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370 have told no one, that there might be no dissension in our synagogues; and now, thou, good judge, hast adjured us by this holy volume of the testimonies of God, and we make it plain to thee. And we adjure thee, by thy life and salvation, not to make known these words to any in Jerusalem.

Pilate heard these words of Annas and Caiaphas he inserted them all in the Acts of the Lord the Saviour, in the public documents of his judgment hall, and wrote a letter to Claudius, the king of the city of Rome, saying,

Pontius Pilate to Claudius, his king, greeting.

It hath lately happened, as I have myself proved, that the Jews, through envy, punished themselves and their posterity by a cruel condemnation. For when their fathers had a promise that their God would send his Holy One from heaven who should be deservedly called their king, and promised that he would send him to earth by means of a virgin; when, therefore, while I was governor. He had come into Judea, and they had seen that he gave sight to the blind, that he cleansed lepers, that he healed the paralysed, that he expelled demons from men, raised the dead, commanded the winds, walked with dry feet upon the waves of the sea, and wrought many