Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 236
? 236 Once again, it is simply astonishing that the above references— from scriptures protected from Orthodox tampering for centu- ries—bear a strong resemblance to the teachings within the Holy Quran. On the other hand, the Orthodox Christian version leaves us little satisfaction of the post-Crucifixion narration of events. During the forty day period after the Crucifixion [Acts 1:3], we hardly have any record of Jesus’ activities. One would expect the witnesses around Jesus to be so amazed at his miraculous survival that they would record every single statement he spoke, trusting that he was no ordinary man; but they record hardly anything in comparison to the volumes they recorded of his pre-Crucifixion activities, when his true status was yet unknown and subject to doubt. To add to this frustration, only two of the four Gospel ‘eye- witness’ accounts [Mark and Luke] record Jesus as as physically ascending to the right hand of the Father [i. e. , God]; yet scriptural evidence has proven even those to be interpolations. Constantin von Tischendorf [1815 C. E. to 1874 C. E. ] was a renowned German Biblical scholar who made one of the greatest scriptural discoveries in Christian history: The Codex Sinaiticus. Tischendorf discov- ered the Codex Sinaiticus in St. Catharine’s Monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula. This Codex is the oldest most complete New Testament that exists to date. Interestingly enough, when looking at the Gospels of Mark and Luke in the Codex Sinaiticus, their accounts end before any mention of the Ascension, proving the Ascension was a later interpolation and fabrication.