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He is a snake-oil trader, but a good one.
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First, he tells the people that they have a problem --
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that they killed the man sent to them by God.
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Then he tells them that he has the answer.
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All they have to do
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is repent and throw themselves in the river.
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Does he ever stop?
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I never saw a man with so much energy
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for the destruction of his enemies.
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And here we sit -- now -- the chosen few,
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whose work it is to stamp out this heresy
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before it spreads from Jerusalem