and here is a copy, written in greek on papyrus by one of peter's disciples around the year 200, a merery or so after his death. >> pasini: "in the beginning, it was the word, and the word was 'god'." >> safer: and from the same period, the gospel of luke and part of the gospel of john, also written on papyrus, venerated by early christians in egypt, preserved for centuries in a desert monastery. >> pasini: "the bread for today give us..." >> safer: they contain the oldest known copy of the lord's prayer, so fragile we were only allowed to see replicas. >> pasini: that great treasure of papyrus, i think, is the most important treasure of christianity. >> safer: with our tour nearly over, it seemed as if the library's collection had come to life in the streets of the eternal city: the centurions and crusaders, the centuries of faith and folly, time present and time past. leaving the library, we thought there's something, something almost magical to be immersed in this place, to breathe the air and touch the hand of history. brad, where we going? just a second. just, just one second. ♪ wh

, b byrd, sea cat, the dog, e egg, f fish, g god, h heaven, i insect, l lion, m metal, omega o, p papyrus, q queen, r reptile. u union, v vegetation, w word, x, y yeast. zed. thank you for your time. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> ♪ electricity in my lark captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap ♪ electricity there will be even when we're gone ♪ and is about electricity, in larkin. ♪ forever ♪ ♪ ♪ forever there will be larkin street ♪ ♪ electricity ♪ president chiu: thank you, next speaker. any other members wish to speak in support of the appellant? seeing none,, at this time where do we go to the planning department. >> the evening. -- good evening. i am joined by the project planner. this is a condition use authorization for wireless telecommunication facility. at 2041 larkin street. i will cover for topics. the project description. the most preferred site in san francisco. the city process. including how these preference locations were determined and the finding specific to this case

, some precious pages of ancient text, and pushed those underneath her stove and burned the papyrus and what was lost in the process we will never know. >> what we do know is that the surviving books, called the gnostic gospels, gave the world a compelling and competing story of what happened after jesus. >> the text of the nag hammadi library are making it very clear that there were a lot of gospels that were composed in the early church. four were finally selected for the new testament canon, but beyond that, there were plenty of other gospels. >> other gospels? more than one version of the faith? in fact, there were many. there were even christians who believed in more than one god. >> all of these groups said that they were following the teachings of jesus, and that they themselves were the true christians and that the other groups were wrong. >> by far the most successful and threatening was a group called the gnostics who lived in egypt in the 2nd century, and they wrote their own version of the life of jesus. >> the word gnostic comes from the greek gnosis, which means knowledge,

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this fragment of papyrus is believed to have been written within just a hundred years of jesus' death. it contains a few lines describing jesus' encounter with the roman governor in jerusalem, as he is condemned to death on a cross. [ crowd shouting ] wright: the manuscript itself happens to be part of the 18th chapter of john's gospel and where we see jesus talking to pontius pilate, this is the representative of the kingdom of god confronting the representative of the kingdom of the world, and what are they going to talk about? well, what do you think? kingdom, power, and truth. and he says to jesus, "so, are you some kind of a king?" and jesus says, "well, you call me a king," he says, "but this is why i was born and this is what i came into the world for that i might bear witness to the truth." and then pilate says his famous answer, "what is truth?" ever since that question first appeared in the christian bible, scholars have searched for an answer to help them understand the story of jesus contained in the gospels. [ men chanting ] the christian bible as we know it today is made

. >> all that began to change in 1945 when an egyptian goat herd discovered a jar of papyrus documentsdi. documents that would threaten centuries of christian teaching. >> they contained a treasure trove of over 40 new texts, most of which belong to christianity in the second and third centuries, and they're basically allowing us to fill out and to some degree even rewrite portions of the history of christianity in those centuries. ♪ >> but rewriting does not come easily to a 2,000-year-old religion. the nag hammadi texts, known as the gnostic gospels, reveal mysteries that offer us secret way to salvation. >> if jesus said something like "if you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you," it does not suggest that you need a church or a priest or you don't maybe need to be baptized, so it's about seeking. it's a very different kind of path. and it was different from the one that the leaders and bishops of the church found useful for organizing the christian communities. >> church leaders declared this gnostic path a heresy. but just as revolutionary as gnostic