The Gospel Of Nicodemus Sample

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The Gospel of Nicodemus
Translated by William Hone, Jeremiah Jones, and William Wake.

Narrated by Denis Daly

The authorship of this Gospel has been widely disputed. Some scholars have accepted that it was really written by Nicodemus, the Pharisee who visited Jesus by night, as described in Chapter 3 of the Gospel of John. Others have conjectured that it was a forgery made towards the close of the third century by some zealous believer, who imagined that it would aid the spread of Christianity.

The reference to the Acts of Pontius Pilate relates to a note in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea (260-340), which mentions the book and avers that it was not composed by "a heathen."

Jeremiah Jones noted that such pious frauds were very common among Christians even in the first three centuries; and that the circulation of forgeries of this nature seems natural and probable.
Whether this text is canonical or not, it is clearly of great antiquity, and was appealed to by several of the ancient Christians.

The translation used for this recording was made from the Gospel published by Grynaeus in the Orthodoxographa.