Topic: His life and ministry

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Where was Jesus from His…where was Jesus at from His baptism until the three years of His ministry?

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All right. Jesus, when He was baptized, went straightway out of the water, and the Spirit led Him into the wilderness for forty days and nights to be tempted of the devil. And He was tempted forty days and nights. And He fasted. He come out. The devil tempted Him when He come out after His fast. And...

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What does Verily, verily mean in Saint John 5:19?

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Now, when the Jews questioned (the 19th verse), He said, “Verily, verily.” Now, you Catholic, in—in your translation, in the Douay translation, it says, “Amen, amen.” And the real translation in the King James, from the original Greek, it says—it says, “Verily, verily,” means, “Absolutely, absolutel...

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What does Saint John 5:19 say about how Jesus did His works?

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What if He was here tonight in a visible Person? Just as sure as He walked on the Sea of Galilee, He’s right here. He promised to be. And what did He do? What’d He say He would do after He raised from the dead? The Bible said He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Well, if He’s t...

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According to Saint John 5:19, could Jesus do anything of Himself?

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Watch Jesus here when they questioned Him about all these things, and the man packing his bed and so forth, that’d been healed. He said, now listen, Saint John 5:19: “Verily, verily…” That’s absolutely, absolutely. “…I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doin...

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How many people did Jesus raise from the dead during His ministry?

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Jesus Christ only raised three in His entire life, to show that a witness of three is to be established. Is that right? In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. Then God is living in His people today, because back there when Jesus came into Jerusalem, there was a great...

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How could Jesus be hungry Himself and still feed five thousand people?

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He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night so hungry. He’s trying to find something to eat, looking all around the tree, trying to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungered. That’s right, but when He took five biscuits, and two little fishes, and broke them, and fed fi...

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When Satan tempted Him, did Jesus use the power and gifts He had?

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He’s one that doesn’t even have a prayer line. He just stands there with the Scriptures and explains It in such a way, till the people just have to see it. That’s all. And listen. That is the initial way of Divine healing. You know that? The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, on any c...

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What did Jesus mean when He said the Son does nothing of Himself?

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Walked right on over, and the man wasn’t too bad. He’d had maybe a prostate trouble or something, for about thirty-eight years. He was laying on a pallet. Jesus healed him. Then walked right on out of the building. Mmm. And they said He was full of love and compassion. His love wasn’t…It was to the...

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Did Jesus use His own power to defeat Satan in the temptation?

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I want you to notice how simple this is. When Jesus co—was here on earth, He was Emmanuel. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God was manifested in the flesh in Jesus Christ, and He was the Emmanuel. And when He walked along here on earth, He had powers. What the Father was, He’d ma...

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Why did Jesus refuse to perform signs when His mockers demanded them?

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Notice here. They put a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head. Said, “Now, if You’re a prophet, tell us who hit You. We’ll believe You then.” Jesus never opened His mouth. He didn’t clown for people. Yet He knowed the woman at the well where here sin was. He knowed where Nathanael was wh...

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Did Jesus read people's minds?

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Someone said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, do you say Jesus was a mind-reader?” Sure. He perceived their thoughts. Call it whatever you want to. I don’t mean one of these here, setting out here, or what the devil has made a pattern of setting out yonder, with her hand out, reading down alon...

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What does John 5:19 mean by 'the Son can do nothing of Himself'?

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He did—did not do a thing within Himself until God showed Him a vision of what was being done. That’s His own Word, Saint John 5:19. “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. And He will show you greater things...

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Why did Jesus meet Satan's temptations with 'It is written' rather than the gifts God gave Him?

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As I was speaking this afternoon of the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Father in Him, all God was—give His gifts into His Son that it might be manifested in the earth. When He met Satan, He never used one of them. He brought it down to show that the weakest of Christians… Satan comes in and says, “If…”...

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Was Jesus' knowing what was in people's hearts a form of mental telepathy?

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Jesus, they seen that He…He knew the peoples thoughts. He knew what they were thinking of. He saw visions and told them that He couldn’t do nothing till the Father showed Him. And what He said that the Father would do, that the Father had done, that every time was right. Isn’t that right? So they fi...

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Why was Jesus asleep in the boat during the storm?

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There’s no need of me trying to explain these things friends. No matter how much I would try to explain them; I could never explain them to you. So you just try to understand (See?), and just believe me, that it’s—it’s something that just takes the life right out of you. One time I wondered how that...

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Did Jesus dress differently from other men of His day?

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Now, let’s look what kind of a group that was: of lame, halt, blind, withered. What a—a mass of disfigured humanity, waiting for the troubling of this water. Historians tell us that they’d even fight to get into the water, cut each other with knives to try to get ahead of the other one, to step in t...

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What did Jesus mean in John 5:19 when He said the Son can do nothing of Himself?

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Now, the Jews questioned Him. He said, “Verily, verily…” Listen close now. Give me your attention. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself: but whatsoever things He sees the Father doing; that doeth the Son likewise. For what the Father does, He shows the Son.” Is that rig...