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to the Smyrneans, not earlier than A. D. 70, that he "both knew and believed” Jesus to be still alive and in the flesh. . A passage of Suetonius's Twelve Caesars, referring apparently to A. D. 49, reports Jesus as having raised disturbances in Rome "at the instigation of Chrestus", a synonym for “Christus”. The authors compare this passage with an early. Talmudic account of the Messiah's having been seen among the beggars at the gate of Rome. They suggest that if this was a prophecy that the Messiah must raise the standard of. Jesus, his visit to Rome had been undertaken in fulfilment of national liberation in the enemy citadel. What eventually became of Jesus, they leave an open question; though critically discussing Muslim and pre-Muslim accounts of his appearance in India about A. D. 50, and of his burial by St. . Thomas at Srinagar not later than the year 72. (Jesus in. Rome). The authors were unaware of what the Founder of the. Ahmadiyya Movement had written years before in his book Jesus in India, written in April 1899. This book saw the light of day in 1903 when it was serialised in the journal Review of Religions (both Urdu and English editions). The English version was captioned An Important Discovery regarding Jesus Christ. The book Jesus in India was not published until six months after the death of the Promised Messiah. Today European scholars are obliged to take serious note of the discoveries recorded in this book. . It must be remembered that the first ever reference to. Ascension is in the closing verses of Mark. . The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1969) an article on Mark terms it as "spurious ending". . Because of the new light which the ancient manuscripts. throw on the subject and researches of Biblical scholars, these verses pertaining to ascension have been expunged from the concluding portion of the texts of Luke and Mark in the Revised. Standard Version of the Bible. However, there are footnotes indicating that “some manuscripts inserted these verses". (ii) Apart from the four Gospels, we may also refer to the following earliest documents in Edessan Christianity, namely: (a) The Gospel of Thomas. This contains 114 sayings of Jesus. Christ. A Coptic translation of these has been found in the. Egyptian village Nag Hammadi, in an ancient graveyard. 131