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1.They were both youthful. (87:4) 2.They were both known for their meekness and loving kindness. (87:5) 3.They both performed healing miracles. (87:6) 4.The period of their ministry was very brief in each case, and moved with dramatic swiftness to its climax. (87:7) 5.Both of them boldly challenged the time-honoured conventions, laws, and rites of the religions into which they had been born. (87:8) 6.They courageously condemned the unbridled graft and corruption which they saw on every side, both religious and secular. (87:9) 7.The purity of their own lives shamed the people among whom they taught. (87:10) 8.Their chief enemies were among the religious leaders of the land. These officials were the instigators of the outrages they were made to suffer. (87:11) 9.They both had indignities heaped upon them.
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