The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete. William Wake
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СКАЧАТЬ immediately passed into a human

       form, and became a young man

       without any deformity.

      27 Then he and his mother and

       the sisters worshipped the Lady

       St. Mary, and lifting the child

       upon their heads, they kissed him,

       and said, Blessed is thy mother,

       O Jesus, O Saviour of the world!

       Blessed are the eyes which are

       so happy to see thee.

      28 Then both the sisters told

       their mother, saying, Of a truth,

       our brother is restored to his former

       shape by the help of the Lord

       Jesus Christ, and the kindness

       of that girl who told us of Mary

       and her son.

      29 And inasmuch as our brother

       is unmarried, it is fit that we

       marry him to this girl their

       servant.

      30 When they had consulted

       Mary in this matter, and she had

       given her consent, they made a

       splendid wedding for this girl.

      31 And so their sorrow being

       turned into gladness, and their

       mourning into mirth, they began

       to rejoice, and to make merry,

       and sing, being dressed in their

       richest attire, with bracelets.

      32 Afterwards they glorified and

       praised God, saying, O Jesus, son

       of David, who changest sorrow

       into gladness, and mourning into

       mirth!

      33 After this Joseph and Mary

       tarried there ten days, then went

       away, having received great

       respect from these people.

      34 Who, when they took their

       leave of them, and returned home,

       cried,

      35 But especially the girl.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      1 Joseph and Mary pass through a country infested by robbers.

       3 Titus a humane thief, offers Dumachus, his comrade,

       forty groats to let Joseph and Mary pass unmolested.

       6 Jesus prophecies that the thieves Dumachus and Titus shall be

       crucified with him and that Titus shall go before him into paradise.

       10 Christ causes a well to spring from a sycamore tree, and Mary

       washes his coat in it.

       11 A balsam grows there from his sweat. They go to Memphis, where

       Christ works more miracles. Return to Judea.

       15 Being warned, depart for Nazareth.

      IN their journey from hence they

       came into a desert country and

       were told it was infested with

       robbers; so Joseph and St. Mary

       prepared to pass through it in the

       night.

      2 And as they were going along,

       behold they saw two robbers asleep

       in the road, and with them a great

       number of robbers, who were their

       confederates, also asleep.

      3 The names of these two were

       Titus and Dumachus; and Titus

       said to Dumachus, I beseech thee

       let these persons go along quietly,

       that our company may not perceive

       anything of them.

      4 But Damachus refusing, Titus

       again said, I will give thee forty

       groats, and as a pledge take my

       girdle, which he gave him before

       he had done speaking, that he

       might not open his mouth or make

       a noise.

      5 When the Lady St. Mary saw

       the kindness which this robber did

       shew them, she said to him, The

       Lord God will receive thee to his

       right hand and grant thee pardon

       of thy sins.

      6 Then the Lord Jesus answered,

       and said to his mother, When

       thirty years are expired, O mother,

       the Jews will crucify me at

       Jerusalem;

      7 And these two thieves shall

       be with me at the same time upon

       the cross, Titus on my right hand,

       and Dumachus on my left, and

       from that time Titus shall go before

       me into paradise;

      8 And when she had said, God

       forbid this should СКАЧАТЬ