h Sy. ASO 1 Sy. 112250 k Sy. word. 1 By A another, and said: How can he give us his body After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for VIL a he would not walk in Judæa, because the Jews 2 sought to slay him.-(2) And the Jewish feast of 3 tabernacles drew near. (3) And the brothers of Sy. Rä Jesus said to him: Leave here, and go into Judæa; that thy disciples may see the works thou doest. 4 (4) For there is no one who doeth any thing in secret, while he wisheth to become public. If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world. 5 (5) For even his brothers did not believe in Jesus. 6 (6) Jesus said to them: My time hath not yet come: 7 but your time is always ready. (7) The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth; because I testify 8 of it, that its deeds are evil. (8) Go ye up to the feast; I do not go up to this feast now, because my 9 time is not yet completed. (9) These things he 10 said, and remained still in Galilee. (10) But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were secretly.11 (11) And the Jews sought for him at the feast; 12 and they said, Where is he? (12) And there was b Sy. when the much altercation among the people respecting him; for some said, He is a good man; while others said, 13 No; but he deceiveth the people. (13) Yet no one spoke openly of him, from fear of the Jews. 14 And in the midst of the days of the feast, Jesus days of the 15 went into the temple, and taught. (15) And the Jews wondered, and said: How knoweth this man 16 literature, having not been educated? (16) Jesus answered and said: My doctrine is not from me, 17 but from him that sent me. (17) He that wisheth to do his pleasure, will understand my doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from 18 my own pleasure. (18) He that speaketh according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is veracious, and evil is not in his 19 heart. (19) Did not Moses give you the law? 20 Yet no one of you observeth the law. (20) Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to 21 kill thee? (21) Jesus replied, and said to them: I have wrought one work, and ye all wonder. 22 (22) Because Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it was from Moses, but it was from the fathers,) 23 ye circumcise a child on the sabbath. (23) And if a child is circumcised on the sabbath day, that the feast were divided. c Sy. • 8y. 12021 e or, is law of Moses may not be violated, do ye murmur And on the great day, which was the last of the 37 42 (42) Doth not the scriptures say, That Messiah cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem 43 the town of David? (43) And there was a division 44 among the multitude respecting him. (44) And there were some of them who wished to apprehend 45 him. But no one laid hands on him.-(45) And the constables came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and the priests said to them: Why have ye not 46 brought him? (46) The constables say to them: f Never did a man speak, as this man speaketh. 47 (47) The Pharisees said to them: Are ye also de48 ceived? (48) Have any of the chiefs, or of the Sy. Las 49 Pharisees, believed in him? (49) But this peo50 ple, who know not the law, are accursed. (50) One of them: Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by 51 night, said to them: (51) Doth our law condemn a man, unless it first hear him, and know what he 52 hath done? (52) They answered, and said to him: Art thou also from Galilee? Search, and see, that 53 no prophet ariseth from Galilee. (53) So they went every one to his own house.* VIII. And Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2 (2) And in the morning he came again to the tem ple; and all the people came to him, and he sat 3 down and taught them. (3) And the Scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman that was caught in adultery. And when they had placed 4 her in the midst, (4) they say to him: Teacher, this woman was caught openly in the act of adul 5 tery. (5) And in the law of Moses, [God] hath commanded us to stone such persons. What there6 fore dost thou say? (6) And this they said, tempting him, so that they might have [ground] to accuse him. But Jesus having stooped down, was writing 7 on the ground. (7) And as they continued asking him, he straightened himself up, and said to them: Whoever among you is without sin, let him first 8 cast a stone at her. (8) And, having again stooped 9 down, he wrote on the ground. (9) And they, when they heard [it], went out one by one, begin. Sy. Lo ning with the older;a and the woman was left 10 alone, where she had stood in the midst. (10) And| a * This 53d verse is wanting in many early editions of the Syriac N. Testament So also the whole story of the adulteress, in the following chapter, v. 1–11. b Sy. corporeal ly. when Jesus had straightened himself up, he said And Jesus again conversed with them, and said: 12 If ye had known me, ye would also have known my Father.-(20) These words spake Jesus in the 20 treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. Again Jesus said to them: I go away, and ye 21 will seek me, and will die in your sins. And whither I go, ye cannot come. (22) The Jews said: 22 Is he about to kill himself, that he should say, Whither I go ye cannot come? (23) And he said 23 to them: Ye are from below, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world. (24) I said to you, That ye will die in your sins; 24 for if ye believe not that I am he, ye will die in your sins. (25) The Jews said to him: Who art 25 thou? Jesus said to them: Although I have begun to converse with you, (26) I have yet many things 26 to say and to judge concerning you. But he that sent me is true: and the things which I have heard from him, them I speak in the world. (27) And 27 they did not know, that he spake to them of the Father. (28) Jesus said to them again: When ye 28 |