Section XXXII

Section XXXII.

[1]And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found there oxen and sheep and doves. [2]And when he beheld those that sold and those that bought, and the money-changers sitting, [3]he made for himself a scourge of rope, and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and the money-changers; [4]and he threw down their money, and upset their tables, and the seats of them that sold the doves; [5]and he was teaching, and saying unto them, Is it not written, My house is a house of prayer for all peoples? and ye have made it a den for robbers. [6]And he said unto those that sold the doves, Take this hence, and make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. [7]And he suffered not any one to carry vessels inside the temple. [8]And his disciples remembered the scripture, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. [9]The Jews answered and said unto him, What sign hast thou shewn us, that thou doest this? [10]Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and I shall raise it in three days. [11]The Jews said unto him, This temple was built in forty-six years, and wilt thou raise it in three days? [12]But he spake unto them of the temple of his body, that when[13] they destroyed it, he [Arabic, p. 122] would raise it in three days. [14]When therefore he rose from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.

[15]And when Jesus sat down over against the treasury, he observed how the multitudes were casting their offerings into the treasury: and many rich men were [13, 14] throwing in much. [16]And there came a poor widow, and cast in two mites. [17]And Jesus called his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast into the treasury more than all the people: [18]and all of these cast into the place of the offering of God[19] of the superfluity of their wealth; while this woman of her want threw in all that she possessed.

[20]And he spake unto them this parable, concerning people who trusted in themselves that they are righteous, and despised every man: [21]Two men went up to the temple to pray; one of them a Pharisee, and the other a publican. [22]And the Pharisee stood apart,[23] and prayed thus, O Lord, I thank thee, since I am not like the rest of men, the unjust, the profligate, the extortioners, or even like this publican; [24]but I fast two days a week, and tithe all my possessions.[25][26]And the publican was standing at a distance, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating upon his breast, and saying, O Lord, have mercy on me, me the sinner. [27]I say unto you, that this man went down justified to his house more than the Pharisee. Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and every one that abaseth himself shall be exalted.

[Arabic, p. 123] [28]And when eventide was come, he left all the people, and went outside the city to Bethany, he and his twelve, and he remained there. [29]And all the people, because they knew the place, came to him, and he received them; and them that had need of healing he healed. [30]And on the morning of the next day, when he returned to the city from Bethany, he hungered. [31]And he saw a[32] fig tree at a distance on the beaten highway, having on it leaves. And he came unto it, expecting to find something on it; and when he came, he found nothing on it but the leaves—it[33] was not the season of figs—[34]and he said unto it, Henceforward for ever let no man eat fruit of thee. And his disciples heard.

[35]And they came to Jerusalem. And there was there a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews. [36]This man came unto Jesus by night, and said unto him, My Master, we know that thou hast been sent from God as a teacher; and no man can do these signs that thou doest, except him whom God is with. [37]Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born a second time, he cannot see the kingdom of God. [38]Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man who is old be born? can he, think you, return again to his mother’s womb a second time, to enter and be born? [39]Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. [40]For he that is born of flesh is flesh; and he that is born of Spirit is spirit. [41]Wonder not that I said unto thee that ye must be born a [Arabic, p. 124] second time. [42]The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest its voice, but thou knowest not from what place it cometh, nor whither it goeth: so is every man that is born of the Spirit. [43]Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can that be? [44]Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou teaching[45] Israel, and yet knowest not these things? [46]Verily, verily, I say unto thee, What we know we say, and what we have seen we witness: and ye receive not our witness. [47]If I said unto you what is on earth, and ye believed not, how then, if I say unto you what is in heaven, will ye believe? [48]And no man hath ascended up into heaven, except him that descended from heaven, the Son of man, which is in heaven. [49]And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man to be lifted up; [50]so that every man who may believe in him may not perish, but have eternal life. [51]God so loved the world, that[52] he should give his only Son; and so every one that believeth on him should not perish, but should have eternal life. [53]God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world might be saved by his hand. [54]He that believeth in him shall not be judged: but he that believeth not is condemned beforehand, because he hath not believed in the name of the only Son, the Son of God.[55][56]This is the judgement, that the light came into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light; because their deeds were evil. [57]Whosoever doeth evil deeds hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds be reproved. [58]But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known, that they have been done in God.