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Mark: Revised Murdock Translation
I.
1
The beginning of the gospel of Yeshua Mshikha bar Alaha.
2
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I send my messenger
before your face, who shall prepare your way.
3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of
Mar-Yah; make smooth his paths.
4 Yokhanan
baptized in the wilderness, and proclaimed the baptism of repentance
for the remission of sins.
5 And
there went out to him all the region of Judaea, and all the people of
Yerushalayim; and he baptized them in the river Yordan, while they
confessed their sins.
6 And this
Yokhanan was clad in raiment of camels' hair; and was girded with a
cincture of skin about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild
honey.
7 And he proclaimed, and said:
Behold, after me comes one more powerful than I, of whom I am not
worthy to stoop and untie the fastenings of his shoes.
8
I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with Holy
Spirit.
9 And it occurred, in those days,
that Yeshua came from Nasrath in Galil, and was baptized in Yordan by
Yokhanan.
10 And immediately on his
coming from the water, he saw the heavens cleft, and the Spirit
descending like a dove upon him.
11 And
there was a voice from the heavens: You are my beloved Son, in whom I
delight.
12 And directly the Spirit
carried him into the wilderness:
13
and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by
Satan. And he was with the wild beasts; and angels ministered to him.
14 After Yokhanan was delivered up, Yeshua
came into Galil, and proclaimed the tidings, of the kingdom of
Alaha,
15 and said: The time is
completed, and the Kingdom of Alaha is near. Repent,
and believe the tidings.
16 And as he
walked near the sea of Galil, he saw Shimon and Andreos
his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
17
And Yeshua said to them: Come after me, and I will make you fishers
of men.
18 And immediately they left their
nets, and went after him.
19 And as
he passed on a little, he saw Ya’aqub the son of Zavddai,
and Yokhanan his brother, who also were in a ship, and mending
their nets.
20 And he called them: and
immediately they left Zavddai their father in the ship, with
the hired servants, and went after him.
21
And when they entered Capernaum, he immediately taught on the
Shabbat in their synagogues.
22 And they
were astonished at his doctrine; for he taught them, as having
authority, and not as their Scribes.
23
And in their synagogue was a man, in whom was an unclean spirit; and
he cried out,
24 and said: What have we to
do with you? Yeshua, you Nazaraean. Have you come to destroy us?
I know you, who you are, the Holy One of Alaha.
25
And Yeshua rebuked him, and said: Shut your mouth, and come out of
him.
26 And the unclean spirit threw him
down, and cried with a loud voice, and came out of him.
27
And they were all amazed, and inquired one of another, and said: What
is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority he commands
the unclean spirits, and they obey him.
28
And immediately his fame spread into all the land of Galil.
29
And he retired from the synagogue, and entered into the house of
Shimon and Andreos, with Ya’aqub and Yokhanan.
30
And Shimon's mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever: and they told
him about her.
31 And he came, and took her
hand, and raised her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she
ministered to them.
32 And in the evening
at the setting of the sun, they brought to him all them that were
diseased, and demoniacs.
33 And all the
city was collected at the door.
34 And he
healed many who labored under divers diseases, and cast out many
demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew
him.
35 And in the morning, he rose much
before others, and retired to a solitary place, and there prayed.
36 And Shimon and his associates sought
for him.
37 And when they found him,
they said to him: Every body is seeking for you.
38
And he said to them: Go into the adjacent villages and towns; for
there also I will preach, because therefore have I come.
39
And he preached in all their synagogues, in all Galil, and cast
out demons.
40 And a leper came to him,
and fell at his feet, and entreated him, and said to him: If
you will, you can make me clean.
41 And
Yeshua had compassion on him, and stretched out his hand, and touched
him, and said: I will; be you clean.
42
And in that hour, his leprosy departed from him, and he became
clean.
43 And he charged him, and sent him
away,
44 and he said to him: See that you
tell no person; but go, show yourself to the priests, and offer an
oblation on account of your purification, as Mosha commanded, for a
testimony to them.
45 And he, as he went
out, began to proclaim [it] much, and to divulge the matter; so that
Yeshua could not openly go into the city, but was without, in desert
places; and they came to him from every quarter.
II.
1
And Yeshua again entered into Capernaum, after some days. And
when they heard that he was in the house,
2
many were assembled, so that [the house] could not contain them, not
even before the door. And he held discourse with them.
3
And they came to him and brought to him a paralytic, borne
between four persons.
4 And as they could
not come near him on account of the crowd, they ascended to the roof,
and removed the covering of the place where Yeshua was, and let down
the bed on which the paralytic lay.
5 And
when Yeshua saw their faith, he said to the paralytic:
My son, your sins are forgiven you.
6
And there were some Scribes and Pharisees there, who sat and reasoned
in their hearts:
7 Who is this speaking,
blasphemy? Who can forgive sins, except Alaha only?
8
And Yeshua knew, in his spirit, that they thus reasoned in
themselves; and he said to them: Why reason you thus in your heart
?
9 Which is the easier, to say to a
paralytic, Your sins are forgiven you? or to say, Arise, take
up your bed, and walk?
10 But that
you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive
sins, he said to the paralytic,
11 I
say to you, Arise, take your bed, and go to your house.
12
And he arose in that hour, took up his bed, and departed in presence
of them all: so that they were all amazed, and praised Alaha, saying:
We never saw the like.
13 And he went
again to the sea; and all the multitude came to him, and he taught
them.
14 And as he passed along he saw Levi
the son of Khalpai sitting among the publicans. And he said to him:
Come after me. And he arose and went after him.
15
And it was so, that as he reclined in his [Levi's] house, many
publicans and sinners reclined with Yeshua and with his talmidim: for
they were many, and they followed him.
16
And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw that he ate with publicans and
with sinners, they said to his talmidim: Why does he eat
and drink with publicans and sinners?
17
When Yeshua heard [it], he said to them: The healthy need not a
physician, but those laboring under disease: I came, not to call the
righteous, but sinners.
18 And the
talmidim of Yokhanan and of the Pharisees were fasters; and they came
and said to him: Why are the talmidim of Yokhanan and of the
Pharisees fasters, and your talmidim fast not?
19
Yeshua said to them: Can the guests of the nuptial chamber fast so
long as the bridegroom is with them? No.
20
But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them,
and then they will fast, in that day.
21
No one takes a patch of new cloth and sews it upon an old garment,
lest the supplemental new should take from the old, and the rent
become the greater.
22 And no one puts new
wine into old sacks, lest the wine burst the sacks, and the sacks be
spoiled, and the wine spilled; but they put new wine into new
sacks.
23 And it was so, that as Yeshua on
a Shabbat walked in the tillage grounds, his talmidim walked and
plucked the ears.
24 And the Pharisees said
to him: See, how on the Shabbat, they do that which is not lawful
?
25 Yeshua said to them: Have you never
read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and his
attendants?
26 How he entered the house of
Alaha, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of Mar-Yah's
table, which it was not lawful for any but priests to eat, and gave
[it] also to those with him?
27 And he
said to them: The Shabbat was made on man's account, and not man for
the sake of the Shabbat.
28
Therefore also the Son of man is lord of the Shabbat.
III.
1
And again Yeshua entered into a synagogue. And there was a man there,
whose hand was withered.
2 And they
watched him, that if he should heal on the Shabbat, they might accuse
him.
3 And he said to the man of the
withered hand: Stand up in the midst.
4 And
he said also to them: Is it lawful to do good on the Shabbat,
or to do evil? to give life to a person, or to destroy? But they
were silent.
5 And he looked on them with
indignation, being grieved with the hardness of their heart. And he
said to the man: Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched forth, and
his hand was restored.
6 And the Pharisees
went out, that very hour, with the domestics of Herod, and held a
consultation against him, how they might destroy him.
7
And Yeshua retired with his talmidim to the sea. And many people
joined him from Galil, and from Judaea,
8
and from Yerushalayim, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Yordan, and
from Tyre, and from Sidon: great multitudes, when they heard all that
he did, came to him.
9 And he told his
talmidim to bring him a ship, on account of the multitude, lest they
should crowd upon him
10 For he had healed
many, so that they rushed upon him, in order to touch him.
11
And they who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him,
fell down and cried out, and said: You are the Son of Alaha.
12
And he charged them much, not to make him known.
13
And he ascended a mountain, and called whom he pleased;
and they came to him.
14 And he chose
twelve to be with him, whom he would send out to preach,
15
and who would have power to heal the sick, and to cast out
demons.
16 And to Shimon he gave the name
of Keipha.
17 And to Ya’aqub the son
of Zavddai and to Yokhanan the brother of Ya’aqub, he gave the
name of Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder.
18
And [he chose also] Andreos, and Pilipus, and Bar Tulmai, and Mattai,
and Thoma, and Ya’aqub the son of Khalpai, and Taddai, and
Shimon the Canaanite,
19 And Judas
Iscariot, who betrayed him. And they came to the house:
20
and the multitude assembled again, so that they could not eat
bread.
21 And his kinsmen heard, and went
out to take him; for they said: He is out of his reason.
22
And those Scribes that had come down from Yerushalayim, said:
Beelzebub is in him; and by the prince of demons he expels
demons.
23 And Yeshua called them, and said
to them, by similitudes : How can Satan cast out Satan?
24
For if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot
stand.
25 And if a house be divided against
itself, that house cannot stand.
26 And if
Satan rise up against himself and be divided, he cannot stand, but is
at an end.
27 No one can enter the house of
a strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong
man; and then he may rob his house.
28
Verily I say to you: All sins, and the blasphemies that men may
utter, may be forgiven them:
29 but whoever
shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, to him for ever there is no
forgiveness; but he is obnoxious to eternal judgment.
30
Because they had said: An unclean spirit is in him.
31
And his mother and his brothers came, and, standing without, sent to
call him to them.
32 And the multitude were
sitting around him, and they said to him: Lo, your mother and your
brothers, without, call for you.
33 He
replied, and said to them: Who is my mother? and who are my brothers
?
34 And he looked upon those who sat by
him, and said: Behold my mother ! and, behold my brothers !
35
For whoever shall do the pleasure of Alaha, he is my brother, and my
sister, and my mother.
IV.
1
And again he began to teach by the side of the sea. And great
multitudes were assembled about him; so that he embarked and sat in a
ship on the sea, and all the multitude stood on the land by the side
of the sea.
2 And he taught them
much by similitudes. And in his teaching, he said:
3
Hear you: Behold a sower went forth to sow.
4
And as he sowed, some [seed] fell on the side of the path; and a bird
came, and devoured it.
5 And other [seed]
fell on a rock, so that it had not much earth; and it soon shot up,
because it had no depth of earth.
6 But
when the sun was up, it wilted; and because it had no root, it dried
up.
7 And other [seed] fell among thorns.
And the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruits.
8 And other [seed] fell on good ground,
and came up, and grew, and yielded fruits; some thirty, some sixty,
and some a hundred.
9 And he said: Whoever
has ears to hear, let him hear.
10) And when they were by
themselves, those with him, together with the twelve, asked him
[concerning] this similitude.
11 And Yeshua
said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom
of Alaha; but to them without, all is in similitudes:
12
that when they see, they may see and not see, and when they hear,
they may hear and not understand; lest they should be converted, and
their sins be forgiven them.
13 And
he said to them: Do you not understand this similitude? And how will
you understand all similitudes?
14 The
sower that sowed, sowed the word.
15 And
those by the side of the path, are they in whom the word is sown; and
as soon as they have heard [it], Satan comes, and takes away the word
that was sown in their hearts.
16 And those
sown on the rock, are they who, when they hear the word, immediately
with joy receive it.
17 And they
have no root in them, but are temporary; and when there is
affliction or persecution on account of the word, they are quickly
stumbled.
18 And those sown among thorns,
are they that hear the word,
19 and the
cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the residue
of other lusts enter in and choke the word, and it is without
fruits.
20 And those sown on good ground
are they that hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruits, by
thirties, and by sixties, and by hundreds.
21
And he said to them: Is a lamp brought to be placed under a bushel,
or under a bed? Is it not to be placed on a light-stand?
22
For there is nothing hid, which will not be exposed; and nothing
concealed, which will not be made manifest.
23
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
24
And he said to them: Take heed what you hear: with what measure you
measure, it shall be measured to you: and there shall more be given
to you who hear.
25 For to him that has,
will more be given; and from him that has not, even what he has, will
be taken from him.
26 And he said: So is
the Kingdom of Alaha, as if a man should cast seed into the
ground,
27 and should sleep and rise, by
night and by day, and the seed should grow an shoot up, he knows not
how.
28 For the earth brings forth
the fruit; first the plant, and subsequently the ear, and at last the
complete wheat in the ear.
29 And when the
fruit is ripe, immediately comes the sickle, because the harvest has
arrived.
30 And he said: To what shall we
liken the Kingdom of Alaha? and with what similitude shall we
compare it?
31 It is like a grain
of mustard seed which, when it is sown in the earth, is the least of
all seeds sown on the earth;
32 and when it
is sown it springs up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and
produces great branches, so that birds can lodge under its
shadow.
33 And by many such similitudes,
similitudes such as they could hear, Yeshua discoursed with the
people.
34 And without similitudes
he did not converse with them: but to his talmidim, between himself
and them, he explained every thing.
35 And
he said to them, the same day at evening: Let us pass over to the
other side.
36 And they sent away the
multitudes: and they conducted him in the ship as he was. And there
were also with him other little ships.
37
And there was a great tempest and wind: and the waves beat upon the
ship, and it was near being filled.
38
And Yeshua was asleep on a pillow in the hinder part of the ship. And
they came and awoke him, and said to him: Our Rabbi, do you not care,
that we perish?
39 And he arose, and
rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Cease; be still. And the wind
ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And
he said to them: Why were you so fearful? and why have you not
faith?
41 And they feared with great fear:
and they said, one to another: Who is this, that even the winds and
the sea obey him !
V.
1 And he
came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the
Gadarenes.
2 And as he went out of
the ship, there met him from the place of sepulchres a man in whom
was an unclean spirit.
3 And he dwelt in
the place of sepulchres; and no one could confine him with
chains:
4 because, as often as he had been
confined with fetters and chains, he had broken the chains and burst
the fetters: and no one could subdue him.
5
And continually, by night and by day, he was in the place of
sepulchres, and cried and wounded himself with stones.
6
And when he saw Yeshua at a distance, he ran and worshipped him;
7
and cried with a loud voice, and said: What have I to do with you,
Yeshua, you Son of the High Alaha? I adjure you by Alaha, that you
torment me not.
8 For he had said to him:
Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.
9
And he demanded of him: What is your name? And he replied to him: Our
name is Legion; for we are many.
10 And he
besought him much, that he would not send him out of the
country.
11 And there was there by the
mountain, a great herd of swine grazing.
12
And the demons besought him, and said: Send us upon those swine, that
we may enter them.
13 And he permitted
them. And those unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and
the herd, of about two thousand, ran to a precipice, and fell into
the sea, and were strangled in the waters.
14
And they who tended them, fled and told [it] in the city and in the
villages: and they came out to see what had occurred.
15
And: they came to Yeshua, and saw him in whom the demons had been,
him in whom had been the legion, clothed, and sober, and sitting; and
they were afraid.
16 And those who had seen
[it] told them how it occurred to him who had the demons, and also
concerning the swine.
17 And they
began to request him, that he would go from their border.
18
And as he ascended the ship, the late demoniac requested that he
might continue with him.
19 And he
suffered him not, but said to him: Go home to your people, and
tell them what Mar-Yah has done for you, and has compassionated
you.
20 And he went, and began to publish
in Decapolis, what Yeshua had done for him. And they were all amazed.
21 And when Yeshua had passed by ship to
the other side, great multitudes again assembled about him as he was
on the shore of the sea.
22 And one of the
rulers of the synagogue, whose name was Jairus, came, and, on seeing
him, fell at his feet,
23 and
besought him much, and said to him: My daughter is very sick; but
come and lay your hand on her, and she will be cured, and will
live.
24 And Yeshua went with him; and a
great company attended him, and pressed upon him.
25
And a woman who had had a defluxion of blood twelve years,
26
and who had suffered much from many physicians, and had expended all
she possessed, and was not profited, but was even the more
afflicted;
27 when she heard of Yeshua,
came behind him in the press of the crowd, and touched his
garment
28 For she said: If I but touch his
garment, I shall live.
29 And immediately
the fountain of her blood dried up; and she felt in her body that she
was healed of her plague.
30 And
Yeshua at once knew in himself, that virtue had issued from him: and
he turned to the throng, and said: Who touched my clothes?
31
And his talmidim said to him: You see the throngs that press upon
you; and you say, Who touched me?
32 And
he looked around, to see who had done this.
33
And the woman, fearing and trembling, for she knew what had taken
place in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth.
34 And he said to her: My daughter,
your faith has made you live: go in peace; and be you healed of your
plague.
35 And while he was
speaking, some domestics of the ruler of the synagogue came, and
said: Your daughter is dead: why therefore do you trouble the teacher
?
36 But Yeshua heard the word they
spoke, and said to the ruler of the synagogue: Fear not; only
believe.
37 And he suffered no one
to go with him, except Shimon Keipha, and Ya’aqub, and Yokhanan
the brother of Ya’aqub.
38 And
they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he saw,
that they were in a tumult, and weeping, and howling.
39
And he entered in and said to them: Why are you in a tumult, and
weep? The maid is not dead, but is asleep.
40
And they laughed at him. But Yeshua put them all out. And he took the
maids father, and her mother, and those that accompanied him, and
entered into where the maid lay.
41 And he
took the maid's hand, and said to her: Maiden, arise.
42
And immediately the maid arose, and walked; for she was twelve
years old. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
43
And he enjoined it upon them much, that no one should know of it. And
he directed, that they should give her to eat.
VI.
1
And Yeshua departed from there and came to his own city, and his
talmidim attended him.
2 And when the
Shabbat came, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard
[him] were astonished, and said: Whence hath he obtained these things
? And, what wisdom is this, which is given to him! and that such
mighty works are done by his hands!
3 Is
not this the carpenter, the son of Miriam, and the brother of Ya’aqub
and of Yoseh and of Yudah and of Shimon? And are not his sisters
here with us? And they were stumbled in him.
4
And Yeshua said to them: There is no prophet who is little, except in
his own city, and among his kindred, and at home.
5
And he could not there do even one mighty work, except that he laid
his hand on a few sick, and healed them.
6
And he wondered at the defect of their faith. And he travelled about
the villages and taught.
7 And he called
his twelve, and began to send them forth, two and two; and he gave
them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out.
8
And he commanded them to take nothing for the journey, except a staff
only; neither a wallet, nor bread, nor brass in their purses;
9
but to be shod with sandals, and not put on two coats.
10
And he said to them: Into whatever house you enter, there abide
till you leave the place.
11 And whoever
will not receive you, nor hear you, when you go out from that place
shake off the dust that is under your feet, for a testimony to them.
Verily I say to you, There will be comfort for Sodom and Gomorrah in
the day of judgment rather than for that city.
12
And they went out and proclaimed, that [men] should
repent.
13 And they cast out many demons,
and many of the sick they anointed with oil, and healed them.
14 And Herod the king heard of Yeshua, for
his name had become known to him, and he said: Yokhanan the Baptizer
hath risen from the dead: and therefore it is, mighty deeds are done
by him.
15 Others said: He is Eliyahu: and
others: He is a prophet, like one of the prophets.
16
But when Herod heard [of him], he said: He is that Yokhanan
whose head I struck off: he is risen from the dead.
17
For Herod had sent and seized Yokhanan and bound him in prison, on
account of Herodias, his brother Pilipus' wife, whom he had
taken.
18 For Yokhanan had said to Herod:
It is not lawful for you to take your brother's wife.
19
And Herodias herself was an enemy to him, and wished to kill him, but
was not able.
20 For Herod was afraid of
Yokhanan, because he knew him to be a just and holy man: and he
observed him, and gave ear to him in many things and did [the
things], and he heard him with satisfaction.
21
And there was a noted day, when Herod made a supper, in the
house of his nativity, for his nobles and the chiliarchs and the
chiefs of Galil.
22 And the daughter of
Herodias came in, and danced; and she pleased Herod and those
reclining with him. And the king said to the maid: Ask of me what you
please, and I will give it you.
23 And he
swore to her: Whatever you shall ask, I will give you, even to
the half of my kingdom.
24 And she
went out, and said to her mother: What shall I ask of him? She said
to her: The head of Yokhanan the Baptizer.
25
And she soon entered with eagerness to the king, and
said: I desire that you, this hour, give me in a dish the head of
Yokhanan the Baptizer.
26 And it pained the
king greatly; yet, on account of the oath, and on account of the
guests, he would not deny her:
27 and the
king sent immediately an executioner, and commanded [him] to bring
the head of Yokhanan. And he went, and struck off the head of
Yokhanan in the prison;
28 and brought it
on a dish, and gave it to the maid; and the maid gave it to her
mother.
29 And his talmidim heard [of it];
and they came and took up the corpse, and laid it in a Sepulchre.
30 And the Apostles assembled before
Yeshua, and told him all they had done, and all they had taught.
31 And he said to them: Come, let us go
into a desert by ourselves, and rest a little. For there were many
going and coming, and they had not opportunity even to eat bread.
32 And they went by ship to a desert place
by themselves.
33 But many saw them, as
they departed, and knew them; and from all the cities, they ran
there by land before him.
34 And Yeshua
disembarked and saw great multitudes: and he compassionated them,
because they were like sheep having no shepherd. And he began to
teach them many things.
35 And when
the time was advanced, his talmidim came to him, and said to him:
This is a desert place, and the time is advanced.
36
Dismiss them, that they may go into the fields around us and into the
villages, and may buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to
eat.
37 And he said to them: Give you them
to eat. They say to him: Shall we go and buy bread of the value of
two hundred denarii, and give them to eat?
38
And he said to them: Go, see how many loaves you have here. And
when they had seen, they say to him: Five loaves and two fishes.
39
And he bid them make the people recline on the grass by
companies.
40 And they reclined, by
companies of a hundred, and of fifty.
41
And he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looked towards
heaven, and blessed and brake the bread, and gave to his talmidim to
set before them: and they divided [also] the two fishes among them
all.
42 And they all ate, and were
satisfied.
43 And they took up twelve
baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes.
44
And they who had eaten bread were five thousand men.
45
And he immediately constrained his talmidim to take ship, and go
before him to the other side, to Beitsaida, while he dismissed the
multitudes.
46 And when he had
dismissed them, he went to a mountain to pray.
47
And when evening came, the ship was in the middle of the sea,
and he alone on the land.
48 And he
saw them straining themselves in rowing; for the wind was against
them. And in the fourth watch of the night, Yeshua came to
them walking on the waters; and he was disposed to pass by
them.
49 And they saw him
walking on the waters, and they supposed that the appearance was a
spectre: and they cried out.
50 For they
all saw him, and were afraid. And immediately he spoke with
them, and said to them: Take courage; it is I; fear not.
51
And he entered into the ship to them; and the wind ceased. And
they were greatly amazed, and astonished among
themselves.
52 For they did not learn by
the bread; because their heart was stupid.
53
And when they had passed to the other shore, they came to the land of
Gennesaret.
54 And when they went out
of the ship, immediately the men of the place knew him.
55
And they ran through all that region, and began to bring forth them
that were sick, bearing them on beds to where they heard he was.
56
And wherever he entered into villages or cities, the sick were laid
in he streets: and they besought him, that they might touch but the
extremity of his raiment. And all they that touched him, were
healed.
VII.
1 And there
gathered about him Pharisees and Scribes, who had come from
Yerushalayim.
2 And they saw some of his
talmidim eating bread, with their hands unwashed; and they censured
it.
3 For all the Jews and the
Pharisees, unless they carefully wash their hands do not eat;
because they hold fast the tradition of the fathers.
4
And [coming] from the market-place, except they baptize, they do not
eat. And there are many other things which they have received to
observe, [such as] the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and of brazen
vessels, and of couches.
5 And the
Scribes and Pharisees asked him: Why walk not your talmidim according
to the tradition of the fathers, but eat bread with their hands
unwashed?
6 And he said to them: Well did
Isaiah the prophet prophecy concerning you, you hypocrites; as it is
written: This people honors me with its lips, but their heart is very
far from me.
7 And in vain do they give me
reverence, while teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.
8
For you have forsaken the commandment of Alaha, and hold fast the
tradition of men, the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and many things
like these.
9 He said [also] to them: Full
well do you spurn the precept of Alaha, that you may establish your
tradition !
10 For Mosha said: Honor
your father and your mother; and whoever shall revile his father or
his mother, shall surely die.
11 But you
say: If a man say to his father or to his mother, Be it my oblation,
whatever you may gain from me:
12 then you
suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother.
13
And you reject the word of Alaha, on account of the tradition which
you hand down. And many things like these, you do.
14
And Yeshua called all the multitude, and said to them: Hear, all you;
and understand.
15 There is nothing without
a man which, by entering him, can pollute him. But that which
comes out of him, that it is that pollutes a man.
16
Whoever hath ears to hear, let him hear.
17
And when Yeshua had entered the house, apart from the multitude, his
talmidim asked him about this similitude.
18
And he said to them: Are you likewise so undiscerning? Do you not
know, that whatever from without enters into a man, cannot defile him
?
19 For it does not enter into his heart,
but into his belly, and is thrown into the digestive process, which
carries off all that is eaten.
20 But that
which proceeds from a man, that defiles a man.
21
For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adultery, whoredom,
22 theft, murder,
avarice, malice, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, reviling,
haughtiness, folly.
23 All these evil
things come from within, and defile a man.
24
Thence Yeshua arose, and went to the border of Tyre and Sidon. And he
entered a house, and wished no man to know him; but he
could not be concealed.
25 For
immediately a woman, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of
him; and she came, and fell before his feet,
26
(the woman was a Gentile from Phenicia of Syria), and besought him,
that he would expel the demon from her
daughter.
27 Yeshua said to her: Permit the
children first to be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take
the children's bread and cast it to dogs.
28
And she replied, and said to him: Yes, my Lord: and yet the dogs
under the table eat the children's crumbs.
29
Yeshua said to her: Go you; because of this speech, the demon has
departed from your daughter.
30 And she
went to her house, and found her daughter lying on a bed, and the
demon gone from her.
31 Again Yeshua
departed from the border of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of
Galil, to the border of Decapolis.
32 And
they brought to him a deaf and stammering man, and besought him to
lay his hand on him.
33 And he led
him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers
into his ears, and spit, and touched his tongue,
34
and looked towards heaven, and sighed, and said to him: Be
opened.
35 And immediately his ears were
opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plainly.
36 And he charged them to tell no man of
it: and the more he charged them, the more they proclaimed it.
37 And they admired exceedingly, and
said: He does every thing excellently: he makes the deaf to
hear, and the speechless to talk.
VIII.
1
And in those days, when the multitude was great, and had nothing to
eat, he called his talmidim, and said to them:
2
I compassionate this multitude; for, lo, three days have they
continued with me, and they have nothing to eat.
3
And if I send them to their homes fasting, they will faint by the
way: for some of them have come from a great distance.
4
His talmidim say to him: Whence can one, here in the desert,
satisfy all these with bread?
5 And he
asked them: How many loaves have you? They say to him, Seven.
6
And he directed the multitudes to recline on the ground: and he took
the seven loaves, and blessed, and brake, and grave to his talmidim
to set forth; and they set before the multitudes.
7
And there were a few fishes; and them he also blessed, and
ordered them set forth.
8 And they ate, and
were satisfied: and they took up seven baskets of the remaining
fragments.
9 And the men who had
eaten, were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
10
And immediately he entered a ship, with his talmidim, and came to the
place Dalmanutha.
11 And the Pharisees
came out, and began to dispute with him; and, to tempt him, they
demanded of him a sign from heaven.
12 And
he sighed with his breath, and said: Why does this generation seek
after a sign? Verily I say to you, No sign will be given to this
generation.
13 And he left them, and
embarked in the ship; and they passed to the other shore.
14
And they had forgotten to take bread with them, and had
but a single cake in the ship with them.
15
And he charged them, and said to them: Take heed, and beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16
And they reasoned one with another, and said: It is, because we have
no bread.
17 And Yeshua knew [it], and said
to them: Why reason you, because you have no bread? Do you still not
know, nor understand? How long will your heart be hard?
18
and you have eyes, but see not? and have ears, but hear not, nor
reflect?
(l9) When I broke the five loaves to five thousand, how
many baskets full of the fragments took you up? They say to him:
Twelve.
20 He says to them. And when the
seven to four thousand, how many baskets full of the fragments took
you up? They say: Seven.
21 He says to
them: Why is it that, to this time, you do not consider?
22
And he came to Beitsaida : and they brought to him a blind man,
and besought him to touch him.
23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the
village, and spit on his eyes, and laid on his hand: and asked him,
what he saw.
24 And he gazed, and
said: I see men like trees which walk.
25
Again he laid his hand on his eyes, and he was recovered, and
saw every thing plainly.
26 And he sent him
to his house, and said to him: Neither enter into the
village, nor tell any person in the village.
27
And Yeshua and his talmidim went to the villages of Caesarea
Philippi. And he asked his talmidim by the way, and said to them:
Who, do men say of me, that I am?
28
And they said to him: That [you are] Yokhanan the
Baptizer; and others: That [you are] Eliyahu; and others: That [you
are] one of the prophets.
29 Yeshua
said to them: And who, do you yourselves say of me, that
I am? Shimon replied, and said to him: You are the Messiah,
the Son of the living Alaha.
30 And
he charged them, that they should say [this] of him to no person.
31 And he began to teach them, that
the Son of man was about to suffer much, and be rejected by the
Elders and by the chief priests and by the Scribes, and be
killed, and rise on the third day.
32 And
he spoke out the thing distinctly. And Keipha took him, and
began to rebuke him.
33 But he turned, and
looked upon his talmidim, and rebuked Shimon, and said: Get you
behind me, Satan: for you do not consider what is of Alaha,
but what is of men.
34 And Yeshua called
the multitude, together with his talmidim, and said to them: Whoever
will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
come after me.
35 For, whoever will
preserve his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life on
my account, and on account of my tidings, shall preserve it.
36
For, what will a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, and
lose his life?
37 Or what will a man give
in exchange for his life?
38 For,
whoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this sinful and
adulterous generation, of him also will the Son of man be ashamed,
when he comes in the glory of his Father, with his holy angels.
IX.
1 And he said to them:
Verily I say to you, There are some standing here, who will not
taste of death, until they shall see the Kingdom of Alaha to be
coming with power.
2 And after six days,
Yeshua took Keipha and Ya’aqub and Yokhanan, and led them to a
high mountain, apart; and was transformed before them.
3
And his raiment shone and was very white, like snow, so as men
on earth can never
whiten.
4 And there
appeared to them Mosha and Eliyahu, in conversation with Yeshua.
5
And Keipha said to him: Rabbi, it is delightful for us to
be here. And let us make three booths; one for you, and one for
Mosha, and one for Eliyahu.
6 But he
did not know what he said, for they were in trepidation.
7
And there was a cloud, and it overshadowed them. And a voice issued
from the cloud, which said: This is my beloved Son. Hear you him.
8
And suddenly, when the talmidim looked up, they saw no one with them,
except Yeshua
only.
9 And as they
descended the mountain, he commanded them to tell no man what they
had seen, till after the Son of man should be risen from the
dead.
10 And they kept that saying in their
mind; and inquired, What does this saying mean:
"
When he shall be risen from the dead !"
11
And they asked him, and said: Why then do the Scribes say, that
Eliyahu must first come?
12 He said to
them: Eliyahu [truly] first comes, to prepare all things: and, as it
is written of the Son of man, he will suffer much, and be
rejected.
13 But I say to you: That Eliyahu
hath come; and they have done to him all that they desired, as it was
written of him.
14 And when he came to his
talmidim, he saw a great multitude with them, and the Scribes
disputing with them.
15 And
immediately the multitude saw him, and were surprised: and they ran
and saluted him.
16 And he asked the
Scribes: What were you disputing with them?
17
And one of the multitude replied, and said: Teacher, I have brought
to you my son, who hath a spirit that will not speak.
18
And wherever he seizes him, he shakes and tears him: and he
gnashes his teeth, and pines away. And I spoke to your talmidim, to
cast him out; and they could not.
19 Yeshua
answered, and said to them: O incredulous generation! How long shall
I be with you? how long bear with you? Bring him to me.
20
And they brought him to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately
he shook him; and he fell upon the ground, and wallowed and
foamed.
21 And Yeshua asked his father, how
long a time he had been thus. He said to him: Lo, from his
childhood.
22 And many times it hath
thrown him into the fire, and into the water, to destroy him.
But, if you can do any thing, aid me and have compassion on me.
23 Yeshua said to him: If you can believe;
every thing can be, to him that believes.
24
And immediately the father of the child cried out, while he wept and
said: I believe; aid you the defect of my faith.
25
And when Yeshua saw that the people were, running and collecting
around him, he rebuked the unclean spirit, and said to him: You deaf
and unspeaking spirit, I command you, come out of him; and no
more enter him.
26 And the
demon cried out greatly, and bruised him, and came out. And he was as
a dead person; so that many would say, he is dead.
27
And Yeshua took him by the hand, and raised him up.
28
And when Yeshua entered the house, his talmidim asked him privately:
Why could not we cast him out?
29 He says
to them: This kind can come out, by nothing but fasting and prayer.
30 And when he departed from there, they
passed through Galil: and he desired that no one might know
him.
(3l) For he taught his talmidim, and said to them: The Son of
man is delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him;
and when he is killed, on the third day, he will rise.
32
But they did not understand that speech; and they were afraid to ask
him.
33 And they came to Capernaum. And
when they entered the house, he asked them: What disputed you among
yourselves by the way?
34 And they were
silent; for by the way they had contended with one another, which
should be the great among them.
35
And Yeshua sat down, and called the twelve, and said to them: Whoever
would be first, let him be last of all, and servitor to all.
36
And he took a child, and set him in the midst, and took him in his
arms and said to them:
37 Whoever receives
one in my name, like this child, he receives me; and he that
receives me, receives not me [only], but him that sent me.
38
Yokhanan said to him: Rabbi, we saw one casting out demons in your
name, and we forbade him, because he adheres not to us.
39
Yeshua said to them: Forbid him not; for there is no one who does
mighty works in my name, that can readily speak evil of me.
40
Whoever therefore is not against you, is for you.
41
For whoever shall give you to drink a cup of water only, on the
ground that you are Messiah's [followers], verily I say to you, he
will not lose his reward.
42
And whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe in me
to stumble, it were better for him, if a millstone were put to his
neck, and he cast into the sea.
43 And if
your hand makes you offend, cut it off: it is better for you to
enter into life maimed, than, having two hands, to go into hell;
44
where their worm dies not, and their fire is not extinguished.
45
And if your foot makes you offend, cut it off: it is better for you
to enter into life lamed, than, having two feet, to fall into
hell;
46 where their worm dies not, and
their fire is not extinguished.
47 And if
your eye makes you offend, pluck it out: it is better for you to
enter with one eye into the Kingdom of Alaha, than, having two eyes,
to fall into the hell of fire;
48 where
their worm dies not, and their fire is not extinguished.
49
For every thing will be salted with fire; and every sacrifice will be
salted with salt.
50 Salt is a good thing:
but if the salt become insipid, with what will it be salted? Let
there be salt in you: and be you in peace, one with another.
X.
1 And he arose from there,
and came to the border of Judaea, on the other side the Yordan. And
great multitudes came to him there; and again he instructed them, as
he was accustomed.
2 And the Pharisees
came to him, and, tempting him, inquired if it were lawful for a man
to divorce his wife.
3 He said
to them: What did Mosha command you?
4
They said: Mosha permitted us to write a bill of divorce, and send
[her] away.
5 Yeshua answered and said to
them: On account of the hardness of your heart, Mosha wrote you this
precept.
6 But, from the beginning,
Alaha made them a male and a female.
7
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and adhere to
his wife:
8 and they two shall be one
flesh. Wherefore they are not two, but one flesh.
9
What therefore Alaha hath conjoined, let not man separate.
10 And in the house, the talmidim asked
him again of this matter.
11 And he said to
them: Whoever shall divorce his wife, and take another, commits
adultery.
12 And if a woman shall leave her
husband, and marry another, she commits adultery.
13
And they brought little children to him, that he might touch them.
But his talmidim rebuked those who brought them.
14
And when Yeshua saw it, he was displeased; and he said to them,
Suffer little children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of
those like them is the Kingdom of Alaha.
15
Verily I say to you, That whoever does not receive the kingdom of
Alaha, like a little child, shall not enter it.
16
And he took them in his arms, and laid his hand on them and blessed
them.
17 And as he walked in the way, one
ran and fell upon his knees, and asked him, and said: Good Teacher,
what must I do, to inherit eternal life?
18
Yeshua says to him: Why do you call me good? There is none good, but
one, Alaha.
19 You know the commandments;
you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not
kill, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother.
20 And
he answered, and said to him: Teacher, all these have I kept from my
childhood.
21 And Yeshua looked on him, and
loved him, and said to him: One thing you lack. Go, sell all that you
possess, and give to the poor, and there will be a treasure for you
in heaven; and take your cross, and come after me.
22
And he was made sad by that speech, and went away sorrowing: for he
possessed great riches.
23 And Yeshua
looked upon his talmidim, and said to them: How hard for those who
possess wealth, to enter into the Kingdom of Alaha !
24
And the talmidim wondered at the remark. And Yeshua, replied again,
and said to them: My children, how hard it is, for those who trust in
riches, to enter into the Kingdom of Alaha.
25
It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter the Kingdom of Alaha.
26
And they wondered the more, and said among themselves: Who can obtain
life !
27 And Yeshua looked on them again,
and said to them: With men, this is not possible, but with Alaha [it
is]; for with Alaha all things are possible.
28
And Keipha began to say: Lo, we have left every thing, and have
cleaved to you.
29 Yeshua answered and
said: Verily I say to you, There is no man that leaves houses, or
brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or wife or children, for my
sake, and for the sake of my tidings,
30
who will not receive a hundredfold, here in the present time, houses,
and brothers and sisters, and mothers and children, and lands, with
persecution; and in the world to come eternal life.
31
But many are first, who will be last; and last, [who will be] first.
32 And as they were in the way, going up
to Yerushalayim, Yeshua went before them: and they were amazed, and
walked after him with trembling. And he took his twelve, and began to
tell them what was to befall him.
33
Behold, we are going to Yerushalayim; and the Son of man will be
delivered up to the chief priests and the Scribes; and they
will condemn him to die, and will deliver him over to the
Gentiles.
34 And they will mock him, and
will scourge him, and will spit in his face, and will kill him; and
on the third day he will arise.
35 And
Ya’aqub and Yokhanan, the sons of Zavddai, came to him, and
said to him: Teacher, we desire that you would do for us all that we
ask.
36 He says to them: What would you,
that I should do for you?
37 They say to
him: Grant to us, that one may sit on your right hand, and the other
on your left, in your glory.
38 But
he said to them: Ye know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the
cup, of which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism, that I
am baptized with?
39 They say to
him: We are able. Yeshua says to them: The cup that I drink,
you will drink, and the baptism that I am baptized with, you will be
baptized with:
40 But that you
should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine o give,
except to those for whom it is prepared.
41
And when the ten heard [it], they began to murmur against Ya’aqub
and Yokhanan.
42 And Yeshua called them,
and said to them: Ye know, that they who are accounted chiefs of the
nations, are their lords; and their great men have authority
over them.
43 But it shall not be so
among you: but he that would be great among you, must be a servitor
to you.
44 And he of you that would be
first, must be servant to every one.
45 And
also the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give
his life a ransom for many.
46 And
they came to Yericho. And as Yeshua went out of Yericho, he and his
talmidim and a great multitude; Timeus, bar Timeus, a blind man, was
sitting by the side of the way, and begging.
47
And he heard that it was Yeshua the Nazaraean; and he began to cry
out, and to say: You Son of David, have mercy on me.
48
And many rebuked him, that he might be silent. But he cried out the
more, and said: You Son of David, have mercy on me.
49
And Yeshua stood, and directed him to be called. And they called the
blind man, and said to him: Take courage: arise, he calls
you.
50 And the blind man cast off his
garment and arose, and went to Yeshua.
51
Yeshua said to him: What do you will, that I do for you? And the
blind man said to him: Rabbi, that I may have sight.
52
And Yeshua said to him: Go; your faith has procured your life. And
immediately his sight was restored; and he followed after him.
XI.
1
And as they approached Yerushalayim, near by Beit-Pageh and
Beit-Anya, at Har-Zeitim, he sent two of his talmidim,
2
and said to them: Go you to the village that is over against us, and
as soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied, on which no
person has ridden: loose [him], and bring him here.
3
And, if any one say to you, Why do you this? Say you to him: Because
our Lord has need of him. And immediately he will send him here.
4
And they went, and they found the colt tied, by the door, without in
the street. And as they were loosing [him],
5
some of those standing there, said to them: What do you, untying the
colt?
6 And they said to them, as Yeshua
had commanded them; and they permitted them.
7
And they brought the colt to Yeshua, and cast their garments upon
him, and set Yeshua upon him.
8 And many
spread their garments in the way; and others cut branches from the
trees, and strewed them in the way.
9
And those preceding him, and those following him shouted and said:
Hosanna: Blessed is he that comes in the name of Mar-Yah.
10
And blessed is the advancing kingdom of our father David. Hosanna in
the highest [heavens].
11 And Yeshua
entered Yerushalayim and the temple, and surveyed every thing. And
when evening arrived, he went out to Beit-Anya with the twelve.
12
And the following day, as he left Beit-Anya, he was hungry:
13
and he saw a fig-tree at a distance, on which were leaves, and he
came to it, if he could find somewhat on it. And when he had come, he
found on it only leaves; for the time of figs had not arrived.
14
And he said to it: Henceforth and for ever, let no man eat fruit from
you: and the talmidim heard it. And they came to Yerushalayim.
15
And Yeshua entered the temple of Alaha: and he began to cast out
those who bought and sold in the temple; and he overturned the
counters of the money-brokers, and the seats of them that sold
doves.
16 And he suffered no one to carry
goods through the temple.
17 And he taught
them, and said: Is it not written, My house shall be called the house
of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of
robbers.
18 And the chief priests and the
Scribes heard [him], and they sought how they might destroy
him; for they were afraid of him, because all the people admired his
doctrine.
(l9) And when it was evening, they went out from
the city.
20 And in the morning, as they
passed by, they saw the fig-tree dried up, as it were, from its
root.
21 And Shimon remembered, and said
to him: Rabbi; behold, the fig-tree which you cursed, is dried
up.
22 And Yeshua replied, and said
to them: Have faith in Alaha.
23 Verily I
say to you, That whoever shall say to this mountain, Be you removed,
and fall into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that what he said will occur, to him will be the thing he
spoke.
24 Therefore I say to you,
That whatsoever you shall pray and ask for, believe that it will be,
and it will be to you.
25 And when you
stand up to pray, forgive what you have against any one; that
your Father who is in heaven may also forgive your offences.
26
For if you forgive not, your Father also who is in heaven will not
forgive you your offences.
27 And they
came again to Yerushalayim. And as he was walking in the temple, the
chief priests and Scribes and Elders came to him,
28
and said to him: By what authority do you do these things? And who
gave you the authority to do these things?
29
And Yeshua said to them: I also will ask you one thing, that you may
tell me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
30 The baptism of Yokhanan, whence
was it? from heaven, or from men? Tell me.
31
And they reasoned with themselves, and said: If we should say to him,
From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not believe him
?
32 But if we should say, From men; there
is fear from the people; for they have all held Yokhanan to be truly
a prophet.
33 And they answered, and said
to Yeshua: We do not know. He said to them: Neither do I tell you by
what authority I do these things.
XII.
1
And he began to discourse with them in similitudes. A certain man
planted a vineyard, and inclosed it with a hedge, and dug in it a
wine vat, and built a tower in it, and put it into the hands of
husbandmen, and removed to a distance.
2
And at the proper time, he sent his servant to the husbandmen, to
receive of the fruits of the vineyard.
3
And they beat him, and sent him away empty.
4
And again he sent to them another servant; and him also they stoned,
and wounded, and sent him away under indignities.
5
And again he sent another; and him they killed. And he sent many
other servants, some of whom they beat, and some they killed.
6
At last, having an only and dear son, he sent him to them ; for he
said, Perhaps they will respect my son.
7
But those husbandmen said among themselves: This is the heir; come,
let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
8
And they took him, and slew [him], and cast [him] out of the
vineyard.
9 What therefore will the lord of
the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and
transfer the vineyard to others.
10 And
have you not read this scripture, The stone which the builders
rejected, has become the head of the corner:
11
From Mar-Yah, was this; and it is wonderful in our eyes?
12
And they sought to apprehend him, but were afraid of the people; for
they knew that he spoke this similitude against them. And they left
him, and went away.
13 And they sent to
him some of the Scribes and of the household of Herod, to ensnare him
in discourse.
14 And these came, and
asked him: Teacher; we know that you are veracious, and have no fear
of man; for you regard not the face of men, but teach the way of
Alaha in truth. Is it lawful to give capitation money to
Caesar; or not? Shall we give, or not give?
15
And he knew their wile, and said to them: Why tempt you me? Bring me
a denarius, that I may see it.
16
And they brought [one] to him. And he said to them: Whose is this
image and inscription? They said to him: Caesar's.
17
Yeshua said to them: What is Caesar's, give to Caesar; and what is
Alaha's, [give] to Alaha. And they wondered at him.
18
Then came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection;
and they asked him, and said:
19 Teacher ;
Mosha wrote to us, that if a man's brother die, and leave a widow,
but leave no children, his brother shall take his widow, and raise up
seed to his brother.
20 There were
seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died, and left no
seed.
21 And the second took her, and died,
and he also left no seed: and the third in like manner.
22
And the seven took her, and left no seed. Last of all, the woman also
died.
23 In the resurrection, therefore, of
which of them will she be the wife? For all the seven took her.
24
Yeshua said to them: Is it not on this account that you err, because
you understand not the scriptures, nor the power of Alaha?
25
For when they rise from the dead, they do not take wives, nor are
wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels that are in
heaven.
26 But concerning the dead,
that they rise, have you not read in a book of Mosha, how Alaha
said to him from the bush: I am the Alaha of Avraham, and the Alaha
of Yitzchak, and the Alaha of Ya’aqub?
27
He is not the Alaha of the dead, but of the living. You, therefore,
do err greatly.
28 And one of the Scribes
came, and heard them as they discussed, and he saw that he gave them
an excellent answer; and he asked him, Which is the first of all the
commandments?
29 Yeshua said to him: The
first of all the commandments [is]: Hear, O ; Mar-Yah our Alaha is
one Mar-Yah:
30 and you shall love
Mar-Yah your Alaha, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind, and with all your might. This is the first
commandment.
31 And the second,
which is like it, [is]: You shall love your neighbor, as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
32
The Scribe said to him: Excellently ! Rabbi; you have spoken the
truth; for he is one [Alaha], and there is no other beside him.
33
And for a man to love him, with all the heart, and with all the mind,
and with all the soul, and with all the might; and to love his
neighbor, as himself; is better than all holocausts and
sacrifices.
34 And Yeshua perceived that he
replied wisely; and he answered, and said to him: You are not far
from the Kingdom of Alaha. And no one dared again to question
him.
35 And as Yeshua was teaching in the
temple, he answered and said: How can the Scribes say, that Mshikha
is the son of David?
36 For David himself
says, by the Holy Spirit: Mar-Yah said to my Lord; Seat
yourself on my right hand, until I place your enemies as a footstool
beneath your feet.
37 David
therefore calls him " My Lord ;" and how is he his
son? And all the multitude heard him with pleasure.
38
And he said to them in his teaching : Beware of the Scribes, who
choose to walk in long robes, and love the salutation in the
streets,
39 and the chief seats in the
synagogues, and the chief couches at feasts.
40
They devour the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong
their prayers. These shall receive a greater condemnation.
41
And as Yeshua sat over against the treasury-room, he saw how the
multitude cast money into the treasury. And many rich ones cast in
much.
42 And a poor widow came, and cast in
two mites, which are a brass farthing.
43
And Yeshua called his talmidim, and said to them: Verily I say to
you, That this poor widow has cast into the treasury more than all
they that cast in.
44 For they all cast in
of that which abounded to them, but she, of her poverty, has cast in
all that she possessed, the whole of her property.
XIII.
1
And as Yeshua retired from the temple, one of his talmidim said to
him: Teacher; behold; see these stones, and these structures !
2
And Yeshua said to him: Do you admire these great structures? There
will not be left here one stone upon another, not
demolished.
3 And as Yeshua was sitting on
Har-Zeitim, over against the temple, Keipha and Ya’aqub and
Yokhanan and Andrew asked him, privately:
4
Tell us, when will these things be? and what [will be] the sign that
these things approach their consummation?
5
And Yeshua began to say to them Beware, that no one mislead you:
6
for many will come in my name, and will say: I am he. And they will
mislead many.
7 But when you shall hear of
battles, and the rumor of battles, be not afraid; for this must be;
but the end is not yet.
8 For nation will
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be
earthquakes in several places, and there will be famines and
insurrections. These are the beginning of sorrows.
9
And take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to the
tribunals; and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and you
will stand before kings and governors, on my account, for a testimony
to them.
10 And my tidings must first
be proclaimed among all the nations.
11 And
when they shall lead you to deliver you up, be not solicitous
beforehand what you shall say, neither premeditate; but, that
which shall be given you in that hour, speak you; for it is not you
that speak, but the Holy Spirit.
12 And
brother will deliver up his brother to death, and the father his son;
and children will rise up against their parents, and will kill
them.
13 And you will be hated of every
man, on account of my name. But whoever shall persevere to the end,
shall live.
14 And when you see the
profane sign of desolation, which was mentioned by Daniel the
prophet, standing where it ought not; (let him that reads,
understand;) then let those that are in Judaea, flee to the
mountain:
15 and let him that is on
the roof, not come down and enter [it], to take any thing from his
house:
16 and let him that is in the field,
not return back to take his clothing.
17
But, woe to those with child, and to those who nurse children, in
those days !
18 And pray you, that your
flight be not in winter.
19 For in
those days will be affliction, such as has not been from the
beginning of the creation that Alaha made until now, and shall not
be.
20 And, unless Alaha should shorten
those days, no flesh would live. But, on account of the elect whom he
has chosen, he has shortened those days.
21
Then, if any one shall say to you: Lo, here is Mshikha, or lo,
there; give not credence.
22 For false
Mshikhas will arise, and lying prophets; and they will give
signs and wonders; and will deceive, if possible, even the
elect.
23 But take you heed. Lo, I have
told you the whole beforehand.
24 And in
those days, after that affliction, the sun will be darkened;
and the moon will not give her light;
25
and the stars will fall from heaven; and the powers of heaven will be
shaken.
26 And then will they see the Son
of man coming in the clouds, with great power and glory.
27
And then will he send forth his angels, and will assemble his elect
from the four winds, from the extremity of earth to the extremity of
heaven.
28 And, from the fig-tree learn
you a simile. When its twigs are tender, and its leaves bud forth,
you know that summer approaches.
29 So
also, when you shall see these occurrences, know you, that it is
near, at the door.
30 Verily I say to you,
That this generation shall not pass away, until all these things
occur.
31 Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.
32 But of
that day and that hour, knows no man; nor the angels of heaven;
neither the Son, but the Father.
33
Take heed, watch, and pray; for you know not when the time is.
34
For it is as a man, who took a journey, and left his home; and he
gave authority to his servants, and to each his service; and he
commanded the porter to be watchful.
35
Watch you, therefore; for you know not when the lord of the house
comes; at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the
morning:
36 lest he come suddenly, and find
you sleeping.
37 And what I say to
you, I say to you all: Be you watchful.
XIV.
1
And after two days, was the Pesach of unleavened cakes. And the chief
priests and the Scribes sought how they might take him by stratagem,
and kill him.
2 But they said: Not
on the festival, lest there be commotion among the people.
3
And when he was at Beit-Anya in the house of Shimon the leper, as he
reclined, a woman came having an alabaster box of precious ointment
of spikenard, of great price; and she opened and poured upon the head
of Yeshua.
4 And there were certain
of the talmidim, who were dissatisfied among themselves, and said:
Why was this waste of the ointment?
5 For
it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and been
given to the poor. And they were indignant at her.
6
But Yeshua said: Let her alone; why trouble you her? She has done an
excellent act towards me.
7 For the
poor you have always with you; and when you please, you can do them
kind offices: but I am not always with you.
8
What was in her power, she has done; and by anticipation,
has perfumed my body, as if for burial.
9
Verily I say to you, That wherever this my gospel shall be
proclaimed, in all the world, this also which she has done shall be
told in memory of her.
10 And Yudah
Skariota, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, in order to
betray Yeshua to them.
11 And when
they heard [him], they rejoiced; and they promised to give him money.
And he sought for opportunity to betray him.
12
And on the first day of unleavened cakes, on which the Judaeans slay
the Pesach, his talmidim said to him: Where do you will that we go,
and prepare for you to eat the Pesach?
13
And he sent two of his talmidim, and said to them: Go you
to the city, and behold, there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher
of water. Go you after him,
14 and where
he enters in, say you to the lord of the house: Our Rabbi says, Where
is the place of refreshment, in which I may eat the Pesach with my
talmidim?
15 And lo, he will
show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared: there make
ready for us.
16 And his talmidim
went, and entered the city, and found as he had told them: and
they made ready the Pesach.
17 And when it
was evening, he came with his twelve.
18
And as they reclined and ate, Yeshua said: Verily I say to you, That
one of you that eats with me, will betray me.
19
And they began to be distressed. And they said to him, one by one, Is
it I?
20 And he said to them: It is one of
the twelve that dips with me in the dish.
21
And the Son of man goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that
man, by whom the Son of man is betrayed. Better would it have been
for that man, if he had not been born.
22
And as they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and blessed, and brake,
and gave to them, and said to them: Take; this is my body.
23
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and blessed, and gave to them.
And they all drank of it.
24 And he said to
them: This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed in
behalf of many.
25 Verily I say to
you, That I will not drink again of the product of the vine, until
the day in which I shall drink it anew in the Kingdom of Alaha.
26
And they sang praise, and went out to Har-Zeitim.
27
And Yeshua said to them: All of you will this night be stumbled in
me: for it is written, " I will smite the shepherd, and his
sheep will be scattered."
28 And when
I am risen, I will precede you into Galil.
29
And Keipha said to him: Though they all should be stumbled, yet I
will not be.
30 Yeshua said to him: Verily
I say to you, That this day, on this night, before the cock shall
crow twice, you will thrice deny me.
31 And
he said, in addition: If I were to die with you, I will not deny you,
my Lord. And like him, spake all the talmidim.
32
And they came to the place called Gethsemane; and he said to his
talmidim, Sit you here, while I pray.
33
And he took with him Keipha and Ya’aqub and Yokhanan, and began
to be gloomy and distressed.
34 And he said
to them: My soul has anguish, even to death. Wait for me here,
and be watchful.
35 And he advanced
a little, and fell upon the ground, and prayed that, if it were
possible, the hour might pass from him.
36
And he said: Father, my Father, you can do all things. Let this cup
pass from me. Yet not my pleasure, but yours.
37
And he came and found them sleeping. And he said to Keipha: Do you
sleep, Shimon? Could you not watch with me one hour?
38
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is willing
and ready, but the body is weak.
39
And he went again and prayed, speaking the same language.
40
And returning he came again and found them sleeping, for their
eyes were heavy. And they knew not what to say to him.
41
And he came the third time, and said to them: Sleep on now, and take
rest. The end is near; the hour is come; and lo, the Son of man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42
Arise you; let us go. Lo, he that betrays me is at hand.
43
And while he was yet speaking, Yudah Skariota, one of the twelve,
arrived, and much people, with swords and clubs, from before the
chief priests and Scribes and Elders
44
And the traitor who betrayed [him], had given them a sign, and said:
He whom I shall kiss is the man. Seize promptly, and lead him
away
45 And immediately he came up, and
said to him: Rabbi, Rabbi; and kissed him.
46
And they laid hands on him and took him.
47
And one of them that stood by, drew a sword, and smote a servant of
the high priest, and cut off his ear.
48
And Yeshua answered and said to them: Have you come out against
me, as against a robber; with swords and clubs, to apprehend me?
49
I was daily with you, while I taught in the temple, and you seized me
not. But this occurs, that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
50
Then his talmidim left him and fled.
51 And
a young man followed after him, who was clad with a linen cloth on
[his] naked [body]: and they laid hold of him.
52
And he left the linen cloth, and fled naked.
53
And they led away Yeshua to Qeiafa the high priest. And with him were
assembled all the chief priests and the Scribes and the Elders.
54
And Shimon followed after him, at a distance; into the hall of the
high priest; and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself by the
fire.
55 And the chief priests and all the
assembly sought for testimony against Yeshua, to put him to death:
but they found it not.
56 For while many
testified against him, their testimonies were inadequate.
57
And some false witnesses stood up against him, and said:
58
We have heard him say: I will destroy this temple, which is made with
hands; and in three days I will build another not made with
hands.
59 Nor even thus were their
testimonies adequate.
60 And the
high priest arose in the midst, and interrogated Yeshua and said: You
return no answer? What do these testify against you?
61
And Yeshua was silent, and made no reply. And again the chief priest
interrogated him, and said: Are you the Mshikha, the Son of the
Blessed?
62 And Yeshua said to him: I am.
And you will see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and he will come on the clouds of heaven.
63
And the high priest rent his tunic, and said: What need of witnesses
have we, any more?
64 Behold, from his own
mouth you have heard blasphemy. How does it appear to you? And they
all decided, that he deserved to die.
65
And some began to spit in his face, and to buffet him, saying:
Prophesy you. And the servants smote him on the cheeks.
66
And as Shimon was below in the court, a maid of the high priest
came,
67 and saw him warming himself; and
she looked upon him, and said to him: And you too was with Yeshua the
Nazaraean.
68 But he denied, and said: l
know not what you say. And he went out into the porch; and the cock
crew.
69 And the maid saw him again,
and she began to say to those standing by, This man also is one of
them.
70 And he again denied [it].
And a little after, those standing there said again to Keipha:
Surely, you are one of them; for you are likewise a Galilean, and
your speech answers to it.
71 And he began
to imprecate, and swore: I know not that man, of whom you speak.
72
And immediately the cock crew the second time. And Shimon remembered
the declaration of Yeshua, who said to him: Before the cock shall
crow twice, you will thrice deny me. And he began to weep.
XV.
1
And forthwith, in the morning, the chief priests with the Elders and
the Scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, held a consultation. And they
bound Yeshua, and led him away, and delivered him over to Pilatos the
president.
2 And Pilatos asked
him: Are you the king of the Judaeans? He replied and said to him:
You have said.
3 And the chief priests
accused him of many things.
4 And
Pilatos again questioned him, and said to him: Do you make no reply?
See how much they testify against you!
5
But Yeshua gave no answer; so that Pilatos wondered.
6
And it was his custom, at each festival, to release to them one
prisoner, whom they might desire.
7 And
there was one named Bar Abba, who was confined with the movers of
sedition, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
8
And the people clamored, and began to demand, that he should do to
them as he was accustomed.
9 And Pilatos
answered, and said: Will you, that I release to you the king of the
Judaeans?
10 For
Pilatos knew that the chief priests, from envy, had delivered him
up.
11 But the chief priests further
persuaded the multitudes, that Bar Abba should be released to them.
12 And Pilatos said to them: What will
you, therefore, that I do to him whom you call king of the
Judaeans?
13 And
they again cried out: Crucify him.
14 And
Pilatos said to them: But what evil has he done? And they cried out
the more: Crucify him.
15 And Pilatos was
willing to gratify the wishes of the multitudes; and he released to
them Bar Abba; and, having scourged Yeshua, he delivered him to them
to be crucified.
16 And the soldiers
led him into the hall which was the Praetorium ; and they called
together the whole regiment;
17 and
they clothed him in purple, and braided a crown of thorns and put
upon him;
18 and began to salute him with,
" Hail, king of the Judaeans!"
19
And they smote him on the head with a reed and spit in his face, and
bowed upon their knees and worshipped him.
20
And having mocked him, they divested him of the purple, and clothed
him in his own garments, and led him forth to crucify him.
21
And they compelled a passer-by, Shimon the Cyrenian, the father of
Alexander and Rufus, who was coming from the fields, to bear his
cross.
22 And they brought him to Golgotha,
the place which is interpreted a Skull.
23
And they gave him to drink wine in which myrrh was mixed; and he
would not receive it.
24 And when they had
crucified him, they divided his garments; and cast the lot upon them,
what each should take.
25 And it was the
third hour when they crucified him.
26
And the cause of his death was written in the inscription: THIS
IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 And they
crucified with him two robbers, the one on his right hand, and the
other on his left.
28 And the scripture was
fulfilled which says: He was accounted among the wicked.
29
And they also that passed by, reviled him; and, nodding their heads,
they said: Aha, you that destroys the temple and builds it in three
days,
30 rescue yourself, and come down
from the cross.
31 And so also the
chief priests, jeering one with another, and the Scribes, said: He
gave life to others, his own life he cannot save.
32
Let Mshikha, the king of the Judaeans, now
descend from the cross, that we may see [it] and believe in him. And
those also who were crucified with him, derided him.
33
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over all the
land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the
ninth hour, Yeshua cried with a loud voice, and said: Il, Il, lemono
shebakthone; that is: My Alaha, my Alaha; why have you forsaken
me?
35 And some of them that stood by, when
they heard it, said: He calls for Elijah.
36
And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and tied it on a reed,
to offer him drink. And they said: Desist; let us see if Elijah will
come to take him down.
37 And Yeshua cried
with a loud voice, and expired.
38 And the
curtain of the door of the temple was rent, from the top to the
bottom.
39 And when the centurion, who was
standing near him, saw that he so cried and expired, he said: Verily,
this was the Son of Alaha.
40 And there
were women looking on, from a distance, Miriam Magdalena, and Miriam
the mother of Ya’aqub the less and of Yoseh, and Salome;
41
who, when he was in Galil adhered to him, and ministered to him; and
many other women, who had come up with him to Yerushalayim.
42
And, as it was the eve of preparation, which precedes the
sabbath,
43 Yoseph of Ramath, an honorable
counsellor, who also himself waited for the Kingdom of Alaha, came,
and assuming courage, went to Pilatos, and begged the body of Yeshua.
44 And Pilatos wondered that he should be
already dead. And he called the centurion, and inquired if he had
been any time dead.
45 And when he learned
it, he gave his body to Yoseph.
46 And
Yoseph bought fine linen, and took it down, and wrapped it in the
linen, and deposited it in a sepulchre that was hewed in a rock, and
rolled a stone against the door of the sepulchre.
47
And Miriam Magdalena and Miriam [the mother] of Yoseh saw where he
was laid.
XVI.
1 And when the
sabbath had passed, Miriam Magdalena, and Miriam [the mother] of
Ya’aqub, and Salome, bought aromatics, that they might come and
anoint him.
2 And in the morning of the
first day of the week, they came to the sepulchre as the sun
arose.
3 And they said among them. selves:
Who will roll back for us the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4 And they looked, and saw that the
stone was rolled away; for it was very great.
5
And entering the sepulchre, they saw a youth sitting on the right
hand, and clothed in a white robe: and they were in perturbation.
6
But he said to them: Be not afraid. You are seeking Yeshua the
Nazaraean, who was crucified. He is risen; he is not here. Behold the
place where he was laid.
7 But go,
tell his talmidim and Keipha: Lo, he precedes you into Galil; there
will you see him, as he said to you.
8 And
when they heard, they fled and left the sepulchre; for astonishment
and trembling had seized them; and they said nothing to any one, for
they were in fear.
9 And in the
morning of the first day of the week, he arose; and he appeared first
to Miriam Magdalena, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
10
And she went and told them that had been with him, while they were
mourning and weeping.
11 And they, when
they heard [the women] say that he was alive, and that he had
appeared to them, did not believe them.
12
After this he appeared, under another aspect, to two of them as they
walked and went into the country.
13
And these went and told the rest; but they would not believe
them
14 And at last, he appeared to the
eleven: as they reclined at table; and he reproved the slenderness of
their faith, and the hardness of their heart; because they believed
not those who had seen him actually risen.
15
And he said to them: Go you into all the world, and proclaim my
tidings in the whole creation.
16 He that
believes, and is baptized, lives; but he that believes not, is
condemned.
17 And these signs shall attend
them that believe: In my name, they will cast out demons; and in new
tongues will they speak.
18 And they will
take up serpents; and if they should drink a deadly poison, it will
not harm them; and they will lay their hands on the sick, and they
will be healed.
19 And Yeshua, our Lord,
after he had conversed with them, ascended to heaven, and sat on the
right hand of Alaha.
20 And they went
forth, and preached everywhere: and Maran aided them, and confirmed
their discourses by the signs which they wrought.
Completion of the Holy Gospels, the Gospel of Mar Markus.
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