Tatian: Diatessaron — Arabic Witness

Section XLVI.

[1] ^{Edition note 1}Whosoever hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will [2] shew myself unto him. ^{Edition note 2}Judas (not Iscariot) said unto him, My Lord, what is the [3] purpose of thy intention to shew thyself to us, and not to the world? ^{Edition note 3}Jesus answered and said unto him, Whosoever loveth me will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and to him will we come, and make our^{Edition note 4} abode with him. [4] ^{Edition note 5}But he that loveth me not keepeth not my word: and this word that ye hear is not my word, but the Father’s which sent me.

[5, 6] ^{Edition note 6}This have I spoken unto you, while I was yet with you. ^{Edition note 7}But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything, and [7] [Arabic, p. 174] he will bring to your remembrance all that I say unto you. ^{Edition note 8}Peace I leave you; my peace I give unto you: and not as this world giveth, give I unto you. [8] ^{Edition note 9}Let your heart not be troubled,^{Edition note 10} nor fearful. Ye heard that I said unto you, that I go away, and come unto you. If^{Edition note 11} ye loved me, ye would rejoice, that I go away to my [9] Father: for my Father is greater than I. ^{Edition note 12}And now I say unto you before it come [10] to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe me. ^{Edition note 13}Now I will not speak with you much: the Archon of the world will come, and he will have nothing in [11] me: ^{Edition note 14}but that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father charged me, so I do.

[12] ^{Edition note 15}And he said unto them, When I sent you without purses, or wallets, and shoes,^{Edition note 16} [13] lacked ye perchance anything? They said unto him, Nothing. ^{Edition note 17}He said unto them, Henceforth, whosoever hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise the wallet also: and whosoever hath not a sword, shall sell his garment, and buy for himself a [14] sword. ^{Edition note 18}I say unto you, that this scripture also must be fulfilled in me, that I should be reckoned^{Edition note 19} with the transgressors: for all that is said of me is fulfilled in [15] me. ^{Edition note 20}His disciples said unto him, Our Lord, lo, here are two swords. He said [16] unto them, They are sufficient. ^{Edition note 21}Arise, let us go hence. And they arose, and praised, and went forth, and went, according to their custom, to the mount of Olives, he and his disciples.

[17] ^{Edition note 22}And he said unto them, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [18] ^{Edition note 23}Every branch that produceth not fruit in me, he taketh it: and that which giveth fruit, [19] he cleanseth it, that it may give much fruit. ^{Edition note 24}Ye are already clean because of the word [20] that I have spoken unto you. ^{Edition note 25}Abide in me, and I in you. And as the branch of the [Arabic, p. 175] vine cannot produce fruit of itself, if it be not abiding in the vine; so too ye [21] also, if ye abide not in me. ^{Edition note 26}I am the vine, and ye are the branches: He then that abideth in me, and I in him, he giveth much fruit: for without me ye cannot [22] do anything. ^{Edition note 27}And if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, like a withered [23] branch; and it is gathered, and cast^{Edition note 28} into the fire, that it may be burned. ^{Edition note 29}If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, everything that ye desire to ask shall be [24] done unto you. ^{Edition note 30}And herein is the Father glorified, that ye may give much fruit; [25] and ye shall be my disciples. ^{Edition note 31}And as my Father loved me, I loved you also: [26] abide in my love. ^{Edition note 32}If ye keep my commands, ye shall abide in my love; as I have [27] kept my Father’s commands, and abode in his love. ^{Edition note 33}I have spoken that unto you, [28] that my joy^{Edition note 34} may be in you, and your joy^{Edition note 35} be fulfilled. ^{Edition note 36}This is my commandment, [29] that ye love one another, as I loved you. ^{Edition note 37}And no love is greater than this, namely, [30] that a man should give his life for his friends. ^{Edition note 38}Ye are my friends, if ye do all that [31] I command you. ^{Edition note 39}I call you not now servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: my friends have I now called you; for everything that I heard from [32] my Father I have made known unto you. ^{Edition note 40}Ye did not choose^{Edition note 41} me, but I chose I you, and appointed you, that ye also should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should^{Edition note 42} [33] abide; and that all that ye shall ask my Father in my name, he may^{Edition note 43} give you. ^{Edition note 44}This [34] I command^{Edition note 45} you, that ye love one another. ^{Edition note 46}And if the world hate you, know that [35] before you it hated me. ^{Edition note 47}If then ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but ye are not of the world: I chose you out of the world: therefore the world [36] [Arabic, p. 176] hateth you. ^{Edition note 48}Remember the word that I said unto you, that no servant is greater than his lord.

And if they persecuted^{Edition note 49} me, you also will they [37] persecute;^{Edition note 50} and if they kept my word, your word also will they keep. ^{Edition note 51}But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, for they have not known^{Edition note 52} him [38] that sent me. ^{Edition note 53}And if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: [39] but now they have no excuse for their sins. ^{Edition note 54}Whosoever hateth me, also hateth my [40] Father. ^{Edition note 55}And if I had not done the deeds before them that no other man did, they would not have had sin: but now they have seen and hated me and my Father [41] also: that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, ^{Edition note 56}They hated me for [42] nothing. ^{Edition note 57}But when the Paraclete is come, whom I will send unto you from my Father, even the Spirit of truth, which goeth forth from my Father, he shall bear witness of [43] me: ^{Edition note 58}and ye also bear witness, because from the beginning ye have been with me.

[44, 45] ^{Edition note 59}I have said that unto you, that ye may not stumble.^{Edition note 60 Edition note 61}And they shall put you out of their synagogues: and there cometh an^{Edition note 62} hour when every one that killeth [46] you shall think that he hath offered unto God an offering. ^{Edition note 63}And they will do that, [47] because they do not know me, nor my Father. ^{Edition note 64}I have said that unto you, so that [48] when its time is come, ye may remember it, that I told you. ^{Edition note 65}And this hitherto I said not unto you, because I was with you.

But^{Edition note 66} now I go unto him that sent me; and no [49] man of you asketh me whither I go. ^{Edition note 67}I have said that unto you now, and grief hath [50] come and taken possession of your hearts ^{Edition note 68}But I say the truth unto you; It is better^{Edition note 69} for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Paraclete will not come unto you; [51] [Arabic, p. 177] but if I go away, I will send him unto you. ^{Edition note 70}And when he cometh, he will reprove the world for sin, and for righteousness, and for judgement: [52, 53] for sin, ^{Edition note 71}because they have not believed in me; ^{Edition note 72}and for righteousness, because I go [54] to my Father; ^{Edition note 73}and for judgement, because^{Edition note 74} the Archon of this world hath been [55] judged. ^{Edition note 75}And further have I many things to speak unto you, but ye cannot tarry^{Edition note 76} [56] now. ^{Edition note 77}Howbeit^{Edition note 78} when the Spirit of truth is come, he will remind^{Edition note 79} you of all the truth: he will say nothing from himself; but everything that he heareth, that shall [57] he say: and he shall make known unto you the things that are to be. ^{Edition note 80}And he shall [58] glorify me; for from me shall he take and shew you. ^{Edition note 81}All that my Father hath is mine: therefore said I unto you, that he taketh^{Edition note 82} of mine, and shall shew^{Edition note 83} you.