Miryai Saga

Miryai is Expelled from Jewry
A Variant of the Above from the Oxford Manuscript

The Exiled Community Settle on the Euphrates

The Jews Persecute the Mandaeans

They Beg Then to Return


Yahi-Yohanna Saga

Portents of John`s Birth

John`s Proclamation concerning himself
and his assumption of the Prophet's mantle


John`s Light-Ship

John the Ascetic

Of Judgement Day

The Letter of Truth

John`s Invulnerability

John and the Baptism of Jesus

John's Marriage

John on His own Passing

John's Birth , Uprising, and First Appearance

John's Answer to Jesus Concerning the Angel of Death



Fisher Saga
The Fisher of Souls Saga

The Light Ship of the Fisher

The Good Fisher Rejects the Overtures
of the Evil Ones and Overwhelms Them


The Final Submission of the Evil Fishers



Good Shepherd Prayers  


THE LOVING SHEPHERDS
OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD


THE GOOD SHEPHERD




Odds and Ends

The Song of the Poor's Exhaltation

Exhortations


In the Beginning


The Treasury of Life
Sidra d-Yahia
Yahia-Yohanna
John`s Invulnerability
Yahya  proclaims in the nights, Yõhãnã on the night`s evenings.

Yahya  proclaims in the nights and speaks;
"Is there any one greater than I? They measure my works ; my wage is assayed and my crown, and my praise brings me on high in peace."* * * * *

Yaqif leaves the house of the people, Beni-Amin leaves the temple, Elizar, the great house, leaves the dome of the priests. The priests spake unto Yahyã  in Jerusalem:

"Yahya , go forth from our city! Before thy voice quaked the house of the people, at the sound of thy proclamations the temple did quake, at the sound of thy discourse quaked the priests dome"

Thereon Yahya  answered the priests of Jerusalem:
" Bring fire and burn me, bring sword and hew me in pieces."

But the priests in Jerusalem answered to Yahya  :
" Fire does not burn thee, O Yahya , for Life's Name has been uttered o`er thee. A sword does not hew thee in pieces, O Yahya , for Life's Son rests here upon thee"

And Life is Victorious.
From the book Gnostic John the Baptiszer: Selections from the
Mandaean John-Book
by G.R.S. Mead pages 48