THAT the gospel Jesus taught and demonstrated was one of works as well as words, is the only reasonable conclusion to be deduced from the record of his public ministry as set down by the four evangelists. It is true that he preached the gospel of the kingdom wherever he went after he had gathered about him those whom he had chosen to be "fishers of men," for as he told the people he had not come to destroy the law promulgated from Sinai and handed down through many generations by the prophets invested by the supreme Lawgiver with power to declare His word, but he had come to exemplify in himself its glorious fulfilment.
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