Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 25
Chapter VI: He Hears of Moshiach
Not to make a long story of it, while I was tossed upon
these billows of my thought, a certain report, which took its
rise in the regions of the East in the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
gradually reached us; and gaining strength as it passed
through every place, like some good message sent from Yahweh,
it was filling the whole world, and suffered not the divine
will to be concealed in silence. For it was spread over all places,
announcing that there was a certain person in Judaea, who,
beginning in the springtime, was preaching the kingdom of
Yahweh to the Jews, and saying that those should receive it
who should observe the ordinances of His commandments
and His doctrine. And that His speech might be believed to be
worthy of credit, and full of the Divinity, He was said to perform
many mighty works, and wonderful signs and prodigies
by His mere word; so that, as one having power from Yahweh,
He made the deaf to hear, and the blind to see, and the lame to
stand erect, and expelled every infirmity and all demons from
men; yea, that He even raised dead persons who were brought
to Him; that He cured lepers also, looking at them from a distance;
and that there was absolutely nothing which seemed
impossible to Him. These and such like things were confirmed
in process of time, not now by frequent rumors, but by the
plain statements of persons coming from those quarters; and
day by day the truth of the matter was further disclosed.
Chapter VII: Arrival of Bar-Naba at Rome
At length meetings began to be held in various places in the
city, and this subject to be discussed in conversation, and to be
a matter of wonder who this might be who had appeared, and
what message He had brought from Yahweh to men; until,
about the same year, a certain man, standing in a most
crowded place in the city, made proclamation to the people,
he Son of Yahweh
is now in the regions of Judaea, promising eternal life to everyone
who will hear Him, but upon condition that he shall re-