Section
XLIV.
[1, 2] 3017
And when
Jesus3018
finished all these sayings, he said unto his
disciples,
3019
Ye know that after
two days will be the
passover, and the Son of man is
delivered up to be
[3] crucified.
3020
Then gathered
together the
chief priests, and the
scribes, and the
elders [4] of the
people, unto the
court of the
chief priest, who was called Caiaphas;
3021
and they took
counsel together concerning
Jesus, that they might
seize him by subtilty, and [5]
kill him.
3022
But they said, Not during the
feast, lest
there take place a disturbance among the people;
3023
for they
feared the people.
[6] 3024
And
Satan entered
into
Judas who was called
Iscariot, who was of the number [7] of the
twelve.
3025
And he went away,
and communed with the
chief priests, and the
scribes, and those that
held command in the
temple, and said unto them, What [8] [Arabic, p.
167] would ye pay me, and I will
deliver him unto you?
3026
And they, when they heard
it, were
pleased, and made ready
3027
| 3027 Probably the
letter that stands for and should be repeated, and the phrase
rendered and appointed. |
for him thirty
pieces of
money.
3028
| 3028 So Vat.
ms. (following Peshitta) and
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary. Borg. ms., followed by Ciasca, has dirhams of
money. |
[9]
3029
And he
promised3030
| 3030 Lit. became
responsible unto. Syriac versions as in text above
(cf. § 44, 33). |
them, and from that time he sought an opportunity
3031
| 3031 The Arabic (lit.
a stumbling or a cause of stumbling) doubtless represents
the Syriac. |
that he might
deliver unto them
Jesus
without the multitude.
[10] 3032
And on the first day
of
unleavened bread the
disciples came to
Jesus, and said unto him,
Where wilt thou that we go and make ready for thee that thou mayest eat
the
passover?
[11] 3033
And before the
feast
of the
passover,
Jesus knew that the hour was arrived for his departure
from this
world unto his
Father; and he
loved his own in this
world,
[12] and to the last he
loved them.
3034
And
at the time of the
feast,
Satan put into the [13]
heart of
Judas, the
son of
Simon Iscariot, to
deliver him up.
3035
And
Jesus, because he knew that the
Father
had
delivered into his
hands everything, and that he came [14] forth
from the
Father, and goeth unto
God,
3036
rose from
supper, and laid
aside his
[15]
garments;
3037
and took a towel,
and girded his waist, and poured
water into a
bason, and began
to
wash the
feet of his
disciples, and to wipe them with the towel
wherewith [16] his waist was girded.
3038
And
when he came to
Simon Cephas,
Simon said unto [17] him, Dost thou, my
Lord,
wash for me my
feet?
3039
Jesus answered
and said unto [18] him, What I do, now thou knowest not; but afterwards
thou shalt
learn.
3040
Simon said unto him,
Thou shalt never
wash for me my
feet.
Jesus said unto him, If I
[19]
wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
3041
Simon Cephas said unto him, Then, my [20]
Lord,
wash not for me my
feet alone, but my
hands also and my
head.
3042
Jesus said unto him,
He that batheth
3043
| 3043 The Arabic word
means swimmeth. The Syriac versions have is bathed,
which Borg. ms. misreads bathed, and
Vat. ms. (followed by Ciasca) corrupts into
batheth, rendering it swimmeth. |
needeth not to
wash
save his
feet, whereas his whole [21]
body is
clean: and
ye also are
clean, but not all of you.
3044
For
Jesus knew him that should
betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not
all
clean.
[22] [Arabic, p. 168] 3045
So
when he had
washed their
feet, he took his
garments, and sat down, and
[23] said unto them, Know ye what I have done unto you?
3046
Ye call me, Master, [24] and,
Lord: and
ye say well; so I am.
3047
If then I, now, who
am your
Lord and Master, have
washed for you your
feet, how needful is
it that ye should
wash one another’s
feet! [25]
3048
This have I given you as an example, that as
I have done to you so ye should do [26] also.
3049
Verily, verily, I say unto you, No
servant is
greater than his
lord; nor an [27]
apostle greater than he that sent
him.
3050
If ye know that, ye
are
happy if ye do it. [28]
3051
My saying
this
3052
is not for all of you: for I know whom
I have chosen: but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that
eateth with me
bread lifted against me his [29] heel.
3053
Henceforth I say unto you before it come to
pass, that, when it cometh to [30] pass, ye may believe that I am
he.
3054
Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Whosoever receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and
whosoever receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
[31] 3055
Who is the great
one, he that sitteth, or he that serveth? is it not he that
sitteth? [32]
3056
I am among you as he
that serveth.
3057
But ye are they that
have continued with me [33] in my
temptations;
3058
I
promise3059
you, as my
Father
promised3060
me, the
kingdom,
that ye may eat and drink at the
table of my
kingdom.
[34] 3061
And the first
day
3062
| 3062 Vat.
ms. has the word day on the margin,
added by a late hand. |
came, the
feast of
unleavened bread, on
which the
Jews were [35] wont
3063
| 3063 The misprint in
the Arabic text has been overlooked in the list of
Corrigenda. |
to
sacrifice3064
the
passover.
3065
And
Jesus sent two of his
disciples,
Cephas
and John, and said unto them, Go and make ready for us the
passover,
that we may eat. [36, 37]
3066
And they said
unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee?
3067
He said unto them, Go, enter the city;
3068
| 3068 Mark xiv. 13b; Luke xxii. 10b. |
and at the time of your entering, there shall
meet you a man bearing a
pitcher of
water;
3069
follow him, and the place where he entereth,
say [38] to such an one, the master of the
house,
3070
Our Master saith, My time is come, and
[Arabic, p. 169] at thy
house I keep the
passover.
3071
Where then is the lodging-place where [39] I
shall eat with my
disciples?
3072
And he will
shew you a large upper
room [40] spread and made ready:
3073
there then make ready for us.
3074
And his two
disciples went out, and came to
the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready
the
passover as he had said unto them.
[41] 3075
And when the evening
was come, and the time arrived,
Jesus came and reclined, [42] and the
twelve
apostles with him.
3076
And he said
unto them, With desire I have [43] desired to eat this
passover with
you before I
suffer:
3077
I say unto you, that
henceforth I shall not eat it, until it is fulfilled in the
kingdom of
God.
[44] 3078
Jesus said that, and
was agitated
3079
| 3079 The Syriac word
is retained. In Arabic it properly means become strong or
proud (cf. § 38, 17). |
in his spirit, and
testified, and said, Verily, [45] verily, I say unto you, One of you,
he that eateth with me, shall
betray me.
3080
And they were very sorrowful; and they began
to say unto him, one after another of [46] them, Can it be I,
Lord?
3081
He answered and said
unto them, One of the twelve, [47] he that dippeth his
hand with me in
the dish, will
betray me.
3082
And lo, the
hand of [48] him that betrayeth me is on the
table.
3083
And the Son of man goeth, as it is written of
him: woe then to that man by whose hand the Son of man is
betrayed! for it [49] would have been better for that man had he not
been born.
3084
And the disciples
[50] looked one on another, for they knew not to whom he referred;
3085
and they began to search among themselves,
who that might be who was to do
this.
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