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164:5.1 All of the time this [[Sabbath]]-breaking session of the [[Sanhedrin]] was in [[progress]] in one of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple the temple] chambers, [[Jesus]] was walking about near at hand, [[teaching]] the people in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Porch Solomon's Porch], [[hoping]] that he would be [[summoned]] before the [[Sanhedrin]] where he could tell them the [[Gospel|good news]] of the [[liberty]] and [[joy]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 divine sonship] in [[the kingdom]] of [[God]]. But they were [[afraid]] to send for him. They were always disconcerted by these sudden and [[public]] [[appearances]] of [[Jesus]] in [[Jerusalem]]. The very occasion they had so ardently sought, [[Jesus]] now gave them, but they [[feared]] to bring him before the [[Sanhedrin]] even as a [[witness]], and even more they [[feared]] to [[arrest]] him.

164:5.2 This was midwinter in [[Jerusalem]], and the people sought the partial [[shelter]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon's_Porch Solomon's Porch]; and as [[Jesus]] lingered, the crowds asked him many [[questions]], and he taught them for more than two hours. Some of the [[Jewish]] [[teachers]] sought to entrap him by publicly asking him: " How long will you hold us in [[suspense]]? If you are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism the Messiah], why do you not plainly tell us? " Said [[Jesus]]: " I have told you about myself and [[Universal Father|my Father]] many times, but you will not [[believe]] me. Can you not see that the works I do in my Father's name bear [[witness]] for me? But many of you [[believe]] not because you belong not to my fold. The [[teacher]] of [[truth]] [[attracts]] only those who [[hunger]] for the [[truth]] and who [[thirst]] for [[righteousness]]. My sheep hear my [[voice]] and I know them and they follow me. And to all who follow my [[teaching]] I give [[eternal]] life; they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. [[Universal Father|My Father]], who has given me these [[children]], is greater than all, so that no one is able to pluck them out of [[Universal Father|my Father]]'s hand. The Father and I are one. " Some of the unbelieving [[Jews]] rushed over to where they were still building [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple the temple] to pick up stones to cast at [[Jesus]], but the [[believers]] restrained them.[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_10]

164:5.3 [[Jesus]] continued his [[teaching]]: " Many loving works have I shown you from [[the Father]], so that now would I [[inquire]] for which one of these [[good]] works do you [[think]] to stone me? " And then answered one of the [[Pharisees]]: " For no [[good]] [[work]] would we stone you but for [[blasphemy]], inasmuch as you, being a man, dare to make yourself [[equal]] with [[God]]. " And [[Jesus]] answered: " You charge the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] with [[blasphemy]] because you refused to [[believe]] me when I declared to you that I was sent by [[God]]. If I do not the works of God, [[believe]] me not, but if I do the works of God, even though you [[believe]] not in me, I should think you would believe the works. But that you may be certain of what I [[proclaim]], let me again [[assert]] that [[the Father]] is in me and I in the Father, and that, as the Father dwells in me, so will I dwell in every one who [[believes]] this [[gospel]]. " And when the people heard these [[words]], many of them rushed out to lay hands upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning stones] to cast at him, but he passed out through the [[temple]] precincts; and meeting [[Nathaniel]] and [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]], who had been in attendance upon the session of the [[Sanhedrin]], he waited with them near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple the temple] until Josiah came from the [[council]] chamber.

164:5.4 [[Jesus]] and the two [[apostles]] did not go in search of Josiah at his [[home]] until they heard he had been cast out of the [[synagogue]]. When they came to his house, [[Thomas, the Apostle|Thomas]] called him out in the yard, and [[Jesus]], [[speaking]] to him, said: " Josiah, do you [[believe]] in the [[Son of God]]? " And Josiah answered, " Tell me who he is that I may [[believe]] in him. " And [[Jesus]] said: " You have both seen and heard him, and it is he who now [[speaks]] to you. " And Josiah said, " Lord, I [[believe]], " and falling down, he [[worshiped]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_9]

164:5.5 When Josiah [[learned]] that he had been cast out of the [[synagogue]], he was at first greatly [[downcast]], but he was much [[encouraged]] when [[Jesus]] directed that he should [[immediately]] prepare to go with them to the camp at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Jordan Pella]. This [[simple]]-minded man of [[Jerusalem]] had indeed been cast out of a [[Jewish]] [[synagogue]], but behold the [[Creator Son|Creator]] of a [[universe]] [[leading]] him forth to become [[associated]] with the [[spiritual]] [[nobility]] of that day and [[generation]].

164:5.6 And now [[Jesus]] left [[Jerusalem]], not again to return until near the time when he [[prepared]] to [[Ascension|leave this world]]. With the two [[apostles]] and Josiah [[the Master]] went back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Jordan Pella]. And Josiah proved to be one of the recipients of [[the Master]]'s [[miraculous]] ministry who turned out fruitfully, for he became a lifelong [[preacher]] of the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]].

[[Paper 164 - At the Feast of Dedication[[

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