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376 Then Karinus and Leucius made signs to them with their hands, that they should give them a sheet of paper and ink. Now they did this because the Holy Spirit suffered them not to speak with them. And giving them each a sheet they put them apart from one another, into separate cells. And when they had made the sign of the cross of Christ with their fingers, they began to write on separate papers; and when they finished, as if with one mouth they cried out, Amen, from their separate cells. And they rose up, and Karinus gave his paper to Annas, and Leucius to Caiaphas, and when they had saluted one another, they went out, and returned to their sepulchres.

Then Annas and Caiaphas opened the sheet of paper, and each of them began to read in secret. But all the people took it amiss, and all cried out thus, Read these writings openly unto us; and after they have been read we will preserve them, lest, perchance, this truth of God should be turned into falsehood through their blindness by the unclean and deceitful. Then Annas and Caiaphas, being filled with trembling, delivered the sheet of paper to Rabbi Addas and Rabbi Phinehas, and Rabbi Egias, who had come from Galilee, and announced that Jesus was taken up into heaven. And all the multitude of the Jews entrusted to them to read the writing. And they read the paper, which contained these things: —