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Diatessaron

Tatian, ANF 9

And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found there oxen …

And when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the temple of God, and found there oxen and sheep and doves. 2And when he beheld those that sold and those that bought, and the money-changers sitting, he made for himself a scourge of rope, and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and the money-changers; and he threw down their money, and upset their tables, and the seats of them that sold the doves; 3and he was teaching, and saying unto them, Is it not written, My house is a house of prayer for all peoples? and ye have made it a den for robbers. 4And he said unto those that sold the doves, Take this hence, and make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. 5And he suffered not any one to carry vessels inside the temple. 6And his disciples remembered the scripture, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. 7The Jews answered and said unto him, What sign hast thou shewn us, that thou doest this? 8Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and I shall raise it in three days. 9The Jews said unto him, This temple was built in forty-six years, and wilt thou raise it in three days? 10But he spake unto them of the temple of his body, that when¹ they destroyed it, he would raise it in three days. 11When therefore he rose from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.

And when Jesus sat down over against the treasury, he observed how the multitudes were casting their offerings into the treasury: and many rich men were throwing in much. 13And there came a poor widow, and cast in two mites. 14And Jesus called his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast into the treasury more than all the people: 15and all of these cast into the place of the offering of God² of the superfluity of their wealth; while this woman of her want threw in all that she possessed. 16And he spake unto them this parable, concerning people who trusted in themselves that they are righteous, and despised every man: 17Two men went up to the temple to pray; one of them a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 18And the Pharisee stood apart,³ and prayed thus, O Lord, I thank thee, since I am not like the rest of men, the unjust, the profligate, the extortioners, or even like this publican; but I fast two days a week, and tithe all my possessions.⁴ 19And the publican was standing at a distance, 20and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating upon his breast, and saying, O Lord, have mercy on me, me the sinner. 21I say unto you, that this man went down justified to his house more than the Pharisee. Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and every one that abaseth himself shall be exalted.

And when eventide was come, he left all the people, and went outside the city to Bethany, he and his twelve, and he remained there. 23And all the people, because they knew the place, came to him, and he received them; and them that had need of healing he healed. 24And on the morning of the next day, when he returned to the city from Bethany, he hungered. 25And he saw a⁵ fig tree at a distance on the beaten highway, having on it leaves. And he came unto it, expecting to find something on it; and when he came, he found nothing on it but the leaves-it⁶ was not the season of figs-and he said unto it, Henceforward for ever let no man eat fruit of thee. 26And his disciples heard.

And they came to Jerusalem. And there was there a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews. 28This man came unto Jesus by night, and said unto him, My Master, we know that thou hast been sent from God as a teacher; and no man can do these signs that thou doest, except him whom God is with. 29Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born a second time, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 30Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man who is old be born? can he, think you, return again to his mother’s womb a second time, to enter and be born? 31Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, If a man be not born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 32For he that is born of flesh is flesh; and he that is born of Spirit is spirit. 33Wonder not that I said unto thee that ye must be born a second time. 34The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest its voice, but thou knowest not from what place it cometh, nor whither it goeth: so is every man that is born of the Spirit. 35Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can that be? 36Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou teaching⁷ Israel, and yet knowest not these things? 37Verily, verily, I say unto thee, What we know we say, and what we have seen we witness: and ye receive not our witness. 38If I said unto you what is on earth, and ye believed not, how then, if I say unto you what is in heaven, will ye believe? 39And no man hath ascended up into heaven, except him that descended from heaven, the Son of man, which is in heaven. 40And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man to be lifted up; 41so that every man who may believe in him may not perish, but have eternal life. 42God so loved the world, that⁸ he should give his only Son; and so every one that believeth on him should not perish, but should have eternal life. 43God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world might be saved by his hand. 44He that believeth in him shall not be judged: but he that believeth not is condemned beforehand, because he hath not believed in the name of the only Son, the Son of God.⁹ 45This is the judgement, that the light came into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light; because their deeds were evil. 46Whosoever doeth evil deeds hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds be reproved. 47But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known, that they have been done in God.

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