The Talmud of Jmmanuel · Complete reading edition

Chapter 27The Disciples' Agitation

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1After Jmmanuel had finished speaking, the disciples became agitated and said, "Why don't we capture Juda Ihariot and stone him, so he can't betray you?"

2But Jmmanuel was angry and said, "Don't you know that the law says: 'You shall not kill out of degeneration', and don't you know what I prophesied to you, that I shall be crucified in order to gain a special insight?

3"How dare you disrespect the fulfilment of the law, for thus it is given and intended?

4"Just as I walk on my path, so each person will have to walk on their path.

5"Truly, I say to you, if I were not to follow my destiny, how could I be in position to fulfil my mission, which will lead me to India?

6"Oh, you who lack courage and knowledge, I have certainly instructed you in the truth, and yet you do not recognize it!

7"How can it still be inconceivable to you that after my departure my teachings will be adulterated by you and disseminated in all directions as erroneous teachings and erroneous religious cults?

8"Because of what you will do, the world will resound with misguidance and false teachings.

9"Many among you will bear the blame that humanity will not recognize the truth, although I certainly have taught it to you.

10"There will be great reverberations in the world regarding your false teachings, which you will spread.

11"Clearly, you did not understand the words of knowledge, and hence the truth of my teachings.

12"You are struck with blindness, like the legitimate people of this land who are held in darkness and oppression by the Israelites, just as the prophets predicted for these people, because they have forsaken the tenets of truth, like the Israelites who plundered this land and since then dominated and oppressed its legitimate owners.

13"1 have fulfilled my mission among this race. But, due to the fault of the Israelites and their false teachings, I was unable to teach any reason to this population, as their thinking is irrational because of confusing and mistaken teachings. I will leave, therefore, so that the teachings of truth can also be brought to two other populations in the North and East.

14"Just as the legitimate owners of the land, who are governed by the violent rule of the Israelites, exist under the guidance of god, so also are the other two peoples under him. They are the people in the high north land where cold and ice reign on the highest mountains and at the end of the Earth, and also the people in the land of India, because he, god, is the master over these three human populations.

15"As a prophet, I have come back into the world from the realm of Arahat Athersata. I was sent here upon god's will to instruct the three human populations in the newly conveyed teachings of truth 11 .

16"Therefore, I must walk on my path as predestined by Arahat Athersata and requested by god, since I also serve god's will and his laws, as god himself serves the laws of Creation."

In Bethany

17And Jmmanuel finished his talk and departed for Bethany and the house of Simon, the leper.

18Behold, a woman came up to him with a glass of precious water, which she poured on his head as he sat at the table.

19When his disciples saw that, they became angry and indignant and said, "What is the benefit of this waste?

20"This water could have been sold at a high price and the proceeds used for the poor."

21But when Jmmanuel heard this, he scolded his disciples and said, "Why are you upsetting the woman?

22"She has done me a good deed because she trusts in my teachings. In this way she shows her gratitude, and nothing is too expensive for her.

23"This woman has become wise and lives according to the laws of Creation. Therefore she thanks me with the precious water.

24"Her gratitude will be lasting, and from now on her deed shall be known throughout the world.

25"Truly, I say to you, wherever my teachings will be preached in all the world, whether falsified or true, the people will remember what she has done.

26"Just as she will be remembered for a long time, so also a false teaching will be remembered that insults one among you of betraying me.

27"While we are here together, Juda Ihariot the son of the Pharisee in Jerusalem, is hatching an evil plot against me so he can betray me to the chief priests.

28"At this very moment as we are gathered here, he is asking the chief priests for the blood money they are offering for my capture.

29"Thirty pieces of silver are being offered to him if they capture me through his help.

30"While they are forging this plan, they are also designing a plot against one among you, since they want to present a culprit to the people.

31"As Juda Ihariot, the son of the Pharisee, will turn me over to the henchmen, my disciple Judas Iscariot will be considered the traitor,

32"so that the message to the people will be, 'Behold, these fools are divided among themselves, so that one betrays the other. How, then, can the teachings of Jmmanuel contain any truth?'

33"But since Juda Ihariot, the son of the Pharisee, and my disciple, Judas Iscariot, have almost identical names, the lie of the chief priests will be accepted from the beginning."

The Last Supper

34On the first day of the Unleavened Bread, Jmmanuel spoke to his disciples, "Go forth into the city to a good friend of mine named Aaron and tell him, 'Jmmanuel says to you: I want to have a last meal with my disciples at your house, for behold, the Feast of the Passover is near."'

35And the disciples did as Jmmanuel had ordered them; and they prepared the meal, together with Aaron and his wife, in their house.

36When they sat down and were eating, he said, "Behold, the time is near when I must take my heavy burden upon myself.

37"To be sure, I am going along my destined path as it is written by the prophets; however, I will only be near death and bear much pain, so you must not fear and not worry about me.

38"Truly, I say to you, from now on I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vineyard nor eat the grain of the bread until the day I drink and eat again with you after my ordeal.

39"So shall it be when I have risen from near death and so have then lain in the tomb for three days and three nights.”

40As they were eating, Jmmanuel took the bread, broke it and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take it and eat; the body requires nourishment even in times of distress and grief."

41And he took the cup, gave it to them and said, "Drink from this cup, all of you; the throat becomes thirsty even on a rainy and cold day:

42"Truly, I say to you, a wise person does not hunger and thirst because of things that must happen.

43"But a fool hungers and thirsts on account of stupidity and dissent against things that must happen.

44"And truly, I say to you, just as you do not understand my words now and are angry with me because of them, so will you be angry with me tonight, because your minds still have not been enlightened with cognizance.

45"But after I rise from near death and appear to have risen from the dead out of the tomb, I shall walk in front of you to Galilee, so you may recognize the truthfulness of my words.

46"I have taught you knowledge and truth, but yet you doubt and distrust me.

47"Oh you who are fainthearted and of little trust, how startled and confused you will be when I meet you again after my near death."

48But Peter answered him, saying, "Even if they all were angry with you, I would never be angry."

49Jmmanuel however replied, "Truly, I say to you, you are one of the worst, because tonight before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."

50But Peter contradicted him, saying, "This will never come to pass, and even if I were forced to die with you, I would never deny you."

51And thus spoke all of his disciples, and so they failed to trust Jmmanuel's words.