IN those days, when our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius
Pilate, the governor of Palestine and Phoenicia, the things here recorded came
to pass in Jerusalem, and were done by the Jews against the Lord. Pilate
therefore sent the same to Cæsar in Rome, along with his private report,
writing thus:
To the most potent, august, divine and awful Augustus Cæsar, Pilate, the
administrator of the Eastern Province:
I have received information, most excellent one, in consequence of which
I am seized with fear and trembling. For in this province which I administer,
one of whose cities is called Jerusalem, the whole multitude of Jews delivered
unto me a certain man called Jesus, and brought many accusations against him,
which they were unable to establish by consistent evidence. But they charged him with one heresy in
particular, namely, that Jesus said the Sabbath was not a rest, nor to be
observed by them. For he performed many cures on that day, and made the blind see, and
the lame walk, raised the dead, cleansed lepers, healed the paralytic who were
wholly unable to move their body or brace their nerves, but could only speak
and discourse, and he gave them power to walk and run, removing their infirmity
by his word alone. There is another very mighty deed which is strange to the
gods we have: he raised up a man who had been four days dead, summoning him by
his word alone, when the dead man had begun to decay, and his body was
corrupted by the worms which had been bred, and had the stench of a dog; but,
seeing him lying in the tomb he commanded him to run, nor did the dead man at
all delay, but as a bridegroom out of his chamber, so did he go forth from his
tomb, filled with abundant perfume. Moreover, even such as were strangers, and
clearly demoniacs, who had their dwelling in deserts, and devoured their own
flesh, and wandered about like cattle and creeping things, he turned into
inhabiters of cities, and by a word rendered them rational, and prepared them
to become wise and powerful, and illustrious, taking their food with all the
enemies of the unclean spirits which were destructive in them, and which he
cast into the depth of the sea.
And, again, there was another who had a withered hand, and not only the
hand but rather the half of the body of the man was like a stone, and he had
neither the shape of a man nor the symmetry of a body: even him He healed with
a word and rendered whole. And a woman also, who had an issue of blood for a
long time, and whose veins and arteries were exhausted, and who did not bear a
human body, being like one dead, and daily speechless, so that all the
physicians of the district were unable to cure her, for there remained unto her
not a hope of life; but as Jesus passed by she mysteriously received strength
by his shadow falling on her, from behind she touched the hem of his garment,
and immediately, in that very hour, strength filled her exhausted limbs, and as
if she had never suffered anything, she began to run along towards Capernaum,
her own city, so that she reached it in a six days’ journey.
And I have made known these things which I have recently been informed
of, and which Jesus did on the Sabbath. And he did other miracles greater than
these, so that I have observed greater works of wonder done by him than by the
gods whom we worship.
But Herod and Archelaus and Philip, Annas and Caiaphas, with all the
people, delivered him to me, making a great tumult against me in order that I
might try him. Therefore, I commanded him to be crucified, when I had first
scourged him, though I found no cause in him for evil accusations or dealings.
Now when he was crucified, there was darkness over all the world, and
the sun was obscured for half a day, and the stars appeared, but no lustre was
seen in them; and the moon lost its brightness, as though tinged with blood;
and the world of the departed was swallowed up; so that the very sanctuary of
the temple, as they call it, did not appear to the Jews themselves at their
fall, but they perceived a chasm in the earth, and the rolling of successive
thunders. And amid this terror the dead appeared rising again, as the Jews
themselves bore witness, and said that it was Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
and the twelve patriarchs, and Moses, and Job, who had died before, as they
say, some three thousand five hundred years. And there were very many whom I
myself saw appearing in the body, and they made lamentation over the Jews,
because of the transgression which was committed by them, and because of the
destruction of the Jews and of their law.
And the terror of the earthquake continued from the sixth hour of the
preparation until the ninth hour; and when it was evening on the first day of
the week, there came a sound from heaven, and the heaven became seven times
more luminous than on all other days. And at the third hour of the night the
sun appeared more luminous than it had ever shone, lighting up the whole
hemisphere. And as lightning-flashes suddenly come forth in a storm, so there
were seen men, lofty in stature, and surpassing in glory, a countless host,
crying out, and their voice was heard as that of exceedingly loud thunder,
Jesus that was crucified is risen again: come up from Hades ye that were
enslaved in the subterraneous recesses of Hades. And the chasm in the earth was
as if it had no bottom; but it was so that the very foundations of the earth
appeared, with those that shouted in heaven, and walked in the body among the
dead that were raised. And He that raised up all the dead and bound Hades said,
Say to my disciples He goeth before you into Galilee, there shall ye see Him.
And all that night the light ceased not shining. And many of the Jews
died in the chasm of the earth, being swallowed up, so that on the morrow most
of those who had been against Jesus were not to be found. Others saw the
apparition of men rising again whom none of us had ever seen. One synagogue of
the Jews was alone left in Jerusalem itself, for they all disappeared in that
ruin.
Therefore being astounded by that terror, and being possessed with the
most dreadful trembling, I have written what I saw at that time and sent it to
thine excellency; and I have inserted what was done against Jesus by the Jews,
and sent it to thy divinity, my lord.
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God,please don't take my mind
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