Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 233
Appendix to Twelfth Edition 233 beliefs, even though today’s Orthodoxy conveniently labels their authors as heretics. In ‘The Gnostic Bible’, published in 2006 by New Seeds Books (Boston, Massachusetts) and edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer, we find several references that harmonize with the Promised Messiah’s belief that Jesus as did not die on the cross and later departed to another land. The following are a sample of such references and are written in first person, as if the author is Jesu sas himself: They surrounded me like mad dogs who stupidly attack their masters. … I didn’t perish… They sought my death. They failed. … They cast lots against me. They failed. [Songs of Solomon, Response to Song 28] I stretched out my hands and came near my lord. It is my sign, stretching my hands as if spread on a tree. That was my way up to the good one. I became useless to those who didn’t seize me. I hid from those who don’t love me but am with them who love me. My persecutors died. They sought me because I am alive. I rose up and am with them and speak through their mouths. …They thought me rejected, destroyed. I wasn’t. … [Songs of Solomon, Song 42]