Section VI.

[1] [Arabic, p. 22] 372But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said unto him, My Lord, I beseech of thee to depart from me, for I am [2] a sinful man.  373And amazement took possession of him, and of all who were with him, [3] because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken.  374And thus also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken,375 who were Simon’s partners.  And Jesus said [4] unto Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men unto life.  376And they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything, and followed him.

[5] 377And after that came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and he went [6] about there with them, and baptized.  378And John also was baptizing in Ænon, which is beside Salim, because there was much water there:  and they came, and were baptized.  [7, 8] 379And John was not yet come into prison.  380And there was an inquiry between [9] one of John’s disciples and one of the Jews about purifying.  381And they382 came unto John, and said unto him, Our master, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom [10] thou hast borne witness, behold, he also baptizeth, and many come to him.  383John answered and said unto them,384 A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him385 from heaven.  386Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent387 before him.  388And he that hath a bride is a bridegroom:  and the friend of the bridegroom is he that standeth and listeneth to him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice.  Lo now,389 behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete.390  391And he must increase and I decrease.  392For393 he that is come from above is higher than everything; and he that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh; and he that came down from heaven is [15] higher than all.  394And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and heard:  and no man [16] receiveth his witness.  395And he that hath received his witness hath asserted396 that he is [17] truly God.397  398And he whom God hath sent speaketh the words399 of God:  God gave [18] not the Spirit by measure.  400The Father loveth the Son, and hath put everything in [19] his hands.  401Whosoever believeth in the Son hath eternal402 life; but whosoever obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God cometh403 upon him.

[20] 404And Jesus learned405 that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, [21] and that he was baptizing more than John 406(not that Jesus was himself baptizing, [22] but his disciples); 407and so he left Judæa.

[23] 408And Herod the governor, because he used to be rebuked by John because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and for all the sins which he was committing, [24] added to all that also this, 409that he shut up John in prison.

[25] 410And when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he went away to Galilee.  [26] 411And he entered again into Cana, where he had made the water wine.  And there [27] was at Capernaum a king’s servant, whose son was sick.  412And this man heard that Jesus was come from Judæa to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought of him that he would come down and heal his son; for he had come near unto death.  [28, 29] 413Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye do414 not believe.  415The [Arabic, p. 24] king’s servant said unto him, My Lord, come down, that the child die not.  [30] 416Jesus said unto him, Go; for thy son is alive.  And that man believed the [31] word which Jesus spake, and went.  417And when he went down, his servants met him [32] and told him, and418 said unto him, Thy son is alive.  419And he asked them at what time he recovered.  They said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left [33] him.  420And his father knew that that was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, [34] Thy son is alive.  421And he believed, he and the whole people of his house.  And this [35] is the second sign422 which Jesus did when he returned from Judæa to Galilee.  423And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

[36] 424And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea shore, in the [37] borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:  425that it might be fulfilled which was said in Isaiah the prophet, who said,

[38] 426The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali,

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

Galilee of the nations:

[39] 427The people sitting in darkness

Saw a great light,

And those sitting in the region and in the shadow of death,

There appeared to them a light.

[40] 428And he taught them on the sabbaths.  429And they wondered because of his doctrine:430  [41] for his word was as if it were authoritative.  431And there was in the synagogue [42] a man with an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice, and said, 432Let me alone; what have I to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come for our [43] destruction?  I know thee who thou art, thou Holy One of God.