his great grace and his unity which hath many faces, and his wisdom which without ceasing looked upon us, said, That ye shall learn if ye inquire of him.
92. "Again, once, when all of us his disciples were sleeping in a house at Gennesaret, I alone, having wrapped myself up, watched what he did, and first I heard him say, John, go thou to sleep. And thereupon I feigned to be asleep; and I saw another like unto him, whom I also heard saying unto my Lord, Jesus, those whom thou hast chosen believe not on thee. And my Lord said unto him, Thou sayest well, for they are men.
93. "Another glory will I tell you brethren.[1] Sometimes when I would lay hold of him, I met with a material and solid body; and at other times again when I felt him, the substance was immaterial and bodiless and as it were not existing in any wise.[2] Now, if at any time, he were bidden by one of the Pharisees and went to the bidding, we went with him. And there was set before each one of us a loaf of bread by him that had bidden us, and he also with us received a loaf. And he would bless his own and divide it amongst us; and from that
- ↑ In the following Codex C can be supplemented by the Acts of the second Nicene Synod; see also Zahn, loc. cit., p. 219 f.
- ↑ It is probably this passage to which Clement of Alexandria (adumbrat. in ep. I, Joan. ed. Potter, tom. II, p. 1009) refers: "Fertur ergo in traditionibus Joannes, ipsum corpus quod erat extrinsecus tangens, manum suam in profunda misisse et ei duritiam carnis nullo modo reluctatam esse, sed locum manui præbuisse discipuli."
