After performing one of his miraculous cures, what charge did he make to those who witnessed it?
Mark: “He charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it” ([vii, 36]).
Did he desire them to disregard his commands? If he did he was a hypocrite; if he did not he was an impotent—in either case a fallible man instead of an omnipotent God.
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On the approach of the Passover what did he say to his brethren?
“Go ye up unto this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast” ([John vii, 8]).
The correct reading of the last clause is, “I go not up unto the feast.” The American revisers, to their credit, urged the adoption of this reading; but the Oxford revisers retained the error. In uttering these words, Jesus, if omniscient, uttered an untruth; for John says: “But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret” ([10]).