Reply #70: Found it [View All]

[zeemike]

I knew I had not imagined it. Here is what I foound.

In 1887, Rev. W. D. Mahan published a book entitled The Archko Volume. It is the results of his search for 1st century documents. Research took him to the Vatican in Rome and to the Jewish Talmuds in Constantinople, Turkey. Among many other writings he located a letter written on a papyrus scroll to Caesar from Pontius Pilate, dated about 31 A.D.. What follows is truly awesome if the documents here turn out to have been really written by Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Herod and others.

There is also a unique, delightful, investigative report by the Sanhedrim following the "Angelic Ruckus" in Bethlehem the night of Christ's birth. Apparaently all of Bethlehem was aware and the "Singing from the Skies" and light shows would not let anyone sleep that night. It would be nonsense to believe Pontius Pilate never wrote about any of this "Jesus thing" to his Caesar, or that Caiaphas never reported to the Sanhedrim, or that the Senhedrim would not investigate Bethlehem. I found the physical description of Jesus by both Pilot and the old man who lived on the Road to Bethany to be what I imagine the "man" in the Shroud of Turin looks like. Romans & Jews were meticulous document keepers--so why can't these be real? Why haven't scholars demanded they be tested?

These documents show Pilate in so much awe of Jesus (which I suspected from Scripture) that Pontius Pilate could very well have died a Christian. Likewise: after the resurrection, Caiaphis appears so shaken - he too may have become a Christian and may have resigned from the Sanhedrim with a guilty conscience. Beware: some have claimed these documents are a forgery. See some serious questions about the authenticity of these documents here. I just don't think so - you will have to make up your own mind. Nothing I read in these documents either contradicts, adds or subtracts to my firm belief that Jesus is the Son of God.