in 395, he threw himself into the conflict against heresy and schism, his principal opponents being the Donatists and Pelagians.
God is not going to wait much longer. The time has come to repent! The Kingdom of Heaven is near!" The crowd stirred. What was this? Could it be true that the end of the world was coming soon? "Isaiah the Prophet said, 'Everyone shall see the saving power of God," continued the Baptizer. "God is getting ready to clean off his threshing platform.
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