Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-18
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pages In leather binulnB' ~ ""9
found In an old Christian c metery
From thu ortbography and style OF
writinv. scholars think 1t dates as far
hack as som. time between the eighth
and twelfth century OF our era.
The following from the Buffalo
Eypyess gives an idea Of the contents
ofth. precious manuscript.
The fragment Of the Gospel happens
10 begin with the wordI
nm, NJ Tho lows no ono washed his
hands, mother Horod, nor my Of the
judges mo- OF ,ne senate " fn'ad VII" ia
king. commanded that lilo Lord should
DO brought.
The fragment covers nine pages Of
the manuscript, and breaks Off In the
middle Off sentence; and afier stating
that the women had come TO the grave
and found It empty, concludes with
these words:
But I, Simon Peter, and Andrew. my
brother. taking with us our nets, 70 urn
cd to the sea. and there was wi h u- Low,
the son OF Alphous, whom tho Lord
The leading variants between 'he
statements OF the pseudo'Gospel rag
ment and the canonicai Gospels are
chiefly tho following NJ the ftqueN
OF Joseph, here declared to be iriend
OF Pilate anu oil the Lori, the former
nsAcu iie'ou io' '"e pouy VI S"''s"
The request is granted with the state
ment that IL no enc Ind asked for the
body, then Heroi and the Jews would
have buried the Lord, because the
Sabbath was approaching and II was
mandate OF the Jews that the body Of
one who had been killed should not
remain unburied Mt the setting OF the
sun before the feast OF unleave ned
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'ie"s, "on i""'"n "''O'p'''"
OF the eufferings OF Christ, but In n
more vivid mnnner than that found
IN the gospels. Then We arc toiu'
And tboy had two malo0lctors and
cruoIflod tho Lord between them. lie
himself said no'hingand had no suner-
"hen one Oh 'ne rna'e'ac'o's peN,
uoheu Ohiis' 'of neip' nen 'hfeh'eneu
ny the muiu'uue win sun gfea'er 'or'
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vars "hA' many isnps WIZ "s"'eu'
the Jews pegan 10 DO ata'u' ine bofu'
h""e'e'i cries ou''
My strength, my. strength, thou hast
We was ,ake , I away. '" "' "'' '"'' '"'''
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Woe over our sins; noar unto us have
come tho judgments and tho end OF
Jerusalem. l, Petor, however, lamontod
together with my friends and were cast
down In our minds, and wo hid Ourselves,
,h mu WI" ,sno ,.nrId W., Wra ,n ,na ,ano,a
but over all this we tasted and sat sad
and las Cd and iamented day ana night
Wv
Inc resurrection is gf"pn'ca'y ues'
crioeu. whiie those present NJ 'ne
TOMB uehoeta'e whe'het 'hey shouiu
SEM wofu 70 riia'e on account OF
wh"t 'hey saw anu heafu' inc heavens
are opeheu anu man uescehus anu
enters the grave. Thereupon the
wstohers nee IN uiHmhy, anu III the
presence OF fiiate, cohiest their iaith
In Christ IN 'he son OF uod' me
Leaders OF the jews ihueed, see their
great wrong out because OF inc Tear OF
the wrath oil the Jews ASK that the
Tact Of the resurrection DO kept secret.
The youth sitting at the grave says:
"whom have yc como to seek save tho
one VINO was oruoiheni uo ms arisen
lieved, bend down and SEQ tho place
where He hnd been laid, for He IL no
tVus"d Whence Go was sen,.S 0' anu w
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