What Mel Gibson Discovered in the Ethiopian Bible Could Change Everything We Know About Jesus

The headline is highly clickable, but the Mel Gibson attribution isn't supported by credible evidence. I couldn't find reliable reporting that Gibson discovered previously unknown words of Jesus in the Ethiopian Bible. Current reporting about Gibson is focused on his upcoming The Resurrection of the Christ, which is based on the canonical Gospels. The real story is still fascinating: the Ethiopian Christian tradition preserves a distinctive body of biblical and early-Christian literature, and some texts differ from the collections familiar in Western Christianity. But that doesn't mean they contain authenticated “lost words” spoken by Jesus. For a strong but defensible YouTube angle: