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 tell what it was like. Again in like manner he leadeth us three up into the mountain, saying, Come ye with me. And we again went, and we saw him at a distance praying. Now therefore I, because he loved me, drew nigh unto him softly as though he should not see, and stood looking upon his hinder parts. And I beheld him that he was not in any wise clad with garments, but was seen of us naked thereof, and not in any wise as a man; and his feet whiter than snow, so that the ground there was lighted up by his feet, and his head reaching unto the heaven; so that I was afraid and cried out, and he turned and appeared as a man of small stature, and took hold upon my beard and pulled it and said unto me, John, be not unbelieving, but believing, and be not a busybody. And I said unto him, What have I done, Lord? And I tell you, brethren, I suffered such pain at that place where he took hold upon my beard, for thirty days, that I said unto him, Lord, if thy twitch when thou wast in sport hath given me so much pain, what were it if thou hadst given me a buffet? And he said unto me, Let it be thine from henceforth not to tempt him who is not to be tempted.

91. "But Peter and James were wroth because I spake with the Lord, and beckoned unto me that I should come unto them, and leave the Lord alone. And I went, and they both said unto me, He that was speaking with the Lord when he was upon the top of the mountain, who was he? for we heard both of them speaking. And I, when I considered