Even in the Gospel according to the Hebrews is written the saying: He that wondereth shall reign, and he that reigneth shall rest.
2He shall not cease from seeking until he find, and having found, he will be amazed, and having been amazed will reign, and having reigned will rest.
3And the Saviour himself saith: Even now did my mother the Holy Spirit take me by one of mine hairs, and carried me away unto the great mountain Thabor.
4He has also set forth another story, about a woman accused of many sins before the Lord, which the Gospel according to the Hebrews also contains.
5As we have found somewhere in the Gospel which the Jews have in the Hebrew tongue, where it is said: I choose for myself them that are good: the good are they whom my Father which in heaven giveth me.
6The Gospel written in Hebrew characters turns the threat not against the man who hid the talent, but against him who had lived riotously: for it told of three servants, one who devoured his master's substance with harlots and flute-girls, another who multiplied it by trading, and another who hid the talent; and made the one to be accepted, another only rebuked, and another to be shut up in prison.
7As also we read in the Hebrew Gospel: And never, saith he, be ye joyful, save when ye behold your brother with love.
8Now the Lord, when he had given the linen cloth unto the servant of the priest, went unto James and appeared to him: for James had sworn that he would not eat bread from that hour wherein he had drunk the Lord's cup until he should see him risen again from among them that sleep.
9Bring ye, saith the Lord, a table and bread; and he took bread and blessed and brake and gave it unto James the Just and said unto him: My brother, eat thy bread, for the Son of Man is risen from among them that sleep.
10And when he came to Peter and those who were with Peter, he said to them: Lo, feel me and see that I am not a bodiless demon; and forthwith they touched him and believed.
11In the Gospel according to the Hebrews for supersubstantial bread I found mahar, which means of the morrow, so that the sense is: Our bread of the morrow, that is, of the future, give us this day.
12In the Gospel which the Nazarenes and Ebionites use, this man who has the withered hand is described as a mason, who prays for help in such words as these: I was a mason seeking a livelihood with my hands: I pray thee, Jesu, to restore me mine health, that I may not beg meanly for my food.
13In the Gospel which the Nazarenes use, for son of Barachias is found written: son of Joiada.
14This Barabbas, in the Gospel written according to the Hebrews, is interpreted: son of their master.
15In the Gospel that is written in Hebrew letters we read, not that the veil of the temple was rent, but that a lintel of the temple of wondrous size was broken and fell.
16And it came to pass when the Lord was come up out of the water, the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him, and said unto him: My son, in all the prophets was I waiting for thee that thou shouldst come, and I might rest in thee; for thou art my rest, and thou art my first begotten son, that reignest for ever.
17And in the Gospel according to the Hebrews which the Nazarenes read, it is placed among the greatest sins if a man have grieved the spirit of his brother.
18Behold, the mother of the Lord and his brethren said unto him: John Baptist baptizeth unto the remission of sins; let us go and be baptized of him; but he said unto them: Wherein have I sinned, that I should go and be baptized of him? unless peradventure this very thing that I have said is a sin of ignorance.
19If thy brother have sinned by a word and made thee amends, seven times in a day receive thou him; Simon his disciple said unto him: Seven times in a day? The Lord answered and said unto him: Yea, I say unto thee, unto seventy times seven times; for in the prophets also, after they were anointed by the Holy Spirit, the word of sin was found.
20The second of the rich men said unto him: Master, what good thing can I do and live? He said unto him: O man, fulfil the law and the prophets; he answered him: I have kept them.
21He said unto him: Go, sell all that thou ownest, and distribute it unto the poor, and come, follow me; but the rich man began to scratch his head, and it pleased him not.
22And the Lord said unto him: How sayest thou: I have kept the law and the prophets? For it is written in the law: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and lo, many of thy brethren, sons of Abraham, are clad in filth, dying for hunger, and thine house is full of many good things, and nought at all goeth out of it unto them.
23And he turned and said unto Simon his disciple who was sitting by him: Simon, son of Joanna, it is easier for a camel to enter in by a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24In the Gospel of the Nazarenes, at this word of the Lord, Father forgive them, many thousands of Jews that stood round about the Cross believed.
25In the books of the Gospels which the Nazarenes use it is read that rays issued from his eyes whereby they were terrified and put to flight.
26It is written in the Gospel to the Hebrews that when Christ wished to come upon the earth to men, the good Father called a mighty power in the heavens which was called Michael, and committed Christ to the care thereof; and the power came down into the world and it was called Mary, and Christ was in her womb seven months; afterwards she gave birth to him, and he increased in stature, and he chose the apostles, was crucified, and taken up by the Father into heaven unto himself.