Opening the library…
The Diatessaron
Tatian
An influential continuous harmony weaving material from the four canonical Gospels into one narrative, known especially through later witnesses because Tatian’s original form does not survive intact.
The original text is lost; surviving witnesses and reconstructions differ and require source-specific review.
Section XXVII.
[1] Therefore the kingdom of
[30] And after that, Jesus walked in Galilee; and he did not like to walk in Judæa, [31] because the Jews sought to kill him. And there came people who told him of [32] the Galilæans, those whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. Jesus answered and said unto them, Do ye imagine that those Galilæans were sinners [33] more than all the Galilæans, so that this thing has come upon them? Nay. Verily I say unto you now, that ye shall all also, if ye repent not, likewise perish. [34] Or perchance those eighteen on whom the palace fell in Siloam, and slew them, do ye imagine that they were to be condemned more than all the people that dwell [35] [Arabic, p. 106] in Jerusalem? Nay. Verily I say unto you, If ye do not all repent, ye shall perish like them.
[36] And he spake unto them this parable: A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; [37] and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. So he said to the husbandman, Lo, three years do I come and seek fruit on this fig tree, and find [38] none: cut it down; why doth it render the ground unoccupied? The husbandman said unto him, My lord, leave it this year also, that I may dig about it, and dung [39] it; then if it bear fruit—! and if not, then cut it down in the coming year.
[40] And when Jesus was teaching on the sabbath day in one of the synagogues, [41] there was there a woman that had a spirit of disease eighteen years; and she was [42] bowed down, and could not straighten herself at all. And Jesus saw her, and called [43] her, and said unto her, Woman, be loosed from thy disease. And he put his hand [44] upon her; and immediately she was straightened, and praised God. And the chief of the synagogue answered with anger, because Jesus had healed on a sabbath, and said unto the multitudes, There are six days in which work ought to be done; [45] come in them and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered and said unto him, Ye hypocrites, doth not each of you on the sabbath day loose [46] his ox or his ass from the manger, and go and water it? Ought not this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, and whom the devil hath bound eighteen years, [47] to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he said this, they were all put to shame, those standing, who were opposing him: and all the people were pleased with all the wonders that proceeded from his hand.
Lit. badras, an amount variously estimated.
Lit. dinars.
The interrogative particle is lacking in the Arabic.
Or, folly.
A very close reproduction of the Syriac.
Or, for.
This word usually means synagogue in this work.
Or, heathen.
Or, to ask everything, it shall.
So Vat. ms., following the Syriac versions; Borg. ms. has only one seven.
Lit. beforehand; and so often.
Or, repeating a letter, See that ye despise not.
Borg. ms. omits now.
See note, § 10, 13.
Lit. great (man).
Lit. calumniator.
cf. Syriac versions.