The Ancient Bridge – Courtesy Les Visible
I have in my possession a copy of the letter written by Pontius Pilate to Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome. This Historic letter written by Pontius Pilate to Tiberius Caesar Letter is from the “Archko Volume” containing manuscripts, in Constantinople, and the Records of the Senatorial Docket, taken from the Library at Rome, Translated by Drs. McIntosh and Twyman of the Antiquerian Lodge, Genoa, Italy. This has been checked and is in accord with the copy of the original lodged in the British Museum, which has verified the accuracy of the transcription. Verified in November, 1935.
Historic Letter Resurrected Pilate’s lengthy letter to Tiberius Caesar—Discusses at length the arrest, the trial and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
TIBERIUS CAESAR-EMPEROR OF ROME-NOBLE SOVEREIGN
GREETING:
The events of the last few days in my providence have been of such a character that I will give the details in full as they occurred, as I should not be surprised if, in the course of, time, they may change the destiny of our nation, for it seems of late that all the gods have ceased to be propitous. I am almost ready to say, Cursed be the day that I succeeded Vallerius Falceus in the government of Judea; for since then my life has been one of continual uneasiness and distress.
On my arrival at Jerusalem I took possession of the Praetorium, and ordered a splendid feast to be prepared, to which I invited the Tetrarch of Galilee, with the high priest and his officers. At the appointed hour no guest appeared. This I considered an insult offered my dignity, and the whole government which I represent. A few days later, the high priest designed to pay me a visit. His deportment was grave and deceitful. He pretended that his religion forbade him and his attendants to sit at the table of the Romans, and eat and offer libations with them, but this was only a sanctimonious seeming, for his very countenance betrayed his hypocrisy. Although I thought it expedient to accept his excuse, from that moment I was convinced that the conquered had declared themselves the enemy of the conquerors; and I would warn the Romans to beware of the high Priests of this country. They would betray their own mother to gain office and a luxurious living. It seems to me that, of conquered cities, Jerusalem is the most difficult to govern. So turbulent are the people that I live in momentary dread of an insurrection. I have not soldiers sufficient to suppress it. I had only one centurion and a hundred men at my command. I requested a reinforcement from the perfect of Syria, who informed me that he had scarcely troops sufficient to defend his own province. An insatiate thirst for conquest to extend our empire beyond the means of defending it, I fear, will be the cause of the final overthrow of our whole government. I lived secluded from the masses, for I do not know what those priests might influence the rabble to do; yet I endeavored to ascertain, as far as I could, the mind and standing of the people.
I WAS TOLD IT WAS JESUS
Among the various rumors that came to my ears there was one in particular that attracted my attention. A young man, it was said, appeared in Galiee preaching with a noble unction a new law in the name of God who had sent him. At first I was apprehensive that his design was to stir up the people against the Romans, but my fears were soon dispelled. Jesus of Nazareth spoke rather as a friend of the Romans than of the Jews. One day in passing by the place of Siloe, where there was a great concourse of people, I observed in the midst of the group a young man who was leaning against a tree, calmly addressing the multitude. I was told it was Jesus. This I could easily have suspected, so great was the difference between him and those listening to him. His golden-colored hair and beard gave him the appearance of a celestial aspect. He appeared to be about thirty years old. Never have I seen a sweeter or more serene countenance. What a Contrast between him and his hearers, with their black beards and tawny completion!
Unwilling to interrupt him by my presence, I continued to walk, but signified to my secretary to join the group and listen. My secretary’s name is Manlius. He is the grandson of the chief of the conspirators who encamped in Eturia waiting for Cataline. Manlius had been for a long time an inhabitant of Judea, and is well acquainted with the Hebrew language. He was devoted to me, and worthy of my confidence. On entering the Praetorium I found Manlius, who related to me the words Jesus had pronounced at Siloe. Never have I read in the works of the philosophers anything that can compare to the maxims of Jesus. One of the rebellious Jews, so numerous in Jerusalem, having asked Jesus if it was lawful to give tribute to Caesar, he replied: “Render unto Caesar the things that belong to Caesar, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
I EXTENDED TO HIM MY PROTECTION
It was on account of his sayings that I granted so much liberty to the Nazarene; for it was in my power to have him arrested, and exiled to Pontus; but that would have been contrary to the justice which has always characterized the Roman Government in all its dealings with men; this man was neither seditious nor rebellious; I extended to him my protection, unknown perhaps to himself. He was at liberty to act, to speak, to assemble and address the people, and to choose disciples, unrestrained by any Praetorian mandate. Should it ever happen {May the gods avert the omen!} should it ever happen, I say that the religion of our forefathers will be supplanted by the religion of Jesus, it will be to this noble toleration that Rome shall owe her premature death, while I, miserable wretch, will have been the instrument of what the Jews call Providence, and we call destiny.
This unlimited freedom granted to Jesus provoked the Jews–not the poor, but the rich and powerful. It is true that Jesus was severe on the latter, and this was a political reason, in my opinion, for not restraining the liberty of the Nazarene. “Scribes and Pharisees,” he would say to them, “you are a race of vipers; you resemble painted sepulchers; you appear well unto men, but you have death within you.” At other times he would sneer at the alms of the rich and proud, telling them that the mite of the poor was more precious in the sight of God. Complaints were daily made at the Praetorium against the insolence of Jesus.
I was even informed that some misfortune would befall him; that it would not be the first time that Jerusalem had stoned those who called themselves prophets; an appeal would be made to Caesar. However, my conduct was approved by the Senate, and I was promised a reinforcement after the termination of the Parthian War.
Being too weak to suppress an insurrection, I resolved upon adopting a measure that promised to restore the tranquility of the city without subjecting the Praetorium to humiliating concession. I wrote to Jesus requesting an interview with him at the Praetorium. He came. You know that in my veins flows the Spanish mixed with Roman blood–as incapable of fear as it is of weak emotion. When the Nazarene made his appearance I was walking in my basilica, and my feet seemed fastened with an iron hand to the marble pavement, and I trembled in every limb as does a guilty
culprit, though the Nazarene was as calm as innocence itself. When he came up to me he stopped, and by a signal sign he seemed to say to me, “I am here,” though he spoke not a word. For some time I contemplated with admiration and awe this extraordinary type of man–a type unknown to our numerous painters, who have given form and figure to all the gods and the heroes. There was nothing about him that was repelling in his character, yet I felt too awed and tremulous to approach him.
“Jesus,” said I unto him at last–and my tongue faltered–“Jesus of Nazareth, for the last three years I have granted you ample freedom of speech; nor do I regret it. Your words are those of a sage–I know not whether you have read Socrates or Plato, but this I know, there is in your discourses a majestic simplicity that elevates you far above those philosophers. The Emperor is informed of it, and I, his humble representative in this country, am glad of having allowed you that liberty of which you are worthy. However. I must not conceal from you that your discourses
have raised up against you powerful and inveterate enemies. Nor is this surprising. Socrates had his enemies, and he fell victim of their hatred. Yours are doubly incensed–against you on account of your discourses being so severe upon their conduct; against me on account of the liberty I have afforded you. They even accuse me of being indirectly leagued with you for the purpose of depriving the Hebrews of the little civil power which Rome has left them. My request—I do not say an order—is, that you be more circumspect and moderate in your discourses in the future, and more considerate of them, lest you arouse the pride of your enemies, and they raise against you the stupid populace, and compel me to employ the instruments of law.”
The Nazarene calmly replied: “Prince of the earth, your words proceed not from true wisdom. Say to the torrent to stop in the midst of the mountain-gorge: it will uproot the trees of the valley. The torrent will answer you that it obeys the laws of nature and the Creator. God alone knows whither flow the waters of the torrent. Verily I say unto you, before the rose of Sharon blossoms the blood of the just shall be spilt.”
“Your blood shall not be spilt,” said I, with deep emotion: “you are more precious in my estimation on account of your wisdom than all of the turbulent and proud Pharisees who abuse the freedom granted them by the Romans. They conspire against Caesar, and convert his bounty into fear, impressing the unlearned that Caesar is a tyrant and seeks their ruin. Insolent wretches! they are not aware that the wolf of the Tiber sometimes clothes himself with the skin of sheep to accomplish his wicked designs. I will protect you against them. My Praetorium shall be an asylum both day and night.”
“THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED”
Jesus carelessly shook his head, and said with a grave and divine smile: “When the day shall come there will be no asylums for the son of man, neither in the earth nor under the earth. The asylum of the just is there,” pointing to the heavens. “That which is written in the books of the prophets must be accomplished.”
“Young man,” I answered mildly, “you will oblige me to convert my requests into an order. The safety of the province which has been confided to my care requires it. You must observe more moderation in your discourses. Do not infringe my order. You know the consequences. May happiness attend you. Farewell.”
“I CAME NOT TO BRING WAR INTO THE WORLD, BUT PEACE, LOVE AND CHARITY.”
“Prince of the earth,” replied Jesus. I come not to bring war into the world, but peace, love and charity. I was born the same day on which Augustus Caesar gave peace to the Roman world. Persecutions proceed not from me. I expect it from others, and I will meet it in obedience to the will of my Father, who has shown me the way. Restrain, therefore, your worldly prudence. It is not in your power to arrest the victim at the foot of the tabernacle of expiation.”
So saying he disappeared like a bright shadow behind the curtains of the basilica–to my great relief, for I felt a heavy burden on me, of which I could not relieve myself of in his presence.
JESUS APPEARED TO BE ONE OF THOSE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS THAT GREAT NATIONS SOMETIMES PRODUCE
To Herod, who then reigned in Galilee, the enemies of Jesus addressed themselves, to wreak their vengeance on the Nazarene. Had Herod consulted his own inclinations, he would have ordered Jesus immediately put to death; but, though proud of his royal dignity, yet he hesitated to commit an act that might lessen his influence with the Senate, or like me, was afraid of Jesus. But it would never do for a Roman officer to be afraid of a Jew. Previously to this, Herod called on me at the Praetorium, and, on rising to take leave, after some trifling conversation, asked me what was my opinion concerning the Nazarene. I replied that Jesus appeared to me to be one of those great philosophers that great nations sometimes produced; that his doctrines were by no means sacrilegious, and that the intentions of Rome were to leave him to that freedom of speech which was justified by his actions. Herod smiled maliciously, and, saluting me with ironical respect, departed.
CLAMORING FOR THE DEATH OF THE NAZARENE
The great feast of the Jews was approaching, and the intention was to avail themselves of the popular exultation which always manifests itself at the solemnities of the Passover. The city was overflowing with a tumultuous populace, clamoring for the death of the Nazarene. My emissaries informed me that the treasure of the temple had been employed in bribing the people. The danger was pressing. A Roman centurion had been insulted. I wrote to the Perfect of Syria for a hundred foot soldiers and as many cavalry. He declined. I saw myself alone with a handful of veterans in
the midst of a rebellious city, too weak to suppress an uprising, and having no choice left but to tolerate it. They had seized upon Jesus, and the seditious rabble, although they had nothing to fear from the Praetorium, believing, as their leaders had told them, that I winked at their sedition, continued vociferating: “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
Three powerful parties had combined together at that time against Jesus. First, the Herodians and the Sadducees, whose seditious conduct seemed to have proceeded from double motives: they hated the Nazarene and were impatient of the Roman yoke. They never forgave me for having entered the holy city with banners that bore the image of the Roman emperor; and although in this instance I had committed a fatal error, yet the sacrilege did not appear less heinous in their eyes. Another grievance also rankled in their bosoms. I had proposed to employ a part of the treasure of the temple in erecting edifices for public use. My proposal was scorned. The Pharisees were the avowed enemies of Jesus. They cared not for the government. They bore with bitterness the severe reprimands, which the Nazarene for three years had been continually giving them wherever he went. Timid and too weak to act by themselves, they had embraced the quarrels of the Herodians and the Sadducees. Besides these three parties, I had to contend against the reckless and profligate populace, always ready to join sedition, and profit by the disorder and confusion that resulted there from.
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Jesus was dragged before the High Priest, and condemned to death. It was then that the High Priest, Caiaphas, performed a divisory act of submission. He sent his prisoner to me to confirm his condemnation and secure his execution. I answered him that, as Jesus was a Galilean, the affair came under Herod’s jurisdiction, and ordered him to be sent thither. The wily Tetrarch professed humility, and protesting his deference to the lieutenant of Caesar, he committed the fate of the man to my hands. Soon my palace assumed the aspect of a besieged citadel. Every moment increased the number of malcontents. Jerusalem was inundated with crowds from the mountains
of Nazareth. All Judea appeared to be pouring into the city.
“BEWARE, BEWARE, AND TOUCH NOT THAT MAN; FOR HE IS HOLY.”
I had taken a wife from among the Gauls, who pretended to see into futurity. Weeping and throwing herself at my feet she said to me: “Beware. Beware, and touch not that man; for he is holy. Last night I saw a vision. he was walking on the water; he was flying on the wings of the wind. He spoke to the tempest and to the fishes of the lake; all were obedient to him. Behold, the torrent of Mount Kedron flows with blood, the statues of Caesar are filled with gemonide; the columns of the interium have given away and the sun is veiled in mourning like a vestal in the tomb. Ah! Pilate, evil; awaits thee. If thou wilt not listen to the vows of thy wife, dread the curse of a Roman Senate; dread the frowns of Caesar.”
By this time the marble stair groaned under the weight of the multitude. The Nazarene was brought back to me. I proceeded to the halls of justice, followed by my guard, and asked the people in a severe tone what they demanded. “The death of the Nazarene,” was the reply.
“For what crime?”
“He blasphemed; he has prophesied the ruin of the temple; he calls himself the Son of God; the Messiah, the King of the Jew.”
“Roman justice,” said I, “punishes not such offences with death.”
“CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM!”
“Crucify him! Crucify him!” cried the relentless rabble. The vociferations of the infuriated mob shook the palace to its foundations.
There was but one who appeared to be calm in the midst of the vast multitude; it was the Nazarene. After many fruitless attempts to protect him from the fury of his merciless prosecutors, I adopted a measure which at the moment appeared to me to be the only one that could save his life. I proposed a measure, as it was their custom to deliver a prisoner on such occasions, to release Jesus and let him go free, that he might be the scapegoat, as they called it; but they said Jesus must be crucified. I then spoke to them of the inconsistency of their course as being incompatible with their laws, showing that no criminal judge could pass sentence on a criminal unless he had fasted one whole day; and that the sentence must have the consent of the Sanhedrin, and the signature of the president of that court; that no criminal could be executed on the same day his sentence was fixed, and the next day, on the day of his execution, the Sanhedrin was required to review the whole proceeding; also, according to their law, a man was stationed at the door of the court with a flag, and another a short way off on horseback to cry the name of the criminal and his crime, and the names of his witnesses, and to know if anyone could testify in his favor; and the prisoner on his way to execution had the right to turn back three times, and to plead any new thing in his favor. I urged all these pleas, hoping they might awe them into subjection; but they cried, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
I THEN CALLED FOR A BASIN, AND WASHED MY HANDS
I then ordered Jesus to be scourged, hoping this might satisfy them; but it only increased their fury. I then called for a basin, and washed my hands in the presence of the clamorous multitude, thus testifying that in my judgment Jesus of Nazareth had done nothing deserving of death; but in vain. It was his life these wretches thirsted for. Often in our civil commotions have I witnessed the furious anger of the multitude, but nothing could be compared with what I witnessed on this occasion. it might have been truly said that all the phantoms of the infernal regions had assembled at Jerusalem. The crowd appeared not to walk, but to be borne off and whirled as a vortex, rolling along in living waves from the portals of the Praetorium even into Mount Zion, with howling screams, shrieks, and vociferations such as were never heard in the seditions of the Pannonia, or in the tumults of the forum.
By degrees the day darkened like a winter’s twilight, such as had been at the death of the great Julius Caesar. It was likewise the ides of March. I, the continued governor of a rebellious province, was leaning against a column of my basilica, contemplating athwart the dreary gloom these fiends of Tartrus dragging to execution the innocent Nazarene. All around me was deserted. Jerusalem had vomited forth her indwellers through the funeral gates that leads to Gemonica. An air of desolation and sadness enveloped me. My guards had joined the cavalry, and the centurion, with a distressed play of power, was endeavoring to keep order. I was left alone, and my breaking heart admonished me that what was passing at that moment appertained rather to the history of the gods, than that of men. A loud clamor was heard proceeding from Golgotha, which, borne on the winds, seemed to announce an agony such as was never heard by mortal ears. Dark clouds lowered over the pinnacle of the temple, and setting over the city covered it as with a veil. So dreadful were the signs that men saw both in the heavens and on the earth that Dionysius the Areopagite is reported to have exclaimed: “Either the author of nature is suffering or the universe is falling apart.”
Whilst these appalling scenes of nature were transpiring, there was a dreadful earthquake in lower Egypt, which filled everybody with fear, and scared the superstitious Jews almost to death. It is said Balthasar, an aged and learned Jew of Antioch, was found dead after the excitement was over. Whether he died from alarm or grief is not known. He was a strong friend of the Nazarene.
THE SACRICIFICE WAS CONSUMMATED
Near the first hour of the night I threw my mantle around me, and went down into the city toward the gates of Golgotha. The sacrifice was consummated. The crowd was returning home, still agitated, it is true, but gloomy, taciturn, and desperate. What they had witnessed had stricken them with terror and remorse. I also saw my little Roman cohort pass by mournfully, the standard-bearer having veiled his eagle in token of grief, and I overheard some of the Jewish soldiers murmuring strange words which I did not understand. Others were recounting miracles very like those which have so often smitten the Romans by the will of gods. Sometimes groups of men and women would halt remain motionless in expectation of witnessing some new prodigy.
THEY ALL SLUNK OFF LIKE COWARDLY CURS
I returned to the Praetorium, sad and pensive. On ascending the stairs, the steps of which were still stained with the blood of the Nazarene, I perceived an old man in a suppliant posture, and behind him several Romans in tears. He threw himself at my feet and wept most bitterly. It is painful to see an old man weep, and my heart being already overcharged with grief, we though strangers, wept together. And in truth it seemed that the tears lay very shallow that day with many whom I perceived in the vast concourse of people. I never witnessed such an extreme revulsion of feeling. Those who betrayed and sold him, those who testified against him, those who cried, “Crucify him! we have his blood,” all slunk off like cowardly curs, and washed their teeth with vinegar. As I am told that Jesus taught a resurrection and a separation after death, if such be the fact, I am sure it commenced in this vast crowd.
“Father,” said I to him, after gaining control of my feelings,” who are you, and what is your request?”
PERMISSION TO BURY JESUS OF NAZARETH
“I am Joseph of Arimathaea,” replied he, “and am come to beg of you upon bended knees the permission to bury Jesus of Nazareth.” ” Your prayer is granted.” I said to him, and I ordered Manilus to take some soldiers with him to superintend the interment, lest it should be profaned.
A few days after the sepulcher was found empty. His disciples proclaimed all over the country that Jesus had risen from the dead, as he had foretold. This created more excitement even than the crucifixion. And to its truth I cannot say for certain, but I have made some investigation of the matter; so you can examine for yourself see if I am in fault, as Herod represents.
Joseph buried Jesus in his own tomb. Whether he contemplated his resurrection or calculated to cut him another, I cannot tell. The day after he was buried one of the priests came to the Paetorium and said they were apprehensive that his disciples intended to steal the body of Jesus and hide it, and then make it appear that he had risen from the dead, as he had foretold and of which they were perfectly convinced. I sent him to the captain of the royal guard {Malcus} to tell him to take the Jewish soldiers, and place as many around the sepulcher as were needed; then if anything should happen they could blame themselves, and not the Romans.
When the great excitement arose about the sepulcher being empty, I felt a deeper solicitude than ever. I sent for Malcus, who told me he had placed his lieutenant, Ben Isham, with one hundred soldiers, around the sepulcher. He told me that Isham and the soldiers were very much alarmed at what had occurred there that morning I sent for this man Isham, who related to me, as near as I can recollect, the following circumstances; He said that at about the beginning of the fourth watch; He saw a soft and beautiful light over the sepulcher. He at first thought the women had come to embalm the body of Jesus, as was their custom, but he could not see how they had gotten through the guards. While these thoughts were passing through his mind, behold the whole place was lighted up, and there seemed to be crowds of the dead in their graveclothes. All seemed to be shouting and filled with ecstasy, while all around and above was the most beautiful music he had ever heard: and the whole air seemed to be full of voices praising God. At this time there seemed to be a reeling and swimming of the earth, so that he turned so sick and faint that he could not stand on his feet. he said the earth seemed to swim from under him, and his senses left him, so that he knew not what did occur. I asked him if he could not have been mistaken as to the light. Was it not day that was coming in the East? He said at first he thought of that, but at a stone’s cast it was exceedingly dark; and then he remembered it was too early for day. I asked him if his dizziness might not have come from being awakened and getting up too suddenly, as it sometimes had the effect. He said he was not, and had not been asleep all night, as the penalty was death for him to sleep on duty. He said he had let some of the soldiers sleep at a time. Some were asleep then. I asked him how long the scene lasted. He said he did not know, but he thought it was nearly an hour. He said it was hid by the light of the day. I asked him if he went to the sepulcher after he had come to himself. He said no, because he was afraid; that just as soon as relief came they all went to their quarters. I asked him if he had been questioned by the priests. he said he had. They wanted him to say it was an earthquake, and that they were asleep, and offered him money to say that the disciples came and stole Jesus; but we saw no disciples, he did not know that the body was gone until he was told. I asked him what was the private opinion of those priests he had conversed with. He said that some of them thought that Jesus was no man; that he was not a human being; that he was not the son of Mary; that he was not the same that was said to be born of the Virgin in Bethlehem; that the same person had been on earth before with Abraham and Lot, and at many times and places.
It seemed to me that if the Jewish theory be true, these conclusions are correct, for they are in accord with this man’s life, as is known and testified by both friends and foes, for the elements were no more in his hands than the clay in the hands of the potter. He could convert water into wine; he could change death into life, disease into health; he could calm the seas, still the storms, call up fish with a silver coin in its mouth. Now, I say if he could do all these things, which he did and many more, as the Jews all testify, and it was doing these things that created this enmity against him– he was not charged with criminal offenses, nor was he charged with violating any law, nor of wronging any individual in person, and all these facts are known to thousands, as well by his foes as by his friends–I am almost ready to say, as did Manlius at the cross: “Truly this was the Son of God.”
Now noble Sovereign, this is as near the facts in the case as I can arrive at, and I have taken pains to make the statement very full, so that you may judge of my conduct upon the whole, as I hear Antipater has said many hard things of me in this matter. With the promise of faithfulness and good wishes to my noble Sovereign. I am your obedient servant.
Pontius Pilate.
This letter backs up the biblical account of the events of the Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
BS. Who wrote this ? Hal Turner ?
I will say this though in favour of those who believe in the biblical Jesus and thereby extend the hand of logic and reason to them who who would probably deny it to me: his existence doesn’t depend on the authenticity or not of this letter.
I note for one thing that “Nazareth” is mentioned. A place I understand did not exist at the time of the supposed Jesus.
As much as I’d like to believe this, (and as much as I trust Les – which is maximal) I’ve gotta note: two seeming flaws in this subparagraph that give me huge concern:
They would betray their own mother to gain office and a luxurious living. It seems to me that, of conquered cities, Jerusalem is the most difficult to govern. So turbulent are the people that I live in momentary dread of an insurrection. I have not soldiers sufficient to suppress it. I had only one centurion and a hundred men at my command. I requested a reinforcement from the perfect of Syria.
1) Even in the 1930’s, folks were saying “an” hundred – not “a hundred”; and,
2) The ‘perfect’ (rather than ‘PREFECT’)? Sorry, but smell test hugely alerted.
Jesus! Jesus! Glory be to God! Peace to people of good will.
Blessed holy mother touched my heart and soul, “me a boy from no where”
Rosary! Is a beautiful thing, I say that as not a Catholic, but I am in heart, mind and soul.
I tell you my spiritual awakening happened in 2019
When I first recited the rosary,
Which lead me to the foot of the cross and I confessed all I ever did.
Jesus took my sin from my heart, I felt it it was excillerating, like a piece of string going up to heaven.
He has shown me signs on my journey when I was in need, I know he is with me in my struggle.
“Against the snares of the devil”
I swear on my life Jesus lives and I will die for him.
And the blessed holy mother where my journey began..
I detest sin, and sinful images.
I care nothing for the things of this world, I’m still learning I read the bible say my prayers everyday love the rosary I know it’s a powerful weapon against demons.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, I know the truth..
God bless! Viva christo rey!!
It is one of masonries deepest secrets that Christ was an anglo saxon
the learned Prof Robert Bolt said on examining the DNA from the turin shroud that christ was probably an englishman William blake the mystic said on christs crucifixion that joseph or arimthea brought him back to glastonbry, to say brought him back means that where he was from
this is why the jews want to eradicate the real chosen people as they aresatanists
sorry i am aged and half blind that last sentence should read
thats why the jews want to eradicate the real chosen people as the jews are satanists
Even Christians have disowned this fraud.
“In 1928, British journalist William Percival Crozier (1879-1944) issued the “Letters of Pontius Pilate: Written During His Governorship of Judea to His Friend Seneca in Rome”, presenting a fantastic novel (fiction) on the idea of what could have been written by Pilate regarding Jesus, based on the facts described in the Gospels. He notes that the first to make reference to an “invisible” letter of Pilate regarding Jesus was the Christian apologist Tertullian in the 3rd century A.D. (obviously based on the references made in the apocryphal work “Acts of Peter and Paul”).
It is worth mentioning that internet users seeking answers …”
https://paradisepostblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/historic-letter-written-by-pontius-pilate-to-tiberius-caesar-about-jesus-life-events/
You seriously want me to believe this letter has just come to light now, 2.9 million years after Christ’s departure?
No doubt in my mind.
I feel as lot better for reading that.
Not even one of the good forgeries.
garbage
Like the Shroud of Turin, Our Lady of Fatima, The Weeping Madonna and a white nationalist Putin, this is fake.
this leter has been known for decades same as the leter to rome from the british leader caractacus
not many know of this but it shows how advanced Britain was at that time this mans examplory education shows out on every line
while the dirty jews tell us we walked round naked in blue paint
The “lady of Fatima” and the “miracle of the sun” were actual events, it’s just that it wasn’t the mother of Jesus that manifested herself, unless she likes traveling around by flying disk that is. What most likely happened at Fatima back in 1917, was one of the biggest mass encounters with a ufo in history. It was the ufo that was rising and dropping and dancing around, it was what dried the people and ground out so quickly. Witnesses there said it was a disk, under the clouds that was putting on the show. They could observe the disk for 30 minutes with no eye damage. It most certainly wasn’t the sun, the sun was far off in the sky, where it always is. The “lady” was most probably a hologram projected from the disk. Why would the aliens or whatever they were, want to add the religious part, who knows. Hardly anyone back then had even heard of an aeroplane, much less about UFO’s in the sky. Today it would just be considered a mass encounter, back then was different.
Call me a cynic, but this seems just too contrived to be true! Seems most likely a composition to support “The Jesus Story”.
@Glen Ashton
I agree.
Most comments are pretty stupid here lately, invasion of the trolls?
Their own Hebrew Bible proves Jesus was circumcised (Luke 2:21), called ‘rabbi’ by his disciples (Mark 9:5), attended Synagogue (Luke 4:16) observed Passover & Hanukkah (Matt 26:17/John 10:22) & taught ‘Salvation is from the Jews.’ (John 4:22)
In what reality did these Jewish customs & observances become something a Gentile would partake in? Figure it out, if you can..
@ R.C.
It doesn’t matter when or how often a mistake is made, if it’s still identifiably a mistake, then it’s a mistake.
“An hundred” is incorrect English, simply. The rule of grammar governing the use of the indefinite article is – “an” – can only be used before a vowel sound. (Not a vowel but a vowel sound.) Therefore “an honour” or “an honesty” are both correct. “An hundred” or “an hotel” are incorrect because in each case the “h” is aspirated. If the aitch is dropped, as it commonly is, in, say, the East London accenting, then “an ‘undred” or “an ‘otel” could be allowed for. However, it would still be poor English, orthographically.
I took “perfect” to be a typographic error, although, you may be correct, considering it’s used twice in the text, that it could be, in fact, indicative of inauthenticity.
Ridiculum!
Sadly, sounds like a forgery. Don’t think a Governor from the small Judea would say this to his Emperor and not get his head put on a spike:
An insatiate thirst for conquest to extend our empire beyond the means of defending it, I fear, will be the cause of the final overthrow of our whole government.
As a Christian, my initial impression the letter is obviously written hundreds or even a few thousands of years AD. Also there is a lot of nonsense – “golden hair” – oh yes, lets cast him in our Arian image.
this is my thinking : JESUS if he existed and was not
figure constructed from diferent religions (gnosis,buddism,
apollon+dionysos cult, egypt, hinduism etc) he seemed
to be from northern israeli tribe . and as he was related
to Johannes the baptizer + Essenes and most of his life
is unknown there are stories that he went to Kerala to
learn meditation in an hindu ashram ( probably buddistic)
and returned in search of the lost hebraeic tribes. in Kerale
there was always a hebraic colony since king solomons
times. he was like many indian gurus an enlightened
holy man and all enlightened men are sons of god
because god is ONENESS in oposition to the master
of this world the devil of duality . and when jesus says
love your enemy its imposible for us not enlightened
to fulfill this . only an enlightened person has reached
the godly ONENESS and therefore is able to love friend+
foe. i think in our times jesus would never have pressed
this misunderstanding onto his disciples which did
only know the jewish way of rules + thinking . and he
is right to reach the ONENESS through enlightenment
is only possible through a reeicarnation of body + mind.
this has nothing to do with brain thinking + believe.
believe like my thinking is only the chattering brain ape
and the brain ape rots after death like the brain . nothing
left over when time comes . i just only can make an
estimate to reality im blind of . only an enlightened
is ful conscious and even dont dreams anymore. there are
stories + books that he returned to Kashmir and is buried
there. at least a holy man under similar name.
Jesus is a fictional character invented by Josephus who cast the sun god myths of the day on a Jewish man. Josephus even encoded in the the name of the new savior
JoSEphUS = J S E U S = JESUS
Jospehus’s autobiography tells of himself in the temple who amazes the scribes, then in the new testament the same exact story with a few minor changes.
It is obvious (that is if you are honest intellectual) that the Jewish scholar Josephus invented the Jesus character partially based on his own life.
Then we have the claim that Jesus is a savior of all mankind. No proof of this has ever been found, no one has ever been saved in this life by Jesus and we have no evidence no one was ever saved in the next life, nor do we have any proof that anyone gets judged or has a soul, or any of claims found in the Bible.
Notice how no Christians are being saved now, the government is killing millions with lies, wars, false flags, vaccines and their is no savior. The whole shebang is just a strong mental spell that captures men’s minds and puts them in a state of non-thinking suspension.
The NT is just fanciful hopeful writing that duped the world for 2,000 years. So the above letter is 100% fake. Christians are desperate to prove the authenticity of the Gospel, but it is fiction and so when you go to the desert and try to prove it you always come up empty handed. Same for the Jewish kings, the Torah is just more fiction as Shlomo Sands proves in his numerous books.
No one ever got saved no matter how desperately we believed. No one asks why we even need to be saved in the first place. No one asks the really big question why this naked big brained ape is so damned it needs saving. Does a Gorilla need to be saved? Or a monkey? Or any animal or any specie? So why are humans so completely damned as to need saving if they evolved on earth?
What a great read. Some inspired language in there. This site continues to surprise. Of course the idea that Pontious Pilate was a friend of Jesus is absurd. ““And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence”
But still the story is compelling. Jesus Christ reigns and will return. We are in the End Times my wooly sheeple. I see the rabid crowd chanting for Barabus in the comments above. Ha ha ha
@Simon Smith NAS: And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
KJV: and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. Ereth : earth. Ha ha ha. Nazareth is still there ? You can book a tour if u like. Unless you landed in Sydney.
for eg “I CAME NOT TO BRING WAR INTO THE WORLD, BUT PEACE, LOVE AND CHARITY.” is a deliberate inversion of Matthew 10:33 an on 33But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. 34Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
The white zombies will dream up anything to keep believing in their Jewish ‘savior’.
To be noticed about the source:
http://theancientbridge.com/
http://theancientbridge.com/about-me/
A picture of the mentioned copy of the original letter could provide bit of authenticity, it must have been written in latin, I suppose.
Later translations can oftentimes carry mistakes.
Me thinks it won’t be too long before the sceptics are like those returning after the crucifixion .. what makes them think they know everything better than anyone. Have your view by all means, but please do yourselves a favour by allowing christians equal rights to their belief.
Have a masters degree in the Bible and reading this letter seems to line up fairly well. IF it was fake, it was written with someone with a large degree of knowledge of the Bible. The so called Jews hate Jesus and the Christians and will do anything to discredit Jesus.
In their Babylonian Talmud (Talmud means learning so mystery Babylon) they admit Jesus did miracles, but via the power of the devil. This right here is why the Yeshua crowd and the Hebrew roots heretics want to discredit Paul.
Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:14, 16 – For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, EVEN AS THEY HAVE OF THE JEWS: WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and THEY PLEASE NOT GOD, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: FOR THE WRATH IS COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST.
Man the storyteller.
I’m inclined to agree with Ian’s post: “Call me a cynic, but this seems just too contrived to be true! Seems most likely a composition to support “The Jesus Story”. I’m also in agreement with Yukon Jack. Though there is no proof a spirit, soul, some life force, does NOT exist, even after death.
Just relax there now peeps as this is but a summary of sorts as to how Mr Viz if he were there at the time could have seen things.
First clue of course as author used the word Jew early on in prose.
There were no Jews when Jesus was born as He was a Judaeo, Nazarene. The word Jew is of late 1700 English poet which is a latched on word which became vehicle of Marrano who conquered Venice and paid whore Cromwell to re-invade olden England. Cromwell of coursed tried to make Ireland new Israel for his master.
Master of Cromwell found tho as Ireland was a cold place with pop of seeming ignorant fool.
“To hell or to Connaught” said Brute bastard englander on behalf of Venician Judian.
Said Judain have looked at many places oer time but have now thought of Australia which is a warm place with no cockroach arab.
Those dirty cur have been in existence long since whence they murdered our Christ.
They hate our Christ with same passion as our Christ love them.
“They” are not chosen by some god as they hate with passion Son of the Father.
“They” are children of father of lies, they have been such and will always be so.
Just leave off on author of this piece as it is his thought on perhaps how Pilot may have thought.
“Suffered under Pilot”, just who would have though that which has survived 2000 year.
Well done Mr Viz, well done…..
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I was only doing my duty…
Fuck you…
Just fuck you Rixon as you ban thought not of thine
Always thought you were 82.
Oh well… Fuck you 82.
@ Yukon Jack
Jack. In your explanation to say that Jesus is just a myth and a creation of Josephus, you gloss over the external sources which show that Josephus was born in 37 AD. He would have been 27 years old when in 64 AD Nero accused the Christians in Rome of starting the great fire. It is more likely that in the some 30 years after the crucifixion of Jesus, in that generation and a half, that the Christian faith spread like wildfire as witnessed with the letters of St. Paul and others, than from a hoax started by someone born at the time of his death and likely being an old man before he even wrote such a history.
You say, “No one as every saved?” Saved from what? What do people who say they are saved by Jesus believe they are saved from? From sin. From being ruled by death, but through faith which you do not have or want and which is beyond the limits of your own perception and reason, and which connects them in their accounts to the person of Christ and to the eternal God. Millions and millions of people have had their lives transformed through Christ to become reconciled with God making them feel whole, happy, confident, unafraid, and transforming their hearts and minds with all of the virtues and attributes of His divine love. Those who have soiled and betrayed that faith are of no account to God and should not be considered ore relied upon to discount its truth and goodness. Those who are faithful do feel they have been saved from their former hollowness, blindness, and selfishness and have become liberated into a life of grace, constantly finding God’s providence and guidance into greater unity and depths.
No Hindu guru, nor has even your Josephus ever dreamed of promising so much, not only for this life but for its continuation in the everlasting love, light and life in the divine realm, much less have any of them actually delivered so many transformations. Most people reject the invitation wanting to be left to their own devices and fantasies, mutually propping themselves up, but only brief periods and transient purposes in these shifting sands of time.
No, Jesus was not a gnostic or a Buddhist, nor did he go to Kerala in India to learn mediation as Antiseptic says. Jesus was a thorough-going Pharisee who believed and taught about the resurrections of individual human person in bodily form by God in the end times to come. Yes, of course he was also a mystic and “connected” to God in this life, but no religion at any time has had a monopoly on mysticism. Most of all he taught about the real and everlasting kingdom of heaven, and not the ones of our own imaginations. This kingdom he said was in our midst and the entrance to which in this life we can access only through him. No one ever taught that his life (his birth, works, teachings and foreseeable death) was the living fruit of the tree of eternal life, the template for those who would listen to and desire be saved in the light of God’s radiance.
As a Pharisee and he was learned and a teacher or Rabbi of Hebrew scripture. As many as us in such tiny respects have found in opening a Bible, sometimes things seem to us so coincidental, uncanny and timely as if God or some divine and miraculous presence had directed our hands and eyes, Jesus on the other hand did this constantly. In reading the accounts of the suffering servant in the Book of Isaiah, he would have known the real purpose of the suffering servant, and as we know, there is no moral human being who would trade any honor or praise we could give them in exchange for the ransom of such a holocaust. No one would have or did have that strength to be that one to accept all that was foreseen as applying to themselves. We also know from reliable accounts of his crucifixion that the did walk the walk which no one, except he who was the incarnate one, could walk or even dare to walk. Everything told in the Gospels even about Pilate is a mystery about about God and our own true but fallen natures, which if we hunger for Him and want to be liberated and saved, we must not only dwell upon these things, but also follow using our own sufferings and crosses in imitation where we can.
To Yukon Jack–Ralph Ellis makes a good case that Josephus wrote all the material of “Paul”, meaning “Apollo” instead of the name Saul. Ellis is yet another author who re-writes the whole Bible.
Jesus’s name came from Joshua, NOT Josephus. The rest of that comment is so poorly researched and lacking in even the most basic validating that I know not what to say further. It is… as so many things in this day are, obfuscation shadows… dancing in the Fata Morgana of the writer’s mind.
Jews hate Him, therefore He is real.
Do you really think Pontius Pilate would write a letter to Tiberius Caesar about Jesus, and a very long letter when back in the day a long letter was only one page?
quoting the last line of this article is very suspect:
“This letter backs up the biblical account of the events of the Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Which, of course, is why it is a hoax. Desperately trying to prove the narrative.
Why the hoax? Because the Gospel is a fictional story – one that gives you hope when you are ruled by tyrants. That is why the Gospel says the meek shall inherit the earth. The owners are mocking you with a make believe tale that God will use his power to bring justice to the world.
God never comes back, justice is never served, the rich get away with their crimes all the time throughout the ages. Did anyone get prosecuted for 9-11-2001? But 21 trillion was doled out to the defense contractors after that false flag. They got away with a mega crime and God never stopped them.
So when you write a tale for the plebs to suck on to make themselves feel good in a corrupt system, you say the rich getting into heaven is difficult like going through the eye of a needle. That makes the poor person feel good. Or you say God will judge the bad when they die. So you believe there is some justice in the end, if not on earth then in heaven.
It is all an illusion, one that keeps those that believe in the dark and bound by the law. What you need to do is take action against the injustice not wait for some invisible god to do it for you.
jesus was just another trouble-making k~ke…look at all the wars it has caused
Paganism is what the noses fear most of all..
re-connecting at root with the life force…they invented Christianity to draw people away from paganism
see KnowMoreNews with Christopher Jon Bjerkenes
away jesus didnt exist…just a myth made by the ovendodgers
took hundreds of years to perfect and sell the BS
andyay Thanks. However, that’s a modern American grammar/usage rule you quote. I would guess that rules of ‘American’ grammar were a lot closer to British the farther back one goes.
Good point on the second use of ‘perfect’.
My sketicism hackles were simply alerted but I ain’t gonna research it. Thanks!
R.C.
I’ll read the whole letter at some point, but, as a true Christian, I have my doubts about its authenticity, knowing that many ancient documents and letters and whatever were forged or otherwise made up. I’d love for it to be true proving Christ’s existence, as so many deny this truth as though according to evolutionists two particles just happen to come together randomly while failing to reveal how the two particles came to exist. Same with those who deny His existence (even though there are historical records proving He existed…never mind! Just being a dumbass Christian idiot I guess…. Bwahahahahahahhahahahah!). But keep on believing evil exists but not its opposite! Sheesh!
I really felt like I was was reading the account of Pilate.
He would have corresponded with Caesar, on all sorts of matters including this momentous event.
Caesar’s real name is Cesare if I am not mistaken, pronounced ‘chezaray’ So don’t get too hung up on spelling and translation.
You see, Rome permitted Jesus free speech.
Jesus preached love and charity and peace. Romans could have used a bit of that when ruling over the Judaeans.
In Rome you could lose your life for sleeping on the job, but, in the case of Jesus they made every effort to keep him alive, even invited witnesses to accuse and defend him.
@ Rixon Stewart.
I can’t say that I understand the commenter, Murt. He seems to have a considerable degree of unreconciled resentment in his heart toward you. It’s as if he’s angling for opportunities to insult you and belittle all of your very fine work.
He sounds more like a scorned lover. It’s not your ex-wife, writing under a presumed name, is it?
As always, gratitude and great respect for your courageous endeavours and for your indispensable website, the truthseeker uk.
What the Jew does masterfully is to chop the big overarching lie into gerrymandered little pieces, each pimped out as a truth fragment for the myopic chickens to gobble up and assert themselves the magical purveyors of truth.
This is what I see here, where numerous posters are tripping over themselves in haste to do Jew’s work and re-crucify the Jew’s MOST HATED MAN™.
Yes, the most and the longest loathed ever.
Stuck him into a vat of boiling excrement … because … he is pro-Jew!?
It is a formula that I have yet see to fail, truly this severe myopia characterizes goy even more accurately than a nose overhang, oily skin, fuzzy hair and fat, slobbering lips characterize Jew.
It is an essential item in Jew’s occult toolkit to know how to point swarthy finger in direction of a dangerous enemy and incite goyim to fall upon this enemy like a pack of starved barracuda.
Every one of you Jesus-haters never once asked whether you have covered all the angles fairly, are your sources direct or secondary or tertiary, is there powerful evidence to the contrary, DID YOU JUMP THE SHARK (and how often).
Because jumping the shark is Jew’s Olympic discipline, patiently taught over the past 4 centuries to Anglo-Zio-Protestants (and now regrettably, the Catholics too, different shits, same flush).
I will not bother with philosophical, ethical, ontological and metaphysical issues, the scientific arguments favoring the Intelligent Creator lest I be accused of generating skull-splitting migraines.
Instead, I will name just one simple, tangible shark, see how well you can jump it.
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https://shroud.com/
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Quote (caps+arrows, mine):
Modern science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the Shroud.
→→IT IS, IN FACT, THE SINGLE MOST STUDIED ARTIFACT IN HUMAN HISTORY, ←←
and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the controversy still rages.
So don’t wait, dive into it and win everlasting fame, glory and shekels by proving once and for all that is is some crypto-Babylonian/Egyptian/Masonic/Illuminati/MK-Ultra fake copied from Ramses the 6’th pyramid. Should be as easy as falling off a log.
Or jump the Spielberg Jaws (note btw, the Kabbala symbolism running through, also that every one of the 3 main protagonists was a big-ass Jew) one more time and crown yourself the winner in the existential debate.
General observation:
• One of the most reliable indicators of truth is that it stands alone, needs no protection legal or polemical, lengthy explanations and threats—it genuinely invites inquiries of all kinds—because truth is the most durable object in cosmos and will in fact OUTLIVE cosmos.
• AND THE EXACT OPPOSITE goes for the lie, witness any and all of Jew’s declarations and statements—the $ trillion media, entertainment, academe, judiciary, political, military intimidation, the Hate Speech/Hate Crimes, indoctrinating pre-schoolers with Holovomit, on and on.
You can’t fix stupid.
What a complete and utter lod of BULL!! You only had to read it was ”translated” (Scripted) By a saranic Masonic Lodge you know it would be bull I got 4 paragraphs in and gave up reading this entire satanic Zionist BULLCRAP
The face on the shroud is that of Leonardo da Vinci.
I would like to believe it but i know it is
wishful thinking and as Budda and all good
gurus teach one shut abstain from wishing .
because wishes are the trap of the devil + no
end. one even should abstain from enlightment
as the wish alone is a hinderance on this way .
This article is fascinating, not because of its content, but because of the heat level expressed by the commentators and the number of comments, more than is usually attributed to other articles. Clearly Jesus Christ remains a contentious figure.
It is fascinating also that, while there are a range of opinions expressed against Christianity, I would hazard a guess that none of the critics have ever read the Bible for themselves. In addition, since few Christians understand the Bible, many of the nay-sayers are simply repeating the erroneous views of mainstream Christianity, but from the opposite point of view.
Regarding the letter, it would not stand up to genuine investigation for a number of reasons already expressed by the many contributors to the discussion, not least because it mixes truth with error. The King James Bible is all you need to know the truth, not the content of a claimed historic letter. The entire Bible is authentic and can be utterly trusted, so it stands to reason that Jesus Christ is real, and who he claims to be, the Son of God, is also true.
See this short documentary of the discovery of Noah’s Ark to see that you can trust the Bible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoTkguzRaCU
And ongoing research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfH_Q4pQRI
An interesting comment was that there is no evidence that anyone gets saved. The word saved and salvation in the KJB has various aspects to it. The ultimate salvation, is of course the free gift of salvation by grace through faith in Christ from the lake of fire, and to complete liberty of eternal life, which I think is pretty cool, requiring nothing but belief in Christ’s cross work and resurrection. There is also salvation via the catching up (rapture) from wrath in the 7-year Time of Jacob’s Trouble (Daniel 9 and Revelation and Matthew 24) which is to come on all the world (soon?). The gathering up is explained in 1 Thessalonians 4.13-18) and happens before the tribulation. I would describe this as an advantage. You may not believe in either, but that does not mean that it isn’t promised. There is also salvation from deception – again, a pretty handy gift at a time like this.
One thing to bear in mind, is that Christ is building TWO groups, one which Paul, the Apostle, calls the Body of Christ, which has spiritual blessings, not physical blessings. Christ’s Body will rule from heaven, replacing Satan and his evil angels, who will be kicked out of the heavens (see Ephesians 6:12 for the concept of rulers of the darkness in heavenly places and Revelation 12:12). As prophesied in the OT, Christ will also save a different group at his second coming, right at the end of the tribulation – a tiny remnant of Jews (two thirds of the Jews will die during this time, Zechariah 13:8). He will set up true national Israel. The Israel you see today, is stage setting for the future Anti-Christ to rule from Jerusalem.
The church has not replaced Israel, it has a different mission. (Romans 11:25-29).
If you are looking for a savior, you will be deceived, because the only savior coming is the Anti-Christ. He will promise physical salvation to the world, not spiritual. He will bring a sort of peace and safety. He will refute the Jesus Christ of the Bible and his first coming, the Jesus most of the world has already rejected, including those commentators here. Be careful, that having discerned so much of what is currently going on in our world, you fail to recognize what really counts for your eternal future.
For Christians only: The Power of Darkness, who your real enemy is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUZQnsc12oI
Well, I don’t know.
bryan