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Nicodemus was a Pharisee, and there is good evidence that more Pharisees followed Jesus secretly
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The next few moments were a horrible mixture of déjà vu and misunderstood questions, all of which left Miss Jones in a state of confused and bemused uncertainty
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She shut the pink phone and thrust it back into the hand of her bemused friend
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confused and bemused uncertainty
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thrust it back into the hand of her bemused friend
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Both Tom and Alistair nodded bemusedly, unsure what exactly
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Alan was examining the theirops bones, bemused that they were made of wood
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absent children, a little bemused
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signs with some bemusement, then back to the young
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The Prof stayed sitting at the dining table, a look of vague bemusement on his face
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They climbed aboard the carriage a bemused Lemoss looked at Beauty steadily
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’ Once again, Jean was bemused by the
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With a bemused smile, Theoton obliged
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We gathered that his name was Polyphemus
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That’s why Polyphemus doesn’t kill the lambs
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“Let’s pretend we’re happy to stay inside with Polyphemus
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Polyphemus forced us to retreat from the cave mouth before letting out his sheep
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And we feared that Polyphemus really meant to eat us
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That evening in the cave of Polyphemus, all of us felt sick with grief and rage
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After drinking deeply from the leather pail, I returned what was left to Polyphemus
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We had no choice, or Polyphemus would have
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After all, Polyphemus wasn’t sired by a ram
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But Polyphemus was brutish
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He’ll narrowly avoid shipwreck, but Polyphemus will call out for succor to Poseidon, father of the Titan race
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I felt so grieved for Nikos and Philippos, rotting there unburied in the cave of Polyphemus, I couldn’t bring myself to care about the storm
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I’d let a misplaced sense of honor stop me from drugging Polyphemus soon enough
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If she’d perished with Nikos and Philippos in the cave of Polyphemus, at least she would have had the comfort of traveling to Hades in their staunch company
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He’d given her this other for deipnon! But why would he do that? Was he fattening her before he feasted on her flesh, as they’d feared with Polyphemus?
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Nerissa composed all this in the poet’s style, then the lair of Polyphemus and the music-loving brigands, too
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She remembered that Polyphemus once wore a shearling robe
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Remembering Polyphemus, he’d
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Isin and Senta rose, and following the rest of the company, led a bemused Elf off the bridge and to the galley
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The woman had already entered the craft when Torbin stepped through, waiting with bemusement as a seat formed out of what looked like a storage area – to fit his metal bulk
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'You seem to be enjoying the country?' There was a bemused gleam in his eyes, but he wasn't being sarcastic
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Tanya’s face became a study of bemusement and shock when she peered up at Gerrid in the initial phase of consciousness
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Poked the Cyclops Polyphemus in his one eye with a sharp stick
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Secondly, how do we resolve the differences between the two myths, that of Aeneas versus that of Romulus and Rhemus, suckled by the she-wolf and going on to found Rome?
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Some stayed rooted to the spot, glaring or looking bemused, as if she’d lost her sanity
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The adventurers looked at one another, bemused
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Only, to his bemusement nothing happened
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Gerrid looked up at her in bemusement
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“Your team is here,” Sicarius said, a hint of bemusement edging his voice
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The lone corporal manning the desk gave her a bemused smile
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The bemused paratroopers were sworn in as policemen for the duration of the contact and mounted a classic helicopter assault as it was before the Rhodesians discovered fireforces
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"What?" I asked, a little bemused, aware I was missing out on some sort of in-joke
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Hives looked around in bemusement, his mouth working soundlessly and it was some time before he was able to speak
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For a moment Uncle Hobart looked bemused, then he coughed twice, turning to me with raised eyebrows
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"What?" I asked in a bemused voice
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“I think this is called false advertising,” I said, looking at the artificial curves in bemusement
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He took off down the trench, and I stared at his back, bemused by this strange and bizarre sight
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Brendan was bemused to contemplate the faded and fringed, blue bib-type overalls, the raggedy short-sleeved shirt, perhaps white once-upon-a-time, a straw hat, and almost unbelievably, there was a slingshot hanging out of the back pocket!
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Then the voice over the drive thru speaker bemusedly replied, “NOhhh?”
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bemusement as the two teenage boys walked around Bruce’s wheels, gawking in
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” When Samantha hears this, she gave him a bemused look
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Around him, he sensed the bemused
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furiously is the gust, a bemused expression spreading over his
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“Don’t you know about the Number Four reactor?” she said with a bemused
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While the artist, whose name turned out to be Citlalatonac, made friends with the bemused Cimnashote, I made the rounds of the merchants
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His words made no sense to Maggie or Nicolas, and they glanced at each other, a bemused smile on each face
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Derek stood there bemused by it all
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An oversized ape of a man was busy mopping up the floor in the long term care ward at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; he was receiving plenty of stares from bemused patients who joked between themselves about whether to mention he had missed a bit
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I looked at him bemused,
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His expression bemused but grave as he looked between me and a fast approaching Brandon
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Hilsith with her tray was grinning, Nemia looked bemused, and Talia looked mesmerized
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Mark soon returned from the privacy, a bemused smile on his face
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Yazadril shook his head in bemusement
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He looked slightly bemused
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” Mark said in thoughtful bemusement as they climbed the stairs
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There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
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Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
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” she responded with a raised eyebrow and a bemused smile
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He took a bemused step back
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I had pictured my father dispensing wisdom like Uncle Remus in Br’er Rabbit, or even the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz
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16 But in the time of Artexerxes King of the Persians Belemus and Mithridates and Tabellius and Rathumus and Beeltethmus and Semellius the secretary with others that were in commission with them dwelling in Samaria and other places wrote to him against those who dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following; 17 To king Artexerxes our Lord Your servants Rathumus the storywriter and Semellius the scribe and the rest of their council and the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice
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17 In consideration of these things Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John the son of Accos and Jason the son of Eleazar and sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them 18 And to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude
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11 And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law he brought up new customs against the law: 12 For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself and brought the chief young men under his subjection and made them wear a hat
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more bemused now than frustrated
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1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews
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4 Nicodemus said to Him "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
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9 Nicodemus answered Him "How can these things be?"
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Nicodemus answered and said to him How can that be? Jesus answered and said to him Are you teaching Israel and yet know not these thingse Truely truely I say to you What we know we say and what we have seen we witness and you receive not our witness
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Nicodemus one of them he who had come to Jesus by night said to them does our law haply condemn a man except it hear him first and know what he has done? They answered and said to him Are you also haply from Galileee Search and see that a prophet rises not from Galilee
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24 And when the evening of the Friday was come because of the entering of the Sabbath there came a rich man a noble of Ramah a city of Judah named Joseph and he was a good man and upright; and he was a disciple of Jesus but was concealing himself for fear of the Jews; And he did not agree with the accusers 27 in their desire and their deeds and he was looking for the Kingdom of God; And this man went boldly and entered in to Pilate and asked of him the body of Jesus; And Pilate wondered how he had died already and he called the officer of the footsoldiers and asked him concerning his death before the time; And when he knew he commanded him to deliver up his body to Joseph; And Joseph bought for him a winding cloth of pure linen and took down the body of Jesus and wound it in they came and took it; And there came to him Nicodemus also who of old came to Jesus by night; and he brought with him perfume of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pounds; And they took the body of Jesus and wound it in the linen and the perfume as was the custom of the Jews to bury
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Professor Lively was regarding her with considerable bemusement
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The Chairman gazed at Assemblyman Adams with bemused contempt
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gave a bemused look, and started laughing
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And even though the Empire has broken its back to shut the science down, some fifty years ago the genetic experiments of Remus Nine gave birth to all kinds of modified humans
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As part of that, look into the proliferation of Remorii from Remus
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"What about the Remus System? How are the Remorii getting off it?"
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"Carl was… bemused, in a trance!"
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me in a bemused voice that no one called Zen Polenski had made reservations there
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“What are you doing here?” Bryony recovered from her shock to fix the Captain with a bemused stare
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Bryony and Edwin did their best to convince everyone it was just a harvest party that went on a bit too long, and gradually the bemused crowd filtered out of the farmyard to return to their homes and villages
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She was surprised and bemused by the request but nevertheless she went over to Peter, s house with Joey in her arms to check out the washing machine
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Circling at a bemused distance so as not to singe my wings, I knew it in my bones even then
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I was amused and bemused, and her enthusiasm was
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Three women and a man were also gazing with bemused half-grins of ill-concealed appreciation
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Bemused, I longed to be my self, but missed the opportunity: when first I tried to enter me, I passed straight through my frozen form! The shock of this was frightening
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Bemused at first and then amused, I realized what I had asked—and not what I implied to mean—had been precisely shown to Me
