Section
XVIII.
[1] 1266
At that time
Herod
the
tetrarch heard of the
fame of
Jesus, and all the things which came
to pass at his
hand;
1267
and he marvelled,
for he had obtained excellent [2] information concerning him.
1268
| 1268 There can be little
doubt that this is the meaning of the Arabic. There is nothing
like it in the Peshitta; the Curetonian is of course lacking; but the
phrase in the Sinaitic is very similar. |
1269
And
some
men said that John the Baptist was risen [3] from among the dead;
1270
and
1271
| 1271 Here begins
verse 8a in Greek. |
others said that
Elijah had appeared; and others, Jeremiah; [4] and others, that a
prophet of the old
prophets was risen;
1272
and
others said that he [5] was a
prophet like one of the
prophets.
1273
Herod said to his
servants, This is John the
Baptist, he whom I
beheaded; he is risen from among the dead:
therefore mighty [6] [Arabic, p. 70] works result from him.
1274
For
Herod him
self had sent and taken
John, and cast him into
prison, for the sake of Herodias his
brother
Philip’s
wife, whom he [7] had taken.
1275
And John said to
Herod, Thou hast no
authority to take the
wife of thy [8]
brother.
1276
And Herodias
avoided him and wished to
kill
him; and she could not. [9]
1277
But
Herod
feared John, for he knew that he was a
righteous man
and a holy;
and [10] he
guarded him, and heard him much, and did, and obeyed him
with
gladness.
1278
And he wished to
kill him; but he
feared the people, for they adhered to him as the [11]
prophet.
1279
And there was a
celebrated day, and
Herod had made a
feast for his great men on the day
of his anniversary,
1280
| 1280 Perhaps
appointment (cf. Moesinger, p. 165; but Isho‘dad
[Harris, Fragments, p. 65] and the Brit. Mus. text of
Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary have the ordinary reading). |
and for the
officers and for the
chief men [12] of
Galilee.
1281
And the
daughter of Herodias came in and
danced in the midst of the
company, and pleased
Herod and those that
sat with him. And the king said to the [13]
damsel, Ask of me
what thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
1282
And
he sware unto her, [14] Whatsoever thou shalt ask, I will give it thee,
to the half of my
kingdom.
1283
And she went
out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask him?
1284
She said unto her, The [15] head of
John the Baptist.
1285
And immediately she
came in hastily to the king, and said unto him, I desire in this hour
that thou give me on a dish the head of John [16] the Baptist.
1286
And the king was exceeding sorry; but because
of the
oath and the [17]
guests he did not wish to refuse her.
1287
But immediately the king sent an executioner,
and commanded that he should bring the head of John: and he went
and
cut off [18] the head of John
in the
prison,
1288
and brought it on a
dish, and
delivered it to the [19]
damsel; and the
damsel gave it to
her mother.
1289
And his
disciples
heard, and came [Arabic, p. 71] and took his body, and buried it.
1290
And they came and told
1291
Jesus what [20] had happened.
1292
And for this cause
Herod said, I
beheaded
John: who [21] is this, of whom I hear these things. And he
desired to see him.
1293
And
Jesus, when he
heard, removed thence in a
boat to a waste place alone, to the other
side of the
sea of the
Galilee of Tiberias.
1294
| 1294 A
misunderstanding or slavish reproduction of the Syriac. The Brit.
Mus. text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary has of Galilee,
Tiberias. |
[22] 1295
And many saw them
going, and knew them, and hastened by
land1296
| 1296 cf. Syriac
versions and margin of R.V. |
from all the cities, and came thither beforehand;
1297
for they saw the
signs which he was doing on
the [23, 24]
sick.
1298
And
Jesus went up
into the
mountain, and sat there with his
disciples.
1299
And [25] the
feast of the
passover of the
Jews was near.
1300
And
Jesus lifted up
his
eyes, and saw great multitudes coming to him.
1301
And he was moved with
compassion for them,
for [26] they were like
sheep that
were without a
shepherd.
1302
And he received
them, and spake to them concerning the
kingdom of
God, and
healed those
who had need of healing.
[27] 1303
And when the evening
approached,
1304
his
disciples came
to him, and said unto [28] him,
1305
The place is
desert, and the time is past; send away the multitudes of the
people,
1306
| 1306 cf. the
addition in the Sinaitic Syriac. |
that they may go to
the
towns and
villages which are around us, and
buy for [29] themselves
bread; for they have nothing to eat.
1307
But
he said unto them, They have [30] no need to go away; give ye them what
may be eaten.
1308
They said unto him,
We have not here
enough.
1309
He
said unto
Philip, Whence shall we
buy bread that these may eat?
[31, 32]
1310
And he said that
proving him; and he knew what he was
resolved to do.
1311
Philip said [Arabic, p. 72] unto him, Two
hundred pennyworth of
bread would not suffice them after
1312
| 1312 Probably a mistaken
rendering of the ordinary Syriac reading. |
[33] every one of them hath taken a
small
amount.
1313
One of his
disciples
said unto [34] him (namely,
Andrew the
brother of
Simon Cephas),
1314
Here is a lad having five
loaves [35] of
barley and two fishes: but this amount, what is it for all
these?
1315
But wilt thou that
we go and
buy for all the people what may be eaten? for we have no more
[36] than these five
loaves and the two fishes.
1316
And the
grass was plentiful in that
place.
Jesus said unto them, Arrange all the people that they may
sit down on the
grass, [37] fifty people in a
company.
1317
And the
disciples did so. And all the
people sat down [38] by
companies, by
hundreds and fifties.
1318
Then
Jesus said unto them, Bring hither [39]
those five
loaves and the two fishes.
1319
And
when they brought him that,
Jesus took the
bread and the
fish, and
looked to
heaven, and
blessed, and divided, and gave to [40] his
disciples to set before them;
1320
and the
disciples
set for the multitudes the
bread [41] and the
fish; and they ate, all
of them, and were satisfied.
1321
And when they
were satisfied, he said unto his
disciples,
Gather the fragments that
remain over, that nothing [42] be lost.
1322
And
they gathered, and filled twelve
baskets with fragments, being those
that remained over from those which ate of the five
barley loaves and
the two [43] fishes.
1323
And those people who
ate were five
thousand, besides the
women and
children. [44]
[Arabic, p. 73]
1324
And straightway he
pressed his
disciples to go up into the
ship, and that they should go
before him unto the other side to
Bethsaida, while he [45]
him
self should send away the multitudes.
1325
And those people who saw the sign which [46]
Jesus did, said, Of a
truth this is a
prophet who hath come into the
world.
1326
And
Jesus knew their
purpose to come and take him, and make him a king; and he left them,
and went up into the
mountain alone for prayer.
[47, 48] 1327
And when the
nightfall was near, his
disciples went down unto the
sea, and
sat
1328
| 1328 cf. Syriac
versions. |
in a
boat, and came to the side of
Capernaum.
1329
And the
darkness
came on, and
Jesus [49] had not come to them.
1330
And the
sea was stirred up against them by
reason of a violent [50]
wind that blew.
1331
And
the boat was distant from the land many furlongs, and they were much
damaged by the waves, and the wind was against them.
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