In 1906, an art collector found a Bible with a ‘new’ speech by Jesus

The story of Charles Lang Freer’s gospel

In 1906, an American industrialist was shopping for art in Cairo, Egypt. He noticed an old book, and thought it “beautiful.” He decided to buy it.

The book turned out to be the third oldest-known copy of the gospels of the New Testament—with a speech by Jesus never seen in any manuscript.