Chapter 14.
And Phinees a priest, and Adas a teacher, and
Haggai a Levite, came down from Galilee to Jerusalem, and said to the
rulers of the synagogue, and the priests and the Levites: We saw
Jesus and his disciples sitting on the mountain called
Mamilch;1844
and he said to
his
disciples, Go into all the
world, and
preach to every
creature: he that believeth and is
baptized shall be
saved, and
he that believeth not shall be
condemned. And these
signs shall
attend those who have believed: in my name they shall cast out
demons, speak new
tongues, take up
serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall by no means hurt them; they shall lay
hands on
the
sick, and they shall be well. And while
Jesus was speaking to
his
disciples, we saw him taken up to
heaven.
1845
The elders and the priests and Levites say:
Give glory to the God of Israel, and confess to Him whether you have
heard and seen those things of which you have given us an
account. And those who had given the account said: As the
Lord liveth, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we heard
these things, and saw him taken up into heaven. The elders and
the priests and the Levites say to them: Have you come to give us
this announcement, or to offer prayer to God? And they say:
To offer prayer to God. The elders and the chief priests and the
Levites say to them: If you have come to offer prayer to God, why
then have you told these idle tales in the presence of all the
people?1846
| 1846 Lit., why then
this trifling which ye have trifled, etc. |
Says
Phinees the
priest, and Adas the
teacher, and Haggai the Levite to the
rulers of the synagogues, and the
priests and the
Levites: If
what we have said and seen be
sinful, behold, we are before you; do to
us as seems good in your
eyes. And they took the
law, and made
them
swear upon it, not to give any more an account of these matters to
any one. And they gave them to eat and drink, and sent them out
of the city, having given them also
money, and three men with them; and
they sent them away to
Galilee. And these men having gone into
Galilee, the
chief priests, and the
rulers of the
synagogue, and the
elders, came together into the
synagogue, and locked the
door, and
lamented with a great lamentation, saying: Is this a
miracle that
has happened in
Israel? And Annas and Caiaphas said: Why
are you so much moved? Why do you
weep? Do you not know
that his
disciples have given a sum of
gold to the
guards of the
tomb,
and have
instructed them to say that an
angel came down and rolled away
the
stone from the
door of the
tomb? And the
priests and the
elders said: Be it that his
disciples have
stolen his body; how
is it that the life has come into his body, and that he is going about
in Galilee? And they being unable to give an answer to these
things, said, after great hesitation: It is not lawful for us to
believe the uncircumcised.
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