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VI.—Tidings from Judæa.
And, not to discuss such matters to you in a long
speech, while I was occupied with such reasonings and doings, a certain
report, taking its rise in the spring-time,902
| 902 [This clause is
represented in the Recognitions as follows: “which
took its rise in the regions of the East.”—R.] | in
the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, gradually grew everywhere, and ran
through the world as truly the good tidings of God, being unable to
stifle the counsel of God in silence. Therefore it everywhere
became greater and louder, saying that a certain One in Judæa,
beginning in the spring season, was preaching to the Jews the kingdom
of the invisible God, and saying that whoever of them would reform his
manner of living should enjoy it. And in order that He might be
believed that He uttered these things full of the Godhead, He wrought
many wonderful miracles and signs by His mere command, as having
received power from God. For He made the deaf to hear, the blind
to see, the lame to walk, raised up the bowed down, drove away every
disease, put to flight every demon; and even scabbed lepers, by only
looking on Him from a distance, were sent away cured by Him; and the
dead being brought to Him, were raised; and there was nothing which He
could not do. And as time advanced, so much the greater, through
the arrival of more persons, and the stronger grew—I say not now
the report, but—the truth of the thing; for now at length there
were meetings in various places for consultation and inquiry as to who
He might be that had appeared, and what was His
purpose.
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