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The Lord's Mercy for a Poor Scholar

As a teen I was told at Camp Cumberland in Greenfield, Missouri that Jesus' beard was plucked out.   When I returned home I searched and searched to find that in the Bible.   Since I had read all the New Testament, I was curious how I had missed.   I concentrated my search in the Gospels.   Months later when I attended another youth event at Camp Cumberland I asked the teacher who mentioned it about where I would find where the Bible said Jesus' beard had been plucked out.   He told me it was not in the Gospels but only a prophecy in the book of Isaiah.   I read through the book of Isaiah but missed it.   I tried to look it up in a concordance.   We did not have an exhaustive concordance.   Still no positive result.   Finally I   prayed that the Lord would show me where it was.   I took our large five inch think family Bible, opened it in a fashion to let if fall open in a random way.   The pages where it opened showed up Isaiah 50:6: "I gave my back to the smiter