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John 18 : 23
“This was a lawful objection against denying to a prisoner on trial his right to be confronted by his accusers. It was received with open disdain; and one of the officers who stood by, hoping perhaps to curry favor with this superiors, actually struck Jesus with a vicious blow, accompanied by the question, “Answerest thou the high priest so?” To this cowardly assault the Lord replied with almost superhuman gentleness... “if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?”... if what Jesus had said was evil, why did not the assailant accuse Him; and if He had spoken well, what right had a police officer to judge, condemn, and punish. . . Law and justice had been dethroned that night.”
-Elder James E. Talmage, JTC, 622-3
Exodus 18 - 20
Exodus 24 and 31 - 34
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