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Jesus was born in an obscure village known as Bethlehem. He grew up in still another village called Nazareth, where he worked as a carpenter until he was thirty years of age. Then for three years he was a wandering preacher.
He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He did not go to college. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies, and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
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