Essenes Gospel and its falsification Dez 18

they cynically have in view is none one other than John the
Baptist. Again and again the same scenario is repeated:
namely, the concealed expulsion of Satan from the Gospel
of Essenes, where James stands for the Baptist. The following
texts are very similar and have been attributed to three
different authors. They were formulated in such a way that
the double meaning cannot be misunderstood.
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean writings
„Hold on, the Righteous pray for your sake." And one of
them, who was a washer man, took the club […], which he
used to wash the laundry, and thus struck the righteous on
his head ... So he suffered the martyrdom. ] And immediately
Vespasian began to besiege. [...] A washer man […] beat
his head with a club, after being kicked and thrown down by
the pinnacle of the temple. Then he got a blow on the head
with a walking-stick, […] a club, as washers used them to
walk vestments, and died.”
The martyrdom of James
And he stood up, and went away, speaking. And he went
back again on the same day, and spoke a few hours. But I
was with the priests, and did not let anything be known of
kinship, because everyone said unanimously, "Come, let us
stone the righteous!"
And they arose, and said; "Yes, let us kill this man so that he
may be removed from our midst! For he will not be useful to
us in any way. "They were there, finding him, as he stood at
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