Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete

CHAPTER XXI.

1 Char­inus and Lenthius be­ing on­ly al­lowed three days to re­main on earth, 7 de­liv­er in their nar­ra­tives, which mirac­ulous­ly cor­re­spond; they van­ish, 13 and Pi­late records these trans­ac­tions.

THESE are the di­vine and sa­cred mys­ter­ies which we saw and heard. We, Char­inus and Lenthius are not al­lowed to de­clare the oth­er mys­ter­ies of God, as the archangel Michael or­dered us,

2 Say­ing, ye shall go with my brethren to Jerusalem, and shall con­tin­ue in prayers, declar­ing and glo­ri­fy­ing the res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus Christ, see­ing he hath raised you from the dead at the same time with him­self.

3 And ye shall not talk with any man, but sit as dumb per­sons till the time come when the Lord will al­low you to re­late the mys­ter­ies of his di­vin­ity.

4 The archangel Michael far­ther com­mand­ed us to go be­yond Jor­dan, to an ex­cel­lent and fat coun­try, where there are many who rose from the dead along with us for the proof of the res­ur­rec­tion of Christ.

5 For we have on­ly three days al­lowed us from the dead, who arose to cel­ebrate the passover of our Lord with our par­ents, and to bear our tes­ti­mo­ny for Christ the Lord, and we have been bap­tized in the holy riv­er of Jor­dan. And now they are not seen by any one.

6 This is as much as God al­lowed us to re­late to you; give ye there­fore praise and hon­our to him, and re­pent, and he will have mer­cy up­on you. Peace be to you from the Lord God Je­sus Christ, and the Saviour of us all. Amen, Amen, Amen.

7 And af­ter they had made an end of writ­ing, and had writ­ten on two dis­tinct pieces of pa­per, Char­inus gave what he wrote in­to the hands of An­nas, and Ca­iaphas, and Gamaliel.

8 Lenthius like­wise gave what be wrote in­to the hands of Nicode­mus and Joseph; and im­me­di­ate­ly they were changed in­to ex­ceed­ing white forms and were seen no more.

9 But what they had writ­ten was found per­fect­ly to agree, the one not con­tain­ing one let­ter more or less than the oth­er.

10 When all the as­sem­bly of the Jews heard all these sur­pris­ing re­la­tions of Char­inus and Lenthius, they said to each oth­er, Tru­ly all these things were wrought by God, and blessed be the Lord Je­sus for ev­er and ev­er, Amen.

11 And they went all out with great con­cern, and fear, and trem­bling, and smote up­on their breasts and went away ev­ery one to his home.

12 But im­me­di­ate­ly all these things which were re­lat­ed by the Jews in their syn­agogues con­cern­ing Je­sus, were present­ly told by Joseph and Nicode­mus to the gov­er­nor.

13 And Pi­late wrote down all these trans­ac­tions, and placed all these ac­counts in the pub­lic records of his hall.