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Section XXXII.

[1] ²¹⁸³

²¹⁸³ Matt. xxi. 12a; John ii. 14a.
And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found [2] there oxen and sheep and doves. ²¹⁸⁴

²¹⁸⁴ Matt. xxi. 12b.
And when he beheld those that sold and those that bought, and the money-changers sitting, ²¹⁸⁵

²¹⁸⁵ John ii. 14b.
he made for himself a scourge of rope, and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and the money-changers; ²¹⁸⁶

²¹⁸⁶ Matt. xxi. 12c.
and he threw down their money, and upset their tables, and the seats of [3] them that sold the doves; ²¹⁸⁷

²¹⁸⁷ Matt. xxi. 13.
and he was teaching, and saying unto them, Is it not written, My house is a house of prayer for all peoples? and ye have made it a den [4] for robbers. ²¹⁸⁸

²¹⁸⁸ John ii. 16.
And he said unto those that sold the doves, Take this hence, and [5] make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. ²¹⁸⁹

²¹⁸⁹ Mark xi. 16.
And he suffered not any [6] one to carry vessels inside the temple. ²¹⁹⁰

²¹⁹⁰ John ii. 17.
And his disciples remembered the scripture, [7] The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. ²¹⁹¹

²¹⁹¹ John ii. 18.
The Jews answered and said unto him, [8] What sign hast thou shewn us, that thou doest this? ²¹⁹²

²¹⁹² John ii. 19.
Jesus answered and said unto [9] them, Destroy this temple, and I shall raise it in three days. ²¹⁹³

²¹⁹³ John ii. 20.
The Jews said unto him, This temple was built in forty-six years, and wilt thou raise it in three days? [10] ²¹⁹⁴

²¹⁹⁴ John ii. 21.
But he spake unto them of the temple of his body, that when²¹⁹⁵

²¹⁹⁵ Or, if.
they destroyed it, he [11] [Arabic, p. 122] would raise it in three days. ²¹⁹⁶

²¹⁹⁶ John ii. 22.
When therefore he rose from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.

[12] ²¹⁹⁷

²¹⁹⁷ Mark xii. 41.
And when Jesus sat down over against the treasury, he observed how the multitudes were casting their offerings into the treasury: and many rich men were [13, 14] throwing in much. ²¹⁹⁸

²¹⁹⁸ Mark xii. 42a.
And there came a poor widow, and cast in two mites. ²¹⁹⁹

²¹⁹⁹ Luke xxi. 3.
And Jesus called his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor [15] widow cast into the treasury more than all the people: ²²⁰⁰

²²⁰⁰ Mark xii. 44a.
and all of these cast into the place of the offering of God²²⁰¹

²²⁰¹ Lit. house of the offering of God, as in the ms. described by Gildemeister (at Luke xxi. 4); but it is simply a reproduction of the phrase used in the Peshitta at Luke xxi. 3. The parallel passages are a good deal fused together.
of the superfluity of their wealth; while this woman of her want threw in all that she possessed.

[16] ²²⁰²

²²⁰² Luke xviii. 9.
And he spake unto them this parable, concerning people who trusted in themselves [17] that they are righteous, and despised every man: ²²⁰³

²²⁰³ Luke xviii. 10.
Two men went up to the [18] temple to pray; one of them a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ²²⁰⁴

²²⁰⁴ Luke xviii. 11.
And the Pharisee stood apart,²²⁰⁵

²²⁰⁵ Lit. between him and himself.
and prayed thus, O Lord, I thank thee, since I am not like the rest of men, the unjust, the profligate, the extortioners, or even like this publican; [19] ²²⁰⁶

²²⁰⁶ Luke xviii. 12.
but I fast two days a week, and tithe all my possessions.²²⁰⁷

²²⁰⁷ Or, gains.
²²⁰⁸

²²⁰⁸ Luke xviii. 13.
And the publican was [20] standing at a distance, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was [21] beating upon his breast, and saying, O Lord, have mercy on me, me the sinner. ²²⁰⁹

²²⁰⁹ Luke xviii. 14.
I say unto you, that this man went down justified to his house more than the Pharisee. Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and every one that abaseth himself shall be exalted.

[22] [Arabic, p. 123] ²²¹⁰

²²¹⁰ Mark xi. 19a; Matt. xxi. 17.
And when eventide was come, he left all the people, and went outside the [23] city to Bethany, he and his twelve, and he remained there. ²²¹¹

²²¹¹ Luke ix. 11.
And all the people, because they knew the place, came to him, and he received them; and them that [24] had need of healing he healed. ²²¹²

²²¹² Mark xi. 12.
And on the morning of the next day, when he returned [25] to the city from Bethany, he hungered. ²²¹³

²²¹³ Mark xi. 13.
And he saw a²²¹⁴

²²¹⁴ Lit. one (Syriac).
fig tree at a distance on the beaten highway, having on it leaves. And he came unto it, expecting to find something on it; and when he came, he found nothing on it but the leaves—it²²¹⁵

²²¹⁵ Lit. and it.
was not [26] the season of figs—²²¹⁶

²²¹⁶ Mark xi. 14.
and he said unto it, Henceforward for ever let no man eat fruit of thee. And his disciples heard.

[27] ²²¹⁷

²²¹⁷ Mark xi. 15a; John iii. 1.
And they came to Jerusalem. And there was there a man of the Pharisees, [28] named Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews. ²²¹⁸

²²¹⁸ John iii. 2.
This man came unto Jesus by night, and said unto him, My Master, we know that thou hast been sent from God as a teacher; and no man can do these signs that thou doest, except him whom God is [29] with. ²²¹⁹

²²¹⁹ John iii. 3.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man [30] be not born a second time, he cannot see the kingdom of God. ²²²⁰

²²²⁰ John iii. 4.
Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man who is old be born? can he, think you, return again to [31] his mother’s womb a second time, to enter and be born? ²²²¹

²²²¹ John iii. 5.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born of water and the Spirit, [32] he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ²²²²

²²²² John iii. 6.
For he that is born of flesh is flesh; and he that [33] is born of Spirit is spirit. ²²²³

²²²³ John iii. 7.
Wonder not that I said unto thee that ye must be born a [34] [Arabic, p. 124] second time. ²²²⁴

²²²⁴ John iii. 8.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest its voice, but thou knowest not from what place it cometh, nor whither it goeth: so [35] is every man that is born of the Spirit. ²²²⁵

²²²⁵ John iii. 9.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, [36] How can that be? ²²²⁶

²²²⁶ John iii. 10.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou teaching²²²⁷

²²²⁷ Or the teacher of.
Israel, [37] and yet knowest not these things? ²²²⁸

²²²⁸ John iii. 11.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, What we know [38] we say, and what we have seen we witness: and ye receive not our witness. ²²²⁹

²²²⁹ John iii. 12.
If I said unto you what is on earth, and ye believed not, how then, if I say unto you [39] what is in heaven, will ye believe? ²²³⁰

²²³⁰ John iii. 13.
And no man hath ascended up into heaven, except him that descended from heaven, the Son of man, which is in heaven. [40] ²²³¹

²²³¹ John iii. 14.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man to be [41] lifted up; ²²³²

²²³² John iii. 15.
so that every man who may believe in him may not perish, but have [42] eternal life. ²²³³

²²³³ John iii. 16.
God so loved the world, that²²³⁴

²²³⁴ The Arabic particle means in order that. Perhaps it is a clerical error for so that; or it may be meant to represent the Syriac.
he should give his only Son; and so every one that believeth on him should not perish, but should have eternal life. [43] ²²³⁵

²²³⁵ John iii. 17.
God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world might [44] be saved by his hand. ²²³⁶

²²³⁶ John iii. 18.
He that believeth in him shall not be judged: but he that believeth not is condemned beforehand, because he hath not believed in the name [45] of the only Son, the Son of God.²²³⁷

²²³⁷ The translator has followed too closely the order of words in his Syriac original, which agrees with the Text. Rec.
²²³⁸

²²³⁸ John iii. 19.
This is the judgement, that the light came into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light; because their deeds [46] were evil. ²²³⁹

²²³⁹ John iii. 20.
Whosoever doeth evil deeds hateth the light, and cometh not to the [47] light, lest his deeds be reproved. ²²⁴⁰

²²⁴⁰ John iii. 21.
But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known, that they have been done in God.
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