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| | The Protevangelion of James) |
 | | Memory of his great piety was still vivid in the time of St. John Chrysostom (c.350-407), the Archbishop of Constantinople, who remarked in his Homily V on Matthew of this James: "For he was so admired as even to be the first to be entrusted with the bishop's office. |
 | | Postellus brought this manuscript from the Levant, translated it into Latin, and sent it to Oporimus, a printer at Basil, where Bibliander, a Protestant divine and the Professor of Divinity at Zurich, caused it to be printed in 1552. |
 | | However, there is a similar story to the death of Zacharias told in the Protevangelion in both the Jerusalem and Babylonish Talmud (cited by Lightfoot in "Talmud, Hierosol, in Taannith" and "Talmud, Babylonish in Sanhedran"): "Rabbi Jochanan said, Eighty thousand priests were slain for the blood of Zacharias. |
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