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1,500-year-old Bible chapter resurfaces

After 1,500 years, a lost Bible chapter has finally been discovered.

The Secret poems chapter was discovered in a third-century manuscript at the Vatican Library.

It includes a new translation of Matthew‘s Gospel chapters 11 through 12.

Only after employing ultraviolet photography inside Matthew’s Gospel were researchers able to find the ancient Syriac text.

When Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his followers became hungry and started to gather the grain’s heads to eat, according to Matthew, a disciple of Jesus.

The newly found version, however, reads as follows: “At that time, Jesus proceeded through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and began to ask him for food.

But the newly discovered translation reads: ‘At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.’

A scribe apparently erased the chapter whilst it was being written.

Only one segment of the recovered text has been released to the public so far.

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Only one segment has been released to the public so far (Picture: Getty Images)

Grigory Kessel, who made the discovery, told DailyMail.com: ‘The Gospel text found in this reused manuscript contains the so-called Old Syriac translations of the Gospels. 

‘This Old Syriac translation quite often attests the Gospel text that is different from the standard Gospel text as we know it today.’

The Gospel of Matthew forms the core of the 27 books of the New Testament.

Matthew’s section begins describing the birth of Jesus and also includes early correspondence between Church leaders and Christians.

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