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? 211 to foreign lands but that they had also imbibed the influence of alien faiths and were thus lost physically as well as spiritually. It is therefore that the Messiah said that no sign would be shown to the Jews but the sign of the Prophet Jonah-that that would be his biggest sign. He had likewise stressed that his main mission was to gather the lost sheep of Israel. To the same effect is a statement of the Messiah occurring in St. John: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. "(St. John 10:16) ONE FOLD, ONE SHEPHERD Here the Messiah makes it plain that these Jews lived in some foreign country, for, he says, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” i. e. , they are not of this country and are, on the contrary, living in another land and that, it is a matter settled and decreed for me, that I should bring them back; that these sheep have rejected me but "they shall hear my voice" and accept me. Rejection of a prophet is not something extraordinary. What the Messiah, however, means to say is that these people rejected him out of stubbornness, but they shall not so reject him on the contrary, they would readily believe in him "and shall be one fold, and one shepherd. "