The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud [antikvár]

c. A.D. joAbgar, king of Edessa,to Jesus the good Savior, who appears at Jerusalem, greetingsI have been informed concerning you and the cures you perform without the use of medicines and herbs.For it is reported that you cause the blind to see and the lame to walk, that you cleanse lepers, cast out unclean spirits and devils, and restore to health those who have been long diseased, and, further, that you raise up the dead.All of which, when I heard, persuaded me of one of these two: either that you are God Himself descended from heaven who does these things, or you are the Son of God.On this account, therefore, I write to you earnestly, to beg that you take the trouble of a journey hither and cure a disease which I am under.