Cresceu numa outra aldeia.
Trabalhou numa banca de carpinteiro até aos 30 anos.
E então, durante três anos, foi um pregador itinerante.
Nunca escreveu um livro.
Nunca exerceu qualquer cargo.
Nunca possuiu uma casa.
Nunca constituiu família.
Nunca frequentou uma universidade.
Nunca a planta dos seus pés pisou uma grande cidade.
Nunca se distanciou mais de 300 quilómetros do lugar onde nasceu.
Nunca fez nenhuma das coisas que os homens costumam associar à grandeza.
Nunca teve credenciais a não ser a sua própria pessoa.
Quando ainda jovem, a opinião popular voltou-se contra ele.
Seus amigos o abandonaram.
Um deles negou-o, outro traiu-o.
Foi entregue aos seus inimigos, condenado por um impulso do tribunal, cravado numa cruz entre dois ladrões.
Os seus executores lançaram sortes sobre a única coisa que ele possuía – a sua túnica.
Quando morreu, foi enterrado num túmulo emprestado pela piedade de um amigo.
Vinte longos séculos se passaram e hoje ele é a personalidade central da raça humana, e o líder de todo o progresso.
E não é exagero dizer que todos os exércitos que já marcharam, todas as frotas que já se construíram, todos os parlamentos que já se reuniram e todos os reis que já reinaram, postos juntos, não influenciaram tão poderosamente a vida da humanidade como a vida singular de Jesus de Nazaré.
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Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another village.
He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.
Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never owned a home.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family.
He never had a family.
He never went to college.
He never put His foot inside a big city.
He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born.
He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself...
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him.
His friends ran away.
One of them denied Him.
He was turned over to His enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves.
While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Twenty long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress.
I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.
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