8 — As is written at the beginning of the fourth chapter of Matthew; the devil wanted to test Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. He was taken to the desert by the Spirit. Fasting for forty days and nights, he became hungry. Then the devil took Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ to the blessed city and made him mount the dome of the temple, and said, “If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: ... He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, ...” (Matt: 4-6) Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ answered the devil: “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (ibid: 4-7) Then he took him into the mountains and said: “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” (ibid: 4-9) Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’ said to the devil: “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” (ibid: 4-10) It is written in the twelfth and later verses of the first chapter of Mark: “And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.” “And he was there in the wilderness for forty days, tempted of Satan: he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.” (Mark: 1-12, 13) No remark is made here as to the manner of the devil’s testing or the forty days’ fasting by Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. 9- the sixth and seventh verses of the twenty six chapter of Mathew purports: “Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,” “There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.” (Matt: 26-6, 7) The third verse of the fourteenth chapter of Mark reads: “And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.” (Mark: 14-3) As it is purported in the thirty-sixth and later verses of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke, “And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house and sat down to meat.” “And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,” “And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.” (Luke: 7-36, 37, 38) “And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.” (ibid: 7-48) above, For it would be paradoxical for Yahyâ both to be E-li’as himself and to have virtues and merits common with E-li’as.
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