Then Jesus said to them that were converted to repentance, and to his disciples: “* There was a father who had two sons, and the younger said: ‘Father, give me my portion of goods’; and his father gave it [to] him. The woman answered: ‘O Lord, the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’ Then was Jesus seized with admiration at the words of the woman, and said: ‘O woman, great is thy faith.’ And having raised his hands to heaven he prayed to God, and then he said: ‘O woman, thy daughter is freed, go thy way in peace.’ The woman departed, and returning to her home found her daughter, who was blessing God.’ Wherefore the woman said: ‘Verily there is none other God than the God of Israel.’ Whereupon all her kinsfolk joined themselves unto the law of [God], according to the law written in the book of Moses. For others could not do such a thing. The first is when he tempts by himself, with thoughts. The priest was silent, being confounded. Our God does not seek that our intellect should be good, but rather our heart. And they seek now to slay me. Behold, then, the present life that it is death, through having no perception of God. Truly I say to you, that he who has found a true friend has found one of the delights of paradise; no, such is the key of paradise.”, Thaddaeus answered: “But if perhaps a man shall have a friend who is not such as you have said, O master? * Of that rib made he Eve, and gave her to Adam for his wife. Truly I say to you, that every animal according to its own nature, if it loses that which it desires, mourns for the lost good. ‘Lord God the Saviour, save them whom you have given me, in order that Satan may not be able to do aught against them, and save not only them, but every one that shall believe in them. Who wrote it and why? Wherefore, I should say so I should be a greater robber, for I should be stealing the honour of God. But I say to you, that when she forget, I will not forget you.” “Tell me, then, who shall fear Satan, having for guard the angels and for protection the living God? If, therefore, you would not perish, beware that you do not as does the Pharisee today.? It is contended that at this point Barnabas was following Peter and disagreeing with Paul. Then answered he that writes, weeping, and said: "Suffer me to weep, O master, and other men also, for that we are sinners. Remember that you are earth, and to earth you return.’ And he spoke to Eve, saying: ‘And you who did [listen] to Satan, and gave the food to your husband, shall abide under the dominion of man, who shall keep you as a slave, and you shall bear children with travail.’, And having called the serpent, God called the angel Michael, who holds the sword of God, [and] said: ‘First drive this wicked serpent forth from paradise, and when outside cut off his legs: for if he wants to walk, he must trail his body upon the earth.’ Afterwards God called Satan, who came laughing, and he said to him: ‘Because you, reprobate, have deceived [Adam and Eve] and have made them unclean, I will that every uncleanness [from] them and [from] all their children – [of which] they shall be truly penitent and shall serve me – in going forth from their body shall enter through your mouth, and so shall you be satiated with uncleanness.’, Satan then gave a horrible roar, and said: ‘Since you will to make me [continually] worse, I will make me that which I shall be able!’ Then said God: ‘Depart, cursed one, from my presence!’ Then Satan departed, and God said to Adam [and] Eve, who were both weeping: ‘Go forth from paradise, and do penance, and do not let your hope fail, for I will send your son so that your seed shall lift the dominion of Satan from off the human race: for I will give all things to he who shall come, my Messenger.’, God hid himself [from Adam and Eve], and the angel Michael drove them forth from paradise. Who are the true worshippers?”, Then Jesus gave a sigh and wept, saying: “Woe to you, Judea, for you glory, saying: “The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord,” and live as though there were no God; given over wholly to the pleasures and gains of the world; for this woman in the day of judgment shall condemn you to hell; for this woman seeks to know how to find grace and mercy before God.”, And turning to the woman he said: “O woman, you Samaritans worship that which you know not, but we Hebrews worship that which we know. The chief of the priests cried out, saying: “This man is not sent of God, seeing he keeps not the sabbath; for today he has healed an infirm person.”. Thou knowest, Lord, that I thy servant seek thee alone, O Lord, and speak thy word; for thy word is truth, which endureth for ever.’, When Jesus had spoken these words, behold there came to him the angel Gabriel, saying: ‘Fear not, O Jesus, for a thousand thousand who dwell above the heaven guard thy garments, and thou shalt not die till everything be fulfilled, and the world shall be near its end.’, Jesus fell with his face to the ground, saying: ‘O great Lord God, how great is thy mercy upon me, and what shall I give thee, Lord, for all that thou hast granted me?’ The angel Gabriel answered: ‘Arise, Jesus, and remember. Jeremiah Jones supposed that there were no fragments extant. And again the things which he buys he is fain to make a profit; for if he perceives that he will lose thereby he will not sell, no, not to his own brother. Nevertheless the knowledge of its existence is fairly widespread in the Muslim community. Thereupon hell shall tremble at his presence. The discord of Nain was such that some said: “He is our God who has visited us”; others said: “God is invisible, so that none has seen him, not even Moses, his servant; therefore it is not God, but rather his son.” Others said: “He is not God, nor son of God, for God has not a body to beget anything; but he is a great prophet of God.” And so did Satan instigate that, in the third year of the prophetic ministry of Jesus, great ruin to our people was like to arise therefrom. If I work iniquity, reprove me, and God will love you, because you shall be doing his will, but if none can reprove me of sin it is a sign that you are not sons of Abraham as you call yourselves, nor are you incorporate with that head wherein Abraham was incorporate. ‘Abraham answered: “Whoso believeth not Moses and the prophets will not believe even the dead if they should arise. O what bitter cold, which yet shall not temper their flames! True is the proverb of the camel, that it likes not clear water to drink, because it desires not to see its own ugly face. Wherefore, if this be true, it were a great wrong to kill him, seeing that he were innocent. The which seeing, Satan joins himself with the flesh and the sense, and brings a large supply of leaves; that is, a quantity of earthly things, in which he covers up sin; the which receiving, man becomes sick and ready for eternal death. Jesus answered: ‘Man, you call me good, but you err, for God alone is good. But if he is Jesus and denies that he is, assuredly he has lost his understanding, and it were impious to slay a madman.’. For example, contrary to Sale's notice, the words paraclete or periclyte are not explicitly found in the text of either the Spanish or Italian versions; although the Greek term periclyte is transliterated into Arabic in one of the marginal notes to the Italian manuscript at Chapter 44, as a gloss to the Italian 'uno splendore' which is indeed there applied to Muhammad by name. But as servant of God I can beseech him for the sins of others: and so I have besought him for this sick man, and I am sure that God has heard my prayer. They said among themselves: ‘If he save her, it is contrary to the Law of Moses, and so we have him as guilty, and if he condemn her it is contrary to his own doctrine, for he preaches mercy.’ Wherefore they came to Jesus and said: ‘Master, we have found this woman in adultery. Mighty hath he made his hand, and he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of his heart. Wherefore he oftentimes presented him raiment and delicate food, but Haggai ever sent back the messenger, saying: “Go, return to the house, for you have made a mistake. There Jesus [and] his disciples kept the forty days. Assuredly he was wroth, and took the old axe and struck him on the head, saying: Fool and knave! Oh, how many there are that fear an ant, but reck not of an elephant!” And having said this, he went forth from the Temple;. And having said this, Jesus prayed, lifting up his hands to the Lord, and the people said: “So be it! For if men had not called me God, I should have seen God here as he will be seen in paradise, and should have been safe not to fear the day of judgment. God shall send forth your rod which shall have lordship in the midst of your enemies. Truly I say to you, that every prophet when he is come has borne to one nation only the mark of the mercy of God. Pay no attention to the memes. Furthermore, other gospel forgeries written in Arabic were also found in Granada. Whereupon, having made his resolution, he gave notice to the scribes and Pharisees how the matter had passed in Nain. For he that loves God has God for his own; and whoever has God has everything.” Peter answered: “O master, how can one love God with true love? Whereupon with diligence sought they the sick and brought them to him, beseeching him that he would touch them with his hands. But his life – which is born to die, since [only he] who is not born does not die – [why] will men not measure their life by death? And I fear that God may for this give heavy plague upon the holy city, handing it over in servitude to strangers;. Aydoğan Vatandaş, a Today's Zaman journalist and author who has written two books on the Gospel of Barnabas, said there is no clue that the Bible mentioned in the Turkish press dates back to 1,500 years ago, but he said it is sure that the Gospel of Barnabas had been written in … It is certain that he will become covetous!” Jesus answered: “You have your heart so heavy that I am not able to lift it up. It chanced, accordingly, that Hosea having gone to cut wood met the woman, who was weeping. Later, Paul wrote more than a dozen letters accepted by the apostles as part of God’s inspired Word. In the fourth year of the Emperor Zeno's rule in 478 AD, the remains of Barnabas were discovered, and a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas, written in his own hand, was found on his breast. Truly I say to you that men are so inclined to evil working, and so much does the world excite them thereto, and work Satan entice them to evil, that the Pharisees of the present day avoid every good work and every holy example: and the example of Gehazi is sufficient for them to be reprobated of God. Behold God, who causeth the sun to come upon the good and evil, and likewise the rain. In this accursed place shall there be a general punishment, common to all the centres, like the mixture of various grains make a loaf. But I warn you that without mercy shall he be judged who judges without mercy”. The priests and scribes, who hated Jesus, reported to the Roman soldiers that which Jesus had said against their gods. But it is necessary that I make to you a proposition. If one had the tongue of an elephant, and the rest of his body were as small as an ant, would not this thing be monstrous? [22] Sale supposes that the Spanish manuscript is African in origin, but otherwise provides no indication of how Dr. Holme might have come by it; but as Holme had been chaplain to the English factory in Algiers from 1707 to 1709,[23] a North African provenance may be inferred. Therefore it is not lawful for man to say: ‘Ah, why is this done and this said in the world?’ but rather to account himself, as in truth he is, unworthy to stand in the world at God’s board. Next shall God give life to all the reprobates, at whose resurrection, by reason of their hideousness, all the creatures of God shall be afraid, and shall cry: “Let not your mercy forsake us, O Lord our God.” After this shall God cause Satan ;to be raised up, at whose aspect every creature shall be as dead, for fear of the horrid form of his appearance. So did four hundred false prophets bless Ahab; but false were their praises, so that the praised one perished with the praisers. Ah, mad world! for to others you show the most clear way, by which you will not go. You must know that God is wicked and envious, and suffers no equals, but keeps every one as a slave. He is the oil of human nature. every place will have accepted true prayer with mercy. It is not in any wise enough for any one to know evil in order to escape it, but it behoves to work at good in order to overcome it.”, I tell you for an example. The enemy said to him: ‘Let me to enter into paradise.’, The serpent answered: ‘How shall I let you enter [since] God has commanded me to cast you out?’ Satan answered: ‘You see how much God loves you; he has set you outside of paradise to keep guard over a lump of clay, which is man! Woe, therefore, to the sinner who with the judgment judges sin worthy and goodness unworthy, who on that account rejects goodness and chooses sin. As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, every doctrine that shall turn man aside from his end, which is God, is most evil doctrine. [71] However, it has since been demonstrated that this manuscript actually contains the canonical Bible. Sale, fol. But he shall abide there [only] so long as it takes to shut and open the eyes. The wrathful goes down to the first centre, where he is insulted by all the devils and by as many of the damned as go down lower than he. ‘Tell me now: the Pharisees of today, are they [really] Pharisees? A second Italian edition – in parallel columns with a modernised text: The complete text of the Italian manuscript has been published in photo-facsimile; with a French translation and extensive commentary and textual apparatus: In 1999 Michel Fremaux issued a second edition of the manuscript facsimile, updated to take account of the recently rediscovered transcription of the Spanish manuscript: The text of the Spanish manuscript has been published with introduction, and annotations identifying variant readings in the Spanish and Italian texts: Earlier occurrences of a Gospel of Barnabas, The Hebrew Bible mentions several places in Judea called, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFPickthall2001 (, Islamic interpretation of Christian origins, "Of the Doctrines and Positive Precepts of the Quran which relate to Faith and Religious Duties", "Parker, Robert Goulbourne, 1900-1979. This Italian manuscript formed the basis for the most commonly circulated English version, a translation undertaken by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg and published in 1907. I tell you that there was a rich glutton who paid no heed to aught but gluttony, and so every day held a splendid feast. As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, God would pardon Satan if Satan should know his own misery, and ask mercy of his Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Lord God, the merciful, that shows mercy to a thousand generations upon them that fear you, have mercy upon them which believe my words that you have given me. And thus on that day Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables. So the angels that were guardians of Mary ascended to the third heaven;, where Jesus was in the company of angels, and recounted all to him. If you bring me into paradise I will make you so terrible that every one shall flee you, and so you shall go and stay at your pleasure.’ Then the serpent said: ‘And how shall I set you within [paradise]?’, Satan said, ‘You are great: therefore, open your mouth, and I will enter into your belly, and so [when] you enter into paradise [you] shall place me near to those two lumps of clay that are newly walking upon the earth.’ Then the serpent did so, and placed Satan near Eve, for Adam, her husband, was sleeping. Iranaeus (130-200) wrote in support of pure monotheism and opposed Paul for injecting into Christianity doctrines of the pagan Roman religion and Platonic philosophy. But let the penitent be cautious; for that Satan seeks to annul every good work, and more in the penitent than in others, for that the penitent has rebelled against him, and from being his faithful slave has turned into a rebellious foe. 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