Section XXXVI.

[1] ^24562456    John viii. 51.Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever keepeth my word shall not see death [2] for ever.  ^24572457    John viii. 52.The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast demons.  Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, Whosoever keepeth my word shall not [3] taste death for ever.  ^24582458    John viii. 53.Art thou haply greater than our father Abraham, who is [4] dead, and than the prophets, which are dead? whom makest thou thyself?  ^24592459    John viii. 54.Jesus said unto them, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing:  my Father is he that [5] glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is our^24602460    cf. Peshitta.  The Sinaitic omits our. God; ^24612461    John viii. 55.and yet ye have not known him:  but I know him; and if I should say that I know him not, I should become [6] [Arabic, p. 137] a liar like you:  but I know him, and keep his word.  ^24622462    John viii. 56.Abraham your father [7] longed to see my day; and he saw, and rejoiced.  ^24632463    John viii. 57.The Jews said unto him, [8] Thou art now not fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?  ^24642464    John viii. 58.Jesus said unto [9] them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.  ^24652465    John viii. 59.And they take^24662466    The Vat. ms. has took him, probably omitting stones, though Ciasca does not say so.  Take is probably a copyist’s error (change in diacritical paints) for took. stones to stone him:  ^24672467    John viii. 60 [reckoned to verse 59 in the Greek.].but Jesus concealed himself, and went out of the temple.  And he passed through them, and went his way.

99[10] ^24682468    John ix. 1.And as he passed, he saw a man blind from his mother’s womb.  ^24692469    John ix. 2.And his [11] disciples asked him, and said, Our Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, so [12] that he was born blind?^24702470    A different word in Arabic from that used in verses 1 and 6.  ^24712471    John ix. 3.Jesus said unto them, Neither did he sin, nor his parents:  [13] but that the works of God may be seen in him.^24722472    The Vat. ms. has that we may see the works of God in him.  By the addition of a diacritical point this would give the same sense as in the text above, and more grammatically.  ^24732473    John ix. 4.It is incumbent on me to do the deeds of him that sent me, while it is day:  a night will come, and no man will be [14] able to busy himself.  ^24742474    John ix. 5.As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.  [15] ^24752475    John ix. 6.And when he said that, he spat upon the ground, and made clay of his spittle, and [16] smeared it on the eyes of the blind man, and said unto him, ^24762476    John ix. 7.Go and wash thyself in [17] the pool^24772477    The Arabic word properly means baptism.  The Syriac has both meanings. of Siloam.^24782478    Lit. Shiloha, as in Syriac.  ^24792479    John ix. 8.And he went and washed, and came seeing.  And his neighbours, which saw him of old begging, said, Is not this he that was sitting begging?  [18] ^24802480    John ix. 9.And some said, It is he; and others said, Nay, but he resembles him much.  He [19, 20] said, I am he.  ^24812481    John ix. 10.They said unto him, How then were thine eyes opened?  ^24822482    John ix. 11.He answered and said unto them, A man named Jesus made clay, and smeared it on my eyes, and said unto me, Go and wash in the water of Siloam:  and I went and [21] washed, and received sight.^24832483    Lit. saw.  ^24842484    John ix. 12.They said unto him, Where is he?  He said, I know not.  [22, 23] [Arabic, p. 138] ^24852485    John ix. 13.And they brought him that was previously blind to the Pharisees.  ^24862486    John ix. 14.And the day in which Jesus made clay and opened with it his eyes was a sabbath [24] day.  ^24872487    John ix. 15.And again the Pharisees asked him, How didst thou receive sight?  And he said [25] unto them, He put clay on mine eyes, and I washed, and received sight.  ^24882488    John ix. 16.The people^24892489    An easy clerical error for Some. of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, for he keepeth not the sabbath.  And others said, How can a man that is a sinner do these signs?  And there came [26] to be a division amongst them.  ^24902490    John ix. 17.And again they said to that blind man, Thou, then, what sayest thou of him that opened for thee thine eyes?  He said unto them, [27] I say that he is a prophet.  ^24912491    John ix. 18.And the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he was blind, and received sight, until they summoned the parents of him who received [28] sight, and asked them, ^24922492    John ix. 19.Is this^24932493    Lit. them, whether this be. your son, of whom ye said that he was born blind? [29] how then, behold, doth he now see?  ^24942494    John ix. 20.His parents answered and said, We know [30] that this is our son, and that he was born blind:  ^24952495    John ix. 21.but how he has come to see now, or who it is that opened his eyes, we know not:  and he also has reached his prime; [31] ask him, and he will speak for himself.  ^24962496    John ix. 22.This said his parents, because they were fearing the Jews:  and the Jews decided, that if any man should confess of him that [32] he was the Messiah, they would put him out of the synagogue.  ^24972497    John ix. 23.For this reason [33] said his parents, He hath reached his prime; ask him.  ^24982498    John ix. 24.And they called the man a second time, him that was blind, and said unto him, Praise God:  we know that this [34] man is a sinner.  ^24992499    John ix. 25.He answered and said unto them, Whether he be a sinner, I know [35] not:  I know one thing, that I was blind, and I now see.  ^25002500    John ix. 26.They said unto him again, [36] [Arabic, p. 139] What did he unto thee? how opened he for thee thine eyes?  ^25012501    John ix. 27.He said unto them, I said unto you, and ye did not hear:  what^25022502    Or, why (cf. note, § 7, 38). wish ye further to hear? [37] ye also, do ye wish to become disciples to him?  ^25032503    John ix. 28.And they reviled him, and said unto him, Thou art the disciple^25042504    Disciples is probably simply a misprint in Ciasca’s text. of that man; but as for us, we are the disciples of [38] Moses.  ^25052505    John ix. 29.And we know that God spake unto Moses:  but this man, we know not [39] whence he is.  ^25062506    John ix. 30.The man answered and said unto them, From this is the wonder, [40] because ye know not whence he is, and mine eyes hath he opened.  ^25072507    John ix. 31.And we know that God heareth not the voice of sinners:  but whosoever feareth him, and doeth [41] his will, him he heareth.  ^25082508    John ix. 32.From eternity hath it not been heard of, that a man [42] opened the eyes of a blind man, who had been born in blindness.  ^25092509    John ix. 33.If then this man [43] were not from God, he could not do that.  ^25102510    John ix. 34.They answered and said unto him, Thou wast all of thee born in sins, and dost thou teach us?  And they put him forth without.

[44] ^25112511    John ix. 35.And Jesus heard of his being put forth without, and found him, and said unto [45] him, Dost thou believe in the Son of God?  ^25122512    John ix. 36.He that was made whole answered [46] and said, Who is he, my Lord, that I may believe in him?  ^25132513    John ix. 37.Jesus said unto him, [47] Thou hast seen him, and he that speaketh to thee is he.  ^25142514    John ix. 38.And he said, I believe, my Lord.  And he fell down worshipping him.