Section
XXXIX.
[1] 2653
And
Jesus six days
before the
passover2654
| 2654 cf. the Greek
phrase. |
came to
Bethany,
where was
Lazarus, [2] whom
Jesus raised from among the dead.
2655
And they made
2656
| 2656 Lit. he
made (cf. first note to § 38, 43, last
sentence). |
a
feast for him there: [3] and
Martha was serving; while
Lazarus
was one of them that sat with him.
2657
And
[4] at the time of
Jesus’ being at
Bethany in the
house of
Simon
the
leper,
2658
great multitudes of
the
Jews heard that
Jesus was there: and they came, not because
of
Jesus alone, but [Arabic, p. 147] that they might look also on
Lazarus, whom he
raised from among the dead. [5, 6]
2659
And the
chief priests considered
how
they might
kill Lazarus also;
2660
because [7] many of
the
Jews were going on his account, and believing in
Jesus.
2661
And
Mary took a case of the
ointment of fine
nard, of great
price,
2662
and opened it, and
poured [8] it out on the head of
Jesus as he was reclining;
2663
and she
anointed his
feet, and wiped them
with her
hair: and the
house was filled with the odour of the
ointment. [9, 10]
2664
But
Judas Iscariot,
one of the
disciples, he that was to
betray him, said,
2665
Why was [11] not this
ointment sold for three
hundred pence, and given unto the
poor?
2666
This he said, not because of his care for the
poor, but because he was a
thief, and the chest [12] was with him, and
what was put
2667
| 2667 Lit. fell
(cf. § 25, 18). |
into it he used to
bear.
2668
And that displeased
the
rest of the
disciples also within themselves, and they said, Why
went this
ointment [13] to waste?
2669
It
was possible that it should be sold for much, and the
poor be given
[14] it.
2670
And they were
angry
with
2671
| 2671 Or, spake
angrily to. |
Mary.
2672
And
Jesus perceived
it, and said unto them,
2673
Leave her; why molest ye her? a good
work
hath she accomplished on me:
2674
for the [15]
day of my
burial kept she it.
2675
At all times
the
poor are with you, and when ye [16] wish ye can do them a
kindness:
2676
but I am not at all
times with you.
2677
And for this
cause, when she poured
2678
| 2678 Lit.
cast, as in Greek. |
this
ointment on my
body, it is as if she did it for my
burial, [17] and
anointed my body
beforehand.
2679
And verily I say
unto you, In every place where this my
gospel shall be proclaimed in
all the
world, what she did shall be told for a
memorial of her.
[18, 19] [Arabic, p. 148] 2680
And
when
Jesus said that, he went out leisurely to go to
Jerusalem.
2681
And when he arrived at Bethphage and at
Bethany, beside the mount which is [20] called the mount of Olives,
2682
Jesus sent two of his
disciples, and he said
unto them, Go [21] into this
village that is opposite you:
2683
and when ye enter it, ye shall find an ass
tied, and [22] a
colt with him,
2684
which no man
ever yet mounted: loose him, and bring them
2685
unto me.
2686
And
if any man say unto you, Why loose ye them? say unto him thus, We [23]
seek them for our
Lord; and straightway send them hither.
2687
All this was, that what was said in the
prophet might be fulfilled, which said,
[24] 2688
Say ye unto the
daughter of
Zion,
Behold, thy King cometh unto thee,
Meek, and riding upon an ass,
And upon a colt the foal of an ass.
[25] 2689
And the
disciples
did not know this at that time: but after that
Jesus was
glorified, his
disciples remembered that these
things were
written of him, and
that this [26] they had done unto him.
2690
And when the two
disciples went, they found
as he had [27] said unto them, and they did as
Jesus charged
them.
2691
And when they loosed
them, [28] their owners said unto them, Why loose ye them?
2692
They said unto them, We
seek [29] them for
our
Lord.
2693
And they let them
go. And they brought the ass and the
colt, [30] and they
placed on the
colt their
garments; and
Jesus mounted it.
2694
And most of the multitudes spread their
garments on the ground before him: and others
cut branches [31]
from the
trees, and threw
them in the way.
2695
And when he neared his
2696
| 2696 The Syriac
versions have the. |
descent from [Arabic, p. 149] the mount of
Olives, all the
disciples began to
rejoice and to
praise God with [32]
a loud voice for all the powers which they had seen;
2697
| 2697 Matt. xxi. 9b [or better Luke xix.
38a.]. |
and they said,
Praise in the highest;
Praise
to the Son of
David:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name [33] of the
Lord;
2698
and
blessed2699
is the
kingdom that cometh,
that
of
2700
| 2700 The Arabic has
to, but it probably represents the Syriac text with the meaning
given above. |
our
father David:
2701
Peace in
heaven, and
praise in the
highest.
[34] 2702
And a great multitude, that which came to the
feast, when they heard that
Jesus [35] was coming to
Jerusalem, took
young
palm branches,
2703
| 2703 Lit. the
heart (or, pith) of the palm. The word pith,
which occurs also in the Æhiopic version (Ezek. xxvii. 25; Jubilees, ch. 16) and in
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s exposition, though not in the Brit. Mus. gospel
text, is perhaps used here of the inner branches from its resemblance
to the post-biblical Hebrew word employed in accounts of the Feast of
Tabernacles. |
2704
and went forth to meet him, and
cried and
said,
Praise:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord,
the [36] King of
Israel.
2705
Certain
therefore of the
Pharisees from among the multitudes [37] said unto
him, Our Master,
rebuke thy
disciples.
2706
He
said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If these were
silent, the
stones
would
cry out.
[38, 39] 2707
And when he drew
near, and saw the city, he wept over it, and said,
2708
Would that thou hadst known the things that
are
2709
| 2709 Lit. are
found, a rendering due to the Syriac. |
for thy
peace, in this thy day! now that is
[40] hidden from thine
eyes.
2710
There shall
come unto thee days when thine
enemies [41] shall encompass thee, and
straiten thee from every quarter,
2711
and shall get
possession of
2712
| 2712 So
Ciasca’s text, following Vat. ms.
The other ms. has drag, which by
restoring a diacritical point to the third radical would give
destroy, the reading of the Syriac versions.
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary has hide. |
thee, and thy
children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee a
stone upon
another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
[42] 2713
And when he entered
into
Jerusalem, the whole city was agitated, and they said, [43] Who is
this?
2714
And the multitudes
said, This is
Jesus, the
prophet that is from
Nazareth [44] of
Galilee.
2715
And the multitude
which was with him bare witness that he called [45] Lazarus from the
grave, and raised him from among the dead.
2716
And for this
cause great multitudes
went out to meet him, because they heard the sign which he
did.
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