Right Before His Death, an Ethiopian Monk Reveals What Jesus Said After His Resurrection

There's a monastery carved into a cliffside in northern Ethiopia that you can only reach by climbing a rope. For over a thousand years, the monks who live there have guarded something they believe the rest of the world was never supposed to read. Books that didn't survive in any other Bible. Letters written by apostles. Visions whispered by angels. Prophecies preserved on goatskin in a language almost no one alive can still read. And in one of those books, a record of what Jesus said in the forty days after he walked out of the tomb. In the early 2000s, an old monk inside that monastery was dying. The brothers who cared for him said he had stopped speaking nearly a week earlier. He had stopped eating. He had stopped opening his eyes when they came to wash him. The community had already begun preparing the body for burial in the rough way the order keeps, with a single linen wrap and a wooden cross to be laid on the chest. They were waiting for the breath to finally leave. But on his final night, he opened his eyes. He asked for water. And then he asked for two things that nobody had expected him to ask for. A scribe. And a translator.