But that very afternoon I was to learn that this Jesus had to deal with questions with which none of our parties concerned themselves. For, as I was coming near to Gethsemane, I met Jesus with a band of men and women going out towards Bethany, and I passed them with the salutation of “Peace.” But as I passed, a young man whom I knew, that had recently come into great possessions upon the death of his father, came up and asked, “Who is that man whom thou hast just greeted?” and I said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” Then, suddenly, he set off running to catch them up, and being curious, I turned and followed him. When I reached them I found the young man kneeling before Jesus, gazing up to him, and he said, “Good Master, I have inherited great possessions; what shall I do that I may inherit the life everlasting?” Jesus said to him, “Call not me ‘Good;’ none is good but the One. If thou wouldest enter into life, do the commandments.” The young man asked, “Which?” Jesus said, using the doctrine of “The Two Ways,” “Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor thy father and thy mother, and love thy neighbor as thyself.” Then the young man said, “All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?” Then Jesus said, “One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell all thou hast, and give unto the poor, and thou shalt have heavenly treasures: come then and follow me.” The young man began to scratch his head, and seemed in doubt. Then Jesus said unto him, “How is it thou canst say, ‘I have done the Law and the Prophets,’ since it is written in the Law, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’? Behold, many of thy brothers, sons of Abraham, are clothed but in dung, and die for hunger, while thy house is full of many goods, and there goeth not forth aught from it unto them.” But the young man rose, and went away in sorrow and confusion. Then Jesus looked round upon those who were there, and said, “How hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for an elephant to go through a needle’s eye, as the saying is, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Then a murmur arose among all those present, and they began to move on, and I left them. And I said to myself, “This man is neither Pharisee, nor Sadducee, nor Herodian; these be the thoughts of the Ebionim.” VI. THE TESTINGS IN THE TEMPLE. Now, on the morrow, many of us who had agreed together to test the opinions of this Jesus went to the Temple and found Jesus walking in the corridors. Then he that was of most authority among us said unto Jesus, “Rabbi, we would ask certain questions of thee;” and Jesus answered, “Ask, and it shall be answered unto thee.”