Introductory Notes

Section XLIV

Page 51 of 468

[1, 2]³⁰¹⁷ And when Jesus³⁰¹⁸ finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,³⁰¹⁹ Ye know that after two days will be the passover, and the Son of man is delivered up to be³ crucified.³⁰²⁰ Then gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders⁴ of the people, unto the court of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas;³⁰²¹ and they took counsel together concerning Jesus, that they might seize him by subtilty, and⁵ kill him.³⁰²² But they said, Not during the feast, lest there take place a disturbance among the people;³⁰²³ for they feared the people.

⁶³⁰²⁴ And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, who was of the number⁷ of the twelve.³⁰²⁵ And he went away, and communed with the chief priests, and the scribes, and those that held command in the temple, and said unto them, What⁸ [Arabic, p. 167] would ye pay me, and I will deliver him unto you?³⁰²⁶ And they, when they heard it, were pleased, and made ready³⁰²⁷ for him thirty pieces of money.³⁰²⁸⁹³⁰²⁹ And he promised³⁰³⁰ them, and from that time he sought an opportunity³⁰³¹ that he might deliver unto them Jesus without the multitude.

¹⁰³⁰³² And on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, and said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready for thee that thou mayest eat the passover?

¹¹³⁰³³ And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that the hour was arrived for his departure from this world unto his Father; and he loved his own in this world,¹² and to the last he loved them.³⁰³⁴ And at the time of the feast, Satan put into the¹³ heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to deliver him up.³⁰³⁵ And Jesus, because he knew that the Father had delivered into his hands everything, and that he came¹⁴ forth from the Father, and goeth unto God,³⁰³⁶ rose from supper, and laid aside his¹⁵ garments;³⁰³⁷ and took a towel, and girded his waist, and poured water into a bason, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith¹⁶ his waist was girded.³⁰³⁸ And when he came to Simon Cephas, Simon said unto¹⁷ him, Dost thou, my Lord, wash for me my feet?³⁰³⁹ Jesus answered and said unto¹⁸ him, What I do, now thou knowest not; but afterwards thou shalt learn.³⁰⁴⁰ Simon said unto him, Thou shalt never wash for me my feet. Jesus said unto him, If I¹⁹ wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.³⁰⁴¹ Simon Cephas said unto him, Then, my²⁰ Lord, wash not for me my feet alone, but my hands also and my head.³⁰⁴² Jesus said unto him, He that batheth³⁰⁴³ needeth not to wash save his feet, whereas his whole²¹ body is clean: and ye also are clean, but not all of you.³⁰⁴⁴ For Jesus knew him that should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

²² [Arabic, p. 168]³⁰⁴⁵ So when he had washed their feet, he took his garments, and sat down, and²³ said unto them, Know ye what I have done unto you?³⁰⁴⁶ Ye call me, Master,²⁴ and, Lord: and ye say well; so I am.³⁰⁴⁷ If then I, now, who am your Lord and Master, have washed for you your feet, how needful is it that ye should wash one another's feet!²⁵³⁰⁴⁸ This have I given you as an example, that as I have done to you so ye should do²⁶ also.³⁰⁴⁹ Verily, verily, I say unto you, No servant is greater than his lord; nor an²⁷ apostle greater than he that sent him.³⁰⁵⁰ If ye know that, ye are happy if ye do it.²⁸³⁰⁵¹ My saying this³⁰⁵² is not for all of you: for I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eateth with me bread lifted against me his²⁹ heel.³⁰⁵³ Henceforth I say unto you before it come to pass, that, when it cometh to³⁰ pass, ye may believe that I am he.³⁰⁵⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and whosoever receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

³¹³⁰⁵⁵ Who is the great one, he that sitteth, or he that serveth? is it not he that sitteth?³²³⁰⁵⁶ I am among you as he that serveth.³⁰⁵⁷ But ye are they that have continued with me³³ in my temptations;³⁰⁵⁸ I promise³⁰⁵⁹ you, as my Father promised³⁰⁶⁰ me, the kingdom, that ye may eat and drink at the table of my kingdom.

³⁴³⁰⁶¹ And the first day³⁰⁶² came, the feast of unleavened bread, on which the Jews were³⁵ wont³⁰⁶³ to sacrifice³⁰⁶⁴ the passover.³⁰⁶⁵ And Jesus sent two of his disciples, Cephas and John, and said unto them, Go and make ready for us the passover, that we may eat. [36, 37]³⁰⁶⁶ And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee?³⁰⁶⁷ He said unto them, Go, enter the city;³⁰⁶⁸ and at the time of your entering, there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water;³⁰⁶⁹ follow him, and the place where he entereth, say³⁸ to such an one, the master of the house,³⁰⁷⁰ Our Master saith, My time is come, and [Arabic, p. 169] at thy house I keep the passover.³⁰⁷¹ Where then is the lodging-place where³⁹ I shall eat with my disciples?³⁰⁷² And he will shew you a large upper room⁴⁰ spread and made ready:³⁰⁷³ there then make ready for us.³⁰⁷⁴ And his two disciples went out, and came to the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover as he had said unto them.

⁴¹³⁰⁷⁵ And when the evening was come, and the time arrived, Jesus came and reclined,⁴² and the twelve apostles with him.³⁰⁷⁶ And he said unto them, With desire I have⁴³ desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:³⁰⁷⁷ I say unto you, that henceforth I shall not eat it, until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

⁴⁴³⁰⁷⁸ Jesus said that, and was agitated³⁰⁷⁹ in his spirit, and testified, and said, Verily,⁴⁵ verily, I say unto you, One of you, he that eateth with me, shall betray me.³⁰⁸⁰ And they were very sorrowful; and they began to say unto him, one after another of⁴⁶ them, Can it be I, Lord?³⁰⁸¹ He answered and said unto them, One of the twelve,⁴⁷ he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, will betray me.³⁰⁸² And lo, the hand of⁴⁸ him that betrayeth me is on the table.³⁰⁸³ And the Son of man goeth, as it is written of him: woe then to that man by whose hand the Son of man is betrayed! for it⁴⁹ would have been better for that man had he not been born.³⁰⁸⁴ And the disciples⁵⁰ looked one on another, for they knew not to whom he referred;³⁰⁸⁵ and they began to search among themselves, who that might be who was to do this.

Notes

3017
.
3018
Borg. ms., the Lord Jesus.
3019
.
3
Par[alem]phthenai is perhaps supported by paralabontes, .
3020
.
4
I know no other instance of stauriskein.
3021
.
5
cf. , where Syr. Pesch. reads: "They say, These bodies shall not remain on the cross, because the sabbath dawneth."
3022
.
3023
b.
6
The text here is corrupt: for epesanto I have provisionally read epesan te.
3024
.
7
For autos horas we must read autes horas (cf. Clem., Hom., xx., 16); aute is the equivalent in later Greek literature of ekeine, as in the modern tongue (cf. Lc. x. 7, 21, and xii. 12; || ekeine, Mt., Mc.)
3025
a; a.
8
I have ventured to substitute meta, "together with" (cf. ), for kata, "down upon." Dr. Swete, however, keeps kata, and interprets it as "against," i.e., to guard the sepulchre against.
3026
a; b.
3027
Probably the letter that stands for and should be repeated, and the phrase rendered and appointed.
3028
So Vat. ms. (following Peshitta) and Ibn-at-Tayyib's Commentary. Borg. ms., followed by Ciasca, has dirhams of money.
9
The form of the question in the Greek suggests a negative answer.
3029
.
3030
Lit. became responsible unto. Syriac versions as in text above (cf. § 44, 33).
3031
The Arabic (lit. a stumbling or a cause of stumbling) doubtless represents the Syriac.
10
[cf. John passim.]
3032
.
11
[cf. .]
3033
.
12
[cf. ; .]
3034
.
13
[cf. .]
3035
.
14
[cf. ; .]
3036
.
15
[cf. .]
3037
.
16
[cf. .]
3038
.
17
For further explanation of the method followed see 20.
3039
.
18
See notes to § 7, 47, and § 52, 36, of the present translation.
3040
.
19
See below, 12, (2).
3041
.
20
See also below, 6, and 20.
3042
.
3043
The Arabic word means swimmeth. The Syriac versions have is bathed, which Borg. ms. misreads bathed, and Vat. ms. (followed by Ciasca) corrupts into batheth, rendering it swimmeth.
21
Bibl. Or., i., 619.
3044
.
22
Mai, Vet. script. nova. collect., iv., 14.
3045
.
23
cf. Zahn, Forschungen, i., 294 ff.
3046
.
24
See below, § 7, 47, note, and § 52, 36, note.
3047
.
25
See below, § 28, 43, note.
3048
.
26
See below, foot-notes, passim.
3049
.
27
The first leaf bears a more pretentious Latin inscription, quoted by Ciasca, p. vi.
3050
.
28
Can this be a misprint for 95?
3051
.
3052
Or, This my saying.
29
See below, 13.
3053
.
30
He does not state, in so many words, that the list is absolutely exhaustive.
3054
.
31
See, e.g., below, § 13, 42, note, and § 14, 43, note.
3055
.
32
See the valuable article of Guidi, "Le traduzioni degli Evangelii in arabo e in etiopico" (Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei; Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e filologiche. Serie Quarta, 1888, Parte Prima—Memorie, pp. 5-38). Some of his results are briefly stated in Scrivener, A Plain Introd. to the Crit. of the N.T., 4th ed., ii., 162.
3056
.
3057
.
33
cf.the foot-notes passim, e.g., § 13, 14, § 14, 24.
3058
.
3059
cf. § 44, 9, note.
3060
cf. § 44, 9, note.
34
See below, note to Subscription.
3061
.
3062
Vat. ms. has the word day on the margin, added by a late hand.
35
See a glaring case in § 52, 11.
3063
The misprint in the Arabic text has been overlooked in the list of Corrigenda.
3064
Or, kill.
3065
.
3066
.
3067
a.
3068
b; b.
3069
a.
38
The text is given below in full at its proper place.
3070
b.
3071
b.
39
Prof. Gottheil, indeed, announced in 1892 in the Journal of Biblical Literature (vol. xi., pt. i., p. 71) that he had been privately informed of the existence of a complete copy of the Syriac Diatessaron. Unfortunately, however, as he has kindly informed me, he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that the ms. in question, which is not yet accessible, is "nothing more than the commentary of Ishodad" mentioned in the text. A similar rumor lately circulated probably originated simply in the pamphlet of Goussen mentioned in the next note. S. Bäumer, on the other hand, in his article, "Tatians Diatessaron, seine bisher. Lit. u. die Reconstruction des Textes nach einer neuentdeckten Handschrift" (Literarischer Handweiser, 1890, 153-169) which the present writer has not been able to see, perhaps refers simply to the Borgian ms.
3072
.
40
Attention was called to these by Profs. Isaac H. Hall and R. J. H. Gottheil (Journ. of Bibl. Lit., x., 153 ff.; xi., 68 ff.); then by Prof. J. R. Harris (Contemp. Rev., Aug., 1895, p. 271 ff., and, more fully, Fragments of the Com. of Ephr. Syr. on the Diatess., London, 1895) and by Goussen (Studia Theologica, fasc. i., Lips., 1895).
3073
.
3074
.
41
Prof. Harris promises an edition of this commentary.
3075
.
42
Harris, Fragments, p. 14, where the Syriac text is quoted.
3076
.
43
Bib. Or., ii., 159 f. Most of them are repeated again by Bar Hebræus (d. 1286), although some confusion is produced by his interweaving some phrases from Eusebius of Cæsarea. (Bib. Or., i., 57 f., and a longer quotation in English in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 1895, p. 274 f.)
3077
.
44
Lagarde's statement (Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellsch. der Wiss., etc., zu Göttingen, 1891, No. 4, p. 153) that a ms. had been discovered, appears to have been unfounded. Prof. Rahlfs of Göttingen kindly tells me that he believes this is so.
3078
a.
3079
The Syriac word is retained. In Arabic it properly means become strong or proud (cf. § 38, 17).
45
Migne, Patrol. græc., tom. lxxxiii., col. 369, 372.
3080
b; .
46
Published at Venice in 1836.
3081
.
47
The two Armenian mss. are dated a.d. 1195.
3082
.
48
Evangelii Concordantis Expositio, facta a S. Ephraemo (Ven., 1876).
3083
.
49
Forschungen zur Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons, I. Theil.
3084
.
50
Edited by Ernestus Ranke, Marb. and Lips., 1868.
3085
.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.