Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Diatessaron of Tatian/The Diatessaron/Section VI

Section VI.

[1] [Arabic, p. 22] But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said unto him, My Lord, I beseech of thee to depart from me, for I am [2] a sinful man.&#160; And amazement took possession of him, and of all who were with him, [3] because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken.&#160; And thus also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken, who were Simon&#8217;s partners.&#160; And Jesus said [4] unto Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men unto life.&#160; And they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything, and followed him.

[5] And after that came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Jud&#230;a; and he went [6] about there with them, and baptized.&#160; And John also was baptizing in &#198;non, which is beside Salim, because there was much water there:&#160; and they came, and were baptized.&#160; [7, 8] And John was not yet come into prison.&#160; And there was an inquiry between [9] one of John&#8217;s disciples and one of the Jews about purifying.&#160; And they came unto John, and said unto him, Our master, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom [10] thou hast borne witness, behold, he also baptizeth, and many come to him.&#160; John answered and said unto them, A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him from heaven.&#160; Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent before him.&#160; And he that hath a bride is a bridegroom:&#160; and the friend of the bridegroom is he that standeth and listeneth to him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom&#8217;s voice.&#160; Lo now, behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete. &#160; And he must increase and I decrease.&#160; For he that is come from above is higher than everything; and he that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh; and he that came down from heaven is [15] higher than all.&#160; And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and heard:&#160; and no man [16] receiveth his witness.&#160; And he that hath received his witness hath asserted that he is [17] truly God. &#160; And he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:&#160; God gave [18] not the Spirit by measure.&#160; The Father loveth the Son, and hath put everything in [19] his hands.&#160; Whosoever believeth in the Son hath eternal life; but whosoever obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God cometh upon him.

[20] And Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he had received many disciples, [21] and that he was baptizing more than John (not that Jesus was himself baptizing, [22] but his disciples); and so he left Jud&#230;a.

[23] And Herod the governor, because he used to be rebuked by John because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and for all the sins which he was committing, [24] added to all that also this, that he shut up John in prison.

[25] And when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he went away to Galilee.&#160; [26] And he entered again into Cana, where he had made the water wine.&#160; And there [27] was at Capernaum a king&#8217;s servant, whose son was sick.&#160; And this man heard that Jesus was come from Jud&#230;a to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought of him that he would come down and heal his son; for he had come near unto death.&#160; [28, 29] Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye do not believe.&#160; The [Arabic, p. 24] king&#8217;s servant said unto him, My Lord, come down, that the child die not.&#160; [30] Jesus said unto him, Go; for thy son is alive.&#160; And that man believed the [31] word which Jesus spake, and went.&#160; And when he went down, his servants met him [32] and told him, and said unto him, Thy son is alive.&#160; And he asked them at what time he recovered.&#160; They said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left [33] him.&#160; And his father knew that that was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, [34] Thy son is alive.&#160; And he believed, he and the whole people of his house.&#160; And this [35] is the second sign which Jesus did when he returned from Jud&#230;a to Galilee.&#160; And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

[36] And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea shore, in the [37] borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:&#160; that it might be fulfilled which was said in Isaiah the prophet, who said,

[38] The land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali,

The way of the sea, the passage of the Jordan,

Galilee of the nations:

[39] The people sitting in darkness

Saw a great light,

And those sitting in the region and in the shadow of death,

There appeared to them a light.

[40] And he taught them on the sabbaths.&#160; And they wondered because of his doctrine: &#160; [41] for his word was as if it were authoritative.&#160; And there was in the synagogue [42] a man with an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice, and said, Let me alone; what have I to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come for our [43] destruction?&#160; I know thee who thou art, thou Holy One of God.&#160; And Jesus rebuked him, and said, Stop up thy mouth, and come out of him.&#160; And the demon threw him [44] in the midst and came out of him, having done him no harm.&#160; And great amazement [Arabic, p. 25] took hold upon every man.&#160; And they talked one with another, and said, What is this word that orders the unclean spirits with power and [45] authority, and they come out?&#160; And the news of him spread abroad in all the region which was around them.

[46] And when Jesus went out of the synagogue, he saw a man sitting among the publicans, named Matthew:&#160; and he said unto him, Come after me.&#160; And he rose, and followed him.

[47, 48] And Jesus came to the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.&#160; And Simon&#8217;s wife&#8217;s mother was oppressed with a great fever, and they besought him for [49] her.&#160; And he stood over her and rebuked her fever, and it left her, and immediately [50] she rose and ministered to them.&#160; And at even they brought to him many that had [51] demons:&#160; and he cast out their devils with the word.&#160; And all that had sick, their diseases being divers and malignant, brought them unto him.&#160; And he laid his hand [52] on them one by one and healed them:&#160; that that might be fulfilled which was said [53] in the prophet Isaiah, who said, He taketh our pains and beareth our diseases.&#160; And [54] all the city was gathered together unto the door of Jesus.&#160; And he cast out devils also from many, as they were crying out and saying, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of God; and he rebuked them.&#160; And he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him that he was the Lord the Messiah.