{"id":10230,"date":"2021-12-06T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchmannews.kinsta.cloud\/2021\/12\/drama1-html\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:37:16","slug":"drama1-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchman.news\/uk\/2021\/12\/drama1-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama of Lost Disciples, Jesus&#8217; Disciples to Britain #1 &#8211; Page One"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Drama of the Lost Disciples (Jesus&#8217; Disciples) to Britain #1<\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>PDF Book version:<a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Drama-of-the-Lost-Disciples.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Drama of the Lost Disciples<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Drama-of-the-Lost-Disciples.pdf\">Download &#8220;Drama of the Lost Disciples&#8221;<\/a> by Jowett to read the pdf offline.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the text only version<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Introduction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/2021\/12\/drama2-html\/\">Drama of Lost Disciples #2 \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/2021\/12\/drama3-html\/\">Drama of Lost Disciples #3 \u2013 Part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"60\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote>\n<pre>THE DRAMA OF THE LOST DISCIPLES #1\r\n\r\nby George f. Jowett (1961)\r\n\r\n\r\nTHE NOBILIS DECURIO\r\n\r\n     JOSEPH of Arimathea was a man of refinement, well educated,\r\nand one who possessed many talents. He had extraordinary\r\npolitical and business ability and was reputed to be one of the\r\nwealthiest men in the world of that time. He was the Carnegie of\r\nhis day, a metal magnate controlling the tin and lead industry\r\nwhich then was akin in importance to that of steel today.\r\nTin was the chief metal for the making of alloys and in great\r\ndemand by the warring Romans.\r\n     Many authorities claim that Joseph's world control of tin\r\nand lead was due to his vast holdings in the famous, ancient tin\r\nmines of Britain. This interest he had acquired and developed\r\nmany years before Jesus was baptized by His cousin, John the\r\nBaptist, and before He began His brief but glorious mission.\r\n     The world's major portion of tin was mined in Cornwall,\r\nsmelted into ingots and exported throughout the then known\r\ncivilized world, chiefly in the ships of Joseph. He is reputed to\r\nhave owned one of the largest private merchant shipping fleets\r\nafloat which traversed the world's sea lanes in the\r\ntransportation of this precious metal.\r\n     The existence of the tin trade between Cornwall and\r\nPhoenicia is frequently referred to by classical writers, and is\r\ndescribed at considerable length by Diodorus Siculus as well as\r\nJulius Caesar.\r\n     In the Latin Vulgate of the Gospel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Mark15%3A43\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Mark 15:43<\/a>, and\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Luke23%3A50\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Luke 23:50<\/a>, we find both referring to Joseph of Arimathea as\r\n'Decurio'. This was the common term employed by the Romans to\r\ndesignate an official in charge of metal mines.\r\n     In St. Jerome's translation, Joseph's official title is\r\ngiven as 'Nobilis Decurio'. This would indicate that he held a\r\nprominent position in the Roman administration as a minister of\r\nmines. For a Jew to hold such high rank in the Roman State is\r\nrather surprising, and goes far to prove the remarkable\r\ncharacteristics of Joseph. We know he was an influential member\r\nof the Sanhedrin, the Jewish religious body that ruled Roman\r\nJewry, and a legislative member of a provincial Roman senate. His\r\nfinancial and social standing can well be estimated when we\r\nconsider he owned a palatial home in the holy city and a fine\r\ncountry residence just outside Jerusalem. \r\n\r\n     Several miles north of the ancient city he possessed another\r\nspacious estate at Arimathea, which is known today as Ramalleh.\r\nIt was located on the populous caravan route between Nazareth and\r\nJerusalem. Everything known of him points to him as affluent and\r\nas a person of importance and influence within both the Jewish\r\nand Roman hierarchies.\r\n     According to the Talmud, Joseph was the younger brother of\r\nthe father of the Virgin Mary. He was her uncle, and therefore a\r\ngreat uncle to Jesus. Chiefly from the secular reports we learn\r\nthat Joseph was a married man and his son, Josephes, left a mark\r\nof distinction in British history.\r\n     During the lifetime of Jesus there constantly appears\r\nreference to his association with a relative at Jerusalem.\r\nProfane history is more positive on the matter, identifying the\r\nconnection with Joseph. As we study the old records we find there\r\nis a valid reason for the close association of Jesus and his\r\nfamily with Joseph. It is quite obvious that the husband of Mary\r\ndied while Jesus was young. Under Jewish law such a circumstance\r\nautomatically appointed the next male kin of the husband, in this\r\ncase Joseph, legal guardian of the family. This fact explains\r\nmany things. History and tradition report Jesus, as a boy,\r\nfrequently in the company of His uncle, particularly at the time\r\nof the religious feasts, and declares that Jesus made voyages to\r\nBritain with Joseph in his ships. Cornish traditions abound with\r\nthis testimony and numerous ancient landmarks bear Hebrew names\r\nrecording these visits.\r\n     Even during the short period of the ministry of Jesus there\r\nis definitely shown to exist a close affinity between them, far\r\ngreater than one would expect from an ordinary guardianship. It\r\nwas fatherly, loyal, with a mutual affection death could not\r\nsever.\r\n     We know that Joseph never forsook his nephew. He stood by\r\nHim as a bold, fearless defender at the notorious trial, and\r\ndefied the Sanhedrin by going to Pilate and boldly claiming the\r\nbody when all others feared to do so. His arms were the first to\r\ncradle the broken corpse when taken from the cross and place it\r\nin the tomb. After death he continued to protect the mutilated\r\nbody of Jesus from the conspiring minds of the Sadducees. He\r\nrisked his all, wealth, power and position in those crucial years\r\nfulfilling his obligation as guardian of Jesus and of the family\r\nof Mary. He loved Jesus dearly. The disciples spoke of Joseph\r\nwith an affectionate regard. They wrote he was a 'just man', a\r\n'good man', 'honourable', and 'a disciple of Jesus'. The latter\r\nclearly indicates that all through their association Joseph must\r\nhave encouraged\r\n\r\nTHE NOBILIS DECURIO  \r\n\r\n     Jesus in His great work and that he was aware of the mystery\r\nof His birth and probaby His destiny. All evidence proves that\r\nJoseph believed in the validity of all Jesus taught and\r\nultimately suffered for.\r\n     It is commonly taught that Jesus was poor and of obscure\r\nrelatives. His relationship with the affluent Joseph of Arimathea\r\nproves otherwise. In His own right He was a property owner but\r\nlong before He took up His mission He forsook all material\r\nwealth.\r\n     It should be remembered that Jesus was a true lineal\r\ndescendant of the Shepherd King, David, and of Seth, son of Adam,\r\nwho was the son of God.\r\n\r\nWHO MOVED THE STONE AT THE TOMB?\r\n\r\n\r\n     DENIED the power of the vote Caiaphas lost no time in\r\ncontacting Pilate, fully prepared to play his ace with the\r\npressure of blackmail if Pilate hesitated to institute the charge\r\nof treason against Jesus. Under Roman law treason was a capital\r\noffence which, if proven, was punishable by death. Only the Roman\r\nProcurator could try such a case and only he could legally impose\r\nthe death penalty. This Caiaphas demanded and silence was his\r\nprice.\r\n     The High Priest possessed positive knowledge that Pontius\r\nPilate had been an active party to a secret, futile plot to\r\nassassinate Tiberius Caesar. Armed with this knowledge Caiaphas\r\nimposed his will on the Procurator, who trembled with fear of\r\nexposure, disgrace, and the threat to his life.\r\n     It is with certainty we can assume that Joseph pleaded with\r\nPilate not to interfere in a new trial of Jesus. Joseph was\r\nunaware of the deadly secret Caiaphas held over the Spanish-born\r\nProcurator. Neither his pleadings nor his influence could\r\nprevail. Nor could the earnest supplication of Pilate's wife\r\navail, who, disturbed by the potency of a dream the night before,\r\nbegged of him to have nothing to do with the trial of 'that just\r\nman'.\r\n     Pilate deferred to his wife. He owed his exalted position to\r\nthe social eminence his marriage had brought. His wife was\r\nClaudia Procula, the illegitimate daughter of Claudia, the third\r\nwife of Tiberius Caesar, and grand-daughter of Augustus Caesar.\r\nPilate knew that the Emperor, against whom he had plotted, was\r\nvery fond of his step-daughter and, being an astute politician,\r\nPontius Pilate deferred to her every whim. For him to deny\r\nClaudia's urgent request is but to prove how serious Pilate\r\nconsidered the hold Caiaphas had on him. At heart Pilate was not\r\nin sympathy with the demands of the Sadducees. He found no\r\nfoundation to their charges. Four times Jesus was pronounced\r\ninnocent but Pilate, in his evasive gesture calling for a bowl of\r\nwater to signify he washed his hands of the whole matter, acceded\r\nto the murderous demands of the Sanhedrin. Nevertheless, he\r\npermitted the Roman guard to carry out the tragic act\r\nhistorically known as 'The Scandal of the Cross'.\r\n\r\n     The dream that tortured Pilate's wife on the previous night\r\nforetold disaster to him if he judged Jesus. The dream came true.\r\nLater Pontius Pilate committed suicide.\r\n     From the beginning to the end the arrest and dual trial was\r\na vicious frame-up, a betrayal, a travesty of justice. From that\r\ndark hour in the garden to the crucifixion, the plot was hurried\r\nto its conclusion. It had to be. The murmurings of the people had\r\nbeen growing louder, as evidenced at the final trial. Following\r\nthe fatal verdict the whole city seethed with fear and unrest.\r\nCaiaphas and his fanatical collaborators had triumphed but the\r\nRomans held the lash and would not hesitate to use it\r\nunmercifully on the slightest provocation or interference. So\r\ngreatly did terror prevail throughout Jerusalem that all known to\r\nhave been associated with Jesus in even the slightest way fled\r\ninto hiding.\r\n     Nine of the twelve disciples had fled the city directly\r\nafter the arrest in the garden, leaving only three standing by.\r\nJudas was no longer numbered among the faithful. Only Peter, John\r\nand Nicodemus remained. Even though Peter had denied his Master\r\nhe, with the beloved disciple John, had followed Jesus into the\r\ncrowded court room of the Sanhedrin. There for the third time,\r\nPeter denied association with his Lord. After the fatal\r\ncircumstances had arisen Peter, overwhelmed with self-torment and\r\nashamed of his denials, despondently went into seclusion within\r\nthe city. He did not witness the crucifixion. Of those present,\r\nthe Scriptures refer by name only to John and Mary, the mother of\r\nJesus, witnessing the tragedy at the foot of the cross, and the\r\nthree women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and\r\nSalome who watched from a respectful distance.\r\n     Wonderment is often evinced at the omission of the Bethany\r\nsisters, Martha and Mary, whom Jesus loved. The impression\r\ngathered is that they were not present. This does not seem\r\nconceivable. The name of Joseph is not mentioned but it seems\r\nsafe to say they were all present. The record says, 'all the\r\nwomen who followed Him,' and 'others were mingled among the\r\ncrowd'. The speed with which Joseph called on Pilate after the\r\ndemise indicates that he was present. Pilate appears to be\r\nsurprised at hearing the swift news, asking those near him if it\r\nwere true Jesus was dead.\r\n\r\n(\"But all those who were the acquaintance of Christ, stood at a\r\ndistance, as did the women who had followed Jesus from Galilee,\r\nobserving all these things:\" - Nicodemus 8:11).\r\n\r\n\r\n     It is doubtful if the beloved John and the Blessed Mother\r\nwitnessed the expiration on the cross. We are told that after\r\nJesus committed His mother to the care of John, the disciple led\r\nher away to spare her the last dark hours of suffering.\r\n     Probably the average Christian of today fails to realize the\r\nextent of the physical and mental torture borne by the sensitive\r\nJesus through this agonizing period. From the hour of the Last\r\nSupper to the time of His death, He had not touched food or\r\ndrink. He had been 'third degreed' from the moment He stood in\r\nthe torch-lit Sanhedrin, until after His trial before Pilate.\r\nThen, following the heckling, the crowning of thorns, and the\r\nreviling by His enemies who had placed the mocking sign on Him -\r\n'King of the Jews'.\r\n     Following His condemnation to death He had been brutally\r\nflogged by His Roman executioners, His back slashed to ribbons.\r\nEven today it is conceded that the Roman flogging was the most\r\ncruel ever to be inflicted on a human being. This we can well\r\nbelieve as we scan the Roman records which attest to the fact\r\nthat only one out of ten ever survived the ghastly scourging.\r\n     His suffering was intensified when the reviling Roman\r\nsoldier pressed the bitter sponge of hyssop to His parched lips\r\nwhen He called for water as He hung on the cross.\r\n     All this He endured apart from the terrible torment He\r\nsuffered as He slowly expired on the cross. Weighing all this as\r\nwe must, we are not left in doubt that Jesus was as physically\r\nsuperb as He was mentally and spiritually.\r\n     According to both Jewish and Roman law, unless the body of\r\nan executed criminal be immediately claimed by the next of kin\r\nthe body of the victim was cast into a common pit with others\r\nwhere all physical record of them was completely obliterated.\r\nWhy did not Mary, the mother of Jesus, as the immediate next of\r\nkin, claim the body of her beloved Son?\r\n     Perhaps John, fearing for the safety of Mary, restrained\r\nher, leaving it to Joseph, the family guardian, to make the\r\nrequest. We do know that Joseph was the one who personally went\r\nto Pilate and obtained the Procurator's official sanction to\r\nclaim the body, remove it from the cross, and prepare it for\r\nburial in his private sepulchre which was within the garden of\r\nhis estate.\r\n     You will likely agree that this was in order. But consider\r\nthe circumstances.\r\n\r\n     A reign of terror continued to prevail within the city of\r\nJerusalem. No follower of Christ was safe from the evil\r\nmachinations of the Sanhedrin, who were then enjoying a Roman\r\nholiday in the persecution of the followers of 'The Way'. As\r\nalready stated, all but two of the disciples had fled the city\r\nand gone into safe seclusion in fear of their lives. However, as\r\nwe shall see, there was yet another, Nicodemus, who had not fled\r\nthe city. But Joseph, the Roman senator, and the legislative\r\nmember of the Sanhedrin, also a disciple, was the only close\r\nassociate of Christ who dared to walk openly on the street\r\nwithout fear of molestation. Was he too powerful and prominent\r\nfor either side to harm? Yet Joseph knew he was dealing with\r\ndynamite, and from the circumstances that followed it appears\r\nthat Joseph did fear interference, not personally, but in his\r\nintentions.\r\n     Actually, why did he go to Pontius Pilate ?\r\n     Why did he not claim the body in the ordinary way, according\r\nto custom?\r\n     Certainly, it was not a common occurrence to seek permission\r\nfrom the highest authority in the land in order to obtain the\r\nbody of an executed criminal.\r\n     Why had he not sought permission from the Sanhedrin? They\r\nwere inflexible in their rule that a body must be claimed and\r\nburied before sunset. Actually, under normal circumstances there\r\nwas no need to go further than the Sanhedrin. Jesus was regarded\r\nas a Jew. Joseph was a Jew and a high ranking member of the\r\nJewish Sanhedrin. There was only one reason why Joseph preferred\r\nto make the claim for the body to Pilate. He knew that the\r\nfanatical Sadducean Priesthood sought the total extinction of\r\nJesus, even in death.\r\n     Annas and Caiaphas had succeeded in their diabolical,\r\nmurderous scheme by having Jesus crucified as a common criminal.\r\nDoes it not stand to reason that they would seek to carry out the\r\nignominy to its fullest extent?\r\n     Would they not have preferred that the body of Jesus be\r\ndisposed of in the common criminal pit so that His extinction\r\nwould be total and all memory steeped in shame?\r\n     Certainly, it would have been Sanhedrin.\r\n     To have Jesus decently interred within a respectably known\r\nsepulchre was but to erect a martyr's tomb for the multitude to\r\nflock to in an ageless pilgrimage. That would have doomed the\r\nSanhedrin more surely than anything else. Therefore, reason would\r\nindicate that the High Priesthood were bent on interfering with\r\nthe claim of the kin of the crucified Christ. With Mary, the\r\nSanhedrin could interfere, but not with Joseph. He did not fear\r\nthem and was to the best interest of the determined to thwart\r\nthem in their designs. The Scripture says he went 'boldly' before\r\nPilate and successfully asserted the kin rights of his niece.\r\n\r\n(I also show in this section under my \"The New Testament Bible\r\nStory\" that there was much going on during Jesus' hanging on the\r\ncross and His death and what took place. The Jewish authorities\r\nand Sanhedrin were in total shock at the darkness and the tearing\r\nof the Temple curtain dividing the Holy Place from the Most Holy\r\nPlace. There would have been complete confusion as well as fear,\r\nand the Jewish authorities could have cared less about the body\r\nof Jesus on that cross; they were too busy in their confusion and\r\nfear. I also show it was not till evening (the earliest being 6\r\npm) that Joseph came to Pilate. The body of Jesus was not taken\r\noff the cross and put in the tomb until the first few hours of\r\nthe first holy day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15th of\r\nthe first month. Hence Jesus was raised three days and three\r\nnights later, the first hours of what we today call Saturday\r\nevening - in God's day reckoning the first day of the week. This\r\nfulfilled the wave-sheaf cutting of the Sadducees during the\r\nfirst few hours AFTER the weekly Sabbath, or Saturday evening,\r\nduring the Feast of Unleavened Bread, to be presented in the\r\nTemple Sunday morning. This is all fully explained as I went\r\nthrough this section of the Gospels in my \"New Testament Bible\r\nStory\" - on this website - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Between Caiaphas and Pilate there still existed an armed\r\ntruce, but the latter played a skilful game. He played both sides\r\nto his own advantage. Pilate had already satisfied the Sanhedrin.\r\nNo matter how they opposed him thereafter, at the moment they\r\ncould not deny him the right of fulfilling this particular part\r\nof the law to which both the Jew and the Roman subscribed in the\r\ndisposal of the body. Pilate needed Joseph's friendship and there\r\nwas no easier way of securing it than by recognizing Joseph's\r\nclaim to the murdered body of his favourite nephew.\r\n     By this act of interference, Joseph became a doubly marked\r\nman by the High Priesthood of Jewry.\r\n     Returning from his mission with Pilate, Joseph's acts are\r\nagain shown to be hurried as though fearing interception. He\r\nreturned to the scene of the tragedy followed by Nicodemus, who\r\ncarried one hundred pounds of mixed spices with which to prepare\r\nthe body, prior to burial. Premature darkness had set in\r\nfollowing the phenomenal storm that broke loose upon the land as\r\nJesus expired on the cross, rending in twain the curtain in the\r\ntemple and scattering the spectators abroad. Only two remained,\r\nMary Magdalene, and the wife of Cleophas, sister of the Blessed\r\nMary. They watched as Joseph, with the help of Nicodemus, lowered\r\nthe body from the cross, laid it on the ground and wrapped the\r\nmortal remains of Jesus in the burial linen which Joseph had\r\npersonally provided. It was dark and time appeared precious.\r\nAgain we are impressed with the evidence of hurriedness. Without\r\nany further preparation they carried the body to the sepulchre in\r\nthe garden of Joseph and laid it within the tomb, while the two\r\nwomen who had followed, watched nearby.\r\n     Joseph and Nicodemus had too little time properly to anoint\r\nthe body and dress it according to the custom in the linen\r\nshroud. \r\n\r\n(This is not correct at all from the Gospels; they did take the\r\ntime to correctly, in the Jewish manner, use the 100 pounds of\r\naloe and wrap the body of Jesus. All fully exolained in this\r\nGospel section in my \"New Testament Bible Story\" - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Yet the surprising thing is that they sealed the entrance to\r\nthe tomb with a 'great' stone.\r\n     Why? Did Joseph have other intentions?\r\n     Common sense alone tells us that Joseph would not have\r\nallowed the body of his beloved nephew to remain in the ghastly\r\nstate it was when lowered from the cross, bloody, sweaty, grimy\r\nand torn.\r\n     Then what happened in between the few dark hours from the\r\ntime the sealing stone was rolled to close the entrance to the\r\ntomb, and early dawn on the third day, when the second great\r\ndrama took place - the disappearance of the body of Jesus from\r\nthe sepulchre? We Christians accept without any reservations the\r\nBiblical version of the disappearance, but it should be\r\nremembered that in those days there was no Biblical version to go\r\nby, and Jesus was but barely known outside His native land. Not\r\nthen was He the accepted Messiah; therefore, as we keep this in\r\nmind, we can better understand the impact, pro and con, this\r\nstartling incident created among the populace, friend and foe.\r\n     The discovery was made on the sabbath dawn (the writer was\r\nobviously person who took Sunday as the Sabbath, which it never\r\nwas nor it - Keith Hunt) when Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of\r\nJames, and Salome appeared on the scene at the break of day,\r\nbringing with them spices with which to clean and anoint the body\r\nof Christ. Their intentions are evident. They knew the body had\r\nbeen hastily interred without the proper burial preparation. The\r\ntwo Marys had been witness to this. They had watched Joseph and\r\nNicodemus take the body from the cross and hurriedly wrap it in\r\nthe linens at the foot of the cross. They had followed the two\r\nmen into the garden of Joseph, standing nearby, as the body was\r\nplaced on the ledge within the tomb, and witnessed the sealing of\r\nthe entrance to the tomb with the 'great' stone.\r\n\r\n(The Mary's were coming that Sunday morning had nothing to do\r\nwith \"correcting\" something done in a hurry three days before -\r\nthe writer is reading his own ideas into the text - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     They were not likely to anoint the body twice within a few\r\nhours. On approaching the tomb, the scriptural record tells us\r\nthat the first experience of the three women was one of shock.\r\nThey saw that the great stone was completely removed from the\r\nentrance. This shock was followed by another as the drama\r\nunfolded. To their astonishment they saw a young man dressed in\r\nwhite, seated in an unconcerned manner on the very ledge within\r\nthe tomb on which the body of Christ had been laid.\r\n     From a study of the Marcan Manuscript, which relates the\r\nstory with vivid realism, all evidence tends to prove that this\r\nparticular young man was a complete stranger to the women and his\r\nattitude towards them was calm and unperturbed. He did not rush\r\nout to meet them excitedly. Before they had time to speak he told\r\nthem Jesus was not there. The body was gone. They must go to\r\nGalilee, where they would meet Him. He told the stunned women the\r\nfacts in the simple manner of one relating an incident he\r\nbelieved they should have known. But they did not know. Neither\r\ndid they know the stranger within the tomb. All they were\r\nconscious of was that the body of their Lord was gone. Without\r\nquestioning the stranger, the frightened women hastened back to\r\nthe city, with Mary Magdalene, the youngest and most active of\r\nthe three women, hurrying in advance to inform Peter and John of\r\nthe startling news. \r\n\r\n(This is far from what really happened that Sunday morning. See\r\nmy \"New Testament Bible Story\" for the rest of the story as the\r\nlate Paul Harvey would have said - Keith Hunt) \r\n\r\n     Evidently the two disciples were just as ignorant and\r\nbewildered over the disappearance of the body, if not doubtful.\r\n     We find them hastening to the tomb and, on arriving,\r\ninvestigating the interior. On entering the sepulchre John\r\nstooped to pick up the discarded linen that lay collapsed, but\r\nintact, supported only by the spices.\r\n     But where was the young stranger in white?\r\n     He was not there for the two disciples to interrogate.\r\n     Who was he? What was he doing there? Where had he gone? What\r\ndid he know? Why was he never found?\r\n     History would give a great deal to know the answers to these\r\npuzzling questions. The records are silent.\r\n\r\n(The truth is in the Gospels - angels were present when the women\r\narrived - just that simple - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Following the entombment the Sadducees, suspicious of the\r\ndisciples, determined to prevent any possible tampering with the\r\nbody. They requested Pilate to post a guard over the tomb,\r\nreminding him that Jesus had claimed that on the third day He\r\nwould rise from the dead. They did not believe this and instead,\r\nconsidered it a ruse of the disciples to steal the body. Pilate\r\nflatly refused. He had already washed his hands of the matter and\r\ntold them to arrange their own guard, which they did.\r\n     In this case where was the guard?\r\n     The tomb was unguarded when the three women had arnved. Why\r\nhad the guard left so early, and where was the change of guards?\r\nSurely, the Sanhedrin, who had assumed full responsibility for\r\nposting the guard, would have taken every possible precaution. It\r\nwas in their best interest to do so. To do otherwise was to\r\ninvite the roused anger of the populace and of Pilate. They dare\r\nnot have placed themselves in such an uncompromising position.\r\nWe can well believe that the Sadducees had nothing to do with the\r\ndisappearance of the body. If they had caused the body to be\r\nremoved they would never have unwrapped it, leaving the linen\r\nthere. Neither would they have left the entrance to the tomb\r\nopen. In their position there was no need for haste. The guard\r\nwas theirs Certainly, they would have concealed their crime by\r\nreplacing the stone at the entrance, giving orders to the guard\r\nforbidding anyone entry.\r\n     Again, everything points to haste.\r\n\r\n(No, the writer is in haste, to make it sound like all was in\r\nhaste at the beginning of the three days and three night Jesus\r\nwas to be in the tomb and then reusrrected - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Much has been said, pro and con, in reference to the story\r\nof the guards, with the general assumption being that it was not\r\ntrue, but a whitewashed alibi of the Sanhedrin. Common opinion is\r\nthat, even if the guard had fallen asleep at their post, a stone\r\nso large and heavy that sealed the tomb could never have been\r\nmoved away without awakening them. If they had fallen asleep at\r\ntheir post of duty they would have been punished by death, as was\r\nthe military custom of that time. In this, general opinion errs.\r\nIt is generally assumed that the guard had to be Roman. If it\r\nwere true the Roman penalty for dereliction of duty would\r\nundoubtedly have been imposed. But the guard belonged to the\r\npriestly Sanhedrin, whose discipline did not include the death\r\npenalty.\r\n     The story given by the priests's guards is most probable.\r\nThey admitted they had fallen asleep and, on awakening, were\r\nsurprised to see that the huge stone had been rolled away. On\r\nfurther investigation they saw that the tomb was empty and\r\nstraight away hurried to the Sanhedrin with the news. Caiaphas\r\nbribed them, giving them money so say that the disciples had\r\nstolen the body and to leave it to him to convince Pilate that\r\nsuch was the case. Nevertheless, they were deeply concerned over\r\nthe disappearance and the Jewish record informs us that Caiaphas\r\nordered Joseph to appear before the Sanhedrin for questioning.\r\nAnother stormy scene occurred before the Assembly. Caiaphas\r\nopenly accused Joseph of being the prime instigator of the plot\r\nand demanded to know where the body reposed. To all their\r\nquestioning Joseph maintained a stony silence. He refused to\r\ntalk, defiant in the knowledge that he was beyond their power to\r\nprosecute.\r\n     Why did they not interrogate Mary, the mother of Jesus, or\r\nPeter, John, or Nicodemus, whom the Sanhedrin knew were the only\r\nassociates of Christ present in the city at that time? Why were\r\nthe other women not questioned? Perhaps the Sanhedrin considered\r\nsuch simple people as they incapable of carrying out such a\r\ndelicate operation. Perhaps the genuine agitation of the\r\ndisciples, and of the women concerning the mystery, was enough to\r\nsatisfy the priesthood that they had no knowledge of what had\r\nhappened.\r\n     The difference between the members of the Sanhedrin and the\r\ndisciples was - the Jewish priests insisted that the body of\r\nJesus was stolen and secretly buried by Joseph or the disciples.\r\nThe latter believed Christ had risen according to His word, on\r\nthe third day, to be the first-fruits of all who slept.\r\n\r\nTherefore, it matters not who moved the stone at the tomb.\r\n\r\n(Common sense tells us it was divine power that moved the stone,\r\nand Matthew tells us it was an angel - not for Jesus to exit but\r\nfor the disciples that Sunday morning to see Jesus was no longer\r\nin the tomb but was reusrrected just as Jesus Himself had said -\r\nKeith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Sorrow turned into triumph and an unquenchable zeal to\r\npreach the Gospel to all the world. Joseph of Arimathea, the\r\nuncle of Jesus, was no longer guardian over His corporeal\r\nexistence but over a greater treasure - Christ's sacred mission\r\non earth. Henceforth he was to be the guardian of all the beloved\r\nagainst the arch-enemy, and ultimately their leader. He began to\r\ndedicate himself to his amazing destiny, which later was to make\r\nit possible for Peter and Paul to accomplish their great work in\r\nthe service of the Lord. Joseph himself was to plant the roots of\r\nChristianity in fertile soil where it would flourish and never\r\nperish from off the earth.\r\n\r\nTHE SAULIAN GESTAPO AND THE EXODUS A.D. 36\r\n\r\n     FOLLOWING the disappearance of the body and the Ascension of\r\nChrist, an evil, brooding passion for vengeance seized upon the\r\nruling priesthood of the Sanhedrin. In secret conclave they\r\nplotted and planned a campaign of unremitting persecution against\r\nthe followers of 'The Way'. Maliciously, they determined to\r\nexterminate all who failed to escape their bloody hands.\r\nThere is no greater hatred than in a divided house, or brother\r\nagainst brother. In the main, the victims of the Sanhedrin were\r\nof their own race. The hatred they bore for the followers of 'The\r\nWay' was far greater than the implacable hatred that had divided\r\nthe kingdom of Israel before the captivity. At that time, the Ten\r\nTribes under Ephraim had drawn north into Samaria, while the two\r\ntribes of Judah and Benjamin, with a few Levites, remained at\r\nJerusalem. A wall of bitterness existed between them that was\r\nnever removed. After each regained their freedom, the Ephraimites\r\ncommenced their long march beyond the Euphrates, disappearing\r\nfrom scriptural history, to become known by other names.\r\nNow, it was more than a bitterness. It was a blind, cruel,\r\nunreasonable, black hatred.\r\n     The 'Gestapo' the Sanhedrin formed was specially organized\r\nunder the appointed leadership of the vengeful Saul. He wasted no\r\ntime. He struck quickly and viciously. Followers of 'The Way'\r\nfound in Jerusalem, be they Greek, Roman or Jew, were openly, or\r\nin secret alike struck down. No mercy was shown. The records of\r\nthat time state the prisons were overcrowded with their victims.\r\nThe first notable victim Saul seized upon was the man whom he\r\nconsidered to be his inveterate foe, Stephen, the courageous\r\nleader of the Liberal Party who led the brilliant defence of\r\nJesus on that fateful night in the court of the Sanhedrin. Along\r\nwith Peter, John and others, Stephen had taken up the sceptre,\r\ndefying the Sadducees by victoriously preaching the Word\r\nthroughout the holy city. Thousands were daily converted and\r\nlater, according to St. Luke, reached the spectacular number of\r\nthree to five thousand daily. This testimony dissipates the idea\r\nthat the Jews were unresponsive to the magic appeal of 'The Way'.\r\nThe Jews were the first converts, a fact which further infuriated\r\nthe corrupt Sadducean Priesthood.\r\n\r\n     Fate caught up quickly with Stephen. The Jewish minions of\r\nthe Sanhedrin stoned him to death in the manner peculiar to the\r\nJews, as Saul looked on. He perished by the gate that still bears\r\nhis name. St. Stephen was the first martyr for Christ, A.D. 33.\r\n(Wrong year - it was AD 30 - Jesus died in 30 AD as a study on\r\nthis website proved in-depth, and as many other \"scholars\" have\r\nalso said it was 30 AD. - Keith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     So fierce was Saul's vindictive purge that he wrought havoc\r\nwithin the Church at Jerusalem. The boundaries of Judea could not\r\nconfine him. Illegally, he trespassed far within Roman territory\r\nwhere he hounded the devotees without censure or interference\r\nfrom Roman administration. No doubt the Romans felt Saul was\r\ndoing them a service, and a good job in ridding them of what they\r\nconsidered an undesirable religious pestilence.\r\n     Throughout this reign of terror Joseph remained the\r\nstalwart, fearless protector of the disciples and of the women.\r\nOn every possible occasion he stood between them and their\r\nenemies, a veritable tower of strength. Saul's fury knew no\r\nbounds. Strive and scheme as they may, Joseph's position as an\r\ninfluential Roman official defied the Saulian Gestapo from\r\nmolesting his person, or those whom he defended. Nevertheless, it\r\nbecame a losing battle. Within four years after the death of\r\nChrist, A.D. 36, (33\/34 is more correct - Keith Hunt) many of the\r\ndevotees were scattered out of Jerusalem and Judea. There is\r\nlittle doubt that the ships of Joseph, co-ordinating with the\r\nChristian underworld, carried numerous of the faithful in safety\r\nto other lands. He spared neither his help nor his wealth in\r\naiding all whom he could.\r\n     Calloused as the Romans were with their own specific brand\r\nof brutality, even they were shocked by the ferocious atrocities\r\nof the Sanhedrin Gestapo. Out of this evil sprung the cause of\r\ntheir own ultimate doom. Later the Romans turned into a two-edged\r\nsword, becoming the rabid persecutors and executioners of both\r\nJew and Christian. Saul was to meet a cruel death at their hands.\r\nFor the Judean Jews the culminating catastrophe occurred in the\r\nyear A.D. 70, when Titus, son of the Roman Emperor, Vespasian,\r\nmassacred them at Jerusalem and put the ancient city to torch,\r\nlevelling it to ashes, as Jesus had foretold. (Well... not quite,\r\nthe Wailing Wall in Jerusalem today was part of the outer wall of\r\nthe Temple, so levelling to ashes has become an incorrect way to\r\ndescribe Titus' destruction of the Jews and Jerusalem in 70 AD. -\r\nKeith Hunt)\r\n\r\n     Those who escaped were scattered to the four corners of the\r\nworld, despised and hated, forced to live in ghettoes, and never\r\nto return to Judea. The Christian persecution was to continue for\r\ncenturies in an increasing, diabolic form. Tiberius proclaimed an\r\nedict, making it a capital offence to be a Christian. Claudius\r\nand other Roman Emperors repeated the edict. The Romans, noting\r\nwith alarm the rise of Christianity, began to consider Christians\r\na menace to their empiric safety; therefore a class of people to\r\nbe exterminated. History proves with a mass of bloodstained\r\nevidence, how they strove their level best to crush the\r\nevangelistic movement. It was like striving to push back the\r\nwaves of the sea with the palms of their hands. It was not to be.\r\n     As prophecy proclaimed, and history has fulfilled, the cross\r\nwas to triumph over the sword.\r\n\r\n     According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Acts8%3A1-4\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acts 8:1-4<\/a>, the Church of Jerusalem was\r\nscattered abroad. Even the Apostles were forced later to flee.\r\nThis was the year of the epochal exile when the curtain descended\r\ndarkly upon the lives and doings of so many of that illustrious\r\nband. Modem Christians are chiefly familiar with the New\r\nTestament record of the favoured few - Peter, Paul, Matthew,\r\nMark, Luke and John, with passing reference to but a few others.\r\n     What became of the rest of the original twelve Apostles, the\r\nseventy whom Christ first elected, then what of the later one\r\nhundred and twenty? They are the lost disciples on whom the\r\nscriptural record is as silent as the grave, particularly the two\r\nmost outstanding characters, Joseph of Arimathea, and Mary, the\r\nmother of Jesus. The sacred pages close upon them in that fateful\r\nyear leaving not a trace or a shadow of their mysterious passage\r\ninto permanent exile.\r\n\r\n     Ponder the facts. Christ's mission lasted but three years.\r\nFour years later the Elect had fled into exile. The great crusade\r\nwas ended in but six years. True, some disciples laboured later\r\nthere in Judea, but the effects were transitory. Roman rule\r\ntightened down, with a mailed fist on both Jew and Christian.\r\nWithin thirty-five years the holy city was to be a rubble of\r\nruins and thereafter largely occupied by the heathen and\r\nunbelievers. Christianity had its birth in Christ in the Holy\r\nLand, but not its growth that flourished to convert the world.\r\nThis sprang to its full glory in another land. How could this\r\nhappen? You may search the Scriptures in vain for record of\r\nMatthew, Mark, Luke and John ever being near this distant\r\ncountry. The journeys of Peter and Paul as described in the Bible\r\ndo not seem to give any clue. Then who performed this monumental\r\nChristian evangelistic work?\r\n     Jesus Himself provides the answer as He denounces the\r\nSadducean Jews, telling them that the glory shall be taken away\r\nfrom them and given to another. Again, when He says He came not\r\nto the Jews, but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. He\r\nknew He would not convert the Sanhedrin and its following, so it\r\nhad to be others - the lost sheep. Who were they? The answer lies\r\nin His commission to Paul, the converted Saul, whom he commands\r\nto go to the Gentiles. To what Gentiles did Paul go apart from\r\nthe Romans? Or did Paul commission others of the illustrious band\r\nas missionaries? The answer has to be somewhere. The Romans did\r\nnot Christianize the world. They were the greatest enemies of the\r\nChristian Gospel for over three hundred years after the death of\r\nChrist. Who crushed this Roman opposition that made Rome\r\nChristian?\r\n\r\n     Many are the intriguing questions that can be asked, all of\r\nwhich would seem to deepen the mystery that revolves around those\r\nwho can be truly called the \"Lost Disciples.\" We find the answers\r\nby studying ancient writings, the old martyrologies and\r\nmenologies, the age-old parchments that have reposed in great\r\nlibraries for many centuries, filed away, and for almost as many\r\ncenturies, completely forgotten. These, and the works of eminent\r\nscholars who have explored the great scrolls, and deciphered the\r\ncontents, reveal the astonishing facts. That is the object of\r\nthis work, which at best can only quote briefly from the mass of\r\ndata available. Where scriptural history ends secular history\r\nbegins and in using the word 'history', we find greater faith and\r\nstrength in understanding the original meaning of the word. As\r\none great writer stated, 'There are Sermons in Stones'. Equally\r\nso, there is revelation in words.\r\n\r\n     The Bible was God's Book of history, the Word of God. In the\r\nOld Testament, history is given to us in prophecy, and in the New\r\nTestament demonstrated in fulfilment. Therefore, viewed in this\r\nlight, the true explanation of the word 'history,' as we employ\r\nthe word is: 'Prophecy is history [His-Story] foretold, and\r\nhistory is prophecy fulfilled.' Fulfilment of His story began in\r\nthe advent of Christ and will continue until the whole world\r\naccepts Him. Even we Christians have yet much to learn, but Jesus\r\nsaid it would become known unto us all as we are ready to\r\nreceive.\r\n     All those who are inclined to consider the Gospel of Christ\r\na mystical, intangible or incredible story founded on myth and\r\nsuperstition with no substance to His existence, will find solid\r\nevidence in tracing the footsteps of the Lost Disciples from the\r\nexodus of A.D. 36, when they passed out of Biblical history into\r\nsecular history, particularly the events concerning Joseph of\r\nArimathea. While there are many learned minds dating from the era\r\nof Christ onward who provide the same record, there is a special\r\nadvantage in quoting a more modem authority with the eminent\r\necclesiastical background of Cardinal Baronius, who is considered\r\nthe most outstanding historian of the Roman Catholic Church. He\r\nwas Curator of the famous Vatican library, a man of learning, and\r\na reliable, facile writer. Quoting from his Ecclesiastical Annals\r\nreferring to the exodus of the year A.D. 36, the mystery is\r\nsolved as to the fate of Joseph of Arimathea and others who went\r\ninto exile with him. He writes:\r\n\r\n     In that year the party mentioned was exposed to the sea in a\r\n     vessel without sails or oars. The vessel drifted finally to\r\n     Marseilles and they were saved. From Marseilles Joseph and\r\n     his company passed into Britain and after preaching the\r\n     Gospel there, died.\r\n\r\n     No doubt, this event in British history will come as a\r\nsurprise to many Christians, but there is a mass of corroborative\r\nevidence to support this historic passage by many reliable Greek\r\nand Roman authorities, including affirmation in the Jewish\r\nEncyclopaedia, under 'Arles'.\r\n     The studious pronouncement made by Cardinal Baronius,\r\nderived from delving into the treasured archives of the Vatican\r\nat Rome, has proved to be as incontrovertible as it is revealing.\r\nTo my mind, the Vatican would be the first to repudiate any\r\ntestimony from their archives to support the priority claim of\r\nChristian Britain, if it were untrue.\r\n     The interesting part of the Baronius report is that the date\r\ncoincides with that given in the Acts of the Apostles.\r\n     The expulsion of Joseph and his companions in an oarless\r\nboat without sails would be in keeping with the malicious design\r\nof the Sanhedrin. They dared not openly destroy him and, instead,\r\nconceived an ulterior method hoping their ingenious treachery\r\nwould eventually consign Joseph and his companions to a watery\r\ngrave. Little did they realize that, by this subtle act in\r\nridding themselves of the outstanding champion of Christ, their\r\nvery hope for destruction would be circumvented by an act of\r\nprovidence. Their perfidy made it possible for the forgotten\r\nFathers of Christianity to congregate in a new land where they\r\nwould be free of molestation.\r\n\r\n     The Saulian Gestapo had failed dismally and for the last\r\ntime. It began to collapse completely when vengeful Saul, on the\r\nroad to Damascus, was stricken blind. The incredible happened.\r\nSaul heard the voice of Christ speak to him and had his sight\r\nrestored. He was converted to the faith of 'The Way'. The news\r\nstunned the Sanhedrin, infuriating them beyond measure.\r\n     Immediately, they ordered an all-out drive to seize Saul and\r\nkill him on sight, a reversal of circumstances. The hunter was\r\nhunted. He went into hiding appealing for aid from Christ's\r\ndisciples. Their reluctance to save him is understandable. They\r\nwere filled with suspicion as much as with surprise. Finally they\r\ncomplied, lowering him over the wall of the city with a rope,\r\nmaking his escape in the company of the disciples. From then on\r\nhe became famous as Paul. The rest is well known. He took up the\r\ncross with his great commission as given to him by His Redeemer,\r\nChrist, and with all his heart. Finally he gave his all to his\r\nMaster, in martyrdom, leaving behind an unblemished record which\r\nmarked him as St. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles.\r\n..........<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>continue reading<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/2021\/12\/drama2-html\/\">Drama of Lost Disciples #2 \u2013 Page Two<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/celticorthodoxy.com\/2021\/12\/drama3-html\/\">Drama of Lost Disciples #3 \u2013 Page Three<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drama of the Lost Disciples (Jesus&#8217; Disciples) to Britain #1 PDF Book version: or Download &#8220;Drama of the Lost Disciples&#8221; by Jowett to read the pdf offline. 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