Section VI.

[1] [Arabic, p. 22] ⁴⁴⁶⁴⁴⁶    Luke v. 8.But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said unto him, My Lord, I beseech of thee to depart from me, for I am [2] a sinful man.  ⁴⁴⁷⁴⁴⁷    Luke v. 9.And amazement took possession of him, and of all who were with him, [3] because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken.  ⁴⁴⁸⁴⁴⁸    Luke v. 10.And thus also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken,⁴⁴⁹⁴⁴⁹    The verb may be active as well as passive, but does not agree in gender with amazement.  Mistakes in gender are, however, very common transcriptional errors. who were Simon’s partners.  And Jesus said [4] unto Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men unto life.  ⁴⁵⁰⁴⁵⁰    Luke v. 11.And they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything, and followed him.

[5] ⁴⁵¹⁴⁵¹    John iii. 22.And after that came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and he went [6] about there with them, and baptized.  ⁴⁵²⁴⁵²    John iii. 23.And John also was baptizing in Ænon, which is beside Salim, because there was much water there:  and they came, and were baptized.  [7, 8] ⁴⁵³⁴⁵³    John iii. 24.And John was not yet come into prison.  ⁴⁵⁴⁴⁵⁴    John iii. 25.And there was an inquiry between [9] one of John’s disciples and one of the Jews about purifying.  ⁴⁵⁵⁴⁵⁵    John iii. 26.And they⁴⁵⁶⁴⁵⁶    Dual. came unto John, and said unto him, Our master, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom [10] thou hast borne witness, behold, he also baptizeth, and many come to him.  ⁴⁵⁷⁴⁵⁷    John iii. 27.John answered and said unto them,⁴⁵⁸⁴⁵⁸    Plural.  In the Peshitta it is two individuals in verse 25.  In Sin. the first is an individual and the second is ambiguous.  In Cur. both are plural. A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him⁴⁵⁹⁴⁵⁹    Or, he be given it. from heaven.  ⁴⁶⁰⁴⁶⁰    John iii. 28.Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent⁴⁶¹⁴⁶¹    The ordinary word for apostle. before him.  ⁴⁶²⁴⁶²    John iii. 29.And he that hath a bride is a bridegroom:  and the friend of the bridegroom is he that standeth and listeneth to him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice.  Lo now,⁴⁶³⁴⁶³    See § 9, 21, note. behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete.⁴⁶⁴⁴⁶⁴    So Ciasca’s printed text.  The Vat. ms., however, probably represents a past tense.  ⁴⁶⁵⁴⁶⁵    John iii. 30.And he must increase and I decrease.  ⁴⁶⁶⁴⁶⁶    John iii. 31.For⁴⁶⁷⁴⁶⁷    cf. Peshitta. he that is come from above is higher than everything; and he that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh; and he that came down from heaven is [15] higher than all.  ⁴⁶⁸⁴⁶⁸    John iii. 32.And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and heard:  and no man [16] receiveth his witness.  ⁴⁶⁹⁴⁶⁹    John iii. 33.And he that hath received his witness hath asserted⁴⁷⁰⁴⁷⁰    cf. consonants of Syriac text. that he is [17] truly God.⁴⁷¹⁴⁷¹    Borg. ms., that God is truly, or, assuming a very common grammatical inaccuracy, that God is true or truth, the reading in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.  ⁴⁷²⁴⁷²    John iii. 34.And he whom God hath sent speaketh the words⁴⁷³⁴⁷³    Lit. saying. of God:  God gave [18] not the Spirit by measure.  ⁴⁷⁴⁴⁷⁴    John iii. 35.The Father loveth the Son, and hath put everything in [19] his hands.  ⁴⁷⁵⁴⁷⁵    John iii. 36.Whosoever believeth in the Son hath eternal⁴⁷⁶⁴⁷⁶    Lit. the life of eternity; here and everywhere except § 21, 40. life; but whosoever obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God cometh⁴⁷⁷⁴⁷⁷    i.e., alighteth-and-stayeth. upon him.

[20] ⁴⁷⁸⁴⁷⁸    John iv. 1.And Jesus learned⁴⁷⁹⁴⁷⁹    Or, knew. that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, [21] and that he was baptizing more than John ⁴⁸⁰⁴⁸⁰    John iv. 2.(not that Jesus was himself baptizing, [22] but his disciples); ⁴⁸¹⁴⁸¹    John iv. 3a.and so he left Judæa.

[23] ⁴⁸²⁴⁸²    Luke iii. 19.And Herod the governor, because he used to be rebuked by John because of 53Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and for all the sins which he was committing, [24] added to all that also this, ⁴⁸³⁴⁸³    Luke iii. 20.that he shut up John in prison.

[25] ⁴⁸⁴⁴⁸⁴    Matt. iv. 12.And when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he went away to Galilee.  [26] ⁴⁸⁵⁴⁸⁵    John iv. 46.And he entered again into Cana, where he had made the water wine.  And there [27] was at Capernaum a king’s servant, whose son was sick.  ⁴⁸⁶⁴⁸⁶    John iv. 47.And this man heard that Jesus was come from Judæa to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought of him that he would come down and heal his son; for he had come near unto death.  [28, 29] ⁴⁸⁷⁴⁸⁷    John iv. 48.Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye do⁴⁸⁸⁴⁸⁸    Or, will. not believe.  ⁴⁸⁹⁴⁸⁹    John iv. 49.The [Arabic, p. 24] king’s servant said unto him, My Lord, come down, that the child die not.  [30] ⁴⁹⁰⁴⁹⁰    John iv. 50.Jesus said unto him, Go; for thy son is alive.  And that man believed the [31] word which Jesus spake, and went.  ⁴⁹¹⁴⁹¹    John iv. 51.And when he went down, his servants met him [32] and told him, and⁴⁹²⁴⁹²    Or, good news, and. said unto him, Thy son is alive.  ⁴⁹³⁴⁹³    John iv. 52.And he asked them at what time he recovered.  They said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left [33] him.  ⁴⁹⁴⁴⁹⁴    John iv. 53.And his father knew that that was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, [34] Thy son is alive.  ⁴⁹⁵⁴⁹⁵    John iv. 54.And he believed, he and the whole people of his house.  And this [35] is the second sign⁴⁹⁶⁴⁹⁶    See § 5, 32, note. which Jesus did when he returned from Judæa to Galilee.  ⁴⁹⁷⁴⁹⁷    Luke iv. 44.And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

[36] ⁴⁹⁸⁴⁹⁸    Matt. iv. 13.And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea shore, in the [37] borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:  ⁴⁹⁹⁴⁹⁹    Matt. iv. 14.that it might be fulfilled which was said in Isaiah the prophet, who said,

[38] ⁵⁰⁰⁵⁰⁰    Matt. iv. 15.The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali,

The way of the sea, the passage of the Jordan,

Galilee of the nations:

[39] ⁵⁰¹⁵⁰¹    Matt. iv. 16.The people sitting in darkness

Saw a great light,

And those sitting in the region and in the shadow of death,

There appeared to them a light.

[40] ⁵⁰²⁵⁰²    Luke iv. 31b.And he taught them on the sabbaths.  ⁵⁰³⁵⁰³    Luke iv. 32.And they wondered because of his doctrine:⁵⁰⁴⁵⁰⁴    Perhaps we might here render learning; but see § 28, 17, note.  [41] for his word was as if it were authoritative.  ⁵⁰⁵⁵⁰⁵    Luke iv. 33.And there was in the synagogue [42] a man with an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice, and said, ⁵⁰⁶⁵⁰⁶    Luke iv. 34.Let me alone; what have I to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come for our [43] destruction?  I know thee who thou art, thou Holy One of God.  ⁵⁰⁷⁵⁰⁷    Luke iv. 35.And Jesus rebuked him, and said, Stop up thy mouth, and come out of him.  And the demon threw him [44] in the midst and came out of him, having done him no harm.  ⁵⁰⁸⁵⁰⁸    Luke iv. 36.And great amazement [Arabic, p. 25] took hold upon every man.  And they talked one with another, and said, What is this word that orders the unclean spirits with power and [45] authority, and they come out?  ⁵⁰⁹⁵⁰⁹    Luke iv. 37.And the news of him spread abroad in all the region which was around them.

[46] ⁵¹⁰⁵¹⁰    Luke iv. 38.And when Jesus went out of the synagogue, ⁵¹¹⁵¹¹    Matt. ix. 9b.he saw a man sitting among the publicans,⁵¹²⁵¹²    So in the Arabic.  It is, however, simply a misinterpretation of the expression in the Syriac versions for at the place of toll (cf. Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary). named Matthew:  and he said unto him, Come after me.  And he rose, and followed him.

[47, 48] ⁵¹³⁵¹³    Mark i. 29b.And Jesus came to the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.  ⁵¹⁴⁵¹⁴    Luke iv. 38c.And Simon’s wife’s mother was oppressed with a great fever, and they besought him for [49] her.  ⁵¹⁵⁵¹⁵    Luke iv. 39.And he stood over her and rebuked her fever, and it left her, and immediately [50] she rose and ministered to them.  ⁵¹⁶⁵¹⁶    Matt. viii. 16a.And at even they brought to him many that had [51] demons:  and he cast out their devils with the⁵¹⁷⁵¹⁷    cf. § 1, 40, note 2. word.  ⁵¹⁸⁵¹⁸    Luke iv. 40b.And all that had sick, their diseases being divers and malignant, brought them unto him.  And he laid his hand [52] on them one by one⁵¹⁹⁵¹⁹    Or, each. and healed them:  ⁵²⁰⁵²⁰    Matt. viii. 17.that that might be fulfilled which was said [53] in the prophet Isaiah, who said, He taketh our pains and beareth our diseases.  ⁵²¹⁵²¹    Mark i. 33.And [54] all the city was gathered together unto the door of Jesus.  ⁵²²⁵²²    Luke iv. 41.And he cast out devils also from many, as they were crying out and saying, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of God; and he rebuked them.  And he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him that he was the Lord the Messiah.