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14 of life. It was a voice saying "Thus far shall thou go and no farther." "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth." The reputation of the place. Habit, custom, education, all these, stood against the idea that especially the great deliverer of Israel should make his debut from it. Others of the Jews said "We know this man whence he is" and therefore rejected him because he was the Carpenters son - At another time they said "We know that God spoke unto Moses; but as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is." and they rejected him on this ground. so that in either case prejudice ?nited? ?utt unbelief - and Christ became the "despised and rejected of men." And so I suppose it is today - Men allow their prejudices to keep them out of the kingdom of X. At one time their prejudices tell them that they know all about this matter