Roelof van den Brook from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) published the book “Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem about life and passions Christ, “in which he first proposed the translation of the Coptic Gospel, written almost 1 ,200 years ago. This apocrypha is unique: in it there are such plot twists that researchers nowhere no longer encountered. For example, Pontius Pilate has a meal with Jesus before the crucifixion at the same table and offers to bring in the sacrifice of his son in order to save Christ. And Judah kissed Jesus in due to the fact that he had the ability to change the appearance and the detachment of “soldiers and ministers from the high priests and the Pharisees” could not recognize him. In addition, the arrest, judging by this text, occurred during Tuesday evening, not Thursday at all, according to the canonical the scriptures. 
Photo from open sources The document exists in two lists, stored in the Morgan Library and Museum (New York) and in the museum University of Pennsylvania Used mainly for translation New York manuscript, because another option is practically unreadable. Coptic and Ethiopian churches consider Pilate a saint that explains the sympathetic attitude towards him from the author of the text. “Without further ado, Pilate laid the table and ate with Jesus on fifth day of the week. And Jesus blessed Pilate and his whole house. ” Pilate then says to Jesus: “Behold, the night has come, get up and work out, and when morning comes and they will blame me for you, I will give them mine the only son, so that they kill him instead of you. “But Jesus consoles him: “O Pilate, you have received great grace, for it is good received Me. “Jesus also made clear to Pilate what he could hide in any moment, if I wished: “Pilate looked at Jesus, and, behold, He became incorporeal; and he did not see him for a long time. “That night Pilate and his wife see the same dream in which the killing of an eagle, that is, Jesus. As for Judah, in the canonical texts he betrays Jesus in exchange for money with a kiss, which helps to identify the Savior. This apocrypha explains this act as follows: “The Jews said to Judah: How then shall we arrest Him if He does not have one species and changes. Sometimes he blush, sometimes white, sometimes red, sometimes the color of wheat, sometimes pale, like an ascetic, sometimes he is young, sometimes an old man. “Not able to give describing the appearance of Jesus, Judas invites him to kiss. Mr van den Brook explains that for the first time such an explanation of the act Judah suggested the early Christian author Origen in his work Against Celsus “:” Everyone saw Him in their own way. “The text is written on behalf of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, who lived in the IV century. He tells this the easter story during the homily pastoral teaching. Such homilies attributed to sv. Cyril, there were several, and all of them, most likely, were fakes. At the beginning of the apocrypha, whoever he is, claims that in Jerusalem, “in the house of Mary,” found a book with the writings of the apostles about the life and crucifixion of Jesus. Mr van den Brooke considers it unlikely that something like this really happened: this is a standard technique to build trust the reader a reference to the apostles, often found in Coptic literature. 
Photos from open sources Most of the researcher was struck the transfer of the apostolic supper and the arrest of Jesus on Tuesday. And it turns out that really Jesus did not share the last supper with his disciples, but with Pilate – already after he appeared before Caiaphas and Herod. 1200 years ago, a New York manuscript was kept in the library Monastery of St. Michael in the Egyptian desert near today’s the town of Al-Hamuli in the west of Fayyum. Document notes that this gift “Protopriest Father Paul” and that this book exists thanks to his labors. The monastery apparently ceased to exist at the beginning of the X century, and the text was rediscovered only in the spring of 1910. IN December 1911 acquired it along with other manuscripts American financier John Pirpont Morgan, based on the meeting of which the aforementioned library was later formed. Text New Testament, as we know it today, has developed and was canonized by the 4th – 5th centuries, but the apocrypha remained for a long time popular, especially among Egyptian monks.
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