[29] [3132] Then Jesus said unto them, Let not your hearts be troubled: [3133] believe in God, [30] and believe in me. [3134] The stations [3135] in my Father's house are many, else I should [31] have told [3136] you. I [3137] go to prepare for you a place. [3138] And if I go to prepare for you a place, I shall return again, and take you unto me: and so where I am, there ye [32, 33] shall be also. [3139] And the place that I go ye know, [3140] and the way ye know. [3141] [3142] Thomas said unto him, Our Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how is the way for [34] us to the knowledge of that? [3143] [3144] Jesus said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, [35] and the life: and no man cometh unto my Father, but through me. [3145] And if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father: and from henceforth ye know [3146] him, [36] and have seen him. [3147] Philip [3148] said unto him, Our Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth [37] us. [3149] Jesus said unto him, Have I been all this time with you, and dost thou not know [3150] me, Philip? [3151] whosoever hath seen me hath seen the Father; how then sayest [38] thou, Shew us the Father? [3152] Believest thou not that I am in my Father, and my Father in me? and the saying that I say, I say not of myself: but my Father who dwelleth in [39] me, he doeth these deeds. [3153] Believe that I am in my Father, and my Father in me: [40] [Arabic, p. 173] or else believe for the sake of the deeds. [3154] Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever believeth in me, the deeds that I do shall he do also; and [41] more than that shall he do: I go unto the Father. [3155] And what ye shall ask in my [42] name, I shall do unto you, that the Father may be glorified in his Son. [3156] And if ye [43, 44] ask me [3157] in my name, I will do it. [3158] If ye love me, keep my commandments. [3159] And I will entreat of my Father, and he will send unto you another Paraclete, that he [45] may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth: [3160] whom the world cannot receive; for it hath not seen him, nor known him: but ye know him; for he hath dwelt [3161] [46] with you, and is in you. [3162] I will not leave you orphans: I will come unto you. [47] [3163] Another little while, and the world seeth me not; but ye see me that I live, and ye [48] shall live also. [3164] And in that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
[3086] John xiii. 23.
[3087] The Syriac versions have reclining.
[3088] John xiii. 24.
[3089] John xiii. 25.
[3090] Lit. fell.
[3091] John xiii. 26.
[3092] John xiii. 27.
[3093] John xiii. 28.
[3094] John xiii. 29.
[3095] Matt. xxvi. 25.
[3096] John xiii. 30.
[3097] John xiii. 31.
[3098] A simple change of diacritical points would give the reading of the Greek and of the Syriac versions.
[3099] A simple change of diacritical points would give the reading of the Greek and of the Syriac versions.
[3100] John xiii. 32.
[3101] Mark xiv. 22a.
[3102] Matt. xxvi. 26b.
[3103] Mark xiv. 23a.
[3104] Matt. xxvi. 27b.
[3105] Mark xiv. 23b.
[3106] Mark xiv. 24a.
[3107] Matt. xxvi. 28.
[3108] Matt. xxvi. 29.
[3109] Peshitta adds it. The reading of the Sinaitic is doubtful.
[3110] Luke xxii. 19b.
[3111] Luke xxii. 31.
[3112] Luke xxii. 32.
[3113] Past tense in Syriac versions.
[3114] We may translate, with the Syriac versions, that thy faith fail not, only if we assign a somewhat Syriac meaning to the verb, and assume either an error in diacritical points (t for y) or an unusual (Syriac) gender for faith.
[3115] cf. Syriac versions.
[3116] John xiii. 33.
[3117] John xiii. 34.
[3118] John xiii. 35.
[3119] John xiii. 36.
[3120] Matt. xxvi. 31.
[3121] The Arabic word is not unlike the word for stumble, and Borg. ms. omits me.
[3122] Vat. ms. omits this night.
[3123] Matt. xxvi. 32.
[3124] Matt. xxvi. 33.
[3125] Luke xxii. 33b.
[3126] John xiii. 37b.
[3127] John xiii. 38a.
[3128] Mark xiv. 30b.
[3129] Luke xxii. 34b; Mark xiv. 31.
[3130] Or, went on saying.
[3131] Lit. end in. Or, if I come to (the point of).
[3132] John xiv. 1.
[3133] The diacritical points in both Vat. (followed by Ciasca) and Borg. mss. appear to demand a rendering inquire for be troubled. In Ibn-at-Tayyib's comments (not the text), however (with other points), we have the meaning wail (root nhb). Every Syriac version uses a different word.
[3134] John xiv. 2.
[3135] Or, ranks.
[3136] Or, should tell.
[3137] Probably the Arabic represents a Syriac For I.
[3138] John xiv. 3.
[3139] John xiv. 4.
[3140] Different words.
[3141] Different words.
[3142] John xiv. 5.
[3143] cf. Ibn-at-Tayyib's Commentary (f. 352a) and order of words in Peshitta (not Sin.).
[3144] John xiv. 6.
[3145] John xiv. 7.
[3146] Lit. have known.
[3147] John xiv. 8.
[3148] Different forms, as in Peshitta.
[3149] John xiv. 9.
[3150] More exactly, hast thou not come to know.
[3151] Different forms, as in Peshitta.
[3152] John xiv. 10.
[3153] John xiv. 11.
[3154] John xiv. 12.
[3155] John xiv. 13.
[3156] John xiv. 14.
[3157] The Borg. ms. has me clearly (cf. Peshitta). The Vat. ms. is ambiguous.
[3158] John xiv. 15.
[3159] John xiv. 16.
[3160] John xiv. 17.
[3161] Probably a misreading of the Peshitta (not Sin. or Cur.), since the next clause also agrees with it.
[3162] John xiv. 18.
[3163] John xiv. 19.
[3164] John xiv. 20.
Section XLVI.
[1] [3165] Whosoever hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will [2] shew myself unto him. [3166] Judas (not Iscariot) said unto him, My Lord, what is the [3] purpose of thy intention to shew thyself to us, and not to the world? [3167] Jesus answered and said unto him, Whosoever loveth me will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and to him will we come, and make our [3168] abode with him. [4] [3169] But he that loveth me not keepeth not my word: and this word that ye hear is not my word, but the Father's which sent me.
[5, 6] [3170] This have I spoken unto you, while I was yet with you. [3171] But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything, and [7] [Arabic, p. 174] he will bring to your remembrance all that I say unto you. [3172] Peace I leave you; my peace I give unto you: and not as this world giveth, give I unto you. [8] [3173] Let your heart not be troubled, [3174] nor fearful. Ye heard that I said unto you, that I go away, and come unto you. If [3175] ye loved me, ye would rejoice, that I go away to my [9] Father: for my Father is greater than I. [3176] And now I say unto you before it come [10] to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe me. [3177] Now I will not speak with you much: the Archon of the world will come, and he will have nothing in [11] me: [3178] but that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father charged me, so I do.
[12] [3179] And he said unto them, When I sent you without purses, or wallets, and shoes, [3180] [13] lacked ye perchance anything? They said unto him, Nothing. [3181] He said unto them, Henceforth, whosoever hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise the wallet also: and whosoever hath not a sword, shall sell his garment, and buy for himself a [14] sword. [3182] I say unto you, that this scripture also must be fulfilled in me, that I should be reckoned [3183] with the transgressors: for all that is said of me is fulfilled in [15] me. [3184] His disciples said unto him, Our Lord, lo, here are two swords. He said [16] unto them, They are sufficient. [3185] Arise, let us go hence. And they arose, and praised, and went forth, and went, according to their custom, to the mount of Olives, he and his disciples.
[17] [3186] And he said unto them, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [18] [3187] Every branch that produceth not fruit in me, he taketh it: and that which giveth fruit, [19] he cleanseth it, that it may give much fruit. [3188] Ye are already clean because of the word [20] that I have spoken unto you. [3189] Abide in me, and I in you. And as the branch of the [Arabic, p. 175] vine cannot produce fruit of itself, if it be not abiding in the vine; so too ye [21] also, if ye abide not in me. [3190] I am the vine, and ye are the branches: He then that abideth in me, and I in him, he giveth much fruit: for without me ye cannot [22] do anything. [3191] And if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, like a withered [23] branch; and it is gathered, and cast [3192] into the fire, that it may be burned. [3193] If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, everything that ye desire to ask shall be [24] done unto you. [3194] And herein is the Father glorified, that ye may give much fruit; [25] and ye shall be my disciples. [3195] And as my Father loved me, I loved you also: [26] abide in my love. [3196] If ye keep my commands, ye shall abide in my love; as I have [27] kept my Father's commands, and abode in his love. [3197] I have spoken that unto you, [28] that my joy [3198] may be in you, and your joy [3199] be fulfilled. [3200] This is my commandment, [29] that ye love one another, as I loved you. [3201] And no love is greater than this, namely, [30] that a man should give his life for his friends. [3202] Ye are my friends, if ye do all that [31] I command you. [3203] I call you not now servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: my friends have I now called you; for everything that I heard from [32] my Father I have made known unto you. [3204] Ye did not choose [3205] me, but I chose I you, and appointed you, that ye also should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should [3206] [33] abide; and that all that ye shall ask my Father in my name, he may [3207] give you. [3208] This [34] I command [3209] you, that ye love one another. [3210] And if the world hate you, know that [35] before you it hated me. [3211] If then ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but ye are not of the world: I chose you out of the world: therefore the world [36] [Arabic, p. 176] hateth you. [3212] Remember the word that I said unto you, that no servant is greater than his lord. And if they persecuted [3213] me, you also will they [37] persecute; [3214] and if they kept my word, your word also will they keep. [3215] But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, for they have not known [3216] him [38] that sent me. [3217] And if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: [39] but now they have no excuse for their sins. [3218] Whosoever hateth me, also hateth my [40] Father. [3219] And if I had not done the deeds before them that no other man did, they would not have had sin: but now they have seen and hated me and my Father [41] also: that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, [3220] They hated me for [42] nothing. [3221] But when the Paraclete is come, whom I will send unto you from my Father, even the Spirit of truth, which goeth forth from my Father, he shall bear witness of [43] me: [3222] and ye also bear witness, because from the beginning ye have been with me.
[44, 45] [3223] I have said that unto you, that ye may not stumble. [3224] [3225] And they shall put you out of their synagogues: and there cometh an [3226] hour when every one that killeth [46] you shall think that he hath offered unto God an offering. [3227] And they will do that, [47] because they do not know me, nor my Father. [3228] I have said that unto you, so that [48] when its time is come, ye may remember it, that I told you. [3229] And this hitherto I said not unto you, because I was with you. But [3230] now I go unto him that sent me; and no [49] man of you asketh me whither I go. [3231] I have said that unto you now, and grief hath [50] come and taken possession of your hearts [3232] But I say the truth unto you; It is better [3233] for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Paraclete will not come unto you; [51] [Arabic, p. 177] but if I go away, I will send him unto you. [3234] And when he cometh, he will reprove the world for sin, and for righteousness, and for judgement: [52, 53] for sin, [3235] because they have not believed in me; [3236] and for righteousness, because I go [54] to my Father; [3237] and for judgement, because [3238] the Archon of this world hath been [55] judged. [3239] And further have I many things to speak unto you, but ye cannot tarry [3240] [56] now. [3241] Howbeit [3242] when the Spirit of truth is come, he will remind [3243] you of all the truth: he will say nothing from himself; but everything that he heareth, that shall [57] he say: and he shall make known unto you the things that are to be. [3244] And he shall [58] glorify me; for from me shall he take and shew you. [3245] All that my Father hath is mine: therefore said I unto you, that he taketh [3246] of mine, and shall shew [3247] you.