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• THE ANSWER OF JESUS, TO KING ABGAR, .
• Blessed art thou, O Agbarus (Abgarus, Abgar, Awgar), who, without seeing, has believed in me. ...
• Tobias, then, returning to Thaddeus, said to him Agbarus the king having sent for me, has told me to conduct thee to him, that thou mayest heal his disorder. ...

• It was from here that Assyrian King Abgar V allegedly corresponded with Jesus Christ himself. ... Thaddeus (Mar Addai) to cure Abgar of an illness. On being cured, Abgar converted to Christianity and made it the state religion in 33 AD. ...

• He is also supposed to have found in the records of Edessa the letters purporting to be written back and forth by its king Abgar and Jesus Christ. ...

• And Pilate, having examined Him and found no case,5 wished to let Him go; but they cried out, If thou let him go, thou art not Caesar's friend, because he proclaims himself king. ...

• From the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, King of Persia, the successor of Xerxes, the prophets who succeeded Moses wrote the history of the events that occurred in their own time, in thirteen books. ...
• The Letter of King Abgar.
• This was supposedly a letter written to Jesus by Abgar, King of Edessa. ...

• Incidentally, let us notice that the Pope includes in this first "index of prohibited books" that famous forgery, the letters of "King Abgar" to Jesus and of Jesus to King Abgar. ...

• (1) The Story(2) Concerning the King of Edessa. ...
• While the Godhead of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ was proclaimed among all men by reason of the astonishing mighty-works which He wrought, and myriads, even from countries remote from the land of Judaea, who were afflicted with sicknesses and diseases of every kind, were coming to Him in the hope of being healed, King Abgar(4) also, who was renowned among the nations on the east of the Euphrates for his valour, had his body wasting away with a grievous disease, such as there is no cure for among men. ...
• (13) In the documents, then, which were there, in which was contained whatever was done by those of old down to the time of Abgar, these things also are found preserved down to the present hour. ...
• Copy of the letter which was written by King(15) Abgar to Jesus, and sent to Him by the hand of Hananias,(16) the Tabularius,(17) to Jerusalem .
• "Abgar the Black,(18) sovereign(19) of the country, to Jesus, the good Saviour, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. ...
• Copy of those things which were written(21) by Jesus by the hand of Hananias, the Tabularius, to Abgar, sovereign of the country:- .
• And, when the news about him was heard, they made it known to Abgar: "The apostle of Jesus is come hither, as He sent thee word. ... And, when Abgar heard the great and marvellous cures which he wrought, he bethought himself that he was the person about whom Jesus had sent him word and said to him: When I have been taken up, I will send to thee one of my disciples, that he may heal thy disease. ... And when Tobias came to Thaddaeus he said to him: Abgar the king has sent and called me, and commanded me to bring thee up to him, that thou mayest heal him. ... Tobias therefore rose up early the next day, and took Thaddaeus, and came to Abgar. ...
• And immediately, as he was entering in, a great vision appeared to Abgar on the countenance of Thaddaeus the apostle. And, when Abgar saw Thaddaeus, he prostrated himself before him. (24) And astonishment seized upon all who were standing there: for they had not themselves seen that vision, which appeared to Abgar alone. ... And Abgar said to him: In such wise have I believed on Him, that I have even desired to take an army and extirpate those Jews who crucified Him; were it not that I was restrained by reason of the dominion of the Romans. ... Abgar said to him: I too have believed in Him and in His Father. ... And Abgar marvelled, because, like as he had heard concerning Jesus, so he saw in deeds by the hand of Thaddaeus His disciple: since without drugs and roots he healed him; and not him only, but also Abdu,(28) son of Abdu, who had the gout: for he too went in, and fell at his feet,(29) and when he prayed over him he was healed. ...

• " It is derived from the story of King Abgar of Edessa. ... Upon hearing King Abgar's request, Christ wiped his face on a cloth and gave it to the messenger to give to his King. King Abgar received the cloth and opened it to find the impression of Christ's face upon it. The King recovered from his affliction and placed the cloth in a special place over the city gates. ...

• Gilgamesh is the star of an ancient flood narrative which history takes to be mythical, but historians see Gilgamesh himself as an historical figure, probably king of ancient Sumer. ...
• * Socialized with King Abgar IV the Great at Edessa .

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