THE REAL JESUS

There was something so clear and beautiful and true and unique and powerful about Jesus that old rabbis would marvel at His teaching, young children would run and sit in his lap, ashamed prostitutes would find themselves weeping at His feet, whole villages would gather to hear Him speak, experts in the law would find themselves speechless, and people from the poor to the rugged working class to the unbelievably wealthy would leave everything . . . to follow Him (Don Everts, Jesus with Dirty Feet (Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 20-27.