Section
XXXI.
[1] 2120
And when the ten
heard, they were moved with
anger against James and John. [2]
2121
And
Jesus called them, and said unto them, Ye
know that the
rulers of the
nations [3] are their lords; and their great men are
set in
authority over them.
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Not thus shall
it [Arabic, p. 118] be amongst you: but he amongst you that would
be great, let him be to you a [4]
servant;
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and
whoever of you would be first,
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let him be to every
man a [5]
bond-
servant:
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even as the
Son of man also came not to be served, but to serve, and [6] to give
himself a
ransom in place of the many.
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He
said this, and was going about [7] the
villages and the cities, and
teaching; and he went to
Jerusalem.
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And
a man asked him, Are those that shall be
saved few?
Jesus
answered and said unto [8] them,
Strive ye to enter at the narrow
door:
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I say unto you now,
that many shall [9]
seek to enter, and shall not be able
2129
| 2129 Lit.
find, like the Syriac. |
—
2130
from the time
when the master of the
house riseth, and closeth the
door, and ye shall
be standing without, and shall knock at the
door, and shall begin to
say, Our
lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and [10] say, I say
unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
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and
ye shall begin to say, [11] Before thee we did eat and drink, and in
our
markets didst thou
teach;
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and he shall say
unto you, I know you not whence ye are; depart
2133
| 2133 This rendering
requires the omission of the diacritical point over the middle
radical. The text as printed means perish. |
from me, ye
servants [12] of untruth.
2134
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,
when ye see
Abraham, and
Isaac, and
Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the
kingdom of
God, while ye are [13] put forth without.
2135
And they shall come from the east and the
west, and from the [14] north and the south, and shall sit down in the
kingdom of
God.
2136
And there shall then
be last that have become first, and first that have become last.
[15, 16] 2137
And when
Jesus
entered and passed through
Jericho,
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there was a man
named Zacchæus, [17]
rich, and
chief of the
publicans.
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And he desired to see
Jesus who he was; and
he was not able for the pressure of the
crowd, because Zacchæus
was little of stature. [18] [Arabic, p. 119]
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And he hastened, and went before
Jesus, and
went up into an unripe
fig [19]
tree2141
| 2141 cf. the
extract from Isho‘dad (Harris, Fragments, p.
19). |
to see
Jesus: for he was to pass thus.
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And
when
Jesus came to that place, he saw him, and said unto him, Make
haste, and come down, Zacchæus: [20] to-day I must be in thy
house.
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And he hastened, and
came down, and received [21] him joyfully.
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And when they all saw, they
murmured, and
said, He hath gone in [22] and lodged with a man that is a
sinner.
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So Zacchæus
stood, and said unto
Jesus, My
Lord, now half of my possessions I give
to the
poor, and what I have unjustly [23] taken
2146
| 2146 A diacritical point
must be restored to the second letter of this word. As it stands
it gives no sense. |
from every man I give him fourfold.
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Jesus said unto him, Today is
salvation [24]
come to this
house, because this
man also is a
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son of
Abraham.
2149
For the Son of man came to
seek and
save the
thing that was lost.
[25] 2150
| 2150 Luke xviii. 35a [rather, Matt. xx. 29a + Mark x.
46a.]; Matt. xx. 29b. |
And when
Jesus went
out of
Jericho, he and his
disciples, there came after him [26] a great
multitude.
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And there was a
blind man sitting by the way side begging. [27]
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And his name was Timæus, the son of
Timæus. And he heard the sound of the [28] multitude
passing, and asked, Who is this?
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They said unto him,
Jesus the Nazarene [29]
passeth by.
2154
And when he heard
that it was
Jesus, he called out with a loud [30] voice, and said,
Jesus, son of
David, have
mercy on me.
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And
those that went before
Jesus were rebuking him, that he should hold his
peace:
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but he
cried the
[31] more, and said, Son of
David, have
mercy on me.
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And
Jesus stood, and commanded that they
should call him. And they called the
blind man, and said unto
[32] him, Be of good
courage, and rise; for, behold, he calleth
thee.
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And the
blind [33]
man threw away his
garment, and rose, and came to
Jesus.
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Jesus said unto him, What dost thou wish that
I should do unto thee? And that
blind man said unto him, My
Lord
and Master, that my
eyes may be opened, so that I may see
thee.
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[34] [Arabic, p. 120]
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And
Jesus had
compassion on him, and touched
his
eyes, and said unto [35] him, See; for thy
faith hath
saved
thee.
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And immediately he
received his sight,
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and came after him,
and
praised God; and all the people that saw
praised God.
[36] 2164
And he spake a
parable because he was nearing
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Jerusalem, and they
supposed [37] that at that time the
kingdom of
God was about to
appear.
2166
He said unto them, A
man, a son of a great race, went into a
far country, to receive a
kingdom, and [38] return.
2167
And he called
his ten
servants, and gave them ten shares, and said unto [39] them,
Trade till the time of my
coming.
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But the people of
his city
hated him, and [40] sent messengers after him, and said, We
will not that this
man reign over us.
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And when he had received a
2170
| 2170 Doubtless a
misinterpretation of the Syriac. |
kingdom, and returned, he said that the
servants to whom he had given the
money should be called unto him, that
he might know what each [41] of them had traded.
2171
And the first came, and said, My
lord, thy
share hath
gained [42] ten shares.
2172
The king
said unto him, Thou good and
faithful servant, who hast [43] been found
faithful in a little, be thou set over ten
districts.
2173
And the second came, [44] and said, My
lord,
thy portion hath
gained five portions.
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And
he said unto him [45] also, And thou shalt be set over five
districts.
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And another came,
and said, My [46]
lord, here is thy portion, which was with me laid by
in a
napkin:
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I
feared thee,
because thou art a hard man, and takest what thou didst not leave, and
seekest [47] what thou didst not give, and reapest what thou didst not
sow.
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His
lord said unto
him, From thy mouth shall I
judge thee, thou
wicked and idle
servant,
who wast untrustworthy. Thou knewest that I am a hard man, and
take what I did not [48] leave, and
reap what I did not sow:
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why didst thou not put my
money at
usury,
[49] and so I might come and
seek it, with its
gains?
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And he said unto those that were standing in
front of him, Take from him the share, and give it to him that hath
[50, 51] [Arabic, p. 121] ten shares.
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They said unto him, Our lord, he hath ten
shares.
2181
He said unto them, I
say unto you, Every one that hath shall be given unto; and [52] he that
hath not, that which he hath also shall be taken from him.
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And those mine enemies who would not that I
should reign over them, bring them, and slay them before
me.
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