Life of Ahmad — Page 310
JESUS as IS DEAD as 310 about 1904 came across the MS. copy 63 of a letter (published in 1919) of the Essene Elder in Jerusalem to his brother elder in Alexandria,' in which the eye- witness states as follows: 'Joseph and Nicodemus examined the corpse, and greatly moved, the latter, pulling Joseph aside, "As sure as I know anything about organical life and nature, as sure it is possible to save him. " But Joseph did not understand him, and he advised us not to tell John anything of what we had heard. Indeed, it was a secret which was to save our brother from death. Nicodemus shouted, "we must immediately have the corpse with its bones unbroken, because he may still be saved; then conceiving his want of caution, he went on in a whisper, saved from being infamously buried. " He persuaded Joseph to set aside his interests, to save their friend by immediately going to Pilatus and prevailing upon him to allow them to take Jesus from the cross that very night and put him in the sepulchre, hewn in the rock close by, and which belonged to Joseph. My dear brethren, I will let you know that Pilate often sold the bodies of the crucified to 63 It is curious how some Christian missionaries lose their balance of mind. Rev. W. P. Hates of the old, St. John’s College, Lahore, was particularly upset at the discovery of this book. He says: 'the English is so full of grammatical errors and so unidiomatic, that the book does not deserve the serious attention of any student'.