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144:7.1 Throughout the months of November and December, [[Jesus]] and the twenty-four worked [[quietly]] in the [[Greek]] [[cities]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], chiefly in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythopolis Scythopolis], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasa Gerasa], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abila_(Decapolis) Abila], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadara Gadara]. This was really the end of that preliminary period of taking over [[John the Baptist|John]]'s [[work]] and [[organization]]. Always does the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_99 socialized religion] of a new [[revelation]] pay the price of [[compromise]] with the [[established]] [[forms]] and usages of the preceding [[religion]] which it seeks to salvage. [[Baptism]] was the price which the followers of [[Jesus]] paid in order to carry with them, as a socialized [[religious]] [[group]], the followers of [[John the Baptist]]. John's followers, in joining [[Jesus]]' followers, gave up just about everything except water [[baptism]].

144:7.1 Throughout the months of November and December, [[Jesus]] and the twenty-four worked [[quietly]] in the [[Greek]] [[cities]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], chiefly in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythopolis Scythopolis], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasa Gerasa], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abila_(Decapolis) Abila], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadara Gadara]. This was really the end of that preliminary period of taking over [[John the Baptist|John]]'s [[work]] and [[organization]]. Always does the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_99 socialized religion] of a new [[revelation]] pay the price of [[compromise]] with the [[established]] [[forms]] and usages of the preceding [[religion]] which it seeks to salvage. [[Baptism]] was the price which the followers of [[Jesus]] paid in order to carry with them, as a socialized [[religious]] [[group]], the followers of [[John the Baptist]]. John's followers, in joining [[Jesus]]' followers, gave up just about everything except water [[baptism]].

144:7.2 [[Jesus]] did little public teaching on this [[mission]] to the [[cities]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis]. He spent considerable time teaching the twenty-four and had many special sessions with John's [[twelve apostles]]. In time they became more [[understanding]] as to why [[Jesus]] did not go to visit [[John the Baptist|John]] in [[prison]], and why he made no [[effort]] to secure his release. But they never could [[understand]] why [[Jesus]] did no [[marvelous]] works, why he refused to produce outward [[signs]] of his [[divine]] [[authority]]. Before coming to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gilboa Gilboa] camp, they had believed in [[Jesus]] mostly because of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s [[testimony]], but soon they were beginning to believe as a result of their own contact with [[the Master]] and his teachings.

144:7.2 [[Jesus]] did little public teaching on this [[mission]] to the [[cities]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis]. He spent considerable time teaching the twenty-four and had many special sessions with John's [[twelve apostles]]. In time they became more [[understanding]] as to why [[Jesus]] did not go to visit [[John the Baptist|John]] in [[prison]], and why he made no [[effort]] to secure his release. But they never could [[understand]] why [[Jesus]] did no [[marvelous]] works, why he refused to produce outward [[signs]] of his [[divine]] [[authority]]. Before coming to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gilboa Gilboa] camp, they had believed in [[Jesus]] mostly because of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s [[testimony]], but soon they were beginning to believe as a result of their own contact with [[the Master]] and his teachings.

144:7.3 For these two months the [[group]] worked most of the time in pairs, one of [[Jesus]]' [[apostles]] going out with one of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s. The apostle of John [[baptized]], the apostle of [[Jesus]] instructed, while they both preached the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] as they [[understood]] it. And they won many [[souls]] among these [[gentiles]] and [[apostate]] [[Jews]].

144:7.3 For these two months the [[group]] worked most of the time in pairs, one of [[Jesus]]' [[apostles]] going out with one of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s. The apostle of John [[baptized]], the apostle of [[Jesus]] instructed, while they both preached the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] as they [[understood]] it. And they won many [[souls]] among these [[gentiles]] and [[apostate]] [[Jews]].

144:7.4 [[Abner]], the chief of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s apostles, became a [[devout]] believer in [[Jesus]] and was later on made the head of a [[group]] of seventy teachers whom [[the Master]] commissioned to [[preach]] the [[gospel]].

144:7.4 [[Abner]], the chief of [[John the Baptist|John]]'s apostles, became a [[devout]] believer in [[Jesus]] and was later on made the head of a [[group]] of seventy teachers whom [[the Master]] commissioned to [[preach]] the [[gospel]].

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