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Section VI.

[1] [Arabic, p. 22] ⁴⁴⁶

⁴⁴⁶ Luke v. 8.
But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said unto him, My Lord, I beseech of thee to depart from me, for I am [2] a sinful man. ⁴⁴⁷

⁴⁴⁷ Luke v. 9.
And amazement took possession of him, and of all who were with him, [3] because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken. ⁴⁴⁸

⁴⁴⁸ Luke v. 10.
And thus also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken,⁴⁴⁹

⁴⁴⁹ The verb may be active as well as passive, but does not agree in gender with amazement. Mistakes in gender are, however, very common transcriptional errors.
who were Simon’s partners. And Jesus said [4] unto Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men unto life. ⁴⁵⁰

⁴⁵⁰ Luke v. 11.
And they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything, and followed him.

[5] ⁴⁵¹

⁴⁵¹ John iii. 22.
And after that came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and he went [6] about there with them, and baptized. ⁴⁵²

⁴⁵² John iii. 23.
And John also was baptizing in Ænon, which is beside Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. [7, 8] ⁴⁵³

⁴⁵³ John iii. 24.
And John was not yet come into prison. ⁴⁵⁴

⁴⁵⁴ John iii. 25.
And there was an inquiry between [9] one of John’s disciples and one of the Jews about purifying. ⁴⁵⁵

⁴⁵⁵ John iii. 26.
And they⁴⁵⁶

⁴⁵⁶ Dual.
came unto John, and said unto him, Our master, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom [10] thou hast borne witness, behold, he also baptizeth, and many come to him. ⁴⁵⁷

⁴⁵⁷ John iii. 27.
John answered and said unto them,⁴⁵⁸

⁴⁵⁸ Plural. In the Peshitta it is two individuals in verse 25. In Sin. the first is an individual and the second is ambiguous. In Cur. both are plural.
A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him⁴⁵⁹

⁴⁵⁹ Or, he be given it.
from heaven. ⁴⁶⁰

⁴⁶⁰ John iii. 28.
Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent⁴⁶¹

⁴⁶¹ The ordinary word for apostle.
before him. ⁴⁶²

⁴⁶² John iii. 29.
And he that hath a bride is a bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom is he that standeth and listeneth to him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Lo now,⁴⁶³

⁴⁶³ See § 9, 21, note.
behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete.⁴⁶⁴

⁴⁶⁴ So Ciasca’s printed text. The Vat. ms., however, probably represents a past tense.
⁴⁶⁵

⁴⁶⁵ John iii. 30.
And he must increase and I decrease. ⁴⁶⁶

⁴⁶⁶ John iii. 31.
For⁴⁶⁷

⁴⁶⁷ cf. Peshitta.
he that is come from above is higher than everything; and he that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh; and he that came down from heaven is [15] higher than all. ⁴⁶⁸

⁴⁶⁸ John iii. 32.
And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and heard: and no man [16] receiveth his witness. ⁴⁶⁹

⁴⁶⁹ John iii. 33.
And he that hath received his witness hath asserted⁴⁷⁰

⁴⁷⁰ cf. consonants of Syriac text.
that he is [17] truly God.⁴⁷¹

⁴⁷¹ Borg. ms., that God is truly, or, assuming a very common grammatical inaccuracy, that God is true or truth, the reading in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
⁴⁷²

⁴⁷² John iii. 34.
And he whom God hath sent speaketh the words⁴⁷³

⁴⁷³ Lit. saying.
of God: God gave [18] not the Spirit by measure. ⁴⁷⁴

⁴⁷⁴ John iii. 35.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath put everything in [19] his hands. ⁴⁷⁵

⁴⁷⁵ John iii. 36.
Whosoever believeth in the Son hath eternal⁴⁷⁶

⁴⁷⁶ Lit. the life of eternity; here and everywhere except § 21, 40.
life; but whosoever obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God cometh⁴⁷⁷

⁴⁷⁷ i.e., alighteth-and-stayeth.
upon him.

[20] ⁴⁷⁸

⁴⁷⁸ John iv. 1.
And Jesus learned⁴⁷⁹

⁴⁷⁹ Or, knew.
that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, [21] and that he was baptizing more than John ⁴⁸⁰

⁴⁸⁰ John iv. 2.
(not that Jesus was himself baptizing, [22] but his disciples); ⁴⁸¹

⁴⁸¹ John iv. 3a.
and so he left Judæa.

[23] ⁴⁸²

⁴⁸² Luke iii. 19.
And Herod the governor, because he used to be rebuked by John because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and for all the sins which he was committing, [24] added to all that also this, ⁴⁸³

⁴⁸³ Luke iii. 20.
that he shut up John in prison.

[25] ⁴⁸⁴

⁴⁸⁴ Matt. iv. 12.
And when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he went away to Galilee. [26] ⁴⁸⁵

⁴⁸⁵ John iv. 46.
And he entered again into Cana, where he had made the water wine. And there [27] was at Capernaum a king’s servant, whose son was sick. ⁴⁸⁶

⁴⁸⁶ John iv. 47.
And this man heard that Jesus was come from Judæa to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought of him that he would come down and heal his son; for he had come near unto death. [28, 29] ⁴⁸⁷

⁴⁸⁷ John iv. 48.
Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye do⁴⁸⁸

⁴⁸⁸ Or, will.
not believe. ⁴⁸⁹

⁴⁸⁹ John iv. 49.
The [Arabic, p. 24] king’s servant said unto him, My Lord, come down, that the child die not. [30] ⁴⁹⁰

⁴⁹⁰ John iv. 50.
Jesus said unto him, Go; for thy son is alive. And that man believed the [31] word which Jesus spake, and went. ⁴⁹¹

⁴⁹¹ John iv. 51.
And when he went down, his servants met him [32] and told him, and⁴⁹²

⁴⁹² Or, good news, and.
said unto him, Thy son is alive. ⁴⁹³

⁴⁹³ John iv. 52.
And he asked them at what time he recovered. They said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left [33] him. ⁴⁹⁴

⁴⁹⁴ John iv. 53.
And his father knew that that was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, [34] Thy son is alive. ⁴⁹⁵

⁴⁹⁵ John iv. 54.
And he believed, he and the whole people of his house. And this [35] is the second sign⁴⁹⁶

⁴⁹⁶ See § 5, 32, note.
which Jesus did when he returned from Judæa to Galilee. ⁴⁹⁷

⁴⁹⁷ Luke iv. 44.
And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

[36] ⁴⁹⁸

⁴⁹⁸ Matt. iv. 13.
And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea shore, in the [37] borders of Zebulun and Naphtali: ⁴⁹⁹

⁴⁹⁹ Matt. iv. 14.
that it might be fulfilled which was said in Isaiah the prophet, who said,

[38] ⁵⁰⁰

⁵⁰⁰ Matt. iv. 15.
The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali,

The way of the sea, the passage of the Jordan,

Galilee of the nations:

[39] ⁵⁰¹

⁵⁰¹ Matt. iv. 16.
The people sitting in darkness

Saw a great light,

And those sitting in the region and in the shadow of death,

There appeared to them a light.

[40] ⁵⁰²

⁵⁰² Luke iv. 31b.
And he taught them on the sabbaths. ⁵⁰³

⁵⁰³ Luke iv. 32.
And they wondered because of his doctrine:⁵⁰⁴

⁵⁰⁴ Perhaps we might here render learning; but see § 28, 17, note.
[41] for his word was as if it were authoritative. ⁵⁰⁵

⁵⁰⁵ Luke iv. 33.
And there was in the synagogue [42] a man with an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice, and said, ⁵⁰⁶

⁵⁰⁶ Luke iv. 34.
Let me alone; what have I to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come for our [43] destruction? I know thee who thou art, thou Holy One of God. ⁵⁰⁷

⁵⁰⁷ Luke iv. 35.
And Jesus rebuked him, and said, Stop up thy mouth, and come out of him. And the demon threw him [44] in the midst and came out of him, having done him no harm. ⁵⁰⁸

⁵⁰⁸ Luke iv. 36.
And great amazement [Arabic, p. 25] took hold upon every man. And they talked one with another, and said, What is this word that orders the unclean spirits with power and [45] authority, and they come out? ⁵⁰⁹

⁵⁰⁹ Luke iv. 37.
And the news of him spread abroad in all the region which was around them.

[46] ⁵¹⁰

⁵¹⁰ Luke iv. 38.
And when Jesus went out of the synagogue, ⁵¹¹

⁵¹¹ Matt. ix. 9b.
he saw a man sitting among the publicans,⁵¹²

⁵¹² So in the Arabic. It is, however, simply a misinterpretation of the expression in the Syriac versions for at the place of toll (cf. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary).
named Matthew: and he said unto him, Come after me. And he rose, and followed him.

[47, 48] ⁵¹³

⁵¹³ Mark i. 29b.
And Jesus came to the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. ⁵¹⁴

⁵¹⁴ Luke iv. 38c.
And Simon’s wife’s mother was oppressed with a great fever, and they besought him for [49] her. ⁵¹⁵

⁵¹⁵ Luke iv. 39.
And he stood over her and rebuked her fever, and it left her, and immediately [50] she rose and ministered to them. ⁵¹⁶

⁵¹⁶ Matt. viii. 16a.
And at even they brought to him many that had [51] demons: and he cast out their devils with the⁵¹⁷

⁵¹⁷ cf. § 1, 40, note 2.
word. ⁵¹⁸

⁵¹⁸ Luke iv. 40b.
And all that had sick, their diseases being divers and malignant, brought them unto him. And he laid his hand [52] on them one by one⁵¹⁹

⁵¹⁹ Or, each.
and healed them: ⁵²⁰

⁵²⁰ Matt. viii. 17.
that that might be fulfilled which was said [53] in the prophet Isaiah, who said, He taketh our pains and beareth our diseases. ⁵²¹

⁵²¹ Mark i. 33.
And [54] all the city was gathered together unto the door of Jesus. ⁵²²

⁵²² Luke iv. 41.
And he cast out devils also from many, as they were crying out and saying, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of God; and he rebuked them. And he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him that he was the Lord the Messiah.
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