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344 saw him taken up into heaven. And that saying pleased them all. Then they sent three men into Galilee, and said, Go and say to Rabbi Addas, and Rabbi Phinehas, and Rabbi Egeas, Peace be to you and yours! Many inquiries have been made in the council concerning Jesus, therefore we are directed to invite you to the holy place, to Jerusalem.

The men departed into Galilee and found them sitting and meditating upon the law. And they greeted them in peace. And they said, Why are ye come? The messengers answered, The council calleth you to the holy city of Jerusalem. And when they heard that they were required by the council, they prayed to God, and sat down with the men and ate and drank with them. And rising in the morning they departed for Jerusalem in peace.

And on the morrow the council sat, and asked them saying, Did ye clearly see Jesus sitting on Mount Mambre, teaching his disciples, and taken up into heaven?

First Addas the teacher said, Truly I saw him sitting on Mount Mambre teaching his disciples; and a shining cloud overshadowed him and his disciples, and he ascended into heaven; and his disciples were praying with their faces to the ground. And then calling Phinehas the priest, they asked him also, saying, How didst thou see Jesus taken up? And he said the same as the other. And, again, on their calling