Tatian: Diatessaron — Arabic Witness

Section XLVII.

[1] ^{Edition note 1}A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall [2] behold me; because I go to the Father. ^{Edition note 2}His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he hath said unto us, A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall behold me: and, I go to my [3] Father? ^{Edition note 3}And they said, What is this little while that he hath said? We know not [4] what he speaketh. ^{Edition note 4}And Jesus perceived that they were seeking to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said unto you, A little while, and ye behold me not, and a little while again, and ye shall [5] behold me? ^{Edition note 5}Verily, verily,^{Edition note 6} I say unto you, that ye shall weep and grieve, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your grief shall turn^{Edition note 7} to joy.

[6] ^{Edition note 8}For, a woman when the time is come for her that she should bring forth, the arrival of the day of her bringing forth distresseth her: but whenever she hath brought forth a son, she remembereth not her distress, for joy at the birth of a man into the [7] world. ^{Edition note 9}And ye now also grieve: but I shall see you, and your hearts shall rejoice, [8] [Arabic, p. 178] and your joy no man taketh from you. ^{Edition note 10}And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. And verily, verily,^{Edition note 11} I say unto you, All that ye ask my Father in my name, he will give you. ^{Edition note 12}Hitherto ye have asked nothing [9] in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

[10] ^{Edition note 13}I have spoken unto you now in ænigmas:^{Edition note 14} but there will come an hour when^{Edition note 15} I shall not speak to you in ænigmas,^{Edition note 16} but shall reveal unto you the Father plainly, [11] in that day when^{Edition note 17} ye shall ask in my name: ^{Edition note 18}and I say not unto you, that I shall [12] entreat the Father for you; ^{Edition note 19}for the Father loveth you, because ye have loved me, [13] and have believed that I came forth from my Father. ^{Edition note 20}I came forth from my Father, and came into the world: and I leave the world, and go unto my Father. [14] ^{Edition note 21}His disciples said unto him, Lo, thy speech is now plain, and thou hast not said one [15] thing in an ænigma. ^{Edition note 22}Now, lo, we know that thou knowest everything, and needest not that any man should ask thee: and by this we believe that thou camest forth [16, 17] from God. ^{Edition note 23}Jesus said unto them, Believe that an hour cometh, ^{Edition note 24}and lo, it hath come, and ye shall be scattered, every one of you to his place, and shall leave me [18] alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ^{Edition note 25}This have I said unto you, that in me ye may have peace. And in the world trouble shall overtake you: but be of good courage; for I have overcome the world.

[19] ^{Edition note 26}This said Jesus, and lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, My Father, the hour [20] is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee: ^{Edition note 27}as thou gavest him authority [21] over all flesh, that all that thou hast given him, he might give them^{Edition note 28} eternal life. ^{Edition note 29}And this is eternal life, that they should^{Edition note 30} know that thou alone art true God, and that he [22] [Arabic, p. 179] whom thou didst send is Jesus the Messiah.^{Edition note 31 Edition note 32}I glorified thee in the earth, [23] and the work which thou gavest me to do I have accomplished. ^{Edition note 33}And now glorify thou me, O Father, beside thee, with that glory which I had with thee [24] before the world was. ^{Edition note 34}I made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept [25, 26] thy word. ^{Edition note 35}Now they^{Edition note 36} know that all that thou hast given me is from thee: ^{Edition note 37}and the sayings which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me. [27] ^{Edition note 38}And I ask for their sake: and my asking is not for the world, but for those whom [28] thou hast given me; for they are thine: ^{Edition note 39}and all that is mine is thine, and all that is [29] thine is mine: and I am glorified in them. ^{Edition note 40}And now I am not in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee.

My^{Edition note 41} holy Father, keep them in thy [30] name which thou hast given unto me, that they may be one, as we are. ^{Edition note 42}When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: and I kept those whom thou gavest unto me: and no man of them hath perished, but the son of perdition; that [31] the scripture might be fulfilled. ^{Edition note 43}Now I come to thee: and this I say in the world, [32] that my joy may be complete in them. ^{Edition note 44}I have given them thy word; and the world [33] hated them, because they were not of the world, as I was not of the world. ^{Edition note 45}And I ask not this, that thou take them from the world, but that thou keep them from the [34, 35] evil one. ^{Edition note 46}They were not of the world, as I was not of the world. ^{Edition note 47}O Father, sanctify [36] them in thy truth: for thy word is truth. ^{Edition note 48}And as thou didst send me into the world, I [37] [Arabic, p. 180] also send them into the world. ^{Edition note 49}And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they [38] also may be sanctified in the truth. ^{Edition note 50}Neither for these alone do I ask, but for [39] the sake of them that believe in me through their word; ^{Edition note 51}that they may be all one; as thou art in me, and I in thee, and so they also shall be one in us: that the world [40] may believe that thou didst send me. ^{Edition note 52}And the glory which thou hast given unto [41] me I have given unto them; ^{Edition note 53}that they may be one, as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect into^{Edition note 54} one; and that the world may know that [42] thou didst send me, and that I^{Edition note 55} loved them, as thou lovedst me. ^{Edition note 56}Father, and those whom thou hast given me, I wish that, where I am, they may be with me also; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before [43] the foundation^{Edition note 57} of the world. ^{Edition note 58}My righteous Father,^{Edition note 59} and the world knew thee not, [44] but I know thee; and they knew that thou didst send me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known to them; ^{Edition note 60}that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I shall^{Edition note 61} be in them.