Loukas

Loukas 1
Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, it seemed functional to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilos; that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
There was in the days of Herodes, the male-authority-that-guides-the-people of Yehud, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abia. He had a woman of the female-tent-continuers of Aharon, and her name was Elisabet. They were both straight-pathed before the Strong-Yoked-Guide, walking blamelessly in all the directives and ordinances of the Strongest-Lifebringer. But they had no tent-builder, because Elisabet was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. Now it happened, while he executed the priest’s office before the Strong-Yoked-Guide in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Strongest-Lifebringer and burn incense. The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.
An messenger of the Strongest-Lifebringer appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and gut-flowing fell upon him. But the messenger said to him, Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your woman, Elisabet, will bear you a male-tent-continuer, and you shall call his name Yahuchanan. You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Strongest-Lifebringer, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the separated wind, even from his strong-womb’s womb. He will turn many of the tent-builders of Isharal to the Strongest-Lifebringer, their Strong-Yoked-Guide. He will go before him in the wind and power of Eliyahu, to turn the inner-guides of the tent-supporters to the tent-builders, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Strongest-Lifebringer.
Zacharias said to the messenger, How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my woman is well advanced in years.
The messenger answered him, I am Gabriyel, who stands in the presence of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this functional news. Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t support my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.
The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple. When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute. It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. After these days Elisabet, his woman, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus has the Strongest-Lifebringer done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.
Now in the sixth month, the messenger Gabriyel was sent from the Strong-Yoked-Guide to a city of Galiylah, named Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Yehoseph, of the house of Duid. The virgin’s name was Miryam. Having come in, the messenger said to her, Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Strongest-Lifebringer is with you. Knelt-down-and-given-to are you among women!
But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. The messenger said to her, Don’t be afraid, Miryam, for you have found encampment with the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a male-tent-continuer, and will call his name Ieueshuo. He will be great, and will be called the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Supreme-One. The Mighty Strongest-Lifebringer will give him the throne of his tent-supporter, Duid, and he will reign over the house of Eoqub to the horizons. There will be no end to his authority-to-guide-the-people.
Miryam said to the messenger, How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?
The messenger answered her, The separated wind will come on you, and the power of the Supreme-One will overshadow you. Therefore also the separated-one who is born from you will be called the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Behold, Elisabet, your relative, also has conceived a male-tent-continuer in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For everything spoken by the Strong-Yoked-Guide is possible.
Miryam said, Behold, the handmaid of the Strongest-Lifebringer; be it to me according to your word.
The messenger departed from her. Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Ieude, and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elisabet. It happened, when Elisabet heard Miryam’s greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elisabet was filled with the separated wind. She called out with a loud voice, and said, Knelt-down-and-given-to are you among women, and knelt-down-and-given-to is the fruit of your womb! Why am I so favored, that the strong-womb of my Strongest-Lifebringer should come to me? For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! Knelt-down-and-given-to is she who supported, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Strongest-Lifebringer!
Miryam said, My breathing-throat magnifies the Strongest-Lifebringer. My wind has rejoiced in the Strong-Yoked-Guide my deliverer, for he has looked at the humble condition of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all circles-of-men will call me knelt-down-and-given-to. For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Separated is his name. His bent-neck is for circles-of-men of circles-of-men on those who's gut-flows-before him.
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their inner-guides. He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with functional things. He has sent the rich away empty.
He has given help to Isharal, his servant, to be reminded of bent-neck, As he spoke to our tent-supporters, to Abarem and his seed to the horizon.
Miryam stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house. Now the time that Elisabet should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a male-tent-continuer. Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Strongest-Lifebringer had magnified his bent-neck towards her, and they rejoiced with her. It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the tent-builder; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the tent-supporter. His strong-womb answered, Not so; but he will be called Yahuchanan.
They said to her, There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name. They made signs to his tent-supporter, what he would have him called.
He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, His name is Yahuchanan.
They all marveled. His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, kneeling-down-to-give to the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Gut-Flowing came on all who filled-the-stomach around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Yehud. All who heard them laid them up in their inner-guide, saying, What then will this tent-builder be? The hand of the Strongest-Lifebringer was with him. His tent-supporter, Zacharias, was filled with the separated wind, and prophesied, saying, Knelt-down-and-given-to be the Strongest-Lifebringer, the Strong-Yoked-Guide of Isharal, for he has visited and worked redemption for his people; and has raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of his servant Duid (as he spoke by the mouth of his separated prophets who have been from of old), deliverance from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.
Also to bend-our-necks towards our tent-supporters, to remember his separated pieces-to-pass-through, the oath which he spoke to Abarem, our tent-supporter, to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without gut-flowing, in separateness and straight-pathedness before him all the days of our filled-stomach.
And you, tent-builder, will be called a prophet of the Supreme-One, for you will go before the face of the Strongest-Lifebringer to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by the remission of their missed-targets, because of the tender bent-neck of our Strong-Yoked-Guide, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of an emptied-stomach; to guide our feet into the way of completeness. The tent-builder was growing, and becoming strong in wind, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Isharal.
Loukas 2
Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Kaisar Augustus that all the inhabited land should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment made when Kurenios was governor of Syria. All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. Yehoseph also went up from Galiylah, out of the city of Nazareth, into Yehud, to the city of Duid, which is called Beyth Lechem, because he was of the house and family of Duid; to enroll himself with Miryam, who was pledged to be married to him as woman, being pregnant.
It happened, while they were there, that the day had come that she should give birth. She brought forth her firstborn male-tent-continuer, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. Behold, a messenger of the Strongest-Lifebringer stood by them, and the esteem of the Strongest-Lifebringer shone around them, and they were terrified. The messenger said to them, Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you functional news of great joy which will be to all the people. For there is born to you, this day, in the city of Duid, a deliverer, who is the Anointed the Strongest-Lifebringer. This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough. Suddenly, there was with the messenger a multitude of the army of the sky praising the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and saying,
Esteem to the Strong-Yoked-Guide in the highest,
on land completeness, functional will toward men.
It happened, when the messengers went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, Let’s go to Beyth Lechem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Strongest-Lifebringer has made known to us. They came with haste, and found both Miryam and Yehoseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough. When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this tent-builder. All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. But Miryam kept all these sayings, pondering them in her inner-guide. The shepherds returned, esteeming and praising the Strong-Yoked-Guide for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the tent-builder, his name was called Ieueshuo, which was given by the messenger before he was conceived in the womb.
When the days of their purification according to the thrown-seed of Mashe were fulfilled, they brought him up to Yerusalem, to present him to the Strongest-Lifebringer (as it is written in the thrown-seed of the Strongest-Lifebringer, Every male who opens the womb shall be called separated to the Strongest-Lifebringer), and to offer a slaughter according to that which is said in the thrown-seed of the Strongest-Lifebringer, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Behold, there was a man in Yerusalem whose name was Shimon. This man was straight-pathed and devout, looking for the consolation of Isharal, and the separated wind was on him. It had been revealed to him by the separated wind that he should not see an emptied-stomach before he had seen the Strongest-Lifebringer’s the Anointed. He came in the wind into the temple. When the parents brought in the tent-builder, Ieueshuo, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the thrown-seed, then he received him into his arms, and kneeled-to-give to the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and said, Strongest-Lifebringer, you are now releasing your slave, according to your word, in completeness; for my eyes have seen your deliverance, which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; a light for revelation to the non-Yehudiy, and the esteem of your people Isharal.
Yehoseph and his strong-womb were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him, and Shimon kneeled-to-give to them, and said to Miryam, his strong-womb, Behold, this tent-builder is set for the falling and the rising of many in Isharal, and for a sign which is spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own breathing-throat, that the thoughts of many inner-guides may be revealed.
There was one Anna, a prophetess, the female-tent-continuer of Phanouel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having filled-the-stomach with a man seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day. Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Strongest-Lifebringer, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Yerusalem.
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the thrown-seed of the Strongest-Lifebringer, they returned into Galiylah, to their own city, Nazareth. The tent-builder was growing, and was becoming strong in wind, being filled with wisdom, and the encampment of the Strong-Yoked-Guide was on him. His parents went every year to Yerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
When he was twelve years old, they went up to Yerusalem according to the custom of the feast, and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Ieueshuo stayed behind in Yerusalem. Yehoseph and his strong-womb didn’t know it, but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances. When they didn’t find him, they returned to Yerusalem, looking for him. It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. When they saw him, they were astonished, and his strong-womb said to him, Male-Tent-Continuer, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your tent-supporter and I were looking for you, emotionally sorrowed.
He said to them, Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Tent-Supporter’s house? They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his strong-womb kept all these sayings in her inner-guide. And Ieueshuo increased in wisdom and stature, and in encampment with the Strong-Yoked-Guide and men.
Loukas 3
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberios Kaisar, Pontios Pilatos being governor of Yehud, and Herodes being ruler of a fourth of Galiylah, and his male-strong-protector Philippos ruler of a fourth of the region of Yetur and Trachonitis, and Lusanias ruler of a fourth of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Chananyahu and Caiaphas, the word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide came to Yahuchanan, the male-tent-continuer of Zacharias, in the wilderness. He came into all the region around the Yarden, preaching the immersion of repentance for remission of missed-targets. As it is written in the mouth-support of the words of Yeshayahu the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Strongest-Lifebringer. Make his paths straight. Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth. All flesh will see the Strong-Yoked-Guide’s deliverance.
He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be immersed by him, You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath about to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, We have Abarem for our tent-supporter; for I tell you that the Strong-Yoked-Guide is able to raise up tent-builders to Abarem from these stones! Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t bring forth functional fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
The multitudes asked him, What then must we do?
He answered them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.
Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, Teacher, what must we do?
He said to them, Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, What about us? What must we do?
He said to them, Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.
As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their inner-guides concerning Yahuchanan, whether perhaps he was the Anointed, Yahuchanan answered them all, I indeed immerse you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will immerse you in the separated wind and fire, whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Then with many other exhortations he preached functional news to the people, but Herodes the ruler of a fourth, being reproved by him for Herodias, his male-strong-protector’s woman, and for all the dysfunctional things which Herodes had done, added this also to them all, that he shut up Yahuchanan in prison. Now it happened, when all the people were immersed, Ieueshuo also had been immersed, and was praying. The sky was opened, and the separated wind descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying You are my gift-cared Male-Tent-Continuer. In you I am well pleased.
Ieueshuo himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the male-tent-continuer (as was supposed) of Yehoseph, the male-tent-continuer of Eliy, the male-tent-continuer of Matthat, the male-tent-continuer of Leviy, the male-tent-continuer of Melchi, the male-tent-continuer of Yanah, the male-tent-continuer of Yehoseph, the male-tent-continuer of Mattathias, the male-tent-continuer of Amos, the male-tent-continuer of Nachum, the male-tent-continuer of Elyhoenay, the male-tent-continuer of Naggai, the male-tent-continuer of Maath, the male-tent-continuer of Mattathias, the male-tent-continuer of Shimiy, the male-tent-continuer of Yehoseph, the male-tent-continuer of Ieude, the male-tent-continuer of Ioannas, the male-tent-continuer of Rephayah, the male-tent-continuer of Zerubbabel, the male-tent-continuer of Shealtiyel, the male-tent-continuer of Neriyahu, the male-tent-continuer of Melchi, the male-tent-continuer of Adiy, the male-tent-continuer of Kosam, the male-tent-continuer of Elmodam, the male-tent-continuer of Er, the male-tent-continuer of Yehoseph, the male-tent-continuer of Eliyezer, the male-tent-continuer of Ioreim, the male-tent-continuer of Matthat, the male-tent-continuer of Leviy, the male-tent-continuer of Shimon, the male-tent-continuer of Ieude, the male-tent-continuer of Yehoseph, the male-tent-continuer of Yonah, the male-tent-continuer of Elyaqiym, the male-tent-continuer of Meleas, the male-tent-continuer of Mainan, the male-tent-continuer of Mattatha, the male-tent-continuer of Nathan, the male-tent-continuer of Duid, the male-tent-continuer of Aishi, the male-tent-continuer of Oubid, the male-tent-continuer of Boz, the male-tent-continuer of Salmun, the male-tent-continuer of Nachshun, the male-tent-continuer of Ominadab, the male-tent-continuer of Aram, the male-tent-continuer of Chetsrun, the male-tent-continuer of Parats, the male-tent-continuer of Ieude, the male-tent-continuer of Eoqub, the male-tent-continuer of Aisachaq, the male-tent-continuer of Abarem, the male-tent-continuer of Terach, the male-tent-continuer of Nachor, the male-tent-continuer of Serug, the male-tent-continuer of Reu, the male-tent-continuer of Peleg, the male-tent-continuer of Eber, the male-tent-continuer of Shelach, the male-tent-continuer of Cainan, the male-tent-continuer of Arpakshad, the male-tent-continuer of Sham, the male-tent-continuer of Nach, the male-tent-continuer of Lamak, the male-tent-continuer of Mathushalach, the male-tent-continuer of Chanuk, the male-tent-continuer of Irad, the male-tent-continuer of Melalal, the male-tent-continuer of Cainan, the male-tent-continuer of Anush, the male-tent-continuer of Shath, the male-tent-continuer of Adam, the male-tent-continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
Loukas 4
Ieueshuo, full of the separated wind, returned from the Yarden, and was led by the wind into the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the slanderer. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. The slanderer said to him, If you are the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, direct this stone to become bread.
Ieueshuo answered him, saying, It is written, Man shall not fill-the-stomach by bread alone, but by every word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
The slanderer, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the authorities-to-guide-the-people of the inhabited land in a moment of time. The slanderer said to him, I will give you all this authority, and their esteem, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will flatten-yourself before me, it will all be yours.
Ieueshuo answered him, Get behind me Satan! For it is written, You shall flatten-yourselves to the Strongest-Lifebringer your Strong-Yoked-Guide, and you shall serve him only.
He led him to Yerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, cast yourself down from here, for it is written, He will put his messengers in charge of you, to guard you; and, On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.
Ieueshuo answering, said to him, It has been said, You shall not tempt the Strongest-Lifebringer your Strong-Yoked-Guide.
When the slanderer had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
Ieueshuo returned in the power of the wind into Galiylah, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. He taught in their gatherings, being esteemed by all.
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the gathering on the Ceasing-Sign day, and stood up to read. The mouth-support of the prophet Yeshayahu was handed to him. He opened the mouth-support, and found the place where it was written, The wind of the Strongest-Lifebringer is on me, because he has anointed me to preach functional news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Strongest-Lifebringer.
He closed the mouth-support, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the gathering were fastened on him. He began to tell them, Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.
All testified about him, and wondered at the words of encampment which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, Isn’t this Yehoseph’s male-tent-continuer?
He said to them, Doubtless you will tell me this parable, Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Kapharnachum, do also here in your hometown. He said, I tell you, It-is-firm, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Isharal in the days of Eliyahu, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Eliyahu was sent to none of them, except to Tsarephath, in the land of Tsiydon, to a woman who was a widow. There were many lepers in Isharal in the time of Eliysha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Arammiy.
They were all filled with wrath in the gathering, as they heard these things. They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. But he, passing through their midst, went his way.
He came down to Kapharnachum, a city of Galiylah. He was teaching them on the Ceasing-Sign day, and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. In the gathering there was a man who had a wind of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying, Ah! what have we to do with you, Ieueshuo of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Separated One of the Strong-Yoked-Guide!
Ieueshuo rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out of him! When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, What is this word? For with authority and power he directs the unclean winds, and they come out! News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
He rose up from the gathering, and entered into Shimon’s house. Shimon’s strong-womb-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, You are the Anointed, the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide! Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Anointed.
When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them. But he said to them, I must preach the functional news of the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent. He was preaching in the gatherings of Galiylah.
Loukas 5
Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, that he was standing by the lake of Kinneroth. He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. He entered into one of the boats, which was Shimon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Shimon, Puth out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.
Shimon answered him, Strongest-Lifebringer, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net. When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. But Shimon Petros, when he saw it, fell down at Ieueshuo’ knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a man missing-the-target, Strongest-Lifebringer. For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; and so also were Eoqub and Yahuchanan, male-tent-continuers of Zebedaios, who were partners with Shimon.
Ieueshuo said to Shimon, Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people stomach-filled.
When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him. It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Ieueshuo, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, if you want to, you can make me clean.
He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, I want to. Be made clean.
Immediately the leprosy left him. He directed him to tell no one, But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Mashe directed, for a testimony to them. But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisaios and thrown-seed teachers sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galiylah, Yehud, and Yerusalem. The power of the Strongest-Lifebringer was with him to heal them. Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Ieueshuo. Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Ieueshuo. Seeing their steadiness, he said to him, Man, your missed-targets are lifted-off you.
The scribes and the Pharisaios began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can lift-off missed-targets, but the Strong-Yoked-Guide alone?
But Ieueshuo, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, Why are you reasoning so in your inner-guides? Which is easier to say, Your missed-targets are lifted-off you; or to say, Arise and walk? But that you may know that the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man has authority on land to lift-off missed-targets (he said to the paralyzed man), I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house.
Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, esteeming the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Amazement took hold on all, and they esteemed the Strong-Yoked-Guide. They were filled with gut-flowing, saying, We have seen strange things today.
After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Leviy sitting at the tax office, and said to him, Follow me!
He left everything, and rose up and followed him. Leviy made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. Their scribes and the Pharisaios murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and ones who miss-the-target? Ieueshuo answered them, Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the straight-pathed, but ones who miss-the-target to repentance.
They said to him, Why do Yahuchanan’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisaios, but yours eat and drink?
He said to them, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days. He also told a parable to them. No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, The old is better.
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Now it happened on the second Ceasing-Sign after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisaios said to them, Why do you do that which is not permissible to do on the Ceasing-Sign day?
Ieueshuo, answering them, said, Haven’t you read what Duid did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; how he entered into the house of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not permissible to eat except for the priests alone? He said to them, The Male-Tent-Continuer of Man is strongest-lifebringer of the Ceasing-Sign.
It also happened on another Ceasing-Sign that he entered into the gathering and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisaios watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Ceasing-Sign, that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand in the middle. He arose and stood. Then Ieueshuo said to them, I will ask you something: Is it permissible on the Ceasing-Sign to do what is functional, or to do what is dysfuntional? To deliver a breathing-throat, or to kill? He looked around at them all, and said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other. But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Ieueshuo.
It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to the Strong-Yoked-Guide. When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named plant-sprouts: Shimon, whom he also named Petros; Andreas, his male-strong-protector; Eoqub; Yahuchanan; Philippos; Bartalmay; Mattithyahu; Taom; Eoqub, the male-tent-continuer of Alphaeus; Shimon, who was called the Zealot; Ieude the male-tent-continuer of Eoqub; and Ieude Iyshqiryah, who also became a traitor. He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Yehud and Yerusalem, and the sea coast of Tsor and Tsiydon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; as well as those who were troubled by unclean winds, and they were being healed. All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, Knelt-down-and-given-to are you who are poor, for yours is the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Knelt-down-and-given-to are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Knelt-down-and-given-to are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Knelt-down-and-given-to are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as dysfunctional, for the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the sky, for their tent-supporters did the same thing to the prophets.
But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe, when men speak well of you, for their tent-supporters did the same thing to the empty prophets.
But I tell you who hear: care-for-the-gift-of your enemies, do what is functional to those who hate you, kneel-to-give to those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also. Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them. If you care-for-the-gift-of those who care-for-the-gift-of you, what is that bent-neck to you? For even ones who miss-the-target care-for-the-gift-of those who care-for-the-gift-of them. If you do what is functional to those who do what is functional to you, what is that bent-neck to you? For even ones who miss-the-target do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what is that bent-neck to you? Even ones who miss-the-target lend to ones who miss-the-target, to receive back as much. But care-for-the-gift-of your enemies, and do what is functional, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be tent-builders of the Supreme-One; for he is kind toward the unthankful and dysfunctional.
Therefore be merciful, even as your Tent-Supporter is also merciful. Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. Give, and it will be given to you: functional measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.
He spoke a parable to them. Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your male-strong-protector’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? Or how can you tell your male-strong-protector, Male-Strong-Protector, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye, when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your male-strong-protector’s eye. For there is no functional tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth functional fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. The functional man out of the functional treasure of his inner-guide brings out that which is functional, and the dysfunctional man out of the dysfunctional treasure of his inner-guide brings out that which is dysfunctional, for out of the abundance of the inner-guide, his mouth speaks.
Why do you call me, Strongest-Lifebringer, Strongest-Lifebringer, and don’t do the things which I say? Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the land without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.
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After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Kapharnachum. A certain centurion’s slave, who was dear to him, was sick and about to be at the point of an emptied-stomach. When he heard about Ieueshuo, he sent to him elders of the Yehudiy, asking him to come and deliver his slave. When they came to Ieueshuo, they begged him earnestly, saying, He is worthy for you to do this for him, for he cares-for-the-gift-of our nation, and he built our gathering for us. Ieueshuo went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, Go! and he goes; and to another, Come! and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
When Ieueshuo heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, I tell you, I have not found such great steadiness, no, not in Isharal. Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the slave who had been sick was well.
It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him. Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was stomach-emptied was carried out, the only male-tent-continuer of his strong-womb, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. When the Strongest-Lifebringer saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Don’t cry. He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, Young man, I tell you, arise! He who was stomach-emptied sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his strong-womb.
Gut-Flowing took hold of all, and they esteemed the Strong-Yoked-Guide, saying, A great prophet has arisen among us! and, The Strong-Yoked-Guide has visited his people! This report went out concerning him in the whole of Yehud, and in all the surrounding region.
The disciples of Yahuchanan told him about all these things. Yahuchanan, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Ieueshuo, saying, Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another? When the men had come to him, they said, Yahuchanan the Immerser has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?
In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and dysfunctional winds; and to many who were blind he gave sight. Ieueshuo answered them, Go and tell Yahuchanan the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the stomach-emptied are raised up, and the poor have functional news preached to them. Knelt-down-and-given-to is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.
When Yahuchanan’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about Yahuchanan, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and fill-the-stomach delicately, are in male-authorities-that-guide-the-people’ courts. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written,
Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you.
For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than Yahuchanan the Immerser, yet he who is least in the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide is greater than he.
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared the Strong-Yoked-Guide to be just, having been immersed with Yahuchanan’s immersion. But the Pharisaios and the lawyers rejected the counsel of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, not being immersed by him themselves.
To what then will I liken the people of this circle-of-men? What are they like? They are like tent-builders who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep. For Yahuchanan the Immerser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon. The Male-Tent-Continuer of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and ones who miss-the-target! Wisdom is justified by all her tent-builders.
One of the Pharisaios invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. Behold, a woman in the city who was a one who misses-the-target, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a one who misses-the-target.
Ieueshuo answered him, Shimon, I have something to tell you.
He said, Teacher, say on.
A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they couldn’t pay, he lifted-off them both. Which of them therefore will care-for-the-gift-of him most?
Shimon answered, He, I suppose, to whom he lifted-off the most.
He said to him, You have judged correctly. Turning to the woman, he said to Shimon, Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her missed-targets, which are many, are lifted-off, for she cared-for-the-gift much. But to whom little is lifted-off, the same cares-for-the-gift-of little. He said to her, Your missed-targets are lifted-off.
Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, Who is this who even lifts-off missed-targets?
He said to the woman, Your steadiness has delivered you. Go in completeness.
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It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the functional news of the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. With him were the twelve, and certain women who had been healed of dysfunctional winds and infirmities: Miryam who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; and Ioannas, the woman of Chouzas, Herodes’s steward; Sousanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions. When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the flyers of the sky devoured it. Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. Other fell into the functional ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times. As he said these things, he called out, He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Then his disciples asked him, What does this parable mean?
He said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Those along the road are those who hear, then the slanderer comes, and takes away the word from their inner-guide, that they may not support and be delivered. Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who support for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of a filled-stomach, and bring no fruit to maturity. That in the functional ground, these are such as in an honest and functional inner-guide, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light. For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light. Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.
His strong-womb and male-strong-protectors came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. It was told him by some saying, Your strong-womb and your male-strong-protectors stand outside, desiring to see you.
But he answered them, My strong-womb and my male-strong-protectors are these who hear the word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and do it.
Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, Let’s go over to the other side of the lake. So they launched out. But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. They came to him, and awoke him, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, strongest-lifebringer, we are emptying-the-stomach! He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm. He said to them, Where is your steadiness? Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, Who is this, then, that he directs even the winds and the water, and they listen to him? They arrived at the country of the Gadarenos, which is opposite Galiylah.
When Ieueshuo stepped ashore, a certain man out of the province who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t fill-the-stomach in a house, but in the tombs. When he saw Ieueshuo, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What do I have to do with you, Ieueshuo, you Male-Tent-Continuer of the Supreme Strong-Yoked-Guide? I beg you, don’t torment me! For Ieueshuo was directing the unclean wind to come out of the man. For the unclean wind had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
Ieueshuo asked him, What is your name?
He said, Legion, for many demons had entered into him. They begged him that he would not direct them to go into the abyss. Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them. The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned. When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
People went out to see what had happened. They came to Ieueshuo, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Ieueshuo’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenos asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned. But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Ieueshuo sent him away, saying, Return to your house, and declare what great things the Strong-Yoked-Guide has done for you. He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Ieueshuo had done for him.
It happened, when Ieueshuo returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. Behold, there came a man named Yaiyr, and he was a ruler of the gathering. He fell down at Ieueshuo’ feet, and begged him to come into his house, for he had an only female-tent-continuer, about twelve years of age, and she was emptying-the-stomach. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped. Ieueshuo said, Who touched me?
When all denied it, Petros and those with him said, Strongest-Lifebringer, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, Who touched me?
But Ieueshuo said, Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me. When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. He said to her, Daughter, cheer up. Your steadiness has made you well. Go in completeness.
While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the gathering’s house came, saying to him, Your female-tent-continuer is stomach-emptied. Don’t trouble the Teacher.
But Ieueshuo hearing it, answered him, Don’t be afraid. Only support, and she will be healed.
When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Petros, Yahuchanan, Eoqub, the tent-supporter of the tent-builder, and her strong-womb. All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, Don’t weep. She isn’t stomach-emptied, but sleeping.
They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was stomach-emptied. But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, House-builder, arise! Her wind returned, and she rose up immediately. He directed that something be given to her to eat. Her parents were amazed, but he directed them to tell no one what had been done.
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He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He sent them forth to preach the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and to heal the sick. He said to them, Take nothing for your journey—neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece. Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the functional news, and healing everywhere. Now Herodes the ruler of a fourth heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that Yahuchanan had risen from the stomach-emptied, and by some that Eliyahu had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. Herodes said, Yahuchanan I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things? He sought to see him. The plant-sprouts, when they had returned, told him what things they had done.
He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bayith Tsayad. But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and he cured those who needed healing. The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and settle down, and get food, for we are here in a desolate place.
But he said to them, You give them something to eat.
They said, We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people. For they were about five thousand men.
He said to his disciples, Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each. They did so, and made them all sit down. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he kneeled-to-give to them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples were with him, and he asked them, Who do the multitudes say that I am?
They answered, Yahuchanan the Immerser, but others say, Eliyahu, and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
He said to them, But who do you say that I am?
Petros answered, The the Anointed of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
But he warned them, and directed them to tell this to no one, saying, The Male-Tent-Continuer of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
He said to all, If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to deliver his breathing-throat will lose it, but whoever will lose his breathing-throat for my sake, the same will deliver it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his esteem, and the esteem of the Tent-Supporter, and of the separated messengers. But I tell you that which is firm: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of an emptied-stomach, until they see the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
It happened about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Petros, Yahuchanan, and Eoqub, and went up onto the mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Mashe and Eliyahu, who appeared in esteem, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Yerusalem.
Now Petros and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his esteem, and the two men who stood with him. It happened, as they were parting from him, that Petros said to Ieueshuo, Strongest-Lifebringer, it is functional for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, and one for Mashe, and one for Eliyahu, not knowing what he said.
While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. A voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my gift-cared Male-Tent-Continuer. Listen to him! When the voice came, Ieueshuo was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him. Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, Teacher, I beg you to look at my male-tent-continuer, for he is my only tent-builder. Behold, a wind takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely. I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.
Ieueshuo answered, Faithless and perverse circle-of-men, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your male-tent-continuer here.
While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Ieueshuo rebuked the unclean wind, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his tent-supporter. They were all astonished at the majesty of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
But while all were marveling at all the things which Ieueshuo did, he said to his disciples, Let these words sink into your ears, for the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men. But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest. Ieueshuo, perceiving the reasoning of their inner-guides, took a little tent-builder, and set him by his side, and said to them, Whoever receives this little tent-builder in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.
Yahuchanan answered, Strongest-Lifebringer, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.
Ieueshuo said to him, Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.
It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Yerusalem, and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Shomeroniy, so as to prepare for him. They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Yerusalem. When his disciples, Eoqub and Yahuchanan, saw this, they said, Strongest-Lifebringer, do you want us to direct fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Eliyahu did?
But he turned and rebuked them, You don’t know of what kind of wind you are. For the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s fills-the-stomach, but to deliver them.
They went to another village. As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, I want to follow you wherever you go, Strongest-Lifebringer.
Ieueshuo said to him, The foxes have holes, and the flyers of the sky have nests, but the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man has no place to lay his head.
He said to another, Follow me!
But he said, Strongest-Lifebringer, allow me first to go and bury my tent-supporter.
But Ieueshuo said to him, Leave the stomach-emptied to bury their own stomach-emptied, but you go and announce the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
Another also said, I want to follow you, Strongest-Lifebringer, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.
But Ieueshuo said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
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Now after these things, the Strongest-Lifebringer also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. Then he said to them, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Strongest-Lifebringer of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest. Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Join no one on the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, Completeness be to this house. If a male-tent-continuer of completeness is there, your completeness will enter-into-the-tent on him; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house. Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, The authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide has come near to you. But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide has come near to you. I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sedom than for that city.
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bayith Tsayad! For if the mighty works had been done in Tsor and Tsiydon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tsor and Tsiydon in the judgment than for you. You, Kapharnachum, who are exalted to the sky, will be brought down to the unseen-realm. Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.
The seventy returned with joy, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, even the demons are subject to us in your name!
He said to them, I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from the sky. Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the winds are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the sky.
In that same hour Ieueshuo rejoiced in the separated wind, and said, I thank you, O Tent-Supporter, Strongest-Lifebringer of the sky and the land, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little tent-builders. Yes, Tent-Supporter, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Turning to the disciples, he said, All things have been delivered to me by my Tent-Supporter. No one knows who the Male-Tent-Continuer is, except the Tent-Supporter, and who the Tent-Supporter is, except the Male-Tent-Continuer, and he to whomever the Male-Tent-Continuer desires to reveal him.
Turning to the disciples, he said privately, Knelt-down-and-given-to are the eyes which see the things that you see, for I tell you that many prophets and male-authorities-that-guide-the-people desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit the horizonal filled-stomach?
He said to him, What is written in the thrown-seed? How do you read it?
He answered, You shall care-for-the-gift-of the Strongest-Lifebringer your Strong-Yoked-Guide with all your inner-guide, with all your breathing-throat, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
He said to him, You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will fill-the-stomach.
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Ieueshuo, Who is my neighbor?
Ieueshuo answered, A certain man was going down from Yerusalem to Yeriycho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half stomach-emptied. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Leviy also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Shomeroniy, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return. Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?
He said, He who bent-his-neck with him.
Then Ieueshuo said to him, Go and do likewise.
It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. She had a female-strong-protector called Miryam, who also sat at Ieueshuo’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, Strongest-Lifebringer, don’t you care that my female-strong-protector left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.
Ieueshuo answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. Miryam has chosen the functional part, which will not be taken away from her.
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It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, teach us to pray, just as Yahuchanan also taught his disciples.
He said to them, When you pray, say, Our Tent-Supporter in the sky, may your name be kept separated. May your authority-to-guide-the-people come. May your will be done on land, as it is in the sky. Give us day by day our daily bread. Lift-Off us our missed-targets, for we ourselves also lift-off everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the dysfunctional one.
He said to them, Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him, and he from within will answer and say, Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my tent-builders are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’? I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Which of you tent-supporters, if your male-tent-continuer asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being dysfunctional, know how to give functional bent-knee-presents to your tent-builders, how much more will your Tent-Supporter of the sky give the separated wind to those who ask him?
He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled. But some of them said, He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons. Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from the sky. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every authority-to-guide-the-people divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his authority-to-guide-the-people stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your tent-builders cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges. But if I by the finger of the Strong-Yoked-Guide cast out demons, then the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide has come to you.
When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters. The unclean wind, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking entry-into-the-tent, and finding none, he says, I will turn back to my house from which I came out. When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes, and takes seven other winds more dysfunctional than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, Knelt-down-and-given-to is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!
But he said, On the contrary, Knelt-down-and-given-to are those who hear the word of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and keep it.
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, This is a dysfunctional circle-of-men. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Yonah, the prophet. For even as Yonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man be to this circle-of-men. The Female-Authority-That-Controls-The-People of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this circle-of-men, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the land to hear the wisdom of Shalimun; and behold, one greater than Shalimun is here. The men of Ninue will stand up in the judgment with this circle-of-men, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and behold, one greater than Yonah is here.
No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is functional, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is dysfunctional, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table. When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner. The Strongest-Lifebringer said to him, Now you Pharisaios cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? But give for bent-knee-presents to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. But woe to you Pharisaios! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the gift-care of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. Woe to you Pharisaios! For you care-for-the-gift-of the best seats in the gatherings, and the greetings in the marketplaces. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisaios, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.
One of the lawyers answered him, Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.
He said, Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your tent-supporters killed them. So you testify and consent to the works of your tent-supporters. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the wisdom of the Strong-Yoked-Guide said, I will send to them prophets and plant-sprouts; and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the disruption of the world, may be required of this circle-of-men; from the blood of Ebal to the blood of Zekaryahu, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this circle-of-men. Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisaios began to be terribly nose-flared, and to draw many things out of him; lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
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Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, Beware of the yeast of the Pharisaios, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom you should flow-the-gut-before. Inwardly-flow-before him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, flow-the-gut-before him.
Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by the Strong-Yoked-Guide. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man also confess before the messengers of the Strong-Yoked-Guide; but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the messengers of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Everyone who speaks a word against the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man will be lifted-off, but those who blaspheme against the separated wind will not be lifted-off. When they bring you before the gatherings, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; for the separated wind will teach you in that same hour what you must say.
One of the multitude said to him, Teacher, tell my male-strong-protector to divide the inheritance with me.
But he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? He said to them, Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s filled-stomach doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.
He spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. He reasoned within himself, saying, What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops? He said, This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my breathing-throat, breathing-throat, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.
But the Strong-Yoked-Guide said to him, You foolish one, tonight your breathing-throat is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be? So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
He said to his disciples, Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your breathing-throat, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Your breathing-throat is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and the Strong-Yoked-Guide feeds them. How much more valuable are you than flyers! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Shalimun in all his esteem was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how the Strong-Yoked-Guide clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little steadiness? Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Tent-Supporter knows that you need these things. But seek the Strong-Yoked-Guide’s authority-to-guide-the-people, and all these things will be added to you. Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Tent-Supporter’s functional pleasure to give you the authority-to-guide-the-people. Sell that which you have, and give bent-knee-presents to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the skies that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your inner-guide be also.
Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. Be like men watching for their strongest-lifebringer, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. Knelt-down-and-given-to are those slaves, whom the strongest-lifebringer will find watching when he comes. I tell you, It-is-firm, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. They will be knelt-down-and-given-to if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. But know this, that if the strongest-lifebringer of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore be ready also, for the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.
Petros said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?
The Strongest-Lifebringer said, Who then is the supportive and wise steward, whom his strongest-lifebringer will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? Knelt-down-and-given-to is that slave whom his strongest-lifebringer will find doing so when he comes. Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. But if that slave says in his inner-guide, My strongest-lifebringer delays his coming, and begins to beat the boys and the maids, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, then the strongest-lifebringer of that slave will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. That slave, who knew his strongest-lifebringer’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
I came to throw fire on the land. I wish it were already kindled. But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give completeness in the land? I tell you, no, but rather division. For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. They will be divided, tent-supporter against male-tent-continuer, and male-tent-continuer against tent-supporter; strong-womb against female-tent-continuer, and female-tent-continuer against her strong-womb; strong-womb-in-law against her female-tent-continuer-in-law, and female-tent-continuer-in-law against her strong-womb-in-law.
He said to the multitudes also, When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, A shower is coming, and so it happens. When a south wind blows, you say, There will be a scorching heat, and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the land and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.
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Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilatos had mixed with their slaughters. Ieueshuo answered them, Do you think that these Galileans were worse ones who miss-the-target than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Yerusalem? I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
He spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. He said to the vine dresser, Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil? He answered, Strongest-Lifebringer, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down right away.
He was teaching in one of the gatherings on the Ceasing-Sign day. Behold, there was a woman who had a wind of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up. When Ieueshuo saw her, he called her, and said to her, Woman, you are freed from your infirmity. He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and esteemed the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
The ruler of the gathering, being indignant because Ieueshuo had healed on the Ceasing-Sign, said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Ceasing-Sign day!
Therefore the Strongest-Lifebringer answered him, You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Ceasing-Sign, and lead him away to water? Ought not this woman, being a female-tent-continuer of Abarem, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Ceasing-Sign day?
As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the esteemed things that were done by him.
He said, What is the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide like? To what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the flyers of the sky lodged in its branches.
Again he said, To what shall I compare the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide? It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.
He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Yerusalem. One said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, are they few who are delivered?
He said to them, Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. When once the strongest-lifebringer of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, Strongest-Lifebringer, open to us! then he will answer and tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets. He will say, I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abarem, Aisachaq, Eoqub, and all the prophets, in the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and yourselves being thrown outside. They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.
On that same day, some Pharisaios came, saying to him, Get out of here, and go away, for Herodes wants to kill you.
He said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet perish outside of Yerusalem.
Yerusalem, Yerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your tent-builders together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, Knelt-down-and-given-to is he who comes in the name of the Strongest-Lifebringer!
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It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisaios on a Ceasing-Sign to eat bread, that they were watching him. Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. Ieueshuo, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisaios, saying, Is it permissible to heal on the Ceasing-Sign?
But they were silent.
He took him, and healed him, and let him go. He answered them, Which of you, if your male-tent-continuer or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Ceasing-Sign day?
They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.
He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, Make room for this person. Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, Friend, move up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
He also said to the one who had invited him, When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your male-strong-protectors, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; and you will be knelt-down-and-given-to, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the straight-pathed.
When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, Knelt-down-and-given-to is he who will feast in the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide!
But he said to him, A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people. He sent out his slave at supper time to tell those who were invited, Come, for everything is ready now. They all as one began to make excuses.
The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.
Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.
Another said, I have married a woman, and therefore I can’t come.
That slave came, and told his strongest-lifebringer these things. Then the strongest-lifebringer of the house, being nose-flared, said to his slave, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.
The slave said, Strongest-Lifebringer, it is done as you directed, and there is still room.
The strongest-lifebringer said to the slave, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own tent-supporter, strong-womb, woman, tent-builders, male-strong-protectors, and female-strong-protectors, yes, and his own breathing-throat also, he can’t be my disciple. Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish. Or what male-authority-that-guides-the-people, as he goes to encounter another male-authority-that-guides-the-people in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of completeness. So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. Salt is functional, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Now all the tax collectors and ones who miss-the-target were coming close to him to hear him. The Pharisaios and the scribes murmured, saying, This man welcomes ones who miss-the-target, and eats with them.
He told them this parable. Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost! I tell you that even so there will be more joy in the sky over one one who misses-the-target who repents, than over ninety-nine straight-pathed people who need no repentance. Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost. Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the messengers of the Strong-Yoked-Guide over one one who misses-the-target repentance.
He said, A certain man had two male-tent-continuers. The younger of them said to his tent-supporter, Tent-Supporter, give me my share of your property. He divided his livelihood between them. Not many days after, the younger male-tent-continuer gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. He wanted to fill his bowels with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my tent-supporter’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m emptying-the-stomach with hunger! I will get up and go to my tent-supporter, and will tell him, Tent-Supporter, I have missed-the-target against the sky, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your male-tent-continuer. Make me as one of your hired servants.
He arose, and came to his tent-supporter. But while he was still far off, his tent-supporter saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. The male-tent-continuer said to him, Tent-Supporter, I have missed-the-target against the sky, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your male-tent-continuer.
But the tent-supporter said to his slaves, Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Puth a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate; for this, my male-tent-continuer, was stomach-emptied, and fills-the-stomach. He was lost, and is found. They began to celebrate.
Now his elder male-tent-continuer was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on. He said to him, Your male-strong-protector has come, and your tent-supporter has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy. But he was nose-flared, and would not go in. Therefore his tent-supporter came out, and begged him. But he answered his tent-supporter, Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never failed to listen to a directive of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this, your male-tent-continuer, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.
He said to him, Male-Tent-Continuer, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your male-strong-protector, was stomach-emptied, and fills-the-stomach again. He was lost, and is found.
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He also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. He called him, and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.
The manager said within himself, What will I do, seeing that my strongest-lifebringer is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses. Calling each one of his strongest-lifebringer’s debtors to him, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my strongest-lifebringer? He said, A hundred batos of oil. He said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty. Then he said to another, How much do you owe? He said, A hundred cors of wheat. He said to him, Take your bill, and write eighty.
His strongest-lifebringer commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the tent-builders of this world are, in their own circle-of-men, wiser than the tent-builders of the light. I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of path-deserters mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the horizonal tents. He who is supportive in a very little is supportive also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If therefore you have not been supportive in the path-deserters mammon, who will commit to your trust the firm riches? If you have not been supportive in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two strong-lifebringers, for either he will hate the one, and care-for-the-gift-of the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve the Strong-Yoked-Guide and mammon.
The Pharisaios, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but the Strong-Yoked-Guide knows your inner-guides. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. The thrown-seed and the prophets were until Yahuchanan. From that time the functional news of the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. But it is easier for the sky and the land to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the thrown-seed to fall. Everyone who divorces his woman, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a man commits adultery.
Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar, named Lazaros, was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. It happened that the beggar emptied-the-stomach, and that he was carried away by the messengers to Abarem’s bosom. The rich man also emptied-the-stomach, and was buried. In the unseen-realm, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abarem far off, and Lazaros at his bosom. He cried and said, Tent-Supporter Abarem, bend-your-neck to me, and send Lazaros, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am emotionally sorrowed in this flame.
But Abarem said, Male-Tent-Continuer, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your functional things, and Lazaros, in the same way, dysfunctional things. But now here he is comforted and you are emotionally sorrowed. Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may ferry over from there to us.
He said, I ask you therefore, tent-supporter, that you would send him to my tent-supporter’s house; for I have five male-strong-protectors, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.
But Abarem said to him, They have Mashe and the prophets. Let them listen to them.
He said, No, tent-supporter Abarem, but if one goes to them from the stomach-emptied, they will repent.
He said to him, If they don’t listen to Mashe and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the stomach-emptied.
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He said to the disciples, It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. Be careful. If your male-strong-protector misses-the-target against you, rebuke him. If he repents, lift-off him. If he misses-the-target against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, I repent, you shall lift-off him.
The plant-sprouts said to the Strongest-Lifebringer, Increase our steadiness.
The Strongest-Lifebringer said, If you had steadiness like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would listen to you. But who is there among you, having a slave plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, Come immediately and sit down at the table, and will not rather tell him, Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’? Is his bent-neck acceptable because that servant did the thing that was directed to him? I think not. Even so you also, when you have done all those things that are directed to you, say, We are unworthy slaves. We have done our duty.
It happened as he was on his way to Yerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Shomeron and Galiylah. As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. They lifted up their voices, saying, Ieueshuo, Strongest-Lifebringer, bend-your-neck to us!
When he saw them, he said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priests. It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, esteeming the Strong-Yoked-Guide with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Ieueshuo’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Shomeroniy. Ieueshuo answered, Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there none found who returned to give esteem to the Strong-Yoked-Guide, except this stranger? Then he said to him, Get up, and go your way. Your steadiness has healed you.
Being asked by the Pharisaios when the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide would come, he answered them, The authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide doesn’t come with observation; neither will they say, Look, here! or, Look, there! for behold, the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide is within you.
He said to the disciples, The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man, and you will not see it. They will tell you, Look, here! or Look, there! Don’t go away, nor follow after them, for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man be in his day. But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this circle-of-men. As it happened in the days of Nach, even so will it be also in the days of the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Nach entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but in the day that Lot went out from Sedom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. It will be the same way in the day that the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man is revealed. In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. Remember Lot’s woman! Whoever seeks to deliver his breathing-throat loses it, but whoever loses it preserves it. I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.
They, answering, asked him, Where, Strongest-Lifebringer?
He said to them, Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together.
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He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t flow-the-gut-before the Strong-Yoked-Guide, and didn’t respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, Defend me from my adversary! He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, Though I neither flow-the-gut-before the Strong-Yoked-Guide, nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.
The Strongest-Lifebringer said, Listen to what the path-deserters judge says. Won’t the Strong-Yoked-Guide avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man comes, will he find steadiness on the land?
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own straight-pathedness, and who despised all others. Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: Strong-Yoked-Guide, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, path-deserters, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to the sky, but beat his breast, saying, Strong-Yoked-Guide, be merciful to me, a one who misses-the-target! I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. Ieueshuo summoned them, saying, Allow the little tent-builders to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide belongs to such as these. I tell you, It-is-firm, whoever doesn’t receive the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide like a little tent-builder, he will in no way enter into it.
A certain ruler asked him, saying, Functional Teacher, what shall I do to inherit the horizonal filled-stomach?
Ieueshuo asked him, Why do you call me functional? No one is functional, except one—the Strong-Yoked-Guide. You know the directives: Don’t commit adultery, Don’t murder, Don’t steal, Don’t give empty testimony, Honor your tent-supporter and your strong-womb.
He said, I have observed all these things from my youth up.
When Ieueshuo heard these things, he said to him, You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in the sky. Come, follow me.
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
Ieueshuo, seeing that he became very sad, said, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide! For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
Those who heard it said, Then who can be delivered?
But he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
Petros said, Look, we have left everything, and followed you.
He said to them, I tell you, It-is-firm, there is no one who has left house, or woman, or male-strong-protectors, or parents, or tent-builders, for the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide’s sake, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the horizon to come, the horizonal filled-stomach.
He took the twelve aside, and said to them, Behold, we are going up to Yerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man will be completed. For he will be delivered up to the non-Yehudiy, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said. It happened, as he came near Yeriycho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. They told him that Ieueshuo of Nazareth was passing by. He cried out, Ieueshuo, you male-tent-continuer of Duid, bend-your-neck to me! Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, You male-tent-continuer of Duid, bend-your-neck to me!
Standing still, Ieueshuo directed him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, What do you want me to do?
He said, Strongest-Lifebringer, that I may see again.
Ieueshuo said to him, Receive your sight. Your steadiness has healed you.
Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, esteeming the Strong-Yoked-Guide. All the people, when they saw it, praised the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
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He entered and was passing through Yeriycho. There was a man named Zakkay. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. He was trying to see who Ieueshuo was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short. He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. When Ieueshuo came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zakkay, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house. He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, He has gone in to settle down with a man who is a one who misses-the-target.
Zakkay stood and said to the Strongest-Lifebringer, Behold, Strongest-Lifebringer, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.
Ieueshuo said to him, Today, deliverance has come to this house, because he also is a male-tent-continuer of Abarem. For the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man came to seek and to deliver that which was lost.
As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Yerusalem, and they supposed that the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide was about to be revealed immediately. He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself an authority-to-guide-the-people, and to return. He called ten slaves of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, Conduct business until I come. But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, We don’t want this man to reign over us.
It happened when he had come back again, having received the authority-to-guide-the-people, that he directed these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. The first came before him, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, your mina has made ten more minas.
He said to him, Well done, you functional slave! Because you were found supportive with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.
The second came, saying, Your mina, Strongest-Lifebringer, has made five minas.
So he said to him, And you are to be over five cities. Another came, saying, Strongest-Lifebringer, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, for I inwardly-flowed-before you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.
He said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked slave! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow. Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it? He said to those who stood by, Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.
They said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, he has ten minas! For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me. Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Yerusalem.
It happened, when he drew near to Bayith Pag and Bahyith Abarah, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, saying, Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. If anyone asks you, Why are you untying it? say to him: The Strongest-Lifebringer needs it.
Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. As they were untying the colt, its possessors said to them, Why are you untying the colt? They said, The Strongest-Lifebringer needs it. They brought it to Ieueshuo. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Ieueshuo on them. As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise the Strong-Yoked-Guide with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, saying, Knelt-down-and-given-to is the Male-Authority-That-Guides-The-People who comes in the name of the Strongest-Lifebringer! Completeness in the sky, and esteem in the highest!
Some of the Pharisaios from the multitude said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples!
He answered them, I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.
When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your completeness! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, and will dash you and your tent-builders within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.
He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers’!
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the functional news, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders. They asked him, Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?
He answered them, I also will ask you one question. Tell me: the immersion of Yahuchanan, was it from the sky, or from men?
They reasoned with themselves, saying, If we say, From the sky, he will say, Why didn’t you support him? But if we say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that Yahuchanan was a prophet. They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.
Ieueshuo said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
He began to tell the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. At the proper season, he sent a slave to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. He sent yet another slave, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. The strongest-lifebringer of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my gift-cared male-tent-continuer. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.
But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the strongest-lifebringer of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
When they heard it, they said, May it never be!
But he looked at them, and said, Then what is this that is written,
The stone which the builders rejected,
the same was made the chief cornerstone?
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces,
but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they inwardly-flowed-before the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be straight-pathed, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. They asked him, Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. Is it permissible for us to pay taxes to Kaisar, or not?
But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, Why do you test me? Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?
They answered, Kaisar’s.
He said to them, Then give to Kaisar the things that are Kaisar’s, and to the Strong-Yoked-Guide the things that are the Strong-Yoked-Guide’s.
They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. Some of the Saddoukaios came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. They asked him, Teacher, Mashe wrote to us that if a man’s male-strong-protector empties-the-stomach having a woman, and he is without tent-builders, his male-strong-protector should take the woman, and raise up tent-builders for his male-strong-protector. There were therefore seven male-strong-protectors. The first took a woman, and emptied-the-stomach without bearing tent-builders. The second took her as woman, and he emptied-the-stomach without bearing tent-builders. The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no tent-builders, and emptied-the-stomach. Afterward the woman also emptied-the-stomach. Therefore in the resurrection whose woman of them will she be? For the seven had her as a woman.
Ieueshuo said to them, The tent-builders of this horizon marry, and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy to attain to that horizon and the resurrection from the stomach-emptied, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. For they can’t empty-the-stomach any more, for they are like the messengers, and are tent-builders of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, being tent-builders of the resurrection. But that the stomach-emptied are raised, even Mashe showed at the bush, when he called the Strongest-Lifebringer the Strong-Yoked-Guide of Abarem, the Strong-Yoked-Guide of Aisachaq, and the Strong-Yoked-Guide of Eoqub. Now he is not the Strong-Yoked-Guide of the emptied-stomachs, but of the filled-stomachs, for all are stomach-filled to him.
Some of the scribes answered, Teacher, you speak well. They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.
He said to them, Why do they say that the Anointed is Duid’s male-tent-continuer? Duid himself says in the mouth-support of Psalms,
The Strongest-Lifebringer said to my Strongest-Lifebringer,
Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.
Duid therefore calls him Strongest-Lifebringer, so how is he his male-tent-continuer?
In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and are fond of greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the gatherings, and the best places at feasts; who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.
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He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their bent-knee-presents into the treasury. He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. He said, Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in bent-knee-presents for the Strong-Yoked-Guide from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to fill-the-stomach on.
As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and bent-knee-presents, he said, As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be taken down.
They asked him, Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?
He said, Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, I am he, and, The time is at hand. Therefore don’t follow them. When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.
Then he said to them, Nation will rise against nation, and authority-to-guide-the-people against authority-to-guide-the-people. There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from the sky. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to gatherings and prisons, bringing you before male-authorities-that-guide-the-people and governors for my name’s sake. It will turn out as a testimony for you. Settle it therefore in your inner-guides not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. You will be handed over even by parents, male-strong-protectors, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be stomach-emptied. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. And not a hair of your head will perish.
By your endurance you will win your breathing-throats.
But when you see Yerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. Then let those who are in Yehud flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Yerusalem will be trampled down by the non-Yehudiy, until the times of the non-Yehudiy are fulfilled. There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the land anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; men fainting because of inwardly-flowing before it, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the inhabited land: for the powers of the skies will be shaken. Then they will see the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man coming in a cloud with power and great esteem. But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.
He told them a parable. See the fig tree, and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide is near. I tell you, It-is-firm, this circle-of-men will not pass away until all things are accomplished. Heaven and land will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
So be careful, or your inner-guides will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this filled-stomach, and that day will come on you suddenly. For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the face of all the land. Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen, and to stand before the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man.
Every day Ieueshuo was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
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Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near. The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might empty-his-stomach, for they inwardly-flowed-before the people. Satan entered into Ieude, who was surnamed Iyshqiryah, who was numbered with the twelve. He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. They were glad, and agreed to give him money. He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be slaughtered. He sent Petros and Yahuchanan, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.
They said to him, Where do you want us to prepare?
He said to them, Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. Tell the strongest-lifebringer of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.
They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve plant-sprouts. He said to them, I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you, I will not by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide. He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, Take this, and share it among yourselves, for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide comes.
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this for my recollection. Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new pieces-to-pass-through in my blood, which is poured out for you. But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. The Male-Tent-Continuer of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!
They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who about to do this thing. There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. He said to them, The male-authorities-that-guide-the-people of the nations strongest-lifebringer it over them, and those who have authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is leading, as one who serves. For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves. But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. I confer on you an authority-to-guide-the-people, even as my Tent-Supporter conferred on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my authority-to-guide-the-people. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Isharal.
The Strongest-Lifebringer said, Shimon, Shimon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, but I prayed for you, that your steadiness wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your male-strong-protectors.
He said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to an emptied-stomach!
He said, I tell you, Petros, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.
He said to them, When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?
They said, Nothing.
Then he said to them, But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: He was counted with transgressors. For that which concerns me has an end.
They said, Strongest-Lifebringer, behold, here are two swords.
He said to them, That is enough.
He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. When he was at the place, he said to them, Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.
He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, Tent-Supporter, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.
An messenger from the sky appeared to him, strengthening him. Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, and said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.
While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Ieude, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Ieueshuo to kiss him. But Ieueshuo said to him, Ieude, do you betray the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man with a kiss?
When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, Strongest-Lifebringer, shall we strike with the sword? A certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
But Ieueshuo answered, Let me at least do this—and he touched his ear, and healed him. Ieueshuo said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Petros followed from a distance. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Petros sat among them. A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, This man also was with him.
He denied Ieueshuo, saying, Woman, I don’t know him.
After a little while someone else saw him, and said, You also are one of them!
But Petros answered, Man, I am not!
After about one hour passed, another of the same sort confidently affirmed, saying, Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!
But Petros said, Man, I don’t know what you are talking about! Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. The Strongest-Lifebringer turned, and looked at Petros. Then Petros remembered the Strongest-Lifebringer’s word, how he said to him, Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times. He went out, and wept bitterly.
The men who held Ieueshuo mocked him and beat him. Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you? They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
As soon as it was day, the of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying, If you are the Anointed, tell us.
But he said to them, If I tell you, you won’t support, and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go. From now on, the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of the Strong-Yoked-Guide.
They all said, Are you then the Male-Tent-Continuer of the Strong-Yoked-Guide?
He said to them, You say it, because I am.
They said, Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!
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The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilatos. They began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Kaisar, and saying that he himself is the Anointed, a male-authority-that-guides-the-people.
Pilatos asked him, Are you the Male-Authority-That-Guides-The-People of the Yehudiy?
He answered him, So you say.
Pilatos said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no basis for a charge against this man.
But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Yehud, beginning from Galiylah even to this place. But when Pilatos heard Galiylah mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. When he found out that he was in Herodes’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herodes, who was also in Yerusalem during those days.
Now when Herodes saw Ieueshuo, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. Herodes with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilatos. Herodes and Pilatos became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
Pilatos called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. Neither has Herodes, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of an emptied-stomach has been done by him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.
Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. But they all cried out together, saying, Away with this man! Release to us Gaon!—one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
Then Pilatos spoke to them again, wanting to release Ieueshuo, but they shouted, saying, Crucify! Crucify him!
He said to them the third time, Why? What has this man done that is dysfunctioanl? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him. But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. Pilatos decreed that what they asked for should be done. He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Ieueshuo up to their will.
When they led him away, they grabbed one Shimon of Kurenaios, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Ieueshuo. A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. But Ieueshuo, turning to them, said, Daughters of Yerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your tent-builders. For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, Knelt-down-and-given-to are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed. Then they will begin to tell the mountains, Fall on us! and tell the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?
There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be stomach-emptied. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
Ieueshuo said, Tent-Supporter, lift-off them, for they don’t know what they are doing.
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, He delivered others. Let him deliver himself, if this is the Anointed of the Strong-Yoked-Guide, his chosen one!
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, and saying, If you are the Male-Authority-That-Guides-The-People of the Yehudiy, deliver yourself!
An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE MALE-AUTHORITY-THAT-GUIDES-THE-PEOPLE OF THE YEHUDIY.
One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, If you are the Anointed, deliver yourself and us!
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Don’t you even flow-the-gut-before the Strong-Yoked-Guide, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. He said to Ieueshuo, Strongest-Lifebringer, remember me when you come into your authority-to-guide-the-people.
Ieueshuo said to him, Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. Ieueshuo, crying with a loud voice, said, Tent-Supporter, into your hands I commit my wind! Having said this, he breathed his last.
When the centurion saw what was done, he esteemed the Strong-Yoked-Guide, saying, Certainly this was a straight-pathed man. All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galiylah, stood at a distance, watching these things.
Behold, a man named Yehoseph, who was a member of the council, a functional and straight-pathed man (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaia, a city of the Yehudiy, who was also waiting for the authority-to-guide-the-people of the Strong-Yoked-Guide: this man went to Pilatos, and asked for Ieueshuo’ body. He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. It was the day of the Preparation, and the Ceasing-Sign was drawing near. The women, who had come with him out of Galiylah, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Ceasing-Sign they entered-into-the-tent according to the directive.
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But on one of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. They entered in, and didn’t find the Strongest-Lifebringer Ieueshuo’ body. It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the land.
They said to them, Why do you seek the filled-stomachs among the empty-stomachs? He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galiylah, saying that the Male-Tent-Continuer of Man must be delivered up into the hands of men missing-the-target, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?
They remembered his words, returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest. Now they were Miryam Magdalene, Ioannas, and Miryam the strong-womb of Eoqub. The other women with them told these things to the plant-sprouts. These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t support them. But Petros got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaous, which was sixty stadia from Yerusalem. They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Ieueshuo himself came near, and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. He said to them, What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?
One of them, named Kleopas, answered him, Are you the only stranger in Yerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?
He said to them, What things?
They said to him, The things concerning Ieueshuo, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before the Strong-Yoked-Guide and all the people; and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to an emptied-stomach, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he who was about to redeem Isharal. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day from which these things happened. Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of messengers, who said that he was stomach-filled. Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.
He said to them, Foolish men, and slow of inner-guide to support in all that the prophets have spoken! Didn’t the Anointed have to suffer these things and to enter into his esteem? Beginning from Mashe and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
They urged him, saying, Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.
He went in to stay with them. It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight. They said one to another, Weren’t our inner-guides burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us? They rose up that very hour, returned to Yerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, saying, The Strongest-Lifebringer is risen indeed, and has appeared to Shimon! They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
As they said these things, Ieueshuo himself stood among them, and said to them, Completeness be to you.
But they were terrified and filled with gut-flowing, and supposed that they had seen a wind.
He said to them, Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your inner-guides? See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a wind doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they still didn’t support for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Do you have anything here to eat?
They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. He took them, and ate in front of them. He said to them, This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the thrown-seed of Mashe, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. He said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Anointed to suffer and to rise from the stomach-emptied the third day, and that repentance and remission of missed-targets should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Yerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send forth the promise of my Tent-Supporter on you. But wait in the city of Yerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.
He led them out as far as Bahyith Abarah, and he lifted up his hands, and kneeled-to-give to them. It happened, while he kneeled-to-give to them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into the sky. They flattened-themselves to him, and returned to Yerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple, praising and kneeling-down-to-give to the Strong-Yoked-Guide. It-is-firm.