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Chapter
XXXIX.
And how can the following assertion of this Jew of
Celsus appear anything else than a manifest falsehood, viz., that
Jesus, “having gained over no one during his life, not even his
own disciples, underwent these punishments and sufferings?”
For from what other source sprang the envy which was aroused against
Him by the Jewish high priests, and elders, and scribes, save from the
fact that multitudes obeyed and followed Him, and were led into the
deserts not only by the
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whose words were always appropriate to His hearers, but who also by His
miracles made an impression on those who were not moved to belief by
His words? And is it not a manifest falsehood to say that
“he did not gain over even his own disciples,” who
exhibited, indeed, at that time some symptoms of human weakness arising
from cowardly fear—for they had not yet been disciplined to the
exhibition of full courage—but who by no means abandoned the
judgments which they had formed regarding Him as the Christ? For
Peter, after his denial, perceiving to what a depth of wickedness he
had fallen, “went out and wept bitterly;” while the others,
although stricken with dismay on account of what had happened to Jesus
(for they still continued to admire Him), had, by His glorious
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their belief more
firmly established than before that He was the Son of
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