Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Old Edition 1894 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. 12,7 not attach any credit to it. A man capable of committing such a cowardly act and of accusing a friend falsely and that without any spirit of cnvy or revenge, but only Turn loomulut or Hilver, Muli ni mall, I way. In pwych logically valueless and incapable of knowing wliat Ionely or conscience is, therefore remorse iy tikutown 1o him. It is probable that the Governor acted in this matter, as is donc sonictimes in our own day when it is necessary to conccal from thic pcoplca grave sccrct at any cost, and had Judas hanged inmediately, to prevent ihc truth from cver being revealed to the public that tric testimony which condemned jesus cranated froin Pilate alonc.
On the day of the execution, a large dctachment of Roman soldiers was stationcd around the cross to prevent the crowd from rescuing the object of thcir worship. In this Pilate displayed extraordinary firmness and resolution. Owing to thcsc precautions, scdition was arrested; he could not, however, hinder thic pcople weeping over thč death of their cherislıcd idol, he being the last branch of the descendant of David.
Great throngs went to worship the tomb of Jesus. Michough we have no definite account concerning the first days following the execution, we can, by probable conjectures, reconstruct the scenes which must have follower. It is very prolral»lc that the prudent licutenant of the Roman Casar, sccink that the tomb of Jesus had become a place of universal lamentation and national grics, and fcaring that the micmory of the just man would excite the discontent and raise the entire country against tlic foreign yoke, should employ all possible means to banish the remembrance of Jesus from the mind of the public. l'ilate caused the body of Jesus to be buried near the place of execution and placed a detachment of soldiers on guard, who sur three