Section VI.

Section VI.

[1] [Arabic, p. 22] ⁴⁴⁶But 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.  ⁴⁴⁷And amazement took possession of him, and of all who were with him, [3] because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken.  ⁴⁴⁸And thus also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken,⁴⁴⁹ who were Simon’s partners.  And Jesus said [4] unto Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men unto life.  ⁴⁵⁰And they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything, and followed him.

[5] ⁴⁵¹And after that came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and he went [6] about there with them, and baptized.  ⁴⁵²And John also was baptizing in Ænon, which is beside Salim, because there was much water there:  and they came, and were baptized.  [7, 8] ⁴⁵³And John was not yet come into prison.  ⁴⁵⁴And there was an inquiry between [9] one of John’s disciples and one of the Jews about purifying.  ⁴⁵⁵And they⁴⁵⁶ 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.  ⁴⁵⁷John answered and said unto them,⁴⁵⁸ A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him⁴⁵⁹ from heaven.  ⁴⁶⁰Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent⁴⁶¹ before him.  ⁴⁶²And 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,⁴⁶³ behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete.^{464  465}And he must increase and I decrease.  ⁴⁶⁶For⁴⁶⁷ 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.  ⁴⁶⁸And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and heard:  and no man [16] receiveth his witness.  ⁴⁶⁹And he that hath received his witness hath asserted⁴⁷⁰ that he is [17] truly God.^{471  472}And he whom God hath sent speaketh the words⁴⁷³ of God:  God gave [18] not the Spirit by measure.  ⁴⁷⁴The Father loveth the Son, and hath put everything in [19] his hands.  ⁴⁷⁵Whosoever believeth in the Son hath eternal⁴⁷⁶ life; but whosoever obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God cometh⁴⁷⁷ upon him.

[20] ⁴⁷⁸And Jesus learned⁴⁷⁹ that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, [21] and that he was baptizing more than John ⁴⁸⁰(not that Jesus was himself baptizing, [22] but his disciples); ⁴⁸¹and so he left Judæa.

[23] ⁴⁸²And Herod the governor, because he used to be rebuked by John because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and for all the sins which he was committing, [24] added to all that also this, ⁴⁸³that he shut up John in prison.

[25] ⁴⁸⁴And when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he went away to Galilee.  [26] ⁴⁸⁵And 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.  ⁴⁸⁶And 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] ⁴⁸⁷Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye do⁴⁸⁸ not believe.  ⁴⁸⁹The [Arabic, p. 24] king’s servant said unto him, My Lord, come down, that the child die not.  [30] ⁴⁹⁰Jesus said unto him, Go; for thy son is alive.  And that man believed the [31] word which Jesus spake, and went.  ⁴⁹¹And when he went down, his servants met him [32] and told him, and⁴⁹² said unto him, Thy son is alive.  ⁴⁹³And he asked them at what time he recovered.  They said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left [33] him.  ⁴⁹⁴And his father knew that that was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, [34] Thy son is alive.  ⁴⁹⁵And he believed, he and the whole people of his house.  And this [35] is the second sign⁴⁹⁶ which Jesus did when he returned from Judæa to Galilee.  ⁴⁹⁷And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

[36] ⁴⁹⁸And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea shore, in the [37] borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:  ⁴⁹⁹that it might be fulfilled which was said in Isaiah the prophet, who said,

[38] ⁵⁰⁰The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali,

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

Galilee of the nations:

[39] ⁵⁰¹The 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] ⁵⁰²And he taught them on the sabbaths.  ⁵⁰³And they wondered because of his doctrine:⁵⁰⁴  [41] for his word was as if it were authoritative.  ⁵⁰⁵And there was in the synagogue [42] a man with an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice, and said, ⁵⁰⁶Let 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.  ⁵⁰⁷And 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.  ⁵⁰⁸And 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?  ⁵⁰⁹And the news of him spread abroad in all the region which was around them.

[46] ⁵¹⁰And when Jesus went out of the synagogue, ⁵¹¹he saw a man sitting among the publicans,⁵¹² named Matthew:  and he said unto him, Come after me.  And he rose, and followed him.

[47, 48] ⁵¹³And Jesus came to the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.  ⁵¹⁴And Simon’s wife’s mother was oppressed with a great fever, and they besought him for [49] her.  ⁵¹⁵And he stood over her and rebuked her fever, and it left her, and immediately [50] she rose and ministered to them.  ⁵¹⁶And at even they brought to him many that had [51] demons:  and he cast out their devils with the⁵¹⁷ word.  ⁵¹⁸And all that had sick, their diseases being divers and malignant, brought them unto him.  And he laid his hand [52] on them one by one⁵¹⁹ and healed them:  ⁵²⁰that that might be fulfilled which was said [53] in the prophet Isaiah, who said, He taketh our pains and beareth our diseases.  ⁵²¹And [54] all the city was gathered together unto the door of Jesus.  ⁵²²And 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.