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Papyri Fragments From Egypt THOUGHT OLDEST KNOWN (“Times” Cable.) London, January 23. The British Museum has acquired fragments of Greek papyri from Egypt relating to the Gospel, believed to be older than any known New Testament manuscript. The fragments consist of four pages in a literary hand, appearing to date not later than the middle of the second century. A.'D. One page contains a dialogue between Jesus and the Jewish authorities,- revealing striking agreements between the new Gospel and St. John. The episode ends with attempts to stone Jesus and then seize and hand him over to the multitude. The attempts were unsuccessful “because the hour of his betrayal was not yet come.” The museum authorities consider that the fragments are the earliest bit of Christian writing at present known, probably antedating the Chester Beatty manuscripts of the New Testament by over half a century and going back well into the .snb-Apostolie age. One incident recorded on the most damaged surface, according to Mr. H. Idris Bell, keeper of the museum manuscripts. is a “curious and unparalleled” incident which occurred on the banks of the Jordan. According to Mr. Bell's interpretation Jesus asked a “strange question.” which astonished his hearefs, but the context at present is largely obscure. Mr. Bell explains that although the manuscripts are incomplete in height and breadth, it is possible to complete the Lines with a high degree of probability by the help of parallels in the New Testament ami from the recognisable sense. The “News-Chronicle” declares that the new Gospel is believed to be a century older than the Codex Sinaiticus.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 11
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268GOSPEL MANUSCRIPT Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 11
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