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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. been given by our heavenly Father and what has been destroyed by sinners, but I have advised them to purify their heart of every stain, for there is the true temple of God."
21"As for the laws of Mossa I have tried to re-cstablish them in the hcart of men, but I tell you that you do not understand their true mcaning, for it is not vengeance, but pardon that they teach; only the sense of these laws has been perverted."
XI.
Having leard Issa, the priests and the learned elders decided among themselves not to judge him for le did no evil to anyone, and presenting thicinsclvcs bcforc Pilate, the Governor of Jerusalem, chosen by the heathen King of the country of Romulus, they addressed him thus:
- 2– "We liave seen the man whom thou accusest of ex. citing our people to revolt, we have heard his teachings and we know that he is our fellow-countryman.'
"But the rulers of the towns have sent thcc falsc rcports, for he is a just man who tcaches the people the word of God. After having questioned him we let him go in pcace."
- 4 The Governor became violently enraged and sent his servants in disguise to spy after Issa and to report to the authorities every word that he addressed to the people.
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