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[Bethoney <osm...@li...>]

 they want soon enough, whether they like it or not. He is not afraid of
disease, and dines with a leper. A woman, apparently to protect him
against infection, pours a costly unguent on his head, and is rebuked
because what it cost might have been given to the poor. He poohpoohs
that lowspirited view, and says, as he said when he was reproached for
not fasting, that the poor are always there to be helped, but that he is
not there to be anointed always, implying that you should never lose a
chance of being happy when there is so much misery in the world. He
breaks the Sabbath; is impatient of conventionality when it is
uncomfortable or obstructive; and outrages the feelings of the Jews by
breaches of it. He is apt to accuse people who feel that way of
hypocrisy. Like the late Samuel Butler, he regards disease as a
department of sin, and on curing a lame man, says "Thy sins are
forgiven" instead of "Arise and walk," subsequently maintaining, when
the Scribes reproach him for assuming power to forgive sin as well as to
cure disease, that the two come to the same thing. He has no modest
affectations, and claims to be greater than Solomon or Jonah. When
reproached, as Bunyan was, for resorting to the art of fict