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The life of Jesus of Nazareth is examined through the lens of the people around him.

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Claudius, a Roman Centurion

This chanced thirty years ago. My sons who were babes then are men now. And they are serving Caesar and Rome.

But often in counselling them I have spoken of Him, a man facing death with the sap of life upon His lips, and with compassion for His slayers in His eyes.

And now I am old. I have lived the years fully. And I think truly that neither Pompey nor Caesar was so great a commander as that Man of Galilee.

For since His unresisting death an army has risen out of the earth to fight for Him.⁠ ⁠… And He is better served by them, though dead, than ever Pompey or Caesar was served, though living.

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