Chapter 164 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 164. 'I will accordingly tell you now that little which God hath granted me to know concerning this same predestination.' The Pharisees say that everything hath been so predestined that he who is elect cannot become reprobate, and he who is reprobate cannot...
Chapter 183 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 183. While they sat at meat the scribe said: 'O master, thou saidst that God loveth true humility. Tell us therefore what is humility, and how it can be true and false.' [Jesus replied:] 'Verily I say unto you that he who becometh not as a little child shall...
Chapter 165 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 165. 'But hear what saith God by Joel the prophet: " As I live, [saith] your God, I will not the death of a sinner, but I seek that he should be converted to penitence." Will God then predestinate that which he willeth not? Consider ye that which God saith...
Chapter 182 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 182. 'Not only hath God created man, as I say, but he created him perfect. He hath given him the whole world; after the departure from paradise he hath given him two angels to guard him, he hath sent him the prophets, he hath granted him the law, he hath...
Chapter 10 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 10. JESUS, AT THE AGE OF THIRTY YEARS, ON MOUNT OLIVES, MIRACULOUSLY RECEIVETH THE GOSPEL FROM THE ANGEL GABRIEL. Jesus having come to the age of thirty years, as he himself said unto me, went up to Mount Olives with his mother to gather olives. Then...
Chapter 195 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 195. 'They that shall believe in me shall not die eternally, for through my word they shall perceive God within them, and therefore shall work out their salvation. 'What is death but an act which nature doth by commandment of God? As it would be if one held...
Chapter 11 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 11. JESUS MIRACULOUSLY HEALETH A LEPER, AND GOETH INTO JERUSALEM. Jesus descending from the mountain to come into Jerusalem, met a leper, who by divine inspiration knew Jesus to be a prophet. Therefore, with tears he prayed him, saying: 'Jesus, thou s...
Chapter 5 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 5. CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS. When the eight days were fulfilled according to the law of the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses, they took the child and carried him to the temple to circumcise him. And so they circumcised the child, and gave him the name...
Chapter 172 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 172. 'God saith thus to him that loveth him, and serveth him faithfully: "Go and consider the sands of the sea, O my servant, how many they are. Wherefore, if the sea should give thee one single grain of sand, would it appear small to thee? Assuredly, ye...
Chapter 18 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 18. HERE IS SHOWN FORTH THE PERSECUTION OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD BY THE WORLD, AND GOD'S PROTECTION SAVING THEM. Having said this, Jesus said: 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, that ye may be my disciples. If then the world shall hate you, ye shall...
Chapter 52 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 52. 'The judgment day of God will be so dreadful that, verily I say unto you, the reprobates would sooner choose ten hells than go to hear God speak in wrath against them. Against whom all things created will witness. Verily I say unto you, that not alone...
Chapter 126 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 126. Jesus having called together his disciples, sent them forth by two and two through the region of Israel, saying: 'Go and preach even as ye have heard.' Then they bowed themselves and he laid his hand upon their heads, saying: 'In the name of God, give...
Chapter 131 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 131. His disciples drew nigh unto Jesus after the nightly prayer, and said: 'O Master, how must we do to escape pride?' Jesus answered: 'Have ye seen a poor man invited to a prince's house to eat bread?' John answered: 'I have eaten bread in Herod's house...
Chapter 138 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 138. When morning was come, early, all the men of the city, with the women and children, came to the house where Jesus was with his disciples, and besought him saying: 'Sir, have mercy upon us, because this year the worms have eaten the corn, and we shall not...
Chapter 45 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 45. Then came the angel Gabriel to Jesus, and spake to him in such wise that we also heard his voice, which said: 'Arise, and go unto Jerusalem!' Accordingly Jesus departed and went up to Jerusalem. And on the sabbath day he entered into the temple, and beg...
Chapter 48 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 48. At that time the army of the Romans was in Judea, our country being subject to them for the sins of our forefathers. Now it was the custom of the Romans to call god and to worship him that did any new thing of benefit to the common people. And so [some]...
Chapter 56 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 56. 'God shall open the book in the hand of his messenger, and his messenger reading therein shall call all the angels and prophets and all the elect, and on the forehead of each one shall be written the mark of the messenger of God. And in the book shall be...
Chapter 122 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 122. 'As for avarice, that must be changed into almsgiving. Verily I say unto you, that even as the plummet hath for its end the centre, so the avaricious hath hell for his end, for it is impossible for the avaricious to possess any good in paradise. Know ye...
Chapter 135 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 135. Then said Peter: 'O Master, tell us how the lost shall be tormented, and how long they shall be in hell, in order that man may flee from sin.' Jesus answered: 'O Peter, it is a great thing that thou hast asked, nevertheless, if God please, I will answer...
Chapter 41 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 41. 'Then both of them knew that they were naked: wherefore, being ashamed, they took fig leaves and made a clothing for their secret parts. When midday was passed, behold God appeared to them, and called Adam, saying: "Adam, where art thou?" 'He answered:...
Chapter 198 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 198. Then said Lazarus: 'Master, verily I say unto thee, I cannot conceive the penalty of which he is worthy who time after time seeth the dead borne to the tomb and feareth not God our creator. Such an one for the things of this world, which he ought...
Chapter 1 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 1. IN THIS FIRST CHAPTER IS CONTAINED THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE ANGEL GABRIEL TO THE VIRGIN MARY CONCERNING THE BIRTH OF JESUS. In these last years a virgin called Mary, of the lineage of David, of the tribe of Judah, was visited by the angel Gabriel from God...
Chapter 161 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 161. 'Have ye heard all?' said Jesus. The disciples answered: 'Yea, Lord.' Whereupon Jesus said: 'Lying is indeed a sin, but murder is a greater, because the lie is a sin that appertaineth to him that speaketh, but the murder, while it appertaineth to him...
Chapter 168 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 168. Then said the disciples: 'Verily God speaketh in thee, for never hath man spoken as thou speakest.' Jesus answered: 'Believe me when God chose me to send me to the house of Israel, he gave me a book like unto a clear mirror which came down into my heart...
Chapter 15 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 15. MIRACLE WROUGHT BY JESUS AT THE MARRIAGE, TURNING THE WATER INTO WINE. When the feast of tabernacles was nigh, a certain rich man invited Jesus with his disciples and his mother to a marriage. Jesus therefore went, and as they were feasting the wine r...
Chapter 222 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous 222. After Jesus had departed, the disciples scattered through the different parts of Israel and of the world, and the truth, hated of Satan, was persecuted, as it always is, by falsehood. For certain evil men, pretending to be disciples, preached that Jesus died...
Chapter 8 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 8. JESUS IS CARRIED IN FLIGHT TO EGYPT, AND HEROD MASSACRES THE INNOCENT CHILDREN. Herod seeing that the magi did not return, believed himself mocked of them; whereupon he determined to put to death the child that was born. But behold while Joseph w...
Chapter 186 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 186. 'When Obadiah desired to teach anyone how to pray, he would call Haggai and say: "Recite here thy prayer so that every one may hear thy words." Then Haggai would say: "Lord God of Israel, with mercy look upon thy servant, who calleth upon thee, for th...
Chapter 9 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 9. JESUS, HAVING RETURNED TO JUDAEA, HOLDS A WONDROUS DISPUTATION WITH THE DOCTORS, HAVING COME TO THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS. When Herod was dead, behold the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying: 'Return into Judaea, for they are dead th...
Chapter 191 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 191. The scribe then said: 'Pardon me, O master, for I have sinned.' Said Jesus: 'God pardon thee; for against him hast thou sinned.' Whereupon said the scribe: 'I have seen an old book written by the hand of Moses and Joshua (he who made the sun stand still...
Chapter 176 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 176. 'To what doth it serve to say, "They shall feast"?' said Jesus to his disciples. 'Surely God speaketh plain. But to what purpose are the four rivers of precious liquor in paradise, with so many fruits? Assuredly, God eateth not, the angels eat not...
Chapter 190 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 190. 'Tell me, brother, thou that art a doctor learned in the law--in whom was the promise of the Messiah made to our father Abraham? In Isaac or in Ishmael?' The scribe answered: 'O master, I fear to tell thee this, because of the penalty of death.' Then...
Chapter 177 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 177. Then said he who writeth: 'O master, hath paradise light from the sun as this world hath?' Jesus answered: 'Thus hath God said to me, O Barnabas: "The world wherein ye men that are sinners dwell hath the sun and the moon and the stars that adorn it...
Chapter 169 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 169. Jesus answered: 'Hearken, and I will tell you of what manner is paradise, and how the holy and the faithful shall abide there without end, for this is one of the greatest blessings of paradise, seeing that everything, however great, if it have an end...
Chapter 134 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 134. 'They that bear good figs are the true teachers who preach good doctrine, but the world, which taketh pleasure in lies, seeketh from the teachers leaves of fine words and flattery. The which seeing, Satan joineth himself with the flesh and the sense...
Chapter 40 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 40. 'When Satan had knowledge of this he became mad with indignation. And so he drew near to the gate of paradise, whereat stood on guard a horrid serpent, which had legs like a camel, and the nails of his feet cut like a razor on every side. To him said...
Chapter 130 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 130. Jesus said: 'There was a man who had two debtors. The one owed to his creditor fifty pence, the other five hundred. Whereupon, when neither of them had wherewithal to pay, the owner, moved with compassion, forgave the debt to each. Which of them would...
Chapter 44 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 44. Thereupon said the disciples: 'O master, it is thus written in the book of Moses, that in Isaac was the promise made.' Jesus answered, with a groan: 'It is so written, but Moses wrote it not, nor Joshua, but rather our rabbis, who fear not God. Verily I...
Chapter 19 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 19. JESUS FORETELLETH HIS BETRAYAL, AND, DESCENDING FROM THE MOUNTAIN, HEALETH TEN LEPERS. When Jesus had said this, Peter answered: 'O teacher, behold we have left all to follow thee, what shall become of us?' Jesus answered: 'Verily ye in the day...
Chapter 194 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 194. The scribes and Pharisees took counsel with the high priest to slay Lazarus; for many renounced their traditions and believed in the word of Jesus, because the miracle of Lazarus was a great one, seeing that Lazarus had conversation with men, and ate...
Chapter 173 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 173. 'Consider, then,' said Jesus, 'the abundance of paradise. For if God hath given to man in this world an ounce of well-being, in paradise he will give him ten hundred thousand loads. Consider the quantity of fruits that are in this world, the quantity...
Chapter 7 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 7. THE VISITATION OF JESUS BY MAGI, AND THEIR RETURN TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, WITH THE WARNING OF JESUS GIVEN TO THEM IN A DREAM. The magi therefore departed out of Jerusalem, and lo, the star which appeared to them in the east went before them. Seeing the star...
Chapter 179 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 179. Then came the angel Gabriel to Jesus and showed him a mirror shining like the sun, wherein he beheld written these words: 'As I live eternally, even as paradise is greater than all the heavens and the earth, and as the whole earth is greater than a gr...
Chapter 13 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 13. THE REMARKABLE FEAR OF JESUS AND HIS PRAYER, AND THE WONDERFUL COMFORT OF THE ANGEL GABRIEL. Some days having passed, Jesus having in spirit perceived the desire of the priests, ascended the Mount of Olives to pray. And having passed the whole night...
Chapter 180 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 180. One day, Jesus being in Solomon's porch, there drew nigh to him a scribe, one of them that made discourse to the people, and said to him: 'O master, I have many times made discourse to this people, and there is in my mind a passage of scripture which I...
Chapter 167 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 167. 'Accordingly, if your mind will not rest content in this, and ye be fain to say again: "Why so?" I will disclose to you a "wherefore." It is this. Tell me, wherefore cannot a [single] stone rest on the top of the water, yet the whole earth resteth...
Chapter 124 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 124. Jesus answered in parable: 'A man goeth to fish with a net, and therein he catcheth many fishes, but those that are bad he throweth away. 'A man went forth to sow, but only the grain that falleth on good ground beareth seed. 'Even so ought ye to do...
Chapter 50 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 50. 'Tell me, O man, thou that judgest another man, dost thou not know that all men had their origin in the same clay? Dost thou not know that none is good save God alone? wherefore every man is a liar and a sinner. Believe me, man, that if thou judge others...
Chapter 120 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 120. 'The fruit of vain talking is this, that it weakeneth the intellect in such wise that it is not ready to receive the truth; even as a horse accustomed to carry but one ounce of cotton flock cannot carry an hundred pounds of stone. 'But what is worse is...
Chapter 54 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 54. 'When these signs be passed, there shall be darkness over the world forty years, God alone being alive, to whom be honour and glory for ever. When the forty years be passed, God shall give life to his messenger, who shall rise again like the sun, but...
Chapter 184 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 184. 'Tell me, is this true?' said Jesus. The disciples and the scribe answered: 'It is most true.' Then said Jesus: 'He who in truth of heart recognizeth God as the author of all good, and himself as the author of sin, shall be truly humble. But whoso shall...
Chapter 220 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 220. Jesus replied, embracing his mother: 'Believe me, mother, for verily I say to thee that I have not been dead at all; for God hath reserved me till near the end of the world.' And having said this he prayed the four angels that they would manifest...
Chapter 17 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 17. IN THIS CHAPTER IS CLEARLY PERCEIVED THE UNBELIEF OF CHRISTIANS, AND THE TRUE FAITH OF MUMIN. When Jesus had said this, Philip answered: 'We are content to serve God, but we desire, however, to know God. For Isaiah the prophet said: "Verily thou art...
Chapter 163 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 163. Jesus went into the wilderness beyond Jordan with his disciples, and when the midday prayer was done he sat down near to a palm-tree, and under the shadow of the palm-tree his disciples sat down. Then said Jesus: 'So secret is predestination, O brethren...
Chapter 3 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 3. WONDERFUL BIRTH OF JESUS AND APPEARANCE OF ANGELS PRAISING GOD. There reigned at that time in Judaea Herod, by decree of Caesar Augustus, and Pilate was governor in the priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas. Wherefore, by decree of Augustus, all the world w...
Chapter 175 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 175. 'God saith thus in Isaiah the prophet, pouring contempt on the reprobate: "My servants shall sit at my table in mine house and shall feast joyfully, with gladness and with the sound of harps and organs, and I will not suffer them to have need of anything...
Chapter 192 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 192. 'In that book it is not found that God eateth the flesh of cattle or sheep; in that book it is not found that God hath locked up his mercy in Israel alone, but rather that God hath mercy on every man that seeketh God his creator in truth. 'All of this...
Chapter 128 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 128. 'Accordingly, brethren, I, a man, dust and clay, that walk upon the earth, say unto you: Do penance and know your sins. I say, brethren, that Satan, by means of the Roman soldiery, deceived you when ye said that I was God. Wherefore, beware that ye...
Chapter 42 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 42. Then the disciples wept after this discourse, and Jesus was weeping, when they saw many who came to find him, for the chiefs of the priests took counsel among themselves to catch him in his talk. Wherefore they sent the Levites and some of the scribes...
Chapter 136 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 136. 'In this accursed spot shall abide the infidels for evermore: insomuch that if the world were filled with grains of millet, and a single bird once in a hundred years should take away a single grain to empty the world--if when it should be empty...
Chapter 46 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 46. Again spake Jesus, saying: 'I set before you an example. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge for it in order that it should not be trampled down of beasts. And in the midst of it he built a press for the wine, and thereup...
Chapter 132 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 132. Jesus walking along the sea of Galilee was surrounded by a great multitude of folk, wherefore he sent into a little boat which lay a little off from the shore by itself, and anchored so near the land that the voice of Jesus might be heard. Whereupon they...
Chapter 58 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 58. While Jesus was speaking the disciples wept bitterly. And Jesus wept many tears. Then after he had wept, John spake: O master, two things we desire to know. The one is, how it is possible that the messenger of God, who is full of mercy and pity, should...
Chapter 171 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 171. 'What think ye,' said Jesus to his disciples, 'of paradise? Is there a mind that could comprehend such riches and delights? Man must needs have a knowledge as great as God's if he would know what God willeth to give to his servants. 'Have ye seen when...
Chapter 196 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 196. Jesus rejoiced when he heard this, and said: 'See now how good a thing it is to die! Lazarus hath died once only, and hath learned such doctrine as is not known to the wisest men in the world that have grown old among books! Would to God that every m...
Chapter 188 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 188. 'There was a disciple of Haggai nigh to Hosea; and he, wishing to see if his own book was well written, went to visit Hosea and said to him: "Brother, take thy book and let us see if it is even as mine." 'Hosea answered: "It hath been taken away from me...
Chapter 89 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 89. Said Peter: 'How long must I wait for my brother to repent?' Jesus answered: 'So long as thou wouldst be waited for.' Peter answered: 'Not every one will understand this; wherefore speak to us more plainly.' Jesus answered: 'Wait for thy brother as long...
Chapter 104 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 104. 'Verily there are men who have both the inward affection and the outward tears. But he who is thus, will be a Jeremiah. In weeping, God measureth more the sorrow than the tears.' Then said John: 'O master, how doth man lose in weeping over things other...
Chapter 97 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 97. 'Unworthy though I am to untie his hosen, I have received grace and mercy from God to see him.' Then answered the priest, with the governor and the king, saying: 'Distress not thyself, O Jesus, holy one of God, because in our time shall not this sediti...
Chapter 70 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 70. Jesus departed from Jerusalem after the Passover, and entered into the borders of Caesarea Philippi. Whereupon, the angel Gabriel having told him of the sedition which was beginning among the common people, he asked his disciples, saying: 'What do men say...
Chapter 159 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 159. The disciples answered: 'O master, exceeding great are thy words, therefore have mercy upon us, for we understand them not.' Said Jesus: 'Think ye perchance that God hath created his messenger to be a rival, who should be fain to make himself equal with...
Chapter 33 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 33. Then said Jesus: 'Verily all that which a man loveth, for which he leaveth everything else but that, is his god. And so the fornicator hath for his image the harlot, the glutton and drunkard hath for image his own flesh, and the covetous hath for his...
Chapter 204 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 204. Having said this, Jesus said again: 'Know ye not that there be other sick folk? As God liveth, they be fewer in Jerusalem that have their soul sound than they that be sick in body. And in order that ye may know the truth, I say unto you, O sick folk...
Chapter 147 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 147. 'While they were making merry in the house, behold the elder son came home, and he, hearing that they were making merry within, marvelled, and having called one of the servants, he asked him wherefore they were in such wise making merry. 'The servant...
Chapter 200 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 200. Jesus then turned to Lazarus, and said: 'Brother, I must needs for a short time abide in the world, wherefore when I shall be near to thine house I will not ever go elsewhere, because thou wilt minister unto me, not for love of me, but for love of God.'...
Chapter 37 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 37. The disciples wept at the words of Jesus and besought him, saying: 'Lord, teach us to make prayer.' Jesus answered: 'Consider what ye would do if the Roman governor seized you to put you to death, and that same do ye when ye go to make prayer. And let...
Chapter 143 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 143. Then came all the disciples to Damascus, by the will of God. And on that day Judas the traitor, more than any other, made show of having suffered grief at Jesus' absence. Wherefore Jesus said: 'Let every one beware of him who without occasion laboureth...
Chapter 29 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 29. Then said Philip: 'Great is the mercy of God upon whoso loveth him. Tell us, O master, how Abraham came to the knowledge of God.' Jesus answered: 'Having arrived nigh unto the house of his father, Abraham feared to go into the house; so he removed some...
Chapter 93 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 93. Then Jesus, having lifted his hand in token of silence, said: 'Verily ye have erred greatly, O Israelites, in calling me, a man, your God. And I fear that God may for this give heavy plague upon the holy city, handing it over in servitude to strangers. O...
Chapter 100 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 100. 'As God liveth, brethern, I fear lest God be angered against me. Therefore ye needs must go through Judaea and Israel, preaching to the twelve tribes of Israel the truth, that they may be undeceived.' The disciples answered with fear, weeping: 'We will...
Chapter 74 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 74. 'There have been and are in the world men who hold not thought for sin; who are in the greatest error. Tell me, how sinned Satan? It is certain that he sinned in the thought that he was more worthy than man. Solomon sinned in thinking to invite to a feast...
Chapter 108 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 108. 'Hearken, then to what I shall say to you concerning watching. For just as there are two kinds of sleeping, viz. that of the body and that of the soul, even so must ye be careful in watching that while the body watcheth the soul sleep not. For this would...
Chapter 62 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 62. Then said Jesus: 'He who would live well should take example from the merchant who locketh up his shop, and guardeth it day and night with great diligence. And selling again the things which he buyeth he is fain to make a profit; for if he perceiveth th...
Chapter 85 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 85. 'When a man worketh ill or talketh ill, if one go to correct him, and hinder such work, what doth such an one?' said Jesus. The disciples answered: 'He doth well, because he serveth God, who always seeketh to hinder evil, even as the sun that always...
Chapter 116 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 116. 'It behoveth a man to live in the city, even as the soldier liveth when he hath enemies around the fortress, defending himself against every assault and always fearing treachery on the part of the citizens. Even so, I say, let him repell every outward...
Chapter 208 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 208. 'If I work iniquity, reprove me, and God will love you because ye shall be doing his will, but if none can reprove me of sin it is a sign that ye are not sons of Abraham as ye call yourselves, nor are ye incorporate with that head wherein Abraham w...
Chapter 155 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 155. Then the high-priest called two old priests secretly and sent them to Jesus, who was gone out of the temple, and was sitting in Solomon's porch, waiting to pray the midday prayer. And near him he had his disciples with great multitude of people...
Chapter 216 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 216. Judas entered impetuously before all into the chamber whence Jesus had been taken up. And the disciples were sleeping. Whereupon the wonderful God acted wonderfully, insomuch that Judas was so changed in speech and in face to be like Jesus that we...
Chapter 21 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 21. JESUS HEALETH A DEMONIAC, AND THE SWINE ARE CAST INTO THE SEA. AFTERWARDS HE HEALETH THE DAUGHTER OF THE CANAANITES. Jesus went up to Capernaum, and as he drew near to the city behold there came out of the tombs one that was possessed of a devil...
Chapter 151 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 151. 'This man was a true Pharisee,' said Jesus to his disciples: 'and may it please God that we be able on the day of judgment to have him for our friend. Jesus then embarked on a ship, and the disciples were sorry that they had forgotten to bring bread...
Chapter 25 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 25. HOW ONE OUGHT TO DESPISE THE FLESH, AND HOW ONE OUGHT TO LIVE IN THE WORLD. Then said he who writeth: 'O master, true are thy words and therefore have we forsaken all to follow thee. Tell us then, how we ought to hate our flesh: for to kill oneself is not...
Chapter 212 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 212. Then lifting up his hands to the Lord, he prayed, saying: 'Lord our God, God of Abraham, God of Ishmael and Isaac. God of our fathers have mercy upon them that thou hast given me, and save them from the world. I say not, take them from the world, because...
Chapter 66 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 66. One of them came to him, saying: 'Good master, thou teachest well and truly; tell me therefore, in paradise what reward shall God give us?' Jesus answered: 'Thou callest me good, and knowest not that God alone is good, even as said Job, the friend of God:...
Chapter 112 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 112. Having said this, Jesus said: 'Ye needs must seek of the fruits of the field the wherewithal to sustain our life, for it is now eight days that we have eaten no bread. Wherefore I will pray to our God, and will await you with Barnabas.' So all...
Chapter 81 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 81. 'Tell me, would it have been a great sin of the priests if when they were carrying the ark of the testimony of God they had let it fall to the ground?' The disciples trembled hearing this, for they knew that God slew Uzzah for having wrongly touched...
Chapter 78 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 78. 'Verily I say unto you, that God had not compassion on the fall of Satan, but yet [had compassion] on the fall of Adam. And let this suffice you to know the unhappy condition of him who knoweth good and doeth evil.' Then said Andrew: 'O master, it is...
Chapter 72 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 72. At night Jesus spake in secret with his disciples, saying: 'Verily I say unto you that Satan desireth to sift you as wheat; but I have besought God for you, and there shall not perish of you save he that layeth snares for me.' And this he said of Jud...
Chapter 95 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 95. Accordingly the governor and the priest and the king prayed Jesus that in order to quiet the people he should mount up into a lofty place and speak to the people. Then went up Jesus on to one of the twelve stones which Joshua made the twelve tribes take...
Chapter 106 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 106. When he had finished the prayer of dawn, Jesus sat down under a palm tree, and thither his disciples drew nigh to him. Then said Jesus: As God liveth, in whose presence standeth my soul, many are deceived concerning our life. For so closely are the soul...
Chapter 118 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 118. Then said Jesus: 'Ye speak the truth, for now was Israel desirous to establish the idolatry that they have in their hearts, in holding me for God; many of whom have now despised my teaching, saying that I could make myself lord of all Judaea, if I...
Chapter 145 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 145. 'As God liveth, in the time of Elijah, friend and prophet of God, there were twelve mountains inhabited by seventeen thousand Pharisees; and so it was that in so great a number there was not found a single reprobate, but all were elect of God. But now...
Chapter 206 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 206. When day was come, Jesus went up to the temple with a great multitude of people. Whereupon the high priest drew near, saying: 'Tell me, O Jesus, hast thou forgotten all that thou didst confess, that thou art not God, nor son of God, nor even...
Chapter 31 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 31. Then drew near unto Jesus the priests, and said: 'Master, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?' Jesus turned round to Judas, and said: 'Hast thou any money?' And taking a penny in his hand, Jesus turned himself to the priests, and said to them: 'This...
Chapter 218 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 218. Then returned each man to his house. He who writeth, with John and James his brother, went with the mother of Jesus to Nazareth. Those disciples who did not fear God went by night [and] stole the body of Judas and hid it, spreading a report that Jesus...
Chapter 141 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 141. 'Tell me: when a man is born, how is he born? Surely, he is born naked. And when he is laid dead beneath the ground, what advantage hath he? A mean linen cloth, wherein he is wound: and this is the reward which the world giveth him. 'Now if the means...
Chapter 35 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 35. Jesus departed from Jerusalem, and went to the desert beyond Jordan: and his disciples that were seated round him said to Jesus: 'O master, tell us how Satan fell through pride, for we have understood that he fell through disobedience, and because he...
Chapter 202 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 202. 'Tell me, by whom is the physician more loved: by them that have never had any sickness, or by them whom the physician hath healed of grievous sickness?' Said the Pharisees to him: 'And how shall he that is whole love the physician? assuredly he will...
Chapter 68 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 68. 'Thou askest me to tell thee what God will give us in paradise. Verily I say unto you, that those who think of the wages love not the master. A shepherd who hath a flock of sheep, when he seeth the wolf coming, prepareth to defend them; contrariwise...
Chapter 76 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 76. 'I tell you for an example. There was a man who had three vineyards, which he let out to three husbandmen. Because the first knew not how to cultivate the vineyard the vineyard brought forth only leaves. The second taught the third how the vines ought...
Chapter 102 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 102. 'Verily I say unto you, that every animal after its own nature, if it lose that which it desireth, mourneth for the lost good. Accordingly, the sinner who will be truly penitent must have great desire to punish in himself that which he hath wrought...
Chapter 91 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 91. At this time there was a great disturbance throughout Judea for the sake of Jesus; for that the Roman soldiery, through the operation of Satan, stirred up the Hebrews, saying that Jesus was God come to visit them. Whereupon so great sedition arose, th...
Chapter 114 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 114. Jesus answered: 'Verily I say unto you, the owner is God, and the vinedresser is his law. God, then, had in paradise the palm and the balsam; for Satan is the palm and the first man the balsam. Them did he cast out because they bare not fruit of good...
Chapter 87 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 87. 'Woe unto the world because of offences. It needs must be that the offence come, because all the world lieth in wickedness. But yet woe to that man through whom the offence cometh. It were better for the man if he should have a millstone about his neck...
Chapter 60 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 60. 'Hell is one, and is contrary to paradise, as winter is contrary to summer, and cold to heat. He therefore who would describe the misery of hell must needs have seen the paradise of God's delights. 'O place accursed by God's justice for the maledicti...
Chapter 99 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 99. Jesus, having withdrawn into a hollow part of the desert in Tiro near to Jordan, called together the seventy-two with the twelve, and, when he had seated himself upon a stone, made them to sit near him. And he opened his mouth with a sigh and said: This...
Chapter 23 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 23. ORIGIN OF CIRCUMCISION, AND COVENANT OF GOD WITH ABRAHAM, AND DAMNATION OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED. And having said this, Jesus sat nigh unto the mountain which they looked upon. And his disciples came to his side to listen to his words. Then said Jesus: 'Adam...
Chapter 214 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 214. Having gone forth from the house, Jesus retired into the garden to pray, according as his custom was to pray, bowing his knees an hundred times and prostrating himself upon his face. Judas, accordingly, knowing the place where Jesus was with his...
Chapter 157 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 157. The blind man answered: 'Whether he is a sinner I know not; but this I know, that whereas I was blind, he hath enlightened me.' The Pharisees did not believe this: so they said to the high priest: 'Send for his father and mother, for they will tell us...
Chapter 149 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 149. 'The younger answered: "He who kept good the raiment of the people oflsrael for forty years in the wilderness hath kept my skins even as thou seest." 'Then the elder perceived that the younger was more perfect than he, for he had every year had dealings...
Chapter 39 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 39. Then said John: 'Well hast thou spoken, O master, but we lack to know how man sinned through pride.' Jesus answered: 'When God had expelled Satan, and the angel Gabriel had purified that mass of earth whereon Satan spat, God created everything that liveth...
Chapter 210 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 210. When the confusion in the temple ceased by the departure of Jesus, the high priest ascended on high, and having beckoned for silence with his hands he said: 'Brethren, what do we? See ye not that he hath deceived the whole world with his diabolical art...
Chapter 27 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 27. IN THIS CHAPTER IS CLEARLY SEEN HOW IMPROPER IS LAUGHTER IN MEN: ALSO THE PRUDENCE OF ABRAHAM. The disciples laughed over the madness of the old man, and stood amazed at the prudence of Abraham. But Jesus reproved them, saying: 'Ye have forgotten...
Chapter 153 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 153. The priests and Pharisees murmured among themselves and said: 'He hath the wisdom of Baal and Ashtaroth, and so in the power of Satan hath he done this.' Jesus opened his mouth and said: 'Our God commanded that we should not steal our neighbour's goods...
Chapter 83 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 83. Whilst the woman was talking with Jesus came his disciples, and marvelled that Jesus was speaking so with a woman. Yet no one said unto him: 'Why speakest thou thus with a Samaritan woman?' Whereupon, when the woman was departed, they said: 'Master, come...
Chapter 110 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 110. 'Now tell me, doth our God at all times grant you [his] bounty? Yea, assuredly; for unceasingly he ministereth to you the breath whereby ye live. Verily, verily, I say unto you, every time that your body receiveth breath your heart ought to say: "God be...
Chapter 64 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 64. 'As God liveth, in whose presence my soul standeth, a sinner is of infirm mind when he persecuteth a man. For tell me, is there anyone who would break his head for the sake of tearing the cloak of his enemy? Now how can he be of sane mind who separateth...
Chapter 77 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 77. 'Verily I say unto you, that on the day of judgment many shall say to God: "Lord, we have preached and taught by thy law." Against them even the stones shall cry out, saying: "When ye preached to others, with your own tongue ye condemned yourselves, O...
Chapter 103 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 103. 'The weeping of the sinner ought to be as that of a father who weepeth over his son nigh to death. Oh madness of man, that weepest over the body from which the soul is departed, and weepest not over the soul from which, through sin, is departed the mercy...
Chapter 90 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 90. When the prayer was done, his disciples again drew near to Jesus, and he opened his mouth and said: 'Draw near, John, for to-day will I speak unto thee of all that thou hast asked. Faith is a seal whereby God sealeth his elect: which seal he gave to his...
Chapter 69 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 69. 'As God liveth, in whose presence I stand, ye will not receive adulation from me, but truth. Wherefore I say unto you, repent and turn to God even as our fathers did after sinning, and harden not your heart.' The priests were consumed with rage at this...
Chapter 140 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 140. 'Believe ye, O men, that I am come into the world with a privilege which no man hath had, nor will even the messenger of God have it; seeing that our God created not man to set him in the world, but rather to place him in paradise. 'Sure it is that he...
Chapter 34 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 34. There stood before the door one who had his right hand shrunken in such fashion that he could not use it. Whereupon Jesus, having lift up his heart to God, prayed, and then said: 'In order that ye may know that my words are true, I say, "In the name...
Chapter 203 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 203. '"O city, hard-hearted and perverse of mind, I have sent to thee my servant, to the end that he may convert thee to thine heart, and thou mayest repent; but thou, O city of confusion, hast forgotten all that I did upon Egypt and upon Pharaoh for love...
Chapter 219 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 219. The Virgin returned to Jerusalem with him who writeth, and James and John, on that day on which the decree of the high priest went forth. Whereupon, the Virgin, who feared God, albeit she knew the decree of the high priest to be unjust, commanded those...
Chapter 144 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 144. 'As God liveth, in whose presence my soul standeth, God sendeth his prophets and servants into the world in order that sinners may repent; and he sendeth not for the sake of the righteous, because they have no need of repentance, even as he that is cle...
Chapter 207 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 207. Jesus answered: 'As God liveth, I have not the devil at my back, but I seek to cast out the devil. Wherefore, for this cause the devil stirreth up the world against me, because I am not of this world, but I seek that God may be glorified, who hath sent...
Chapter 30 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 30. Jesus went to Jerusalem, near unto the Senofegia ( = Tabernacles), a feast of our nation. The scribes and Pharisees having perceived this, took counsel to catch him in his talk. Whereupon, there came to him a doctor, saying: 'Master, what must I do...
Chapter 119 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 119. 'For verily every time that a man beholdeth a thing and forgetteth God who hath made it for man, he hath sinned. For if a friend of thine should give thee somewhat to keep in memory of him, and thou shouldest sell it and forget thy friend, thou hast...
Chapter 73 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 73. 'Verily I say unto you, that if Satan shall try whether ye be friends of God--because no one assaileth his own cities,--if Satan should have his will over you he would suffer you to glide at your own pleasure; but because he knoweth that ye be enemies...
Chapter 94 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 94. And having said this, Jesus said again: 'I confess before heaven, and call to witness everything that dwelleth upon the earth, that I am a stranger to all that men have said of me, to wit, that I am more than man. For I am a man, born of a woman, subject...
Chapter 107 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 107. 'And so the first thing that followeth sorrow for sin is fasting. For he that seeth that a certain food maketh him sick, for that he feareth death, after sorrowing that he hath eaten it, forsaketh it, so as not to make himself sick. So ought the sinner...
Chapter 82 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 82. Then Jesus gave a sigh and wept, saying: 'Woe to thee, Judaea, for thou gloriest, saying: "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord," and livest as though there were no God; given over wholly to the pleasures and gains of the world; for this wom...
Chapter 111 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 111. 'But beware that Satan will use all his strength [to bring it to pass] that ye [shall] watch during the night, and afterward be sleeping when by commandment of God ye ought to be praying and listening to the word of God. 'Tell me, would it please you if...
Chapter 65 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 65. The Passover drew near, wherefore Jesus, with his disciples, went up to Jerusalem. And he went to the pool call 'Probatica.' And the bath was so called because the angel of God every day troubled the water, and whosoever first entered the water after its...
Chapter 211 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 211. Jesus, being in the house of Nicodemus beyond the brook Cedron, comforted his disciples, saying: 'The hour is near that I must depart from the world; console yourselves and be not sad, seeing that where I go I shall not feel any tribulation. 'Now, shall...
Chapter 26 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 26. HOW ONE OUGHT TO LOVE GOD. AND IN THIS CHAPTER IS CONTAINED THE WONDERFUL CONTENTION OF ABRAHAM WITH HIS FATHER. Then said Jesus: 'There was a man on a journey who, as he was walking, discovered a treasure in a field that was to be sold for five pieces...
Chapter 152 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 152. Jesus having come to Jerusalem, and having entered one Sabbath day into the Temple, the soldiers drew nigh to tempt him and take him, and they said: 'Master, is it lawful to wage war?' Jesus answered: 'Our faith telleth us that our life is a continual...
Chapter 38 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 38. Then answered John: 'Master, let us wash ourselves as God commanded by Moses.' Jesus said: 'Think ye that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets? Verily I say unto you, as God liveth, I am not come to destroy it, but rather to observe it. For every...
Chapter 148 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 148. 'Tell me now; the Pharisees of to-day--are they Pharisees? Are they servants of God? Assuredly not. Yea, and I say unto you verily, that there is no worse thing here upon earth than this, that a man cover himself with profession and garb of religi...
Chapter 22 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 22. MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED IN THAT A DOG IS BETTER THAN THEY. The disciples questioned Jesus on that day, saying: 'O master, why didst thou make such answer to the woman, saying that they were dogs?' Jesus answered: 'Verily I say unto you...
Chapter 215 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 215. When the soldiers with Judas drew near to the place where Jesus was, Jesus heard the approach of many people, wherefore in fear he withdrew into the house. And the eleven were sleeping. Then God, seeing the danger of his servant, commanded Gabriel...
Chapter 156 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 156. When he had made the midday prayer, Jesus, as he went out of the temple, found one blind from his mother's womb. His disciples asked him saying: 'Master, who sinned in this man, his father or his mother, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered: 'Neither...
Chapter 98 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 98. And having said this, the multitude departed with the priest and the governor with Herod, having great disputations concerning Jesus and concerning his doctrine. Whereupon the priest prayed the governor to write unto Rome to the senate the whole matter;...
Chapter 115 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 115. 'Let man say somewhat to me. What hath he brought into the world, by reason of which he would live in idleness? Certain it is that he was born naked, and incapable of anything. Hence, of all that he has found, he is not the owner, but the dispenser...
Chapter 86 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 86. Let thy friend be such that, even as he willeth to correct thee, so he may receive correction; and even as he willeth that thou shouldest leave all things for love of God, even so again it may content him that thou forsake him for the service of God. 'But...
Chapter 61 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 61. Having thus said, Jesus washed himself, with his disciples, according to the law of God written in the book of Moses; and then they prayed. And the disciples seeing him thus sad spake not at all to him that day, but each stood terror-struck at his words...
Chapter 92 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 92. At this time we with Jesus, by the word of the holy angel, were gone to Mount Sinai. And there Jesus with his disciples kept the Forty days. When this was past, Jesus drew nigh to the river Jordan, to go to Jerusalem. And he was seen by one of them who...
Chapter 101 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 101. Then said Jesus: 'Penitence is a reversing of the evil life; for every sense must be turned round to the contrary of that which it wrought while sinning. For instead of delight must be put mourning; for laughter, activity; for lust, chastity; let...
Chapter 75 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 75. Then said James: 'O master, how is the examination of a thought like unto [that of] a coin?' Jesus answered: 'The good silver in the thought is piety, because every impious thought cometh of the devil. The right image is the example of the holy ones...
Chapter 28 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 28. 'When every one had departed from the temple, the priests closed the temple and went away. Then Abraham took the axe and cut off the feet of all the idols, except the great god Baal. At its feet he placed the axe, amid the ruins which the statues made...
Chapter 201 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 201. Jesus having entered into the temple, the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. They said among themselves: 'If he saves her, it is contrary to the law of Moses, and so we have him as guilty, and if he condemn her it is...
Chapter 36 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 36. The disciples stood in great amazement at the rebellion of the angels. Then said Jesus: 'Verily I say unto you, that he who maketh not prayer is more wicked than Satan, and shall suffer greater torments. Because Satan had, before his fall, no example...
Chapter 142 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 142. Judas, the traitor, when he saw that Jesus was fled, lost the hope of becoming powerful in the world, for he carried Jesus' purse, wherein was kept all that was given him for love of God. He hoped that Jesus would become king of Israel, and so he himself...
Chapter 32 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 32. One skilled in the law invited Jesus to supper, in order to tempt him. Jesus came thither with his disciples, and many scribes, to tempt him, waited for him in the house. Whereupon, the disciples sat down to table without washing their hands. The scribes...
Chapter 205 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 205. While Jesus was supping with his disciples in the house of Simon the leper, behold Mary the sister of Lazarus entered into the house, and, having broken a vessel, poured ointment over the head and garment of Jesus. Seeing this, Judas the traitor was f...
Chapter 146 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 146. Then said Zacchaeus: 'Sir, behold I will give, for love of God, fourfold all that I have received by usury.' Then said Jesus: 'This day hath salvation come to this house. Verily, verily, many publicans, harlots, and sinners shall go into the kingdom...
Chapter 158 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 158. The man born blind went to find Jesus, who comforted him saying: 'At no time hast thou been so blessed as thou art now, for thou art blest of our God who spake through David, our father and his prophet, against the friends of the world, saying: "They...
Chapter 105 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 105. 'God is so immeasurable that I tremble to describe him. But it is necessary that I make unto you a proposition. I tell you, then, that the heavens are nine and that they are distant from one another even as the first heaven is distant from the earth...
Chapter 96 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 96. When the prayer was ended, the priest said with a loud voice: 'Stay, Jesus, for we need to know who thou art, for the quieting of our nation.' Jesus answered: 'I am Jesus, son of Mary, of the seed of David, a man that is mortal and feareth God, and I seek...
Chapter 71 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 71. Jesus having arrived in his own country, it was spread through all the region of Galilee how that Jesus the prophet was come to Nazareth. Whereupon with diligence sought they the sick and brought them to him, beseeching him that he would touch them with...
Prologue : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Next TRUE GOSPEL OF JESUS, CALLED CHRIST, A NEW PROPHET SENT BY GOD TO THE WORLD: ACCORDING TO THE DESCRIPTION OF BARNABAS HIS APOSTLE. Barnabas, apostle of Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ, to all them that dwell upon the earth desireth peace and consolation. Dearly...
Untitled : Sacred-Texts Islam THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS TRANS. LONSDALE AND LAURA RAGG [London, 1907] "The Gospel of Barnabas" is an apocryphal gospel. That is, it is a life of Jesus purportedly written by a first-hand observer that is at variance with the picture(s) presented in the Bible. However, it is...
Chapter 88 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 88. 'But beware that thou hold not thyself for better; rather shalt thou say thus: "Peter, Peter, if God helped thee not with his grace thou wouldst be worse than he."' Peter answered: 'How must I correct him?' Jesus answered: 'In the way that thou thyself...
Chapter 79 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 79. James answered: 'And how shall the prophets teach us if they are dead; and how shall he be taught who hath not knowledge of the prophets?' Jesus answered: 'Their doctrine is written down, so that it ought to be studied, for [the writing] is to thee...
Chapter 67 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 67. 'For ye say unto them: "Bring of your sheep and bulls and lambs to the temple of your God, and eat not all, but give a share to your God of that which he hath given you"; and ye do not tell them of the origin of sacrifice, that it is for a witness...
Chapter 113 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 113. When the disciples were come they brought pine-cones, and by the will of God they found a good quantity of dates. So after the midday prayer they ate with Jesus. Whereupon the apostles and disciples, seeing him that writeth of sad countenance, feared...
Chapter 80 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 80. 'Tell me, where dwelt Job but in Uz among idolaters? And at the time of the flood, how writeth Moses? Tell me, He saith: "Noah truly found grace before God." Our father Abraham had a father without faith, for he made and worshipped false idols. Lot abode...
Chapter 150 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 150. 'The elder answered: "O brother, say not so, for thou despisest knowledge, which our God willeth to be prized." 'The younger replied: "Now, how shall I speak now so as not to fall into sin: for thy word is true, and mine also. I say, then, that they who...
Chapter 24 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 24. NOTABLE EXAMPLE HOW ONE OUGHT TO FLEE FROM BANQUETING AND FEASTING. Having said this, Jesus wept, saying: 'Woe to those who are servants to their flesh, for they are sure not to have any good in the other life, but only torments for their sins. I tell you...
Chapter 213 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 213. The day having come for eating the lamb, Nicodemus sent the lamb secretly to the garden for Jesus and his disciples, announcing all that had been decreed by Herod with the governor and the high priest. Whereupon Jesus rejoiced in spirit, saying: 'Blessed...
Chapter 154 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 154. 'The man, therefore, who hath honour, and life, and goods--when his possessions are stolen, the robber shall be hanged; when his life is taken, the murderer shall be beheaded. And this is just, for God hath so commanded. but when a neighbour's honour is...
Chapter 217 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 217. The soldiers took Judas and bound him, not without derision. For he truthfully denied that he was Jesus; and the soldiers, mocking him, said: 'Sir, fear not, for we are come to make thee king of Israel, and we have bound thee because we know that thou...
Chapter 20 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 20. MIRACLE ON THE SEA WROUGHT BY JESUS, AND JESUS DECLARES WHERE THE PROPHET IS RECEIVED. Jesus went to the sea of Galilee, and having embarked in a ship sailed to his city of Nazareth; whereupon there was a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship...
Chapter 209 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 209. At this time, while the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, was standing in prayer, the angel Gabriel visited her and narrated to her the persecution of her son, saying: 'Fear not, Mary, for God will protect him from the world.' Wherefore Mary, weeping...
Chapter 63 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 63. After certain days Jesus passed near unto a city of the Samaritans; and they would not let him enter the city, nor would they sell bread to his disciples. Wherefore said James and John: Master may it please thee that we pray God that he send down fire...
Chapter 84 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 84. Having made the prayer, Jesus said: 'Let us give thanks to God because he hath given to us this night great mercy; for that he hath made to come back the time that needs must pass in this night, in that we have made prayer in union with the messenger...
Chapter 117 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 117. 'Elijah answered: "Thou art of the tribe of Levi; and because thou, in entering the temple of God, lookedst lewdly upon a woman, thou being near the sanctuary, our God took away thy sight." 'Then the blind man weeping said: "Pardon me, O holy prophet...
Chapter 109 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 109. Jesus answered: 'Even so I tell you that ye ought to watch with the soul by the sun of justice [which is] our God, and not to boast yourselves of the watchings of the body. It is most true, therefore, that bodily sleep is to be avoided as much as is...
Chapter 2 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 2. THE WARNING OF THE ANGEL GABRIEL GIVEN TO JOSEPH CONCERNING THE CONCEPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY. Mary having known the will of God, fearing the people, lest they should take offence at her being great with child, and should stone her as guilty of fornicati...
Chapter 185 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 185. Jesus answered: 'Brother, it is not time that hath done this, but rather the wicked world. For in every time it is possible to serve God in truth, but by companying with the world, that is with the evil manners in each time, men become bad. 'Now knowest...
Chapter 221 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 221. And Jesus turned himself to him who writeth, and said: 'See, Barnabas, that by all means thou write my gospel concerning all that hath happened through my dwelling in the world. And write in like manner that which hath befallen Judas, in order th...
Chapter 16 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 16. WONDERFUL TEACHING GIVEN BY JESUS TO HIS APOSTLES CONCERNING CONVERSION FROM THE EVIL LIFE. One day Jesus called together his disciples and went up on to the mountain, and when he had sat down there his disciples came near unto him; and he opened his...
Chapter 162 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 162. 'If Amos had said: "There is no good in the city but what God hath done it," as God liveth, in whose presence my soul standeth, he would have made a grievous error, for the world holdeth not for good ought save the iniquities and sins that are done...
Chapter 121 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 121. 'When the governor hath arrested a prisoner whom he examineth while the notary writeth down [the case], tell me, how doth such a man talk?' The disciples answered: 'He talketh with fear and to the point, so as not to give suspicion of himself, and he is...
Chapter 55 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 55. 'The messenger of God shall go to collect all the prophets, to whom he shall speak, praying them to go with him to pray God for the faithful. And every one shall excuse himself for fear; nor, as God liveth, would I go there, knowing what I know. Then God...
Chapter 125 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 125. 'I will return now to avarice: and I tell you that when the sense would fain acquire a thing or tenaciously keep it, reason must say: "Such a thing will have its end." It is certain that if it will have an end it is madness to love it. Wherefore it...
Chapter 51 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 51. When he had prayed to the Lord, his disciples came to him and said: 'O master, two things we would know; one is, how thou talkest with Satan, who nevertheless thou sayest is impenitent; the other is, how God shall come to judge in the day of judgment.'...
Chapter 12 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 12. FIRST SERMON OF JESUS DELIVERED TO THE PEOPLE: WONDERFUL IN DOCTRINE CONCERNING THE NAME OF GOD. The whole city of Jerusalem was moved by these words, wherefore they all ran together to the temple to see Jesus, who had entered therein to pray, so th...
Chapter 181 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 181. Jesus answered: 'Well hast thou said, O brother; wherefore tell me, Who created man out of nothing? Assuredly it was God, who also gave him the whole world for his benefit. But man by sinning hath spent it all, for by reason of sin is all the world...
Chapter 166 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 166. Andrew replied: 'But how is that to be understood which God said to Moses, that he will have mercy on whom he willeth to have mercy and will harden whom he willeth to harden?' Jesus answered: 'God saith this in order that man may not believe that he is...
Chapter 6 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 6. THREE MAGI ARE LED BY A STAR IN THE EAST TO JUDAEA, AND, FINDING JESUS, MAKE OBEISANCE TO HIM AND GIFTS. In the reign of Herod, king of Judaea, when Jesus was born, three magi in the parts of the east were observing the stars of heaven. Whereupon appeared...
Chapter 178 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 178. 'And let this suffice you,' said Jesus, 'for the knowledge of paradise.' Whereupon Bartholomew said again: 'O master, have patience with me if I ask thee one word.' Jesus answered: 'Say that which thou desirest.' Said Bartholomew: 'Paradise is surely...
Chapter 189 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 189. Then said Jesus: 'This is true, because I am assured ther by God. Wherefore, that every one may know that this is the truth, in the name of God let the sun stand still, and not move for twelve hours!' And so it came to pass, to the great terror of all...
Chapter 170 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 170. 'God saith thus to the man who shall faithfully serve him: "I know thy works, that thou workest for me. As I live eternally, thy love shall not exceed my bounty. Because thou servest me as God thy creator, knowing thyself to be my work, and askest nought...
Chapter 197 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 197. Jesus answered: 'Tell me, John: there was an householder who gave a perfect axe to one of his servants in order that he might cut down the wood which obstructed the view of his house. 'But the labourer forgot the axe, and said: "If the master would give...
Chapter 59 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 59. 'Hell is one, O my disciples, and in it the damned shall suffer punishment eternally. Yet hath it seven rooms or regions, one deeper than the other, and he who goeth to the deepest shall suffer greater punishment. Yet are my words true concerning...
Chapter 47 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 47. Jesus went down, in the second year of his prophetic ministry, from Jerusalem, and went to Nain. Whereupon, as he drew nigh to the gate of the city, the citizens were bearing to the sepulchre the only son of his mother, a widow, over whom every one w...
Chapter 133 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 133. His disciples drew nigh to Jesus and asked him, saying: 'O Master, tell us the meaning of the parables which thou spakest unto the people.' Jesus answered: 'The hour of prayer draweth nigh; wherefore when the evening prayer is ended I will tell you...
Chapter 43 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 43. Jesus went down to the eight disciples who were awaiting him below. And the four narrated to the eight all that they had seen: and so there departed that day from their heart all doubt of Jesus, save [from] Judas Iscariot, who believed naught. Jesus...
Chapter 137 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 137. 'Then shall the messenger of God say: "O Lord, there are of the faithful who have been in hell seventy thousand years. Where, O Lord, is thy mercy? I pray thee, Lord, to free them from those bitter punishments." 'Then shall God command the four favourite...
Chapter 129 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 129. 'Shall the axe, perchance, boast itself at having cut down the forest where a man hath made a garden? Nay, assuredly, for the man hath done all, yea and [made] the axe, with his hands. 'And thou, O man, shalt thou boast thyself ofhaving done aught th...
Chapter 174 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 174. 'As God liveth, in whose presence my soul standeth, our God promiseth his mercy to the sinner, saying: "In that hour that the sinner shall lament his sin, by myself, I will not remember his iniquities for ever." 'Now what should eat the meats of paradise...
Chapter 193 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 193. Jesus abode two days in the house of Nicodemus, and the third day he departed for Bethany; and when he was nigh to the town he sent two of his disciples before him, to announce to Mary his coming. She ran out of the town, and when she had found Jesus...
Chapter 160 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 160. Then said he who writeth: 'Daniel the prophet, describing the history of the kings of Israel and their tyrants, writeth thus "The king of Israel joined himself with the king of Judah to fight against the sons of Belial (that is, reprobates) who were...
Chapter 14 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 14. AFTER THE FAST OF FORTY DAYS, JESUS CHOOSETH TWELVE APOSTLES. Jesus descended from the mount, and passed alone by night to the farther side of Jordan, and fasted forty days and forty nights, not eating anything day nor night, making continual supplicati...
Chapter 187 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 187. The good scribe wept as he said this, as the sailor weepeth when he seeth his ship broken up. And he said: 'Hosea, when he went to serve God, was prince over the tribe of Naphtali, and aged fourteen years. And so, having sold his patrimony and given it...
Chapter 199 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 199. 'God is so rich in mercy that, albeit the water of a thousand seas, if so many were to be found, could not quench a spark of the flames of hell, yet a single tear of one who mourneth at having offended God quencheth the whole of hell, by the great mercy...
Chapter 57 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 57. 'Then that miserable one shall come, and with greatest contumely shall be accused of every creature. Wherefore God shall call the angel Michael, who shall strike him one hundred thousand times with the sword of God. He shall strike Satan, and every stroke...
Chapter 123 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 123. When it was day, Friday morning, early, Jesus, after the prayer, assembled his disciples and said to them: 'Let us sit down; for even as on this day God created man of the clay of the earth; even so will I tell you what a thing is man, if God please.'...
Chapter 49 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 49. The scribe that day read the psalm of David, where saith David: 'When I shall find a time, I will judge uprightly.' Then, after the reading of the prophets, arose Jesus, and made sign of silence with his hands, and opening his mouth he spake thus:...
Chapter 139 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 139. Jesus was found by him who writeth, and by James with John. And they, weeping, said: 'O Master, wherefore didst thou flee from us? We have sought thee mourning; yea, all the disciples seek thee weeping.' Jesus answered: 'I fled because I knew that a host...
Chapter 53 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 53. 'Before that day shall come,' said Jesus, 'great destruction shall come upon the world, for there shall be war so cruel and pitiless that the father shall slay the son, and the son shall slay the father by reason of the factions of peoples. Wherefore...
Chapter 127 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 127. Jesus departed from the desert and entered into Jerusalem; whereupon all the people ran to the temple to see him. So after the reading of the psalms Jesus mounted up on the pinnacle where the scribe used to mount, and, having beckoned for silence with...
Chapter 4 : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next 4. ANGELS ANNOUNCE TO THE SHEPHERDS THE BIRTH OF JESUS, AND THEY, AFTER HAVING FOUND HIM, ANNOUNCE HIM. At that time the shepherds were watching over their flock, as is their custom. And, behold, they were surrounded by an exceeding bright light, out of which...