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 and the Baptism of Jesus

Yahya proclaims in the nights, Yohana on the Night's evenings. Yahya proclaims in the night's. --Glory rises over the worlds. Who told Yeshu (Eshu)? Who told Yeshu Messiah, son of Miryam, who told Yeshu, so that he went to the shores of the Jordan and said (unto Yahya): "Yahya, baptize me with thy baptizing and utter o’er me also the Name thy wont is to utter. I show myself as thy pupil, I will remember thee then in my writings: I attest not myself as thy pupil, then wipe out my name from thy pages" Thereon Yahya  answered Yeshu Messiah in Jerusalem: "Thou hast lied to the Jews and deceived the priests. Thou hast cut off their seed from the men and from the women bearing and being pregnant. The Sabbath, which Moses made binding, hast thou relaxed in Jerusalem. Thou hast lied unto them with horns and spread abroad disgrace with the shofar." Thereon Yeshu Messiah answered Yahya  in Jerusalem: " If I have lied to the Jews, may the blazing fire consume me. If I have deceived the priests, a double death will I die. If I have cut off their seed from the men, may I not cross o'er the End-Sea. If I have cut off from the women birth and being pregnant, then is in sooth a judge raised up before me. If I have relaxed the Sabbath may the blazing fires consume me. If I have lied to the Jews, I will tred on thorns and thistles. If I have spread disgrace abroad with horn-blowing, may my eyes then not light on Abathur. So baptize me then with thy baptizing, and utter o'er me the Name thy wont is to utter. If I show myself as thy pupil, I will remember thee then in my writing; if I attest not myself as thy pupil, then wipe out my name from thy page." Then spake, Yahya  to Yeshu Messiah in Jerusalem: "A stammer becomes not a scholar, a bind man writes no letter. A desolate house mounts not to the height, and a widow becomes not a virgin. Foul water becomes not tasty, and a stone does not with oil soften." Thereon Yeshu Messiah made answer toYahyã  in Jerusalem: "A stammer a scholar becomes, a bind man writes a letter. A desolate house mounts unto the height, and a widow becomes virgin. Foul water becomes tasty, and a stone with oil softens.” Thereupon spake Yahya unto Yeshu Messiah in Jerusalem: “If thou then giv’st me illustration for this, thou art (really) a wise Messiah." Thereon Yeshu Messiah made answer to Yahya in Jerusalem: "A stammered a scholar becomes: a child who comes from the bearer, blooms and grows big. Through wages and alms he comes on high, he comes on high through wages and alms and ascends and beholds the Light's region.” " A blind man who writes letter: A villain who becomes virtuous. He abandoned wantonness and abandoned theft and reached unto faith in almighty Life.” "A desolate house who ascends again to the height: one of position who has become humble. He quitted his palace and quitted his pride and built a house on the sea(shore). A house he built on the sea(shore), and into it opened two doors, so that he might bring in unto him whoever lay down there in misery ---to him he opened the door and took him within to himself. If he would eat, he laid for him a table with Truth. If he would drink, he mixed for him (wine) cups (with truth). If he would lie down, be spread a bed for him in Truth. If he would depart, he led him forth on the way of Truth. He led him forth on the way of Truth and of faith, and then he ascends and beholds the Light's region.” "A woman who a virgin becomes: a woman who already in youth has been widowed. She kept her shame closed, and sat there till her children were grown. If she passes o’er, her face does not pale in her husband's' presence.” " Foul water that is made tasty: a girl wanton who has got back her honor. she went up a hamlet and she went down a hamlet without taking her veil from her face. " “A stone with oil softens. a heretic who has come down from the mountain." He abandoned magic and sorcery and made confession to almighty Life. He found a fatherless and filled him full and filled full the widow's pockets." "Therefore baptize me, O Yahya , with thy baptizing and utter o're me the Name thy wont is to utter. If I show myself as thy pupil, I will remember thee in my writing: if I attest not myself as thy pupil then wipe out my name from thy page. Thou wilt for thy sins be haled to account and I for my sins will be haled to account." When Yeshu Messiah said this there came a letter out of the House of Abathur: "Yahya  baptize the deceiver in Jordan. Lead him down into the Jordan and baptize him and lead him up again to the shore and there set him." Then Ruha made herself like a dove and threw a cross over the Jordan and made it's water change into various colors. "O Jordan," she says "thou sanctifiest me and thou sanctifiest my seven sons." "The Jordan in which Messiah Paulis was baptized have I made into a trough. The bread which Messiah Paulis receives have I made into sacrament.' The drink which Messiah Paulis receives, have I made into a 'supper.' The head-band which Messiah Paulis receives, have I made into a 'priest-hood." The staff which Messiah Paulis receives, have I made into a 'dung' [-stick] ." [ ? Gnosis of Life speaks] " Let me warn you, my brothers, let me warn you, my beloved!Let me warn you, my brothers, against the ….who are like unto the cross. They lay it on the walls; then stand there and bow down to the block. Let me warn you, my brothers, of the god, which the carpenter has joined together. If the carpenter has joined together the god, who then has joined together the carpenter" Praised be Life and Life is Victorious

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

From the book Gnostic John the Baptiszer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 48 - 52