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plainly visible, and they will be pulled
became manifest through their image.’ If
up and burned.”
they say to you, ‘Is it you?’ say, ‘We are
58 Jesus said, “Blessed is the man who
its children, and we are the elect of the
has suffered and found life.”
living father.’ If they ask you, ‘What is
59 Jesus said, “Take heed of the living
the sign of your father in you?’, say to
one while you are alive, lest you die and
them, ‘It is movement and repose.’ ”
seek to see him and be unable to do so.”
51 His disciples said to him, “When
60 �They saw� a Samaritan carrying
will the repose of the dead come about,
a lamb on his way to Judea. He said to
and when will the new world come?”
his disciples, “That man is round about
He said to them, “What you look forthe lamb.”
ward to has already come, but you do not
They said to him, “So that he may kill
recognize it.”
it and eat it.”
52 His disciples said to him, “Twenty
He said to them, “While it is alive, he
four prophets spoke in Israel, and all of
will not eat it, but only when he has killed
them spoke in you.”
it and it has become a corpse.”
He said to them, “You have omitted
They said to him, “He cannot do so
the one living in your presence and have
otherwise.”
spoken (only) of the dead.”
He said to them, “You too, look for a
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place for yourselves within repose, lest
him, ‘My master invites you.’ He said to
you become a corpse and be eaten.”
him, ‘I have just bought a farm, and I am
61 Jesus said, “Two will rest on a bed:
on my way to collect the rent. I shall not
the one will die, and the other will live.”
be able to come. I ask to be excused.’
Salome said, “Who are you, man, that
The servant returned and said to his masyou . . . have come up on my couch and ter, ‘Those whom you invited to the dineaten from my table?”
ner have asked to be excused.’ The master
Jesus said to her, “I am he who exists
said to his servant, ‘Go outside to the
from the undivided. I was given some of
streets and bring back those whom you
the things of my father.”
happen to meet, so that they may dine.’
� . . . � “I am your disciple.”
Businessmen and merchants [will] not
� . . . � “Therefore I say, if he is deenter the places of my father.”
stroyed he will be filled with light, but if
65 He said, “There was a good man
he is divided, he will be filled with
who owned a vineyard. He leased it to
darkness.”
tenant farmers so that they might work it
62 Jesus said, “It is to those [who are
and he might collect the produce from
worthy of my] mysteries that I tell my
them. He sent his servant so that the
mysteries. Do not let your (sg.) left hand
tenants might give him the produce of the
know what your (sg.) right hand is
vineyard. They seized his servant and
doing.”
beat him, all but killing him. The servant
63 Jesus said, “There was a rich man
went back and told his master. The master
who had much money. He said, ‘I shall
said, ‘Perhaps he did not recognize them.’
put my money to use so that I may sow,
He sent another servant. The tenants beat
reap, plant, and fill my storehouse with
this one as well. Then the owner sent his
produce, with the result that I shall lack
son and said, ‘Perhaps they will show
nothing.’ Such were his intentions, but
respect to my son.’ Because the tenants
that same night he died. Let him who has
knew that it was he who was the heir to
ears hear.”
the vineyard, they seized him and killed
64 Jesus said, “A man had received vishim. Let him who has ears hear.”
itors. And when he had prepared the din
66 Jesus said, “Show me the stone
ner, he sent his servant to invite the
which the builders have rejected. That
guests. He went to the first one and said
one is the cornerstone.”
to him, ‘My master invites you.’ He said,
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