12:8. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold.
12:9. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.
12:10. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.
12:11. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.
12:12. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.
12:13. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.
12:14. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son’s wife from the devil.
12:15. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.
12:16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.
12:17. And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.