Excerpt from The Trial of Jesus: From Jewish Sources Many of my readers are doubtless familiar with the fact that there are traditions current in Jewish history concerning the life and death of Jesus which differ somewhat from those handed down by the Christian Church. What will probably surprise them is the statement that, though these traditions do differ from the nar ratives of the New Testament, they do not in the least oppose or contradict, but, on the contrary, rather confirm and corroborate the accounts of the Apostles. In many cases these traditions throw new light on the events; show the true na ture and the undisclosed plans of the principal men of those days. They reveal to us the true character of those who played an important part in the great drama enacted at Jerusalem nineteen hundred years ago. They raise the curtain of obscurity from the stage of those days, and pre sent to our gaze adistinct and clear picture of the happenings at that epoch-making period. These Jewish traditions rather supplement the account of the Bible, and, if placed side by side with the gospel account, would give a new interpretation to those great events. The two explain each other, the one supplying what was omitted by the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.