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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the spring of 35. Thus we have a period of about six years during
which the ministry of Jesus must have begun and ended; and if the
tradition with respect to his age be trustworthy, we shall not be
far out of the way in supposing him to have been born somewhere
between B. C. 5 and A. D. 5. He is everywhere alluded to in the
gospels as Jesus of Nazareth in Galilee, where lived also his
father, mother brothers and sisters, and where very likely he was
born. His parents' names are said to have been Joseph and Mary.
His own name is a Hellenized form of Joshua, a name very common
among the Jews. According to the first gospel (xiii. 55), he had
four brothers,--Joseph and Simon; James, who was afterwards one
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