¹ The word of the Lord came to the Prophet Elias and he said to Achab, ‘As the Lord the God of powers lives, the God of Israel, before whom I stand today, there shall be neither dew nor rain during these years, except by my mouth.’ The word of the Lord came to Elias, saying, ‘Go from here and towards the east, and hide yourself in the brook Chorrath, which is opposite the Jordan. You shall drink from the brook, and I am commanding the ravens to feed you there.’ So he went and settled by the brook Chorrath, which is opposite the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread in the morning, and meat in the evening; and he drank water from the brook. And it cane to pass after some days that the brook dried up, because there was no rain on the land. Then the word of the Lord came to Elias, saying, ‘Arise and go to Sarepta, which belongs to Sidon, and settle there; for see, I am commanding a widow there to feed you.’ And he arose and went to Sarepta, to the gate of the city. And a widow was there gathering sticks. And Elias he called after her and said, ‘Bring me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.’ As she was going to bring it, he called after her and said, ‘Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.’ But the woman said, ‘As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in the jar, and a little oil in the jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my children, that we may eat it, and die.’ Elias said to her, ‘Take courage. Go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your children. For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of flour will not fail and the jug of oil will not grow less until the day that the Lord sends rain on the whole land.’ The woman went and did as Elias said, and he and she and her children ate. And from that day the jar of flour did not fail, neither did the jug of oil grow less, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elias. After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. She then said to Elias, ‘Why do you trouble me, man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sins to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son?’ But he said to her, ‘Give me your son.’ He took him from her bosom, carried him up into the upper chamber where he was lodging, and laid him on his own bed. He cried out to the Lord, ‘Alas, Lord my God, you have brought calamity upon the widow with whom I am staying, whose witness you are, by killing her son.’ Then he breathed upon the child three times, and called on the Lord and said, ‘Lord my God, let this child’s life come into him again.’ And so it happened and he cried out. And the Lord listened to the voice of Elias; the child’s soul came into him again, and he lived. Elias took the child, brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother. Then Elias said, ‘See, your son is alive.’ So the woman said to Elias, ‘Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.’

¹ The word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite in the third year, saying, ‘Go, and appear before Achab, and I will give rain on the face of the land. And it came to pass that when Achab saw Elias, he said to him, ‘Is it you, the one who is troubling Israel?’ He answered, ‘I am not troubling Israel; but you are, and your father’s house, by forsaking the Lord our God and following Baal. Now therefore have all Israel assemble to me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of the scared groves, who eat at Jezebel’s table.’ So Achab sent to all Israel, and assembled the prophets at Mount Carmel. Elias said to them, ‘How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.’ Then Elias said to the people, ‘I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord; but the prophets of the sacred grove are very many. Let two bulls be given to us; let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it; I will prepare the other bull, but put no fire to it. Then you call on the name of your god and I will call on the name of the Lord my God. And the god who answers by fire shall be God.’ All the people answered, ‘The word you have spoken today is good.’ Then Elias said to the prophets of shame, ‘Choose for yourselves one calf and prepare it first; then call on the name of your god, but put no fire to it.’ So they took the calf, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, crying, ‘O Baal, hear us!’ But there was no voice, and no answer. They ran upon the altar that they had made. At noon Elias the Thesbite mocked them, saying, ‘Cry aloud! For your god likes garrulousness.’ And when the time of the offering of the oblation came, there was nothing. Then Elias the Thesbite said to the prophets of abominations, ‘Stand aside now, and I will offer my holocaust’. And Elias said to the people, ‘Come close’. And all the people came closer to him. Elias took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of Israel, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, ‘Israel shall be your name’. With the stones he built and repaired the altar of the Lord that had been cast down. Then he made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed. Next he put the pieces of wood on the altar he had made, cut the holocaust in pieces, and laid them on the pieces of wood and piled them on the altar. He said, ‘Bring me two jars of water and pour it on the holocaust and on the pieces of wood.’ Then he said, ‘Do it a second time’; and they did it a second time. Again he said, ‘Do it a third time’; and they did it a third time, so that the water ran all around the altar, and filled the trench also with water. And the prophet Elias cried aloud to heaven and said, ‘Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, hear me today by fire. And let this people known that you alone the Lord. the God of Israel, that I am your servant, and that through you I have done all these things, and that you have turned back the heart of this people to you.’ Then fire from the Lord fell from heaven and consumed the holocaust and the pieces of wood; and the fire licked up the water that was in the trench, the stones, and the dust. And the people fell on their faces and said, ‘The Lord indeed is God; he is God.’ Elias said to them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.’ Then they seized them; and Elias brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. And after this Elias said to Achab, ‘There is a sound of rushing rain. Harness your chariot and go down, lest the rain catch you.’ Then Elias went up to the top of Carmel; there he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees and prayed to the Lord. And the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was a heavy rain. Achab went to Jezreel. Achab told Jezebel his wife all that Elias had done. Then Jezebel sent to Elias, saying, ‘Tomorrow I will sacrifice your life like one of them.’ And Elias heard and was afraid; he arose and fled for his life, and came to Beersheba, in the land of Juda; he left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly someone touched him and said to him, ‘Arise and eat and drink, for you have a long journey.’ Elias looked, and there at his head was a cake of flour and a jar of water. He arose, ate and drank, and slept again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Arise and eat and drink, for you have a long journey.’ He arose, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to mount Horeb. There he entered a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘What are you doing here, Elias?’ Elias answered, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.’ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Go, return to your way and you will come to the desert way of Damascus; and you shall anoint Elissaios son of Shaphat as prophet in your place.

¹ A day came and Elias found Elissaios son of Saphat, who was ploughing. Elias passed by him and threw his mantle over him. Elissaios left the oxen, ran after Elias, and ministered to him. And it came to pass, when the Lord took Elias in a whirlwind as though up to heaven, that Elias went with Elissaios to Galgala. Then Elias said to Elissaios, ‘Stay here; for the Lord has sent me as far as the Jordan.’ But he said, ‘As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.’ So the two of them went on. Fifty men of the sons of the prophets came, and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan. Then Elias took his mantle and rolled it up, and struck the water with it; the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and the two of them crossed on dry ground. When they had crossed, Elias said to Elissaios, ‘Ask me what I may do for you, before I am taken up from you.’ Elissaios said, ‘Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit.’ He responded, ‘You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken up from you, it will be granted you; if not, it will not.’ It came to pass that as they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elias was taken up in a whirlwind as if into heaven. Elissaios kept watching and crying out, ‘Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!’ But when he could no longer see him, Elissaios grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. He picked up the mantle of Elias that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. Elissaios took the mantle of Elias that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, ‘Where then is the God of Elias, Appho?’ And so he struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elissaios went over on dry ground.

²² وكان الجميع يشهدون له ويتعجبون من كلمات النعمة الخارجة من فمه ويقولون أليس هذا ابن يوسف.

²³ فقال لهم. على كل حال تقولون لي هذا المثل ايها الطبيب اشفي نفسك. كم سمعنا انه جرى في كفر ناحوم فافعل ذلك هنا ايضا في وطنك.

²⁴ وقال الحق اقول لكم انه ليس نبي مقبولا في وطنه.

²⁵ وبالحق اقول لكم ان ارامل كثيرة كنّ في اسرائيل في ايام ايليا حين أغلقت السماء مدة ثلاث سنين وستة اشهر لما كان جوع عظيم في الارض كلها.

²⁶ ولم يرسل ايليا الى واحدة منها الا الى امرأة ارملة الى صرفة صيدا.

²⁷ وبرص كثيرون كانوا في اسرائيل في زمان اليشع النبي ولم يطهر واحد منهم الا نعمان السرياني.

²⁸ فامتلأ غضبا جميع الذين في المجمع حين سمعوا هذا.

²⁹ فقاموا واخرجوه خارج المدينة وجاءوا به الى حافة الجبل الذي كانت مدينتهم مبنية عليه حتى يطرحوه الى اسفل.

³⁰ اما هو فجاز في وسطهم ومضى

⁹ لانه لهذا مات المسيح وقام وعاش لكي يسود على الاحياء والاموات.

¹⁰ واما انت فلماذا تدين اخاك. او انت ايضا لماذا تزدري باخيك. لاننا جميعا سوف نقف امام كرسي المسيح.

¹¹ لانه مكتوب انا حيّ يقول الرب انه لي ستجثو كل ركبة وكل لسان سيحمد الله.

¹² فاذا كل واحد منا سيعطي عن نفسه حسابا لله.

¹³ فلا نحاكم ايضا بعضنا بعضا بل بالحري احكموا بهذا ان لا يوضع للاخ مصدمة او معثرة.

¹⁴ اني عالم ومتيقن في الرب يسوع ان ليس شيء نجسا بذاته الا من يحسب شيئا نجسا فله هو نجس.

¹⁵ فان كان اخوك بسبب طعامك يحزن فلست تسلك بعد حسب المحبة. لا تهلك بطعامك ذلك الذي مات المسيح لاجله.

¹⁶ فلا يفتر على صلاحكم.

¹⁷ لان ليس ملكوت الله اكلا وشربا. بل هو بر وسلام وفرح في الروح القدس.

¹⁸ لان من خدم المسيح في هذه فهو مرضي عند الله ومزكى عند الناس.

¹⁰ خذوا يا اخوتي مثالا لاحتمال المشقات والاناة الانبياء الذين تكلموا باسم الرب.

¹¹ ها نحن نطوّب الصابرين. قد سمعتم بصبر ايوب ورأيتم عاقبة الرب. لان الرب كثير الرحمة ورأوف

¹² ولكن قبل كل شيء يا اخوتي لا تحلفوا لا بالسماء ولا بالارض ولا بقسم آخر. بل لتكن نعمكم نعم ولاكم لا لئلا تقعوا تحت دينونة

¹³ أعلى احد بينكم مشقات فليصلّ. أمسرور احد فليرتل.

¹⁴ أمريض احد بينكم فليدع شيوخ الكنيسة فيصلّوا عليه ويدهنوه بزيت باسم الرب

¹⁵ وصلاة الايمان تشفي المريض والرب يقيمه وان كان قد فعل خطية تغفر له.

¹⁶ اعترفوا بعضكم لبعض بالزلات وصلّوا بعضكم لاجل بعض لكي تشفوا. طلبة البار تقتدر كثيرا في فعلها.

¹⁷ كان ايليا انسانا تحت الآلام مثلنا وصلّى صلاة ان لا تمطر فلم تمطر على الارض ثلاث سنين وستة اشهر.

¹⁸ ثم صلّى ايضا فاعطت السماء مطرا واخرجت الارض ثمرها

¹⁹ ايها الاخوة ان ضل احد بينكم عن الحق فردّه احد

²⁰ فليعلم ان من رد خاطئا عن ضلال طريقه يخلّص نفسا من الموت ويستر كثرة من الخطايا ٍ

¹⁴ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

¹⁵ But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

¹⁶ And charged them that they should not make him known:

²² Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

²³ And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

²⁵ And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

²⁶ And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?

²⁷ And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

²⁸ But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

²⁹ Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

³⁰ He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

²² وكان الجميع يشهدون له ويتعجبون من كلمات النعمة الخارجة من فمه ويقولون أليس هذا ابن يوسف.

²³ فقال لهم. على كل حال تقولون لي هذا المثل ايها الطبيب اشفي نفسك. كم سمعنا انه جرى في كفر ناحوم فافعل ذلك هنا ايضا في وطنك.

²⁴ وقال الحق اقول لكم انه ليس نبي مقبولا في وطنه.

²⁵ وبالحق اقول لكم ان ارامل كثيرة كنّ في اسرائيل في ايام ايليا حين أغلقت السماء مدة ثلاث سنين وستة اشهر لما كان جوع عظيم في الارض كلها.

²⁶ ولم يرسل ايليا الى واحدة منها الا الى امرأة ارملة الى صرفة صيدا.

²⁷ وبرص كثيرون كانوا في اسرائيل في زمان اليشع النبي ولم يطهر واحد منهم الا نعمان السرياني.

²⁸ فامتلأ غضبا جميع الذين في المجمع حين سمعوا هذا.

²⁹ فقاموا واخرجوه خارج المدينة وجاءوا به الى حافة الجبل الذي كانت مدينتهم مبنية عليه حتى يطرحوه الى اسفل.

³⁰ اما هو فجاز في وسطهم ومضى

¹ وابتدأ ايضا يعلم عند البحر. فاجتمع اليه جمع كثير حتى انه دخل السفينة وجلس على البحر والجمع كله كان عند البحر على الارض

² فكان يعلّمهم كثيرا بامثال وقال لهم في تعليمه

³ اسمعوا. هوذا الزارع قد خرج ليزرع.

⁴ وفيما هو يزرع سقط بعض على الطريق فجاءت طيور السماء واكلته.

⁵ وسقط آخر على مكان محجر حيث لم تكن له تربة كثيرة. فنبت حالا اذ لم يكن له عمق ارض.

⁶ ولكن لما اشرقت الشمس احترق. واذ لم يكن له اصل جف.

⁷ وسقط آخر في الشوك. فطلع الشوك وخنقه فلم يعطي ثمرا.

⁸ وسقط آخر في الارض الجيدة. فاعطى ثمرا يصعد وينمو. فأتى واحد بثلاثين وآخر بستين وآخر بمئة.

⁹ ثم قال لهم من له اذنان للسمع فليسمع

¹⁰ ولما كان وحده سأله الذين حوله مع الاثني عشر عن المثل.

¹¹ فقال لهم قد أعطي لكم ان تعرفوا سرّ ملكوت الله. واما الذين هم من خارج فبالامثال يكون لهم كل شيء.

¹² لكي يبصروا مبصرين ولا ينظروا ويسمعوا سامعين ولا يفهموا لئلا يرجعوا فتغفر لهم خطاياهم.

¹³ ثم قال لهم أما تعلمون هذا المثل. فكيف تعرفون جميع الامثال.

¹⁴ الزارع يزرع الكلمة.

¹⁵ وهؤلاء هم الذين على الطريق. حيث تزرع الكلمة وحينما يسمعون يأتي الشيطان للوقت وينزع الكلمة المزروعة في قلوبهم.

¹⁶ وهؤلاء كذلك هم الذين زرعوا على الاماكن المحجرة. الذين حينما يسمعون الكلمة يقبلونها للوقت بفرح.

¹⁷ ولكن ليس لهم اصل في ذواتهم بل هم الى حين. فبعد ذلك اذا حدث ضيق او اضطهاد من اجل الكلمة فللوقت يعثرون.

¹⁸ وهؤلاء هم الذين زرعوا بين الشوك. هؤلاء هم الذين يسمعون الكلمة

¹⁹ وهموم هذا العالم وغرور الغنى وشهوات سائر الاشياء تدخل وتخنق الكلمة فتصير بلا ثمر.

²⁰ وهؤلاء هم الذين زرعوا على الارض الجيدة. الذين يسمعون الكلمة ويقبلونها ويثمرون واحد ثلاثين وآخر ستين وآخر مئة

²¹ ثم قال لهم هل يؤتى بسراج ليوضع تحت المكيال او تحت السرير. أليس ليوضع على المنارة.

²² لانه ليس شيء خفي لا يظهر ولا صار مكتوما الا ليعلن.

²³ ان كان لاحد اذنان للسمع فليسمع.

²⁴ وقال لهم انظروا ما تسمعون. بالكيل الذي به تكيلون يكال لكم ويزاد لكم ايها السامعون.

²⁵ لان من له سيعطى. واما من ليس له فالذي عنده سيؤخذ منه

²⁶ وقال. هكذا ملكوت الله كأن انسانا يلقي البذار على الارض

²⁷ وينام ويقوم ليلا ونهارا والبذار يطلع وينمو وهو لا يعلم كيف.

²⁸ لان الارض من ذاتها تأتي بثمر. اولا نباتا ثم سنبلا ثم قمحا ملآن في السنبل.

²⁹ واما متى ادرك الثمر فللوقت يرسل المنجل لان الحصاد قد حضر

³⁰ وقال بماذا نشبّه ملكوت الله او باي مثل نمثله.

³¹ مثل حبة خردل متى زرعت في الارض فهي اصغر جميع البزور التي على الارض.

³² ولكن متى زرعت تطلع وتصير اكبر جميع البقول وتصنع اغصانا كبيرة حتى تستطيع طيور السماء ان تتآوى تحت ظلها.

³³ وبامثال كثيرة مثل هذه كان يكلمهم حسبما كانوا يستطيعون ان يسمعوا.

³⁴ وبدون مثل لم يكن يكلمهم. واما على انفراد فكان يفسر لتلاميذه كل شيء

³⁵ وقال لهم في ذلك اليوم لما كان المساء. لنجتز الى العبر.

³⁶ فصرفوا الجمع واخذوه كما كان في السفينة. وكانت معه ايضا سفن اخرى صغيرة.

³⁷ فحدث نوء ريح عظيم فكانت الامواج تضرب الى السفينة حتى صارت تمتلئ.

³⁸ وكان هو في المؤخر على وسادة نائما. فأيقظوه وقالوا له يا معلّم أما يهمك اننا نهلك.

³⁹ فقام وانتهر الريح وقال للبحر اسكت. ابكم. فسكنت الريح وصار هدوء عظيم.

⁴⁰ وقال لهم ما بالكم خائفين هكذا. كيف لا ايمان لكم.

⁴¹ فخافوا خوفا عظيما وقالوا بعضهم لبعض من هو هذا. فان الريح ايضا والبحر يطيعانه