Section
XXXIII.
[1] [Arabic, p. 125] 2241
And when
evening came,
Jesus went forth outside of the city, he and his [2]
disciples.
2242
And as they passed
in the morning, the
disciples saw that
fig tree [3] withered away from
its root.
2243
And they passed by,
and said, How did the
fig tree dry [4] up immediately?
2244
And
Simon remembered, and said unto him, My
Master, behold, [5] that
fig tree
which thou didst
curse hath dried up.
2245
And
Jesus answered and said [6] unto them, Let there be in you the
faith of
God.
2246
Verily I say unto
you, if ye believe, and doubt not in your
hearts, and assure yourselves
that that will be which [7] ye say, ye shall have what ye say.
2247
And if ye say to this
mountain, Remove, and
[8] fall
2248
into the
sea, it
shall be.
2249
And all that ye ask
God in prayer, and believe, he [9, 10] will give you.
2250
And the
apostles2251
said unto our
Lord, Increase our
2252
| 2252 Lit. Increase
us in. |
faith.
2253
He said unto them, If there be in you
faith
like a
grain of mustard, ye shall say to this
fig tree, Be thou torn
up, and be thou
planted in the
sea; and it will obey you. [11]
2254
Who of you hath a
servant driving a yoke of
oxen or tending
sheep, and if he [12] come from the
field, will say
unto him straightway, Go and sit down?
2255
Nay,
2256
he will say unto
him, Make ready for me wherewith I may sup, and gird thy waist, and
serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink
also. [13]
2257
Doth that
servant
haply, who did what he was bid, receive his
praise? I think [14]
not.
2258
So ye also, when ye
have done all that ye were bid, say, We are idle
servants; what it was
our
duty to do, we have done.
[15] 2259
For this reason I
say unto you, Whatever ye
pray and ask, believe that ye [16] [Arabic,
p. 126] receive, and ye shall have.
2260
And
when ye stand to
pray,
forgive what is in your
heart against
any
man; and your
Father which is in
heaven will [17]
forgive you also your
wrong-doings.
2261
But if ye
forgive
not men their wrong-doings, neither will your
Father forgive you also
your wrong-doings.
[18] 2262
And he spake unto
them a
parable also, that they should
pray at all times, and [19] not
be
slothful:
2263
There was a
judge in
a city, who
feared not
God, nor was
ashamed [20] for men:
2264
and there was a
widow in that city; and she
came unto him, and said, [21]
Avenge me of mine
adversary.
2265
And he would not for a long time: but
afterwards he said within himself, If of
God I have no
fear, and before
men I have no
shame; [22]
2266
yet because
this
widow vexeth
me, I will
avenge her, that she come not at
all times [23, 24] and annoy me.
2267
And
our
Lord said, Hear ye what the
judge of
injustice said.
2268
And shall not
God still more do
vengeance for his
elect, who call upon him in the
night [25] and
in the day, and grant them respite?
2269
I say unto you, He will do
vengeance for them
speedily. Thinkest thou the Son of man will come and find
faith on the
earth?
[26, 27] 2270
And they came again
to
Jerusalem.
2271
And it came to pass,
on one of the days, as
Jesus was walking in the
temple, and teaching
the people, and
preaching the [28]
gospel,
2272
that the
chief priests and the
scribes with
the
elders came upon him, and said unto him, Tell us:
2273
By what
power doest thou this? and who gave
thee this [29]
power to do that?
2274
And
Jesus said unto them, I also will ask you one word, and if [30] ye tell
me, I also shall tell you by what
power I do that.
2275
The
baptism of John, from [31] what place
is it? from
heaven or of men?
2276
Tell me.
2277
And
they reflected within themselves, [Arabic, p. 127] and said, If we
shall say unto him, From
heaven; he will say unto [32] us, For what
reason did ye not believe him?
2278
But
2279
| 2279 Verse 26 begins here
in the Greek. |
if we shall say, Of
men; [33] we
fear2280
that the people
will
stone us, all of them.
2281
And all of them
were holding
2282
[34] to John, that
he was a true
prophet.
2283
They answered and
said unto him, We know [35] not.
2284
Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you also
by what
power I
work. What think ye? A man had two sons;
and he went to the first, and said unto him, My [36] son, go to-day,
and till in the
vineyard.
2285
And he answered
and said, I do not wish [37] to: but finally he
repented, and
went.
2286
And he went to the
other, and said unto [38] him likewise.
2287
And
he answered and said, Yea, my
lord: and went not. Which of
these two did the will of his
father? They said unto him, The
first.
Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, The
publicans
and
harlots go before you into [39] the
kingdom of
God.
2288
John came unto you in the way of
righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the
publicans and
harlots
believed him; and ye, not even when ye saw, did ye
repent at last, that
ye might believe in him.
[40] 2289
Hear another
parable: A man was a householder, and
planted a
vineyard, and
surrounded it with a hedge, and
digged in it a
winepress, and built in
it a
tower, [41, 42]
2290
and gave it to
husbandmen, and went to a distance for a long time.
2291
So when the time of the fruits came, he sent
his
servants2292
| 2292 The difference between
singular and plural is very slight in Arabic. |
unto the
husbandmen, that they might [43]
send him of the produce
2293
of his
vineyard.
2294
And those
husbandmen
beat him, and [44] sent him away empty.
2295
And
he sent unto them another
servant also; and they [45] stoned him, and
wounded2296
| 2296 A word used specially
of wounding the head. |
him, and sent him
away with shameful handling.
2297
And he sent
again another; and they slew him. And he sent many other
servants
unto [46] them.
2298
And the
husbandmen
took his
servants, and one they beat, and another they [47] stoned, and
another they slew.
2299
So he sent again
other
servants more than the first; and [48] [Arabic, p. 128] they did
likewise with them.
2300
So the owner of the
vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my
beloved son:
it may be they will see him and be [49, 50]
ashamed.
2301
So at last he sent unto them his
beloved son
that he had.
2302
But the
husbandmen,
when they saw the son, said amongst themselves, This is the heir.
[51, 52]
2303
And they said, We
will
slay him, and so the inheritance will be ours.
2304
So they took [53] him, and put him forth
without the
vineyard, and slew him.
2305
When then the
lord [54] of the
vineyard shall
come, what will he do with those
husbandmen?
2306
They said unto him, He will
destroy them in
the worst of ways,
2307
| 2307 cf. Syriac
versions. |
and give the
vineyard to [55] other
husbandmen, who will give him fruit in its
season.
2308
Jesus said unto
them, Have ye never read in the scripture,
The stone which the builders declared to be base,
2309
The same came to be
at the head of the corner:
[56] 2310
From
God was
this,
And it is wonderful in our eyes?
[57] 2311
Therefore I say unto
you, The
kingdom of
God shall be taken from you, and [58] given to a
people that will produce fruit.
2312
And
whosoever falleth on this
stone shall be broken in pieces: but on
whomsoever it falleth, it will
grind him to [59] powder.
2313
And when the
chief priests and the
Pharisees
heard his parables, they [60] perceived that it was concerning them he
spake.
2314
And they sought to
seize him; and they feared the multitude, because they were holding to
him as the prophet.
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