I AM one of your brethren, a child of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I believe in Moses and the prophets, who predicted that Seed of Abraham by whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed, and who shall be the glory of the children of Israel, who came in the fullness of time, and was brought as a lamb to the slaughter for the iniquities of His people; who was cut off, but not for Himself; who was pierced for our iniquities, and of whom it was said, ‘Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, against the man that is my fellow.’
“Twenty years are now passed since I found Him to be my Saviour; and now for more than twelve years I have preached Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, as the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. And this is the sin which Israel sinneth until now: that they do not believe in Jesus of Nazareth who was that angel in the wilderness who accompanied the children of Israel when they went out of Egypt; to whom, too, the Lord God shall give the throne of His father David; and who shall reign over the house of Jacob forever. He, Jesus Christ, shall be the ruler in Israel; He who came out of Bethlehem Ephratah.”