THE TABLE

Chapter
[1]Of my childhood in Galilee; and how I gave myself wholly to the study of the Law.
[2]Of my doubts concerning the Law; and of the Patriots or Galileans; and of the expectation concerning John the son of Zachariah.
[3]Concerning the casting out of unclean Spirits; and of the nature of the Redemption of Israel; and how I first saw Jesus of Nazareth.
[4]Of the doctrine of John the Prophet, how it suited with the people of the land; and how I was baptized of the Prophet.
[5]Of the Greek philosophers in Alexandria; and how I had discourse with Philo the Alexandrine.
[6]How I found not salvation in the worship of the Temple; nor in the teachers of Galilee; nor in the Essenes; and how I first spake with Jesus of Nazareth.
[7]Of the Good News; and concerning the Kingdom of God; and how we desired of Jesus new laws.
[8]Of the New Law.
[9]How Quartus interpreted the New Law.
[10]How some desired Jesus to mix the New Law with the Old Law; and concerning the legion of swine; and how Jesus began to teach in parables.
[11]Concerning the new power of the Forgiveness of Sins.
[12]How the Forgiveness of Sins is the Key that openeth the New Kingdom; and how the Old Law and the New Law must not be mixed.
[13]Of the plotting of the Pharisees against Jesus, how they said he had a devil; and concerning the Holy Spirit.
[14]How John the Prophet doubted concerning Jesus; and concerning them that are “born of women;” and of the beheading of John the Prophet.
[15]How Jesus fled from Capernaum, and the Galileans at first fell away from him; and concerning the levy in Galilee; and of the visit of Jesus to Nazareth.
[16]How, after the death of John the Prophet, Jesus foresaw that he also must be slain; and of the Bread of Life, and the feeding of the five thousand; and concerning the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
[17]How Xanthias the Alexandrine said that the philosophy of Jesus aimed at the taking in of the Gentiles into the Kingdom, and at the enfranchisement of slaves; and how he found fault with Jesus for that he called himself the Son of man.
[18]Of signs in heaven; and concerning the healing of the Syrophœnician maiden, how Jesus seemed to gain thereby some new knowledge.
[19]How Jesus would work no sign in heaven; and concerning his temptation and wherefore he denied to work signs in heaven.
[20]How Jesus led us, in our exile, to the Rock of Salvation; and how he founded the Temple of his Congregation thereon; and how he gave the Key thereof to Simon Peter.
[21]How Jesus, having now determined to die, spake of that which was to come, with Moses and Elias, upon the Mount Hermon.
[22]Of our going up to Jerusalem; and of the division between parents and children; and how Jesus testified of a Day of Judgment.
[23]Of covetousness; and of fleeing from Death into Life; and concerning the Law of Retribution.
[24]Of the falling away of Judas of Kerioth; and of the Times and Seasons; and of the Chief Places in the Kingdom; and how Jesus did and said nothing except it were prepared for him by the Father.
[25]Concerning the fire of the Lord; and of the parables of watching; and of the Holy Spirit; and how Quartus urgeth that Jesus knew not all things beforehand.
[26]How Jesus went down to Jerusalem, as a king, to wage war against Satan in the Temple; and how he foresaw that the Temple must be cast down; and of the parable of the withered fig-tree.
[27]How Jesus prophesied of troubles, and of a great battle against Satan; and in the end the victory of the Son of man; but, first of all, his death.
[28]How Jesus, by his Testament, bequeathed himself to his disciples for ever; and how he bare the sins of men in Gethsemane.
[29]Of the crucifixion of Jesus; and of his last words upon the cross.
[30]How the Holy Spirit, through much sorrow, prepared the disciples to behold Jesus risen from the dead; and of the vision of angels, which appeared first of all unto the women.
[31]How Jesus appeared ofttimes to his disciples; and how, after many days, he ascended up to heaven.
[32]How Jesus now ruleth the world, sitting on the right hand of the Father in heaven.

PHILOCHRISTUS

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