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 1 Text    |         and thirty years ? ~About John, again, from whence ...
 2 Text    |        therefore be asked whether John did come, or no. . . . [
 3 Text    |                  If he says] that John did come, from whence hast
 4 Text    |           also comes, seeing that John also when he [heard] the
 5 Text    |         another ?' 9 And he (i.e. John the Baptist) does not say, '
 6 Text    |           also has come, and (as) John thought concerning Isu,
 7 Text    |        come in his own days, even John's ? On that account he thought
 8 Text    |           was he, or did not even John know when the Messiah was
 9 Text    |         And why then did he (i.e. John) come ? If he came to smooth
10 Text    |         us which was the way that John (was) smoothing for Him.
11 Text    |      dwell in palaces, what (was) John preparing for him ? minds
12 Text    |       palaces ? Or can it be that John smoothed ways and prepared
13 Text    |        But nevertheless, although John was the Messenger of the
14 Text    |          they did these things to John by the power of Herod. And
15 Text    |       does he] resemble him (i.e. John) ? ~*     *     *     *     *     *     * ~[
16 Text    |         that therefore not (only) John is like Isu, but also Elijah
17 Text    |       that by chance, as it were, John only happened to be like
18 Text    |         former times who are like John, and these are all like
19 Text    |          not in those three (i.e. John, Elijah, and Jeremiah) and
20 Text(12)|                             2 See John i 10 (C, not syr.vg). ~
21 Text    |        examples thereof), and lo, John, who fasted in his own days (
22 Text    |          Was there not among them John, a virgin, and were not
23 Text    |          another in humility, and John to all of them, and all
24 Text    |      Stranger) testify concerning John ? That John forsooth was
25 Text    |    testify concerning John ? That John forsooth was a liar, or
26 Text    |         as are in error ? If then John is a true man, and not a
27 Text    |       Messiah of the Law. And if [John knew] the word of Isu to
28 Text    |           that he said concerning John that he (i.e. John) did
29 Text    |     concerning John that he (i.e. John) did send to him. But if
30 Text    |           to him. But if in truth John was shaken and sent to Isu,
31 Text    |           he testified concerning John that he was not a reed shaken
32 Text    |         is wonderful to hear that John believes in David's Son,
33 Text    |      possible to say that because John was humble and happened (
34 Text    |           this opinion concerning John. ~But as for this John,
35 Text    | concerning John. ~But as for this John, who erred [in thinking
36 Text    |         wish [P. 85.] to [injure] John, then because He is kind
37 Text    |          that Isu said concerning John 'Blessed is he, if he is
38 Text    |         was in order to show that John was true in his teaching,
39 Text    |          a liar who recorded that John sent to him, when (in reality)
40 Text    |         to him, when (in reality) John did not send to him. And
41 Text    |          sent to him, then is not John true ? And if Isu had wished
42 Text    |           from (being) with him ? John therefore was one who believed
43 Text    |        actually wished to deceive John ? And was [P. 87.] John
44 Text    |           John ? And was [P. 87.] John deceived or not ? If he
45 Text    |          would not be accepted by John ? And if he knew, why did
46 Text(26)|      application of the saying to John: we may infer that the corruption