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Jesus the Christ1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

W. C. Van Unnik
W. C. Van Unnik
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Bilthoven, Holland
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On a warm, sunny afternoon— one which we so much missed this year in our part of the globe— I stood on the beach of our Dutch seacoast. There was a crowd so tightly packed that one could hardly discover the sand or the sea. The only thing one sees is the highly variegated species of man; the only thing one hears is the cacophony of sound produced by this crowd.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , January 1962 , pp. 101 - 116
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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