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In Nazareth
66. It happened that after Jmmanuel had finished these parables, he went away from there.
67. Arriving in his hometown of Nazareth, he taught in the synagogue. The people were appalled and they said, "How did he come by such wisdom and deeds?
68. "Is he not the son of Joseph, the carpenter, whose wife became pregnant by a guardian angel?
69. "Is not his mother named Mary?
70. "Are not his brothers Judas, Joseph, Simeon and Jacob?
71. "And his sisters, are they not all with us?
72. "From where does he get all this wisdom and the power for his deeds?"
73. So they took offence at him and threatened to turn him over to the courts.
74. But Jmmanuel spoke, "Nowhere is a prophet valued less than in his own country and in his own house. This will prove true for all time, as
long as humanity has little knowledge and is enslaved by the delusionary teachings of the scribes and distorters of scripture.
75. "So it will come true in two times a thousand years, when humans have become knowledgeable and thinking, and when my actual unfalsified teachings will be revealed anew.
76. "The new prophet of that distant future will not possess as much strength and power over evil and sickness.
77. "But his knowledge will surpass mine, and his revelations about my real teachings will shake the foundations of the entire Earth, for in his time the world will be inundated by my teachings, as falsified by the distorters of the scriptures, and it will be living in false religious cults that bring death.
78. "It will be a time when wars from space begin to threaten, and many new gods will seek to rule over the Earth.
79. "Truly, truly, I say to you, the new prophet will be persecuted not only by a wrong-minded people, as will happen to me, but also by the whole world and by many deluded religious cults, which will bring forth many false prophets.