The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments RemainBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Apocryphal Gospels
Another fragment continues the account after a gap.
“_And when the Lord went up out of the water, the whole fountain of the
Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him, and said unto him, My Son, I
looked for thee in all the prophets, that thou mightest come, and that I
might __ rest upon thee. For thou art my rest, thou art my first‐begotten
Son, who shalt reign throughout eternity._”(210)
But this is not the only version we have of the narrative in the Gospel of
the Hebrews. St. Epiphanius gives us another, which shall be placed
parallel with the corresponding account in St. Matthew.
GOSPEL OF THE HEBREWS. ST. MATTHEW iii 13‐17.
“_The people having been “Then cometh Jesus from
baptized, Jesus came also, and Galilee to Jordan unto John,
was baptized by John. And as to be baptized of him. But
he came out of the water, the John forbad him saying, I have
heavens opened, and he saw the need to be baptized of thee,
Holy Spirit of God descending and cometh thou to me? And
under the form of a dove, and Jesus answering, said unto
entering into him. And a voice him, Suffer it to be so now:
was heard from heaven, Thou for thus it becometh us to
art my beloved Son, and in fulfill all righteousness.
thee am I well pleased. And Then he suffered him. And
again, This day have I Jesus, when he was baptized,
begotten thee. And suddenly went up straightway out of the
there shone a great light in water: and, lo, the heavens
that place. And John seeing were opened unto him, and he
it, said, Who art thou, Lord? saw the Spirit of God
Then a voice was heard from descending like a dove, and
heaven, This is my beloved lighting upon him: And lo a
Son, in whom I am well voice from heaven, saying,
pleased. Thereat John fell at This is my beloved Son, in
his feet and said, I pray whom I am well pleased.”
thee, Lord, baptize me. But,
he would not, saying, Suffer
it, for so it behoveth that
all should be
accomplished._”(211)
That the Gospel stood as in this latter passage quoted in the second
century among the orthodox Christians of Palestine is probable, because
with it agrees the brief citation of Justin Martyr, who says that when our
Lord was baptized, there shone a great light around, and a voice was heard
from heaven, saying, “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.”
Both occur in the Ebionite Gospel; neither in the Canonical Gospel.(212)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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