[2120] Mark x. 41.
[2121] Mark x. 42.
[2122] Mark x. 43.
[2123] Mark x. 44.
[2124] Lit. advanced.
[2125] Matt. xx. 28.
[2126] Luke xiii. 22.
[2127] Luke xiii. 23.
[2128] Luke xiii. 24.
[2129] Lit. find, like the Syriac.
[2130] Luke xiii. 25.
[2131] Luke xiii. 26.
[2132] Luke xiii. 27.
[2133] This rendering requires the omission of the diacritical point over the middle radical. The text as printed means perish.
[2134] Luke xiii. 28.
[2135] Luke xiii. 29.
[2136] Luke xiii. 30.
[2137] Luke xix. 1.
[2138] Luke xix. 2.
[2139] Luke xix. 3.
[2140] Luke xix. 4.
[2141] cf. the extract from Ishodad (Harris, Fragments, p. 19).
[2142] Luke xix. 5.
[2143] Luke xix. 6.
[2144] Luke xix. 7.
[2145] Luke xix. 8.
[2146] A diacritical point must be restored to the second letter of this word. As it stands it gives no sense.
[2147] Luke xix. 9.
[2148] Lit. the.
[2149] Luke xix. 10.
[2150] Luke xviii. 35a [rather, Matt. xx. 29a + Mark x. 46a.]; Matt. xx. 29b.
[2151] Luke xviii. 35b.
[2152] Mark x. 46b; Luke xviii. 36.
[2153] Luke xviii. 37.
[2154] Mark x. 47a; Luke xviii. 38.
[2155] Luke xviii. 39a.
[2156] Mark x. 48b.
[2157] Mark x. 49.
[2158] Mark x. 50.
[2159] Mark x. 51.
[2160] cf. Matt. xx. 33, Luke xviii. 41, both in Curetonian.
[2161] Matt. xx. 34a.
[2162] Luke xviii. 42b; Luke xviii. 43.
[2163] Lit. saw.
[2164] Luke xix. 11b.
[2165] Or, near.
[2166] Luke xix. 12.
[2167] Luke xix. 13.
[2168] Luke xix. 14.
[2169] Luke xix. 15.
[2170] Doubtless a misinterpretation of the Syriac.
[2171] Luke xix. 16.
[2172] Luke xix. 17.
[2173] Luke xix. 18.
[2174] Luke xix. 19.
[2175] Luke xix. 20.
[2176] Luke xix. 21.
[2177] Luke xix. 22.
[2178] Luke xix. 23.
[2179] Luke xix. 24.
[2180] Luke xix. 25.
[2181] Luke xix. 26.
[2182] Luke xix. 27.
Section XXXII.
[1] [2183] And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found [2] there oxen and sheep and doves. [2184] And when he beheld those that sold and those that bought, and the money-changers sitting, [2185] he made for himself a scourge of rope, and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and the money-changers; [2186] and he threw down their money, and upset their tables, and the seats of [3] them that sold the doves; [2187] and he was teaching, and saying unto them, Is it not written, My house is a house of prayer for all peoples? and ye have made it a den [4] for robbers. [2188] And he said unto those that sold the doves, Take this hence, and [5] make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. [2189] And he suffered not any [6] one to carry vessels inside the temple. [2190] And his disciples remembered the scripture, [7] The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. [2191] The Jews answered and said unto him, [8] What sign hast thou shewn us, that thou doest this? [2192] Jesus answered and said unto [9] them, Destroy this temple, and I shall raise it in three days. [2193] The Jews said unto him, This temple was built in forty-six years, and wilt thou raise it in three days? [10] [2194] But he spake unto them of the temple of his body, that when [2195] they destroyed it, he [11] [Arabic, p. 122] would raise it in three days. [2196] When therefore he rose from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.
[12] [2197] And when Jesus sat down over against the treasury, he observed how the multitudes were casting their offerings into the treasury: and many rich men were [13, 14] throwing in much. [2198] And there came a poor widow, and cast in two mites. [2199] And Jesus called his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor [15] widow cast into the treasury more than all the people: [2200] and all of these cast into the place of the offering of God [2201] of the superfluity of their wealth; while this woman of her want threw in all that she possessed.
[16] [2202] And he spake unto them this parable, concerning people who trusted in themselves [17] that they are righteous, and despised every man: [2203] Two men went up to the [18] temple to pray; one of them a Pharisee, and the other a publican. [2204] And the Pharisee stood apart, [2205] and prayed thus, O Lord, I thank thee, since I am not like the rest of men, the unjust, the profligate, the extortioners, or even like this publican; [19] [2206] but I fast two days a week, and tithe all my possessions. [2207] [2208] And the publican was [20] standing at a distance, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was [21] beating upon his breast, and saying, O Lord, have mercy on me, me the sinner. [2209] I say unto you, that this man went down justified to his house more than the Pharisee. Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and every one that abaseth himself shall be exalted.
[22] [Arabic, p. 123] [2210] And when eventide was come, he left all the people, and went outside the [23] city to Bethany, he and his twelve, and he remained there. [2211] And all the people, because they knew the place, came to him, and he received them; and them that [24] had need of healing he healed. [2212] And on the morning of the next day, when he returned [25] to the city from Bethany, he hungered. [2213] And he saw a [2214] fig tree at a distance on the beaten highway, having on it leaves. And he came unto it, expecting to find something on it; and when he came, he found nothing on it but the leaves--it [2215] was not [26] the season of figs-- [2216] and he said unto it, Henceforward for ever let no man eat fruit of thee. And his disciples heard.
[27] [2217] And they came to Jerusalem. And there was there a man of the Pharisees, [28] named Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews. [2218] This man came unto Jesus by night, and said unto him, My Master, we know that thou hast been sent from God as a teacher; and no man can do these signs that thou doest, except him whom God is [29] with. [2219] Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man [30] be not born a second time, he cannot see the kingdom of God. [2220] Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man who is old be born? can he, think you, return again to [31] his mother's womb a second time, to enter and be born? [2221] Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born of water and the Spirit, [32] he cannot enter the kingdom of God. [2222] For he that is born of flesh is flesh; and he that [33] is born of Spirit is spirit. [2223] Wonder not that I said unto thee that ye must be born a [34] [Arabic, p. 124] second time. [2224] The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest its voice, but thou knowest not from what place it cometh, nor whither it goeth: so [35] is every man that is born of the Spirit. [2225] Nicodemus answered and said unto him, [36] How can that be? [2226] Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou teaching [2227] Israel, [37] and yet knowest not these things? [2228] Verily, verily, I say unto thee, What we know [38] we say, and what we have seen we witness: and ye receive not our witness. [2229] If I said unto you what is on earth, and ye believed not, how then, if I say unto you [39] what is in heaven, will ye believe? [2230] And no man hath ascended up into heaven, except him that descended from heaven, the Son of man, which is in heaven. [40] [2231] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man to be [41] lifted up; [2232] so that every man who may believe in him may not perish, but have [42] eternal life. [2233] God so loved the world, that [2234] he should give his only Son; and so every one that believeth on him should not perish, but should have eternal life. [43] [2235] God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world might [44] be saved by his hand. [2236] He that believeth in him shall not be judged: but he that believeth not is condemned beforehand, because he hath not believed in the name [45] of the only Son, the Son of God. [2237] [2238] This is the judgement, that the light came into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light; because their deeds [46] were evil. [2239] Whosoever doeth evil deeds hateth the light, and cometh not to the [47] light, lest his deeds be reproved. [2240] But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known, that they have been done in God.
[2183] Matt. xxi. 12a; John ii. 14a.
[2184] Matt. xxi. 12b.
[2185] John ii. 14b.
[2186] Matt. xxi. 12c.
[2187] Matt. xxi. 13.
[2188] John ii. 16.
[2189] Mark xi. 16.
[2190] John ii. 17.
[2191] John ii. 18.
[2192] John ii. 19.
[2193] John ii. 20.
[2194] John ii. 21.
[2195] Or, if.
[2196] John ii. 22.
[2197] Mark xii. 41.
[2198] Mark xii. 42a.
[2199] Luke xxi. 3.
[2200] Mark xii. 44a.
[2201] Lit. house of the offering of God, as in the ms. described by Gildemeister (at Luke xxi. 4); but it is simply a reproduction of the phrase used in the Peshitta at Luke xxi. 3. The parallel passages are a good deal fused together.
[2202] Luke xviii. 9.
[2203] Luke xviii. 10.
[2204] Luke xviii. 11.
[2205] Lit. between him and himself.
[2206] Luke xviii. 12.
[2207] Or, gains.
[2208] Luke xviii. 13.
[2209] Luke xviii. 14.
[2210] Mark xi. 19a; Matt. xxi. 17.
[2211] Luke ix. 11.
[2212] Mark xi. 12.
[2213] Mark xi. 13.
[2214] Lit. one (Syriac).
[2215] Lit. and it.
[2216] Mark xi. 14.
[2217] Mark xi. 15a; John iii. 1.
[2218] John iii. 2.
[2219] John iii. 3.
[2220] John iii. 4.
[2221] John iii. 5.
[2222] John iii. 6.
[2223] John iii. 7.
[2224] John iii. 8.
[2225] John iii. 9.
[2226] John iii. 10.
[2227] Or the teacher of.
[2228] John iii. 11.
[2229] John iii. 12.
[2230] John iii. 13.
[2231] John iii. 14.
[2232] John iii. 15.
[2233] John iii. 16.
[2234] The Arabic particle means in order that. Perhaps it is a clerical error for so that; or it may be meant to represent the Syriac.
[2235] John iii. 17.
[2236] John iii. 18.
[2237] The translator has followed too closely the order of words in his Syriac original, which agrees with the Text. Rec.
[2238] John iii. 19.
[2239] John iii. 20.
[2240] John iii. 21.
Section XXXIII.
[1] [Arabic, p. 125] [2241] And when evening came, Jesus went forth outside of the city, he and his [2] disciples. [2242] And as they passed in the morning, the disciples saw that fig tree [3] withered away from its root. [2243] And they passed by, and said, How did the fig tree dry [4] up immediately? [2244] And Simon remembered, and said unto him, My Master, behold, [5] that fig tree which thou didst curse hath dried up. [2245] And Jesus answered and said [6] unto them, Let there be in you the faith of God. [2246] Verily I say unto you, if ye believe, and doubt not in your hearts, and assure yourselves that that will be which [7] ye say, ye shall have what ye say. [2247] And if ye say to this mountain, Remove, and [8] fall [2248] into the sea, it shall be. [2249] And all that ye ask God in prayer, and believe, he [9, 10] will give you. [2250] And the apostles [2251] said unto our Lord, Increase our [2252] faith. [2253] He said unto them, If there be in you faith like a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this fig tree, Be thou torn up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it will obey you. [11] [2254] Who of you hath a servant driving a yoke of oxen or tending sheep, and if he [12] come from the field, will say unto him straightway, Go and sit down? [2255] Nay, [2256] he will say unto him, Make ready for me wherewith I may sup, and gird thy waist, and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink also. [13] [2257] Doth that servant haply, who did what he was bid, receive his praise? I think [14] not. [2258] So ye also, when ye have done all that ye were bid, say, We are idle servants; what it was our duty to do, we have done.