{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But what promise did Jesus make which He did not perform?\r\nLet Celsus produce any instance of such, and make\r\ngood his charge. But he will be unable to do so, especially\r\nsince it is from mistakes, arising either from misapprehension\r\nof the Gospel narratives, or from Jewish stories, that he\r\nthinks to derive the charges which he brings against Jesus or\r\nagainst ourselves. Moreover, again, when the Jew says, “We\r\nboth found him guilty, and condemned him as deserving of\r\ndeath,” let them show how they who sought to concoct false\r\nwitness against Him proved Him to be guilty. Was not the\r\ngreat charge against Jesus, which His accusers brought forward,\r\nthis, that He said, “I am able to destroy the temple of\r\nGod, and after three days to raise it up again?”<a id=\"r69\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f69\"><sup>[69]</sup></a> But in so\r\nsaying, He spake of the temple of His body; while they thought,\r\nnot being able to understand the meaning of the speaker, that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_14\">14</span>His reference was to the temple of stone, which was treated by\r\nthe Jews with greater respect than He was who ought to have\r\nbeen honoured as the true Temple of God—the Word, and the\r\nWisdom, and the Truth. And who can say that “Jesus\r\nattempted to make His escape by disgracefully concealing\r\nHimself?” Let any one point to an act deserving to be called\r\ndisgraceful. And when he adds, “he was taken prisoner,”\r\nI would say that, if to be taken prisoner implies an act done\r\nagainst one’s will, then Jesus was not taken prisoner; for at\r\nthe fitting time He did not prevent Himself falling into the\r\nhands of men, as the Lamb of God, that He might take away\r\nthe sin of the world. For, knowing all things that were to\r\ncome upon Him, He went forth, and said to them, “Whom\r\nseek ye?” and they answered, “Jesus of Nazareth;” and He\r\nsaid unto them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who betrayed\r\nHim, was standing with them. When, therefore, He had said\r\nto them, “I am He,” they went backwards and fell to the\r\nground. Again He asked them, “Whom seek ye?” and they\r\nsaid again, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I told\r\nyou I am He; if then ye seek me, let these go away.”<a id=\"r70\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f70\"><sup>[70]</sup></a> Nay,\r\neven to him who wished to help Him, and who smote the high\r\npriest’s servant, and cut off his ear, He said: “Put up thy\r\nsword into its sheath: for all they who draw the sword shall\r\nperish by the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot even now\r\npray to my Father, and He will presently give me more than\r\ntwelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures\r\nbe fulfilled, that thus it must be?”<a id=\"r71\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f71\"><sup>[71]</sup></a> And if any one imagines\r\nthese statements to be inventions of the writers of the Gospels,\r\nwhy should not those statements rather be regarded as inventions\r\nwhich proceeded from a spirit of hatred and hostility\r\nagainst Jesus and the Christians? and these the truth, which\r\nproceed from those who manifest the sincerity of their feelings\r\ntowards Jesus, by enduring everything, whatever it may be, for\r\nthe sake of His words? For the reception by the disciples of\r\nsuch power of endurance and resolution continued even to death,\r\nwith a disposition of mind that would not invent regarding their\r\nTeacher what was not true, is a very evident proof to all candid\r\njudges that they were fully persuaded of the truth of what they\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_15\">15</span>wrote, seeing they submitted to trials so numerous and so severe,\r\nfor the sake of Him whom they believed to be the Son of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter X."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-50"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"915f30eabf58609a7e245789022880bbc59d88af7f4fc37e3771a0492a8d92b8","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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