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Title: The King Nobody Wanted

Author: Norman F. Langford

Illustrator: John Lear

Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #19087]

Language: English

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The King nobody wanted

By NORMAN F. LANGFORD

_Illustrated by John Lear_

THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
PHILADELPHIA

COPYRIGHT, MCMXLVIII, BY W. L. JENKINS

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CONTENTS

1 Waiting

2 A King Is Born

3 Growing

4 Jesus Goes to Work

5 A Busy Time

6 Friends and Foes

7 Slow to Understand

8 Jesus Is Strong

9 Refusing a Crown

10 The Way to Jerusalem

11 Nearing the City

12 In Jerusalem

13 The Last Night

14 The Last Day

15 The Victorious King

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

_In a very real and interesting way_, THE KING NOBODY WANTED _tells
the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they
are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is
told in the words of every day._

_Since you will certainly want to look up these stories in your own
Bible, the references are given on pages 191 and 192. You will
discover that often more than one Gospel tells the same story about
Jesus, but in a slightly different way. In_ THE KING NOBODY WANTED,
_the stories from the Gospels have been put together so that there is
just one story for you to read and understand and enjoy._

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1. Waiting

Two thousand years ago, in the land of