Section XXXII.

[1] 2109And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found [2] there oxen and sheep and doves.  2110And when he beheld those that sold and those that bought, and the money-changers sitting, 2111he 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; 2112and he threw down their money, and upset their tables, and the seats of [3] them that sold the doves; 2113and 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 [4] for robbers.  2114And he said unto those that sold the doves, Take this hence, and [5] make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.  2115And he suffered not any [6] one to carry vessels inside the temple.  2116And his disciples remembered the scripture, [7] The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.  2117The Jews answered and said unto him, [8] What sign hast thou shewn us, that thou doest this?  2118Jesus answered and said unto [9] them, Destroy this temple, and I shall raise it in three days.  2119The Jews said unto him, This temple was built in forty-six years, and wilt thou raise it in three days?  [10] 2120But he spake unto them of the temple of his body, that when2121 they destroyed it, he [11] [Arabic, p. 122] would raise it in three days.  2122When 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.

[12] 2123And 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.  2124And there came a poor widow, and cast in two mites.  2125And Jesus called his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor [15] widow cast into the treasury more than all the people:  2126and all of these cast into the place of the offering of God2127 of the superfluity of their wealth; while this woman of her want threw in all that she possessed.

[16] 2128And he spake unto them this parable, concerning people who trusted in themselves [17] that they are righteous, and despised every man:  2129Two men went up to the [18] temple to pray; one of them a Pharisee, and the other a publican.  2130And the Pharisee stood apart,2131 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; [19] 2132but I fast two days a week, and tithe all my possessions.2133  2134And the publican was [20] standing at a distance, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was [21] beating upon his breast, and saying, O Lord, have mercy on me, me the sinner.  2135I 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.

[22] [Arabic, p. 123] 2136And when eventide was come, he left all the people, and went outside the [23] city to Bethany, he and his twelve, and he remained there.  2137And all the people, because they knew the place, came to him, and he received them; and them that [24] had need of healing he healed.  2138And on the morning of the next day, when he returned [25] to the city from Bethany, he hungered.  2139And he saw a2140 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—it2141 was not [26] the season of figs—2142and he said unto it, Henceforward for ever let no man eat fruit of thee. And his disciples heard.

[27] 2143And they came to Jerusalem.  And there was there a man of the Pharisees, [28] named Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews.  2144This 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 [29] with.  2145Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man [30] be not born a second time, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  2146Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man who is old be born? can he, think you, return again to [31] his mother’s womb a second time, to enter and be born?  2147Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born of water and the Spirit, [32] he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  2148For he that is born of flesh is flesh; and he that [33] is born of Spirit is spirit.  2149Wonder not that I said unto thee that ye must be born a [34] [Arabic, p. 124] second time.  2150The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest its voice, but thou knowest not from what place it cometh, nor whither it goeth:  so [35] is every man that is born of the Spirit.  2151Nicodemus answered and said unto him, [36] How can that be?  2152Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou teaching2153 Israel, [37] and yet knowest not these things?  2154Verily, verily, I say unto thee, What we know [38] we say, and what we have seen we witness:  and ye receive not our witness.  2155If I said unto you what is on earth, and ye believed not, how then, if I say unto you [39] what is in heaven, will ye believe?  2156And no man hath ascended up into heaven, except him that descended from heaven, the Son of man, which is in heaven.  [40] 2157And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man to be [41] lifted up; 2158so that every man who may believe in him may not perish, but have [42] eternal life.  2159God so loved the world, that2160 he should give his only Son; and so every one that believeth on him should not perish, but should have eternal life.  [43] 2161God s