Section
XIII.
[1] 951
I am sending you as
lambs among
wolves: be ye now
wise as
serpents, and [2]
harmless952
| 952 The word is
occasionally used in this sense, but ordinarily means sound,
unhurt. |
as
doves.
953
Beware of men: they shall
deliver you to
the
councils of the [3]
magistrates, and
scourge you in their
synagogues;
954
and shall bring you
before
governors and kings for my sake, for a
testimony against them
and against the
nations. [4]
955
And when they
deliver you up, be not
956
| 956 From this point down to
Matt. x. 27a, is assigned by Vat. ms. to Mark. |
anxious, nor consider
beforehand, what ye [5] shall say; but ye shall be given
957
| 957 Borg. ms. reads, but what ye are granted ye shall speak, and
ye shall be given in, etc., and there seems to be a trace of this
reading in Ciasca’s text. |
in that hour what ye ought to speak.
958
Ye do not [6] speak, but the Spirit of your
Father speaketh in you.
959
The
brother shall
deliver up his
brother to
death, and the
father his son; and the sons
shall rise against their [7]
parents, and put them to
death.
960
And ye shall be
hated of every man because of
[8] my name; but he that endureth unto the end of the matter shall be
saved.
961
962
When they expel
you from this city,
flee to another. Verily I say unto you, Ye
shall not
finish all the cities of the people of
Israel, until the Son
of man come.
[9, 10] 963
A
disciple is not
superior to his
lord, nor a
servant to his master.
964
For it is enough then for the
disciple that he
be as his
lord, and the
servant as his master. If they have
called the master of the
house Beelzebul, how much more the people
[11] of his
house!
965
Fear them not therefore:
966
for there is nothing covered, that
shall [12] [Arabic, p. 51] not be
revealed; nor hid, that shall not be
disclosed and
published.
967
What I say unto you in
the
darkness, speak ye in the
light; and what ye have told [13]
secretly in the
ears in closets, let it be proclaimed on the
housetops.
968
I say unto you now, my
beloved, Be not agitated at
969
| 969 Perhaps this Arabic word
is a copyist’s error for that used a few lines further down in
Luke xii. 5, the Arabic words being very similar;
but see note on § 1, 14. |
those who
kill the
body, but have no
power to [14]
kill the
soul. I will inform you
whom ye shall
fear: him
970
which is able to
destroy [15]
soul and body in
hell.
971
Yea, I
say unto you, Be afraid of him especially. Are not two
sparrows
sold for a
farthing in a
bond?
972
| 972 The Vat.
ms., like the Brit. Mus. text of
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, omits for a farthing,
retaining in a bond. The two phrases are simply different
explanations of the same Syriac consonants. These are really the
naturalised Greek word rendered farthing in Eng. version; but
they also form a Syriac word meaning bond. |
and one of them shall
not fall on the [16] ground without your
Father.
973
But what concerns you: even the
hair of
your heads [17, 18] also is numbered.
974
Fear
not therefore; ye are better than many
sparrows.
975
Every man who confesseth me now before men, I
also will confess him before my
Father [19] which is in
heaven;
976
but whosoever denieth me before men, I also
will deny him before my
Father which is in
heaven.
[20] 977
Think ye that I am
come to cast
peace into the
earth? I came not to cast
peace, [21]
but to cast
dissension.
978
Henceforth there shall
be five in one
house, three of them [22] disagreeing with two, and the
two with the three.
979
The
father shall
become hostile to his son, and the son to his
father; and the mother to
her
daughter, and the
daughter to her mother; and the mother in
law to
her
daughter in
law, and the
daughter [23] in
law to her mother in
law:
980
and a man’s
enemies shall be the people of his
house. [24]
981
Whosoever loveth
father or mother better than
me is not worthy of me; and whosoever [Arabic, p. 52] loveth son or
daughter more than his
love of me is not worthy of me. [25]
982
And every one that doth not take his
cross and
follow me is not worthy of [26] me.
983
Whosoever findeth his
life984
shall lose it; and whosoever loseth his
life985
for
my sake shall find it.
[27] 986
And whosoever
receiveth you receiveth me; and whosoever receiveth me receiveth [28]
him that sent me.
987
And whosoever
receiveth a
prophet in the name of a
prophet shall take
988
a
prophet’s
reward; and whosoever shall
receive a
righteous man [29] in the name of a
righteous man shall
take
989
a
righteous man’s
reward.
990
And every one that shall give to drink to one
of these least ones a drink of
water only, in the name of a
disciple,
verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his
reward.
[30] 991
And when
Jesus
finished charging his twelve
disciples, he removed thence to [31]
teach
and
preach in their cities.
992
And while they
were going in the way they entered into a certain
village; and a
woman
named
Martha entertained him in her
house. [32]
993
And she had a sister named
Mary, and she came
and sat at the
feet of our
Lord, [33] and heard his sayings.
994
But
Martha was disquieted by much serving; and
she came and said unto him, My
Lord, givest thou no heed that my sister
left me alone to [34] serve? speak to her that she help me.
995
Jesus answered and said unto her,
Martha, [35]
Martha, thou art solicitous and impatient
996
on
account of many things:
997
but what is sought is
one
thing. But
Mary hath chosen for herself a good
portion, and that which shall not be taken from her.
[36] 998
And the
apostles went
forth, and
preached to the people that they might
repent. [37]
999
And they cast out many
devils, and
anointed
many
sick with
oil, and
healed them. [38, 39]
1000
And the
disciples of John told him
1001
of all these things.
1002
And when John heard in [Arabic, p. 53] the
prison of the doings of the
Messiah, he called two of his
disciples,
and sent them to
Jesus, and said, Art thou he that cometh, or look we
for [40] another?
1003
And they came to
Jesus, and said unto him, John the Baptist hath sent [41] us unto thee,
and said, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
1004
And in that hour he
cured many of
diseases,
and of
plagues of an
evil spirit; and he gave sight [42] to many
blind.
1005
Jesus answered and
said unto them, Go and tell John everything ye have seen and
heard: the
blind see, and the
lame walk, and the
lepers are
cleansed, and the
blind1006
| 1006 A different word
from that used in the preceding verse. It is either an Arabic
copyist’s error for the word for deaf used in
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary, or a careless blunder. |
hear, and the dead
rise, and the
poor have the
gospel preached to [43] them.
1007
And
blessed is he who doubteth not in me.
[44] 1008
And when John’s
disciples departed,
Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out
into the
wilderness to see? a
reed shaken with the [45]
winds?
1009
And if not, then what went ye out to see? a
man
clothed in soft
raiment? Behold, they that are in magnificent
garments and in voluptuousness are in the abode [46] of kings.
1010
And if not, then what went ye out to see? a
prophet? Yea, I say unto [47] you, and more than a prophet.
1011
This is he of whom it is written,
I am sending my messenger before thy face
To prepare the way before thee.
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