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venture towards the higher steps, John appeared. *
“All Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him.” In their midst John stood. It had not been difficult to gather crowds. News of his blazing voice with its fiery denuniations and its soothings encouragements had swiftly run through the countryside. “As he had brooded on the signs of the times, the barren trees of the desert, fit only for burning and the vipers fleeing before the flaming scrub, became enblerns of the nation’s peril and had lent color to his warnings of impending wrath.” Some had come in curiosity, to see this God-preaching fanatic and his followers who fasted for days; others for the thrill or the easiness of following the crowd. Economic
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