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A CERTAIN schoolmaster named Zacchaeus, standing in a certain place, heard Jesus speaking these things to his father.
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And he was much surprised, that being a child, he should speak such things; and after a few days he came to Joseph, and said,
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Thou hast a wise and sensible child, send him to me, that he may learn to read.
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When he sat down to teach the letters to Jesus, he began with the first letter Aleph;
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But Jesus pronounced the second letter Mpeth (Beth) Cghimel (Gimel), and said over all the letters to him to the end.
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Then opening a book, he taught his master the prophets: but be was ashamed, and was at a loss to conceive how he came to know the letters.
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And he arose and went home, wonderfully surprised at so strange a thing.
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