Curiously, this is not the only case where someone associated with the Baháʼí Faith wrote a speculative work about things the New Testament is silent on in regards to Jesus. Contemporaries of Gibran Juliet Thompson and Wellesley Tudor Pole wrote books about Jesus. Thompson wrote "I, Mary Magdalen" and Tudor Pole wrote "The Silent Road", "A Man Seen Afar", and "Writing on the Ground" as well as some pamphlets though these were written later in the 20th century. Both Thompson and Tudor Pole knew ʻAbdu'l-Bahá well having interviewed him and worked with him. Thomson wrote a diary, one of the central records of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West as well as a portrait and Tudor Pole played a significant role in saving his life in World War I. Indeed, the whole relationship between ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and Jesus was one ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was at pains to clarify both to the general public and among early Baháʼís.