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  "title": "The rejected Christ and the evidence of works",
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      "exact": "for the world denied Christ's.",
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  "body_markdown": "John supplies a particularly close biblical background, though this is not an identifiable quotation. In the King James Version, John 10:20 reports the accusation that Jesus is 'mad'; 10:33 reports the charge that a man is making himself God. John 1:10–12 describes the world's failure to recognize him while also acknowledging those who received him. Chesterton compresses this divided reception into 'the world.' [John 1:10–12; 10:19–38, KJV](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A10-12%3B%20John%2010%3A19-38&version=KJV).\n\nThe example works as a limited Christian argument: if Christ was rejected, rejection alone cannot disprove a claim to divinity. It does not follow that every rejected claimant has comparable grounds. The same Gospel makes that distinction available: John 10:25 and 37–38 appeals to Jesus' works as testimony, rather than treating rejection as its own credential. Reading the example alongside that context preserves Chesterton's point about a failed refutation while preventing its conversion into an argument that opposition proves divine identity. The KJV is the comparison witness; the wording here does not identify Chesterton's particular Bible translation.",
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      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A10-12%3B%20John%2010%3A19-38&version=KJV",
      "title": "The Gospel according to John, King James Version",
      "locator": "John 1:10–12; 10:19–21, 25, 30–38",
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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10",
      "title": "The King James Version of the Bible, Project Gutenberg #10",
      "locator": "The Gospel According to Saint John, chapters 1 and 10",
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      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A10-12%3B%20John%2010%3A19-38&version=KJV",
      "title": "John 1:10–12; 10:19–38, KJV"
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    "Biblical background is strongly relevant, but no exclusive allusion to these particular verses is claimed."
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        "approach": "Philosophical contextualization: then and since",
        "question": "What distinguishes an explanation's immunity to a particular objection from its truth, and how does Locke's account of reasoning from false premises illuminate Chesterton's examples?"
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      {
        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "Which Gospel passages illuminate the rejected claimant to divinity, and does the Gospel itself distinguish rejection from evidence?"
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