History #35 ✡ John Wilkinson Globally Presented Yeshua to his Jewish People
Messianic History: Return of the Jewish Jesus
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1h 5m
If Salkinson gave the New Testament a Hebrew soul and Ginsburg gave it a published body then it was John Wilkinson who gave it wings, mobilizing his Mildmay Mission to the Jews to put 250,000 copies into 10 million Jewish hands! This is the incredible story of John Wilkinson - from his friendship with Hudson Taylor, George Muller, and Charles Spurgeon to his extraordinary marriage to Ann; from Bible college years when the young trio were bonded for life to Salkinson's prophetic wish that they could work together, Jew and Gentile, as a "complete missionary", and finally to the only time in history when Yeshua was globally presented to his own Jewish people, in their own holy tongue.
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