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Jmmanuel Before The High Council
46. The chief priests, however, and the high councillors sought false testimony against Jmmanuel so they might put him to death.
47. And even though many false and bribed witnesses appeared, they were unable to find any false testimony.
48. Finally, two stepped forward and said, "He has said that God is not Creation, but simply a man like you and me.
49. "He also said that he was begotten by a guardian angel of God, by the name of Gabriel'
50. Caiaphas, the high priest, arose and said to Jmmanuel, "Will you not reply to what these two bear witness against you?"
51. But Jmmanuel remained silent and smiled benignly; therefore the high priest spoke to him, "l adjure you by the living God to tell us if you were begotten by the angel Gabriel, who is an angel of God, as the scriptures attest!"
52. And Jmmanuel replied, "As you say, but I also say to you that god is not Creation; instead he is lord over the three human lineages that were begotten on Earth through his will;
53. "god has come from the vastness of the universe and has brought the world under his will; therefore he is the supreme emperor of these three human populations.
54. "One of them is here in this country, which you have deprived of its rights and subjugated; another is in the east as far as the land of India, and
the third is in the north from the land of the king with horns to the sea where icy mountains drift in the water.