Gamaliel writes; Jesus is a young man of the finest thought and feeling he ever saw in his life. that He is the most apt in His answers and solutions of difficult problems of any man of His age he had ever encountered. He says Jesus seems to answer with more universal satisfaction---so much so that the oldest philosopher would not dispute with Him, or in any manner would engage issues with Him, or ask a second time what Jesus means. 

     I asked Massalian who taught Jesus to read and interpret the law and the prophets. He said that Mary, Jesus mom, said that Jesus had always known how to read and interpret the law; that his mind seemed to master it as a young child growing up. 

     In His talks and teachings, Jesus gives deep insight into the laws of God and the relation of man to our fellow human beings, inspiration mutual love and strengthening the common trust of society. He makes all nature preach the doctrine of trust in the divine heavenly Father Creator God. He points to the lilies of the field as pledges of God's care; points to the birds as evidence of God's watchfulness over human affairs. 

     With such illustrations, Jesus creates a solicitude in people that seems to awe them into a reverence for God, attracting them toward heavenly thoughts causing them to feel in the presence of one superior. His words brings the listeners to feel they are very near the presence of God.

     He poses questions like; who can measure the distance between God and the flower of the field? --- Or What connection is there between man and the lily?

     His teaching levels the plane as one, though the intermediate points are immeasurable distant. So, by using the flower as the beginning of illustration, he causes people to reason upward to the absolute, and then descends teaching lessons of trust in a loving Father, Creator, God.

     Jesus, in His talks uses parables and illustrations to make people feel their nearness to each other, teaching their relation to and dependence upon the Creator God.

     Massalian says, we are watching Him to see His divine mission commence, He is continually tantalizing our expectations, as well as mocking our natural reason and desires.          When a man separates himself from all other men, both in point of doctrine as well as discipline, he takes a very great risk on his part---especially when he confines God to one channel, by His own dictation.

     Massalian says, when a man assumes this position of doctrine, he must have vast resources from which to draw, or he will sink in a whirlpool of impertinence he created.

     However, what Jesus teaches is similar to our great scholars, Hillel or Shammai, I must conclude that Jesus is a great teacher and speaker. We learn from Him that God is Spirit, and God is Father; and these are the only two things essential for man to know. He then illustrates this by speaking to parents, and asks them "what would they do for their children?" He then told of a mother starving herself to feed her child; then He applied it to God as our Father; the crowd started shouting they were so happy.

     Massalian went on to say that Jesus is a young man was the best judge of human nature he had ever seen; that he thought at times Jesus could tell men their thoughts and expose their bad principles; and while he had all these advantages of life He seemed not to care for them or use them abusively. He seems to like all men----one as well as another---this was so much so His own parents became disgusted with Him. Jesus has such a peculiar temperament that He seems to care, and is well satisfied with one as another.

     He said that Jesus seemed fond of Mary and Martha, Lazarus's sisters who lived at Bethany and that I might find Him there at their house to meet Him personally,

     

 

 

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