The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

People Amazed at Christ’s Work

The wonderful words and teachings of Christ led the people to say, “Never man spake like this man.” ²¹ And when he healed the blind and dumb man, “All the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?” ²² or in other words, Is not this the seed of David, the promised Saviour? “When he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?” ²³ GSAM 64.1

About the third year of Christ’s ministry, when he was in the temple attending the feast of dedication, the Jews came about him, and said unto him, “How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.” ²⁴ In the previous year, when he had wrought the mighty miracle of feeding the five thousand with the “five barley loaves and two small fishes,” he “perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, [hence] he departed again into a mountain.” ²⁵ GSAM 64.2