Book V - Snyder Bible

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more of like kind, I said in reply, that I incurred less danger, if,
as he said, this Yahshua were not the Moshiach, because I received
Him as a teacher of Torah; but that he was in terrible
danger if this be the very Moshiach, as assuredly He is: for I
believe in Him who has appeared; but for whom else, who has
never appeared, does he reserve his faith? But if I, an unlearned
and uneducated man, as you say, a fisherman and a
rustic, have more understanding than wise elders, this, said I,
ought the more to strike terror into you. For if I disputed with
any learning, and won over you wise and learned men, it
would appear that I had acquired this power by long learning,
and not by the grace of divine power; but now, when, as I have
said, we unskilled men convince and overcome you wise men,
who that has any sense does not perceive that this is not a
Chapter LXIII: Appeal to the Jews
nlearned
men and fishermen, taught the kohanim concerning
the unified Yahweh of heaven; the Tzakukim, concerning the
resurrection of the dead; the Shomronim, concerning the sacredness
of Yahrushalayim (not that we entered into their cities,
but disputed with them in public); the sophrim and
Prushim, concerning the kingdom of heaven; the talmidim of
Yochanan, that they should not allow Yochanan to be a stumbling-block
to them; and all the people, that Yahshua is the
eternal Moshiach. At last, however, I warned them, that before
we should go forth to the Gentiles, to preach to them the
knowledge of Yahweh the Father, they should themselves be
reconciled to Yahweh, receiving His Son; for I showed them
that in no way else could they be saved, unless through the
grace of the Ruach HaKodesh they hasted to be washed with
odesh
of Yahweh in His Name, whom alone they ought to believe
concerning those things which He taught, that so they
might merit to attain eternal salvation; but that otherwise it
was utterly impossible for them to be reconciled to Yahweh,