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Jewish-Christian Gospels (Nazarenes, Ebionites and Egyptians) 3

Ebionites, Egyptians, Hebrews

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And in the Hebrew Gospel it is written: He that wondereth shall reign, and he that reigneth shall rest; he shall not cease from seeking until he find, and having found, he will be amazed, and having been amazed will reign, and having reigned will rest.

2And the Savior himself saith: Even now did my mother, the Holy Spirit, take me by one of my hairs, and carried me away unto the great mountain Tabor.

3And there is set forth another history concerning a woman accused of many sins before the Lord, whom the Savior received with compassion and forgave.

4And in the Hebrew Gospel the threat is turned not against the servant who hid the talent, but against him who lived riotously; for it told of three servants: one who devoured his master's substance with harlots and flute-girls, another who multiplied it by trading, and another who hid the talent in the earth.

5And the Lord said: Never be ye joyful, save when ye look upon your brother in love.

6And when the Lord had given the linen shroud unto the servant of the high priest, he went unto James and appeared unto him; for James had sworn that he would not eat bread from that hour wherein he had drunk the Lord's cup until he should see him risen again from among them that sleep; and the Lord said: Bring ye a table and bread; and he took bread and blessed and brake it, and gave it unto James the Just, saying: My brother, eat thy bread, for the Son of Man is risen from among them that sleep.

7And the man who had the withered hand was a mason, who prayed for help in such words as these: I was a mason seeking a livelihood with my hands; I pray thee, Jesus, to restore mine health, that I may not beg meanly for my food.

8And in the place of the son of Barachias, the Hebrew Gospel readeth: the son of Jehoiada.

9And at the passion of the Lord, when he yielded up the ghost, the lintel of the temple of immense size was broken and fell divided.

10And it came to pass, when the Lord was come up out of the water, the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him, and said unto him: My Son, in all the prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldst come, and I might rest in thee; for thou art my rest, and thou art my firstborn Son, that reignest for ever.

11And it is placed among the greatest of sins if a man have grieved the spirit of his brother.

12And behold, the mother of the Lord and his brethren said unto him: John the Baptist baptizeth unto the remission of sins; let us go and be baptized of him; but he said unto them: Wherein have I sinned, that I should go and be baptized of him? Unless peradventure this very thing that I have said is a sin of ignorance.

13And the Lord said: If thy brother have sinned against thee by a word and made thee amends, seven times in a day receive thou him; Simon his disciple said unto him: Seven times in a day? The Lord answered and said unto him: Yea, I say unto thee, unto seventy times seven; for in the prophets also, after they were anointed by the Holy Spirit, the word of sin was found.

14And a certain rich man said unto him: Master, what good thing shall I do and live? He said unto him: Man, keep the law and the prophets; he answered: I have kept them; the Lord said unto him: Go, sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor, and come, follow me; but the rich man began to scratch his head, and it pleased him not; and the Lord said unto him: How sayest thou, I have kept the law and the prophets? For it is written in the law: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; and lo, many of thy brethren, sons of Abraham, are clad in filth and dying for hunger, and thy house is full of many goods, and nought goeth out of it unto them; and turning to Simon he said: It is easier for a camel to enter by a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

15And at the cleansing of the temple, it is recorded that rays of starry light issued from his eyes, whereby those that profaned the holy house were terrified and put to flight.

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About Jewish-Christian Gospels (Nazarenes, Ebionites and Egyptians)

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.