gleichen auch von allerhandt geſchichten vnd Re⸗ gimentẽ verenderungen / ſo in den Orientaliſchen Landen nach Chriſti Leiden / in etlich 100. Jah⸗ ren hernacher ſich zugetragen: Wie auch von den Apöſteln / wo jeder gelebt / gelehrt / vnnd endtlich gelitten / vollkommen guten bericht zugeben wu⸗ ſte. Als nun Paulus von Eitzen ſolches gehöret / hat er ſich noch mehr darab verwundert / vnd ge⸗ legenheit geſucht / ſelbſten mit jm zureden. Da er nun daſſelbig entlich erlanget / hab jhme der Jud ſolches alles mit vmbſtenden erzelet: das er nam⸗ lich zur zeit Chriſti zu Jeruſalem wonhafftig / auch jhme dem Herrn Chriſto / welchen er für ein Ketzer vnd Verführer gehalten / weil er anders nichts gewußt / auch von den hohen Prieſtern vñ Schrifftgelehrten / denen er zugethan geweſen / anders nit gelehrnet gehabt / gram geweſen / vnd hab derwegen allezeit ſein beſtes gethan / damit dieſer Verführer / wie er dafür gehalten / möchte vertilget werden: Hab auch endtlich jn fangen / für die Hohenprieſter vñ Pilatum führen / ankla⸗ gen / vber jn das Crucifige ſchreyen / vnd vmb Bar⸗ rabam bitten / auch ſo weit bringen helffen / biß er zum Tod verurtheilt wordẽ. Da nun der Sen⸗ tentz geſprochen geweſen / hab er alsbald nach ſei⸗ nem Hauß / da der HErr Chriſtus hatt
Kurtze beſchreibung vnd Erzehlung /
von einem Juden / mit Namen Ahaſverus:
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—he knew how to give a thoroughly good account of all kinds of events and changes of government that had occurred in the Eastern lands during several hundred years following Christ’s passion, and also of the apostles: where each had lived, taught, and finally suffered.
When Paul von Eitzen heard this, he marveled still more and sought an opportunity to speak with the man himself. When he finally obtained it, the Jew told him everything in detail: namely, that in Christ’s time he lived in Jerusalem; that he had been hostile to the Lord Christ, whom he regarded as a heretic and deceiver, because he knew nothing else and had learned nothing else from the chief priests and scribes, to whom he was devoted; and that for this reason he had always done his utmost so that this deceiver, as he considered him, might be destroyed. He had finally helped capture him, bring him before the chief priests and Pilate, accuse him, shout Crucify him
against him, ask for Barabbas, and bring matters so far that Christ was sentenced to death. Once sentence had been pronounced, he immediately hurried to his house, past which the Lord Christ was to—
Analysis
The narrator says Eitzen later spoke with Ahasuerus and heard a confession. In that reported account, the imagined Jew says he opposed Jesus and helped bring about his death. The pamphlet gives him an individual offense while also invoking chief priests and scribes. This is an anti-Jewish Christian story, not proof of Jewish conduct or a charge made here against all living Jews. The sentence continues on image 9.