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selves ; and we see that He is truly the Saviour of the world. Sanuk fisii in Saiilzz. 43 Now after these two days He took His departure from there for Galilee;

44 although jesus had Himself declared 47 49 53 that a prophet has no honour in his own country. Then when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans wel- comed Him, having seen all that He had done at jerusalem during the festival; for they also went to the festival. myc ylnhlzmmfs Sun ®urrh. He returned then to Cana of Galilee.

where He had made the water wine. N ow there was a nobleman, whose son was ill at Capernaum. This man havinglearned that jesus had arrived in Galilee from judea, went to Him, begging that He would go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death, jesus therefore said to him, ‘ Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believef said the noble- before my boy dies} jesus answered him; The man accordingly believed what

jesus had told him, and went away. As he was returning home, however, Your boy is alive} He therefore asked them the hour

at which he began to recover. They replied: ‘ Yesterday, at one o’oloek the fever The father then recognised that that

was the very time at which jesus said And he himself believed, as well as his whole

54 family. This again, as a second sign, was effected by jesus while passing from judea inte Galilee. Krrmth Hisit ln ?zru¤a12m. Ely: Ware at the Quo nf Qzihzshu. 5 After this there was a judean festival; and jesus went up to

2 jerusalem. New thereis in jerusalem, near the sheep-market, a public bath, called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having

3 five covered walks, in which lay a great number of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed. And there was a man there who had

been detained by his sickness for thirty·eight years. jesus, noticing him prestrate, and knowing that he had been ill for a long time, asked him: ‘ Do you desire to become well? ’ replied the sick man to Him

‘I have no one to throw me into the bath when the water-is agitated; but while I am- coming, some one else goes down before me. Rise up, take up your rug, and walk. And the man was at once restored;

and, taking up his rug, he began to walk. $al1lmtarianis¤t. That day, however, happened to be

the Sabbath. The judeans therefore said to the restored man: ‘This is the Sabbath; it is not

allowable for you to carry your rug aboutx But he answered them.: ‘ The Man Who made me well,

told me Himself to take up my rug, They then asked: ‘Who is the fellow that said to you, ‘Take it up and walk ?’ The restored man, however, did not

know who He was; for a crowd being on the spot, jesus had withdrawn Himself. jesus afterwards met him in the temple, and said to him: ‘ Rellectl you have been made

well; sin no more, so that nothing worse may come to you. The man then went away, and re-

ported to the judeans that it was jesus Who had made him well. The judeans for this reason began to per- secute jesus, because He had done it upon the Sabbath. jesus, however, said to them : ‘My Father is working until now; and I will work} I0 I! I2 16

For this reason the judeans sought x8 to murder Him; because He was not only breaking the Sabbath, but also called God His own Father, thus making Himself equal to God. Expect- ing the agitation of the water; (4) for an angel ofthe Lord at stated times descended he bathand itated the water. Th to t, agen whoever hrst went own, after the disturbance of the water, was relieved of whatever disease --§¢¤_IjI{est-

Some very old MSS., but of no recognised cet: and 'Hcrfs Gretk Testament and Appen- cuthority, here insert an interpolated passage, dix. IO22