The Diatessaron of Tatian — Section 41

St. Cyril of Alexandria

1. 0. Greeting

1 [[Matthew 23.34]] Therefore, behold, I, the wisdom of God, am sending unto you prophets, and apostles, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall slay and crucify; and some of them you shall beat in your synagogues, and persecute from city to 2 city: [[Matthew 23.35]] that there may come on you all the blood of the righteous that has been poured upon the ground from the blood of Abel the pure to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. 3 [[Matthew 23.36]] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

4 [Arabic, p. 155] [[Matthew 23.37]] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slayer of the prophets, and stoner of them that are sent unto her! How many times did I wish to gather your children, as 5 a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! [[Matthew 23.38]] Your house shall 6 be left over you desolate. [[Matthew 23.39]] Verily I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

7 [[John 12.42]] And many of the rulers also believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they 8 were not confessing him, lest they be put out of the synagogue: [[John 12.43]] and they loved 9 the praise of men more than the praising of God. [[John 12.44]] And Jesus cried and said, 10 Whosoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him that sent me. [[John 12.45]] And 11 whosoever sees me has seen him that sent me. [[John 12.46]] I have come a light into the 12 world, and so every one that believes in me abides not in the darkness. [[John 12.47]] And whosoever hears my sayings, and keeps them not, I judge him not: for I came 13 not to judge the world, but to give the world life. [[John 12.48]] Whosoever wrongs me, and receives not my sayings, there is one that judges him: the word that I spoke, it 14 shall judge him at the last day. [[John 12.49]] I from myself did not speak: but the Father which sent me, he has given me commandment, what I should say, and what I 15 should speak; and I know that his commandment is eternal life. [[John 12.50]] The things that I say now, as my Father has said to me, even so I say.

16 [[Luke 11.53]] And when he said that unto them, the scribes and Pharisees began their evil-doing, being angry with him, and finding fault with his sayings, and harassing him 17 in many things; [[Luke 11.54]] seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might be able to calumniate him.

18 [[Luke 12.1]] And when there gathered together myriads of great multitudes, which almost trode [Arabic, p. 156] one upon another, Jesus began to say unto his disciples, Preserve yourselves 19 from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. [[Luke 12.2]] For there is nothing 20 concealed, that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known. [[Luke 12.3]] Everything that you have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and what you have spoken secretly in the ears in the inner cha