“Jesus [was] a wise man…, a doer of wonderful works – a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure…. He was Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned Him to the cross – those that loved Him at the first,
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did not forsake Him. For He appeared to them alive, again, the third day [after He died] – as the divine Prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning Him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from Him, are not extinct, at this day….
